Most important person on the ship you ask? The captain might call the shots, but not much work gets done on an empty belly! will need to be able to provide for up to 60 people. That requires coordination and much potato peeling!😉
📸1799, Granger

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May 21, 1799, of Mary Carpenter daughter, she founded a fossil business in Lyme Regis, Dorset, making important discoveries like complete fossils of Ichthyosaurus 🐬 & Plesiosaurus 🐉
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Happy Birthday Balzac! Born today in 1799, you illustrated the lives of your characters in post-Napoleonic France in glorious detail and many regard you as the father of literary realism. One of my favourites is Le Père Goriot

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From 1799, an Officer of the Marines. Serving sass.

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Botanical illustration and the park: Thirty-eight plates, with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany.....by T Marten and JJ Rousseau, 1799, BHL/Uni Toronto...https://t.co/Wgy1UnsiY8

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Day 1 - Pt2a

19th Century France. (I know the French Revolution finished in 1799, but what's one year?)

In a country gripped by civil war, can an aristocrat and a revolutionary really find a way to be together? Or is she in more danger than she could ever imagine?

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Combat was deadly but relatively rare in the Age of Fighting Sail but weather was a constant threat. Being wrecked in such conditions meant high loss of life. HMS Sceptre, lost in 1799, provides a stark example. Click: https://t.co/wsjb3oISqB

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On August 23 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Egypt

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May 21, 1799, of Mary “the Princess of Carpenter daughter, she founded a fossil business in Lyme Regis, Dorset, making important discoveries like complete fossils of Ichthyosaurus 🐬 & Plesiosaurus 🐉 https://t.co/xuWRaNkOh3
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And it was Maria Sibylla Merian, a German-born naturalist, who documented Metamorphosis for the first time.
In 1799, she sailed to Suriname from Europe looking for insects - something no ladies were permitted to do back then.The results were a spectacular treasure for Science!

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VAMPIRE BATS. Bats are not found in very early lore but the Spanish came back from the New World with stories of blood-sucking bats. Buffon named them 'vampire bats' in 1774 & Darwin popularised them in 1832 sketching them in Chile.

Goya 1799, Darwin 1832, gargoyle

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William Blake's striking 'Last Supper' of 1799, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is the next image for Holy Thursday, taken from our new book The Christian Year in Painting by John S. Dixon. Visit our website for more details: https://t.co/2zby6U8Hk1

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