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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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2020-05-21

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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2020-05-20

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

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2020-05-06

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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2020-05-02

On August 23 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Egypt

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2019-08-22

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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2019-05-21

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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2019-04-02

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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2018-11-08