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It’s almost Halloween and there’s no better way to celebrate on a than sharing some borders featuring skeletons and devils from 'Specimens of Printing Types and Ornaments Cast by James Conner & Son,' printed in NY in 1852. Learn more: https://t.co/jnT6ISHM4r

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2020-10-27

"Hegel je negde primetio da se sve velike svetsko-istorijske činjenice ... pojavljuju, da tako kažem, dvaput. Zaboravio je da doda: prvi put kao tragedija, drugi put kao farsa."

(Karl Marks, "Osamnaesti brimer Luja Bonaparte", 1852.)

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2020-09-16

1852. Una festa parroquial, Alacant.
«Voyage pittoresque en Espagne et en Portugal», Émile Bénin, París.
La ciutat alacantina també lluïa els fanals de gas a les parets

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2020-07-13

🦴 Handbuch der Petrefaktenkunde /
Tübingen: H. Laupp, 1852.
https://t.co/lrPWGyt3Dj

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2020-07-05

Natural history and the park: The hog, his origin and varieties, management with a view to profit, and treatment under disease.......by HD Richardson, 1852......BHL/LOC....https://t.co/yjbZn9uWbI

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2020-05-24

While most of us are viewing the world from our windows, here's a morning watercolour by Louisa Paris, painted in 1852. The caption reads: 'View from my bedroom, Cockfield, got up very early and sketched before breakfast. 1852. Louisa C Paris.'

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2020-04-23

In the chapter of autobiography I recorded for today, Mowatt relishes playing Parthenia who sweetly tames the barbarian Ingomar in a what some were calling a "woman rights" play in 1852.

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2020-04-09

Researching Irish fairies: a jolly pastime?

I find it nerve-shredding. 'Changeling' children, abused in violent exorcisms. Bereaved folks crying at the crossroads, calling for their dead to return from fairyland. And the public hanging of 'John the Fairyman' at Kilkenny in 1852.

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2020-04-02

[#BRAFA2020] Highlights

JEAN-LOUIS FORAIN (1848-1931)
L'aparté, c. 1878 - 1879
Aquarelle et gouache sur papier
Signée en haut à droite
45,5 x 28 cm
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Jean-Louis Forain naît à Reims à le 23 octobre 1852. En 1876, alors qu’il mène une vie de bohème montma… https://t.co/s3dXkMnMYB

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2020-01-20

Mathematician Ada Lovelace died in 1852. She is considered the first programmer. She was an associate of Charles Babbage for whose prototype of a computer she created a program
“The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.”

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2019-11-28

The 18th (The Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot at Rangoon, 1852.

This is begging to be used on a book cover

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2019-11-20

That great comic actor of the Victorian stage, J L Toole, made his debut at the Haymarket in a farce, The Spitalfields Weaver, on this day in 1852. Here he is, a few years later as Professor Muddle in 1876. Interested? Join The Irving Society

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2019-07-22

August Cappelen.
Decaying Forest.
Before 1852.
Lavering, gouache, brush and pencil on paper.
National Museum of Art, Oslo.

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2018-10-24

Karl Bryullov.1799-1852. Genius of Art.1817.

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2018-04-26

G F Watts (1817-1904), The Good Samaritan, 1852. In the City of Manchester Gallery.

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2017-06-09

French Impressionist painter Jean-Louis Forain was born on this date in 1852. This is "Backstage -- Symphony in Blue."

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2016-10-23

This picture from London Zoo is likely to be the first image ever taken of a hippo, 1852.

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2016-01-13

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Edward Henry Сorbould, Scene from Goethe's Faust, 1852.

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2015-11-22