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2022-04-05

Père David's Deer

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Named Père David's Deer by Milne-Edwards, in 1866, after Père Armand David, the French missionary who discovered the deer in the Imperial Hunting Park in 1864.-

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2022-03-10

Oswald Stoll born 20 Jan 1866, Melbourne, Australia. Theatre entrepreneur who started out in Liverpool at Parthenon building an 'empire' of entertainment venues inc

Very keen on entertainment 'free from all vulgarity.'

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2022-01-20

in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter generally credited as the pioneer of Abstract Art, was born in Moscow.(..) Kandinsky himself regarded Composition VIII as the high point of his postwar achievement. 📕 Learn more: https://t.co/ECGqqVpE9F 🏛

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2021-12-16

American painter George Luks was born in 1866, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He once claimed, "Like Mozart, I began my career when I was barely out of my diapers” and first worked as a sketch reporter, before meeting other Ashcan artists such as John Sloan and Robert Henri.

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2021-08-13

Born on this day in 1866, Beatrix Potter is known for her charming stories and watercolor illustrations inspired by the bucolic life at Hill Top, her cozy seventeenth-century cottage home in England. See how her legacy lives on at https://t.co/jsepGq0oft! | Photo:

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2021-07-29

Beatrix Potter born in 1866, English writer & illustrator of children’s stories. She also made huge contributions to science but was barred from presenting her work at the Linnaean Society due to her gender. Today, mycologists use her work to identify mushroom species .

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2021-07-28

On 2 July 1866, Helmuth von Moltke ordered the 1st and Elbe Armies to send out scouts to establish where the Austrians had retreated. He assumed they would cross to the east bank of the Elbe, and defend a position that ran between the fortresses of and Josephstadt.

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2021-07-03

Ferdinand Knab (1834-1902), A Woman at a Fountain With Rising Moon, 1866, oil on canvas, 125.5 x 91 cm. In a private collection

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2021-06-17

Ferdinand Knab (1834-1902), A Woman at a Fountain With Rising Moon, 1866, oil on canvas, 125.5 x 91 cm. In a private collection

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2021-06-17

Siau Scops Owl
Only one found in 1866, but not classified as extinct. Deforestation is the biggest threat to them and most of the forest on Siau Island has been felled.

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2021-06-09

Clémence Isaure – Charles Lepec, 1865.
At the Salon of 1866, he caused a sensation by presenting this work, a sort of a shield of ambitious dimensions since it measures over 1.8 m. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).

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2021-03-19

Angels, 1866, by Gustave Doré

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2021-01-19

Vasily Kandinsky, who was born on this day in 1866, advanced the development of abstract art in both his writings and paintings. His abstract compositions, which he called “improvisations,” are considered to be among the first nonfigurative paintings. https://t.co/jVgZ5qmKeS

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2020-12-17

Dancing Fairies, 1866, by August Malmström

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2020-12-11

Ippolito Caffi, 1809–1866, Italian painter of architectural subjects and urban vedute, Fireworks inside the Colosseum

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2020-11-17

Island of Valaam. 1866,
Private collection.
Gine Alexander Vasilievich.
Russian painter ~ landscape painter.
(1830 ~ 1880)

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2020-10-04

Botanical illustration and the park: Our woodlands, heaths, and hedges : a popular description of trees, shrubs, wild fruits, etc. : with notices of their insect inhabitants, by W S Coleman, 1866, BHL/Uni Toronto, https://t.co/vWXHY8soyv

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2020-09-23