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According to my Day-by-Day Calendar, The Loch Ness Monster was named as one of the protected species under the 1912 Scottish Protection of Animals Act.

(Solid legislation! 👏👏)

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2021-05-11

Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice was born 1861. Resident engineer for Blackwall tunnel (1892) and engineer for Rotherhithe tunnel (1908) and Greenwich (1902) and Woolwich (1912) foot tunnels. Download his obituary for free at https://t.co/wg6aaH15zL

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2021-05-11

From melting clocks, to butterfly sails to *that* moustache – the Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí was nothing if not iconic.

Born in 1904, join us as we celebrate his striking and thought-provoking works.

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2021-05-11

Katsushika Hokusai died in1849. ‘Sekiya Village on the Sumida River’ is from our amazing collection of Hokusai prints that also includes the iconic ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ and ‘Red Fuji’

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2021-05-10

Died in 1651: Southern Netherlandish painter (1584-1651)

Portrait of a Young Girl, ca. 1633-5

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2021-05-10

Died in 1651: Southern Netherlandish painter (1584-1651)

Portrait of Elisabeth or Cornelia Vekemans, 1625


Museum Mayer van den Bergh

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2021-05-09

Died in 1651: Southern Netherlandish painter (1584-1651)

Portrait of Abraham Grapheus, 1620

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2021-05-09

Egyptologist, archaeologist, and artist Howard Carter was born in 1874. Watercolour falcons by Carter (MSS. vii.1.6.1 & MSS. vii.1.6.2 - © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford)

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2021-05-09

Roger Hargreaves, the creator of the Mr Men and Little Miss books, was born in 1935!

So today, we have to ask - who is your favourite Mr Men or Little Miss character? If it's possible to choose, of course...

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2021-05-09

"Mad, bad and dangerous to know."

📖 in the of 9 May 1816, Lady published her novel GLENARVON, which contained thinly veiled portraits of her husband, (later Prime Minister) and her famous lover,

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2021-05-09

Born in 1587: (1587-1637), Duke of Savoy

Portrait with his brothers Filippo Emanuele & Emanuele Filiberto attributed to (ca. 1540-1607), ca. 1593-4

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2021-05-08

"Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them."
✒ American author and illustrator, creator of "Where The Wild Things Are", passed away 8 May 2012.

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2021-05-08

On 7th May 1915, German submarine U-20 sank RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans.
FULL VIDEO ON WW1 HERE: https://t.co/nTP5YJtl1h

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2021-05-08

1915 the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20, sinking off the Old Head of Kinsale.

Read our graphic novel to explore these events from the perspective of real-life characters on the ship 👉 https://t.co/UTm2yNh9Hx

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2021-05-08

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, born in 1880, was a printmaker, & one of the founders of the art group Die Brücke (The Bridge).

📷 Credit: , "Street, Berlin" by 1913.

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2021-05-07

Today in Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance. (1527 CE)

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2021-05-06

Sir Murdoch MacDonald was born 1866. Highland railway, Nile river control schemes including low dam, Scottish HEP, Ouse flood control. have his notebook detailing construction of the Black Isle Railway.

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2021-05-06

On 6th May 1933, the Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
FULL VIDEO ON WW2 HERE: https://t.co/KfoUjCGsds

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2021-05-06

Born Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German & Driving force behind of Die Brücke The Bridge key group laying foundation of Human figure central to Kirchner's art & used flat areas of unbroken unmixed color & simplified forms

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2021-05-06