# otd barbequoi

Menfolk! Looking for Sunday barbecue wear tips? Sebastian Droste's gotcha covered! The notorious Weimar dancer, half of Hell's own Fred & Ginger with Anita Berber, died in 1927. https://t.co/iT8QbzkRgf

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2021-06-27

British adventurer Lady Hester Stanhope retired to a labyrinthine house in Lebanon where she studied alchemy and astrology, fed her horse sherbet and believed herself betrothed to the coming Messiah; she died in 1839 https://t.co/RerVjTBUik

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2021-06-23

Swedish writer August Strindberg died in 1912. Something I only found out recently – Strindberg was an untaught yet accomplished painter, often painting brooding seascapes in times of mental turmoil.

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2021-05-14

Filippo De Pisis, who died in 1965, and two of his Venetian scenes. The dandyish painter moved around Venice in his private gondola, accompanied by his pet parrot Coco on his shoulder.

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2021-04-02

Died 1884: soprano Anna Bishop, model for George du Maurier's "Trilby", which introduced the Svengali figure and created a craze for bohemianism and the "Trilby hat" (plus pedicures among readers who aspired to Trilby's shapely feet)

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2021-03-19

Happy birthday to Caryathis, French avant-garde dancer, born in 1888.

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2021-03-09

Dying was a Robert Coates specialty; the famously terrible Regency actor would repeat a death scene if it found favour with the audience. in 1848 he faced his *final* final curtain, knocked down by a coach in Drury Lane. https://t.co/SAKbSLsYn7

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2021-02-21

Barbette – who was actually Vander Clyde, a Texas-born aerialist who wowed between-the-wars Paris in drag – appeared in Jean Cocteau’s film “Le sang d’un poète”, which premiered in 1932. https://t.co/7c9TLT2Qgv

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2021-01-20

If you have used a tarot pack there's a good chance it was designed by Pamela Colman Smith, who died in 1951. Her illustrations are distinguished by skill, strangeness and charm, including these costume designs for a production of Brer Rabbit.

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2020-09-18

The opera “Maria Malibran” by Robert Russell Bennett premiered in NYC in 1935. Its subject was a hugely popular Spanish opera singer who more or less established the template of the suffering diva, who had died 100 years earlier at the age of just 28.

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2020-04-08

Colette met “Missy”, short-haired, suited Marquise Mathilde de Morny, in 1905. “What are your pronouns?” asked Colette, anachronistically. Missy gazed into her almond eyes, took her hand and held it to her lips.
“Yours.”
https://t.co/Qe327a7PJH

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2020-03-27

Ready to hear about a ... not so distinguished war record? We take you now to Wing House, Piccadilly, London, where we find a certain Evan Morgan, Lord Tredegar, an occultist who conducted black masses with Aleister Crowley ... https://t.co/byz6E9GCo5

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2020-03-16

French writer Joséphin Péladan, the “sandwich man of the beyond” as he was unkindly called, launched his hugely influential “Salon de la Rose+Croix” in Paris in 1892. The exhibition proved so popular that it stopped traffic. https://t.co/TeXErrFXWU

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2020-03-11

Welsh photographer Angus McBean was tried for homosexual acts in 1942 and received a sentence of four years’ hard labour, which as he pointed out with understandable bitterness was “twice as long as Oscar Wilde’s”.
https://t.co/blaqo8BUuh

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2020-03-06

Appropriate to this palindromic date, Lucia Joyce's middle name was Anna and her father is credited with the longest palindrome in the OED: "tattarrattat" (the sound of knocking on a door).

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2020-02-03

Séraphine Louis (a.k.a. Séraphine de Senlis) is committed to a French mental institution in 1932, hastening the sad decline of the visionary Outsider artist.

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2020-02-01

Bryher? Ring a bell? Born in 1894 as Annie Ellerman, she took her pseudonym from a Scilly isle, wrote historical novels, co-founded Contact Editions, Close Up magazine and the filmmaking POOL Group ...
https://t.co/rKv8axEUKj

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2020-01-29

Pierre Loti was born 170 years ago. Not just one of the most popular Belle Époque novelists, he was also a circus performer. “My trunks are tight enough to split ... Bathing trunks of black velvet, so brief I tremble ...”
https://t.co/nbqblmEOgI

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2020-01-14

Raggedy dandy Bibi-la-Purée, “a fetid and malodorous Brummell”, klepto-hobohemian with a weakness for umbrellas, Picasso subject and factotum to Paul Verlaine, attends the poet’s funeral in 1896 with tragicomic consequences ...
https://t.co/sILqL26aDD

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2020-01-10

Italian-born Countess de Castiglione is presented to Emperor Napoléon III in 1856 and becomes his mistress, but she is better remembered for her extraordinary self-authored photo portraits covering 2nd half of 19th century.
https://t.co/dSJMy6e2VI

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2020-01-09