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Happy 1st Anniversary of Craig of the Creek episode “The Ground Is Lava” 🌳🎉 it aired on @cartoonnetwork in June 29, 2020 🌋💚🔥 I Like how Tomon Plays The Ground Is Lava. #CraigOfTheCreek #TheGroundIsLava #OnThisDay #Happy1stAnniversary https://t.co/L5enMF9af4
#OnThisDay in 1998: Nitro: Magnum Tokyo walks up and starts dancing with Disco and Alex Wright even though they were opponents.
French writer, poet, and pioneering pilot, the adventurous Antoine de Saint-Exupery was born today (June 29th) in 1900.
#OTD #History #OnThisDay #author #Illustrator #Pilot
Happy 506th Birthday to Anne of Cleves too! Born on this day in 1515 🥳🥳 #History #Tudors #OnThisDay #OTD #happybirthdayoldgirl
Born #OnThisDay in 1577, 🍰, #PeterPaulRubens is best known for his dynamic #paintings of #religious & #mythological subjects. His emphasis on #movement, #color & #sensuality have led to him being considered one of the greatest #painters of the #17thcentury #Baroque period. 👼
1st recognition of the harmful effects of CFCs: #OnThisDay #OTD in 1974 Rowland & Molina published research showing Chlorofluorocarbons were destructive to Earth's ozone layer. An ozone hole over #Antarctica was discovered 11 years later https://t.co/HMJLLZBie1 @nature @UCIrvine
Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a book of traditional Japanese ghost stories compiled by the great scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn, who was born #onthisday in 1850. Read the book here: https://t.co/RopiXB1BBa #otd
Helen Keller was born today (June 27th) in 1880. Author, eloquent advocate for #disability rights and awareness, and women's rights activist, she was the first #deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, and from Harvard no less! #OnThisDay
#InspirationalQuotes
Born #onthisday1892 Paul Colin one of France’s greatest poster #artists Made name in 1925 with his Revue Negre poster launching his mistress Josephine Baker’s career Worked for forty+ years in theatre creating promotional posters numerous sets & costumes
Happy Birthday to Pokey LaFarge!
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV
#PokeyLaFarge #music #traditional #Americana #Folk #Jazz #Blues #Waltz #Birthday #TravisSimpkins #OnThisDay #RockBottomRhapsody #SomethingInTheWater #album #record #recording #singersongwriter
I love #TheThing more and more with every viewing. #horror #artwork #OnThisDay
Born #OnThisDay in 1803: Scottish painter #RobertScottLauder (1803-69)
Portrait of John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) & Charlotte Sophia Scott (1799-1837), after 1838
#Lauder #ScottishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1803: Scottish painter #RobertScottLauder (1803-69)
Portrait of Thomas Duncan (1807-45), ca. 1839
#Lauder #ScottishArt
#OnThisDay the Georgian Lords passed 9,000 tweets since setting up shop in May 2017.
How did that happen?
#HistParl #twitterstorians
Eric Arthur Blair, or George Orwell as we know him, was born today (June 25th) in 1903, in Bihar, British India. He is most famous for the novels '1984' and 'Animal Farm'.
We can thank him for phrases like 'Big Brother', 'Room 101', and 'thought police'. #OnThisDay
24.06.1895 #OnThisDay #HappyBirthday #legend and #halloffame #jackdempsey
This is the original art that featured the @ringmagazine cover in April 1949.
#wegerichcollection
#boxing #fineart #art #boxingart #history #boxinghistory
John Hampden, Civil War-era Parliamentary leader famous for his opposition to Charles I over ship money, died #OnThisDay 1643 from wounds sustained in a skirmish with Royalists. In the early 19th c., British radicals named their debating societies ‘Hampden Clubs’ in his honour.
#OnThisDay 24 June 1643 John Hampden died of his wounds sustained days before at the Battle of Chalgrove Field. His loss was a severe blow to the Parliamentarian cause, as he was a moderating force between the various factions in Parliament. #17thCentury #EnglishCivilWar #OTD
Born #OnThisDay in 1891: Japanese painter #RyūseiKishida (1891-1929)
Self-portrait, 1917
#Kishida #岸田劉生 #JapaneseArt
Hiratsuka Museum of Art
· 168 BC · The Third Macedonia War ends with The Battle of Pydna: Lucius Aemilius Paullus and his army defeat King Perseus. #RomeOnThisDay
Perseus surrenders to Paullus in this 1802 piece by Jean-François Pierre Peyron.