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#OnThisDay in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle, one of the most important discoveries in the history of paleoanthropology. #fossils
Happy 5th Anniversary of Steven Universe episode "Crack the Whip" 💖💎🎉 it aired on @cartoonnetwork in August 2, 2016 🌟💕🎊💜 I love how Amethyst is left in charge of Steven and Connie. 🌸🌹⭐ #StevenUniverse #OnThisDay #Happy5thAnniversary
Happy 3rd Anniversary of The Loud House episode “Out on a Limo” 🏠💰🎊 it aired on @Nickelodeon in August 2, 2016 🏡🚖🎉 I love how Lincoln wins a ride in a limo and then he begins to change. #TheLoudHouse #OnThisDay #Happy3rdAnniversary
Born #OnThisDay in 1820 was John Tyndall FRS. Tyndall had a varied career, publishing over 147 papers. His work on glaciology and radiation led him to demonstrate the connection between atmospheric CO2 and heating, otherwise known as the greenhouse effect. https://t.co/xpboBG8deo
Born #OnThisDay in 1804: French writer Gabrielle Anne Cisterne de Courtiras, #CountessDash (1804-72)
Portrait by #CharlesdeSteuben (1788-1856), 1844
#ComtesseDash #WomenWriters #FrenchLiterature
Born #OnThisDay in 1674: #PhilippeII, Duke of Orléans (1674-1723), Regent of France
Portrait after #JeanBaptisteSanterre (1651-1717), after 1717
#Bourbon #BourbonOrléans
Born #OnThisDay in 1674: #PhilippeII, Duke of Orléans (1674-1723), Regent of France
Portrait with his mistress #MadamedeParabère as Minerva by #JeanBaptisteSanterre (1651-1717), ca. 1715-6
#Bourbon #BourbonOrléans
Happy 4th Anniversary of OK K.O. Let’s Be Heroes 🎉✊ The series premiered on @cartoonnetwork in August 1, 2017 ✊🎊 in honor of OK KO anniversary, I draw KO! 💕✍️ #OKKOLetsBeHeroes #OKKO #FanArt #OnThisDay
Happy 5th Anniversary of Steven Universe episode "Gem Hunt" 💖💎🎉 it aired on @cartoonnetwork in August 1, 2016 🌟💕🎊❄️ I love how Steven, Pearl and Connie track a Gem monster through the wilderness. 🌸🌹⭐ #StevenUniverse #OnThisDay #Happy5thAnniversary https://t.co/xBsg0WrSxa
📆 #OnThisDay in 1994 @Manics released Revol, the second single from The Holy Bible
Chart Position: 22
#OnThisDay 31 July 1645 Bath in Somerset was captured in a surprise attack by Parliamentarian forces led by Colonel John Okey. Okey was a commissioner at Charles I's trial in 1649, and executed as a Regicide in 1662. Image in our collection. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay in 1866 former Confederates in New Orleans assaulted participants who gathered for a constitutional convention at the city’s Mechanics’ Institute - a majority of them African American freedmen and US Army veterans. By the end of the day, dozens lay dead and wounded.
Born #OnThisDay in 1818: English writer #EmilyBrontë (1818-48)
Portrait with her sisters #AnneBrontë & #CharlotteBrontë by their brother #BranwellBrontë (1817-48), ca. 1833
#Brontë #EllisBell #Englishliterature #WomenWriters
English novelist & poet Emily Jane Brontë was #BornOnThisDay, July 30, 1818. Best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), now considered a classic of English literature. Passed in 1848 (age 30) from #tuberculosis #RIP #GoneTooSoon #GoneButNotForgotten
29 July 1913: At the Conference of London and shortly after the end of the First Balkan War, it was announced that #Albania would become an independent sovereign state. #history #OnThisDay #ad https://t.co/lzC166Gd6u
Happy 5th Anniversary of Steven Universe episode "Greg the Babysitter" 💖💎🎉 it aired on @cartoonnetwork in July 29, 2016 🌟💕🎊👶 I love how Steven learns the tale of how Greg came to work at the car wash. 🌸🌹⭐ #StevenUniverse #OnThisDay https://t.co/pedjV065Nn
Vincent van Gogh died #OnThisDay in 1890. Today, he is one of the most popular Post-Impressionist painters, although he was not widely appreciated during his lifetime. He is now famed for the great vitality of his works, characterised by his emotive use of brilliant colour.
#TodayInHistory 1540
Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's closest adviser, is beheaded without trial in #London. His #political rivals seized upon the King's dissatifaction with plain Anne of Cleves, an unconsummated #marriage Cromwell had engineered.
#history #onthisday #otd #England
#quoteoftheday
"A strongly marked #personality can influence descendants for #generations."
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) #bornonthisday in #London
#quote #quotes #quotesoftheday #quotesaboutlife #quotestoliveby #quotesdaily #quotestoday #lifequotes #famousquotes #botd
#artoftheday
"Thank goodness I was never sent to #school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) #bornonthisday in London
#art #artist #artists #arthistory #englishart #britishart #childrensbook #childrensbooks #painter #painting #paintings