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Honey?✅
Money?✅
Small guitar?✅
are ready for 1812
Illustration: James Marshall 1998

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2022-05-13

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, author of The Owl and the Pussycat, was born in 1812. Although best known for his nonsensical poems & limericks, Lear was also an accomplished painter & composer.

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2022-05-12

Thanks to I am reminded today is the birthday of the English landscape artist, traveller, and poet, Edward Lear (1812-1888).
On 13/14 April 1858 Lear visited Petra and made these watercolour sketches of the famous ruins of the Nabatean city. 1/6

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2022-05-12

Edward Lear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (b. 12.5.1812)
'Baudin's Cockatoo (Calyptorhynclus Baudinii)' 🇦🇺 (1832)
Hand-coloured lithograph
74.6 x 57.2 cm

An interesting article here:
'A Runcible Cockatoo'
https://t.co/sE7NT3FwBB
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2022-05-12

11th May 1812 - The only assassination of a British Prime Minister.
Spencer Percival was shot by bankrupt Liverpool merchant John Bellingham, who had had been imprisoned in Russia in 1804. Bellingham was hanged on 18th May
https://t.co/G7CqacEuek

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2022-05-12

Philip Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812)

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2022-05-11

Doodle of the Day: Acrobats: Images of Spain. (C. 1812 - 20), Brown ink and wash on paper, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746 - 1828). This drawing shows Goya’s understanding of the human form in difficult poses. The use of negative space helps give a sense of movement.

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2022-05-09

https://t.co/eHPFUT6toE
🎼Marianne von Martinez (1744-1812)
🎵Berenice, ah che fai? (Concert Aria for Soprano)

🎶Nuria Rial (soprano)
　 the ensemble "La Floridiana"

🎨Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (Berenice, Queen of Egypt,1867)

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2022-05-08

7 May 1663. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, was opened. In 1672, the theatre caught fire and a larger one built on the same site. It was subsequently rebuilt twice more. The third building was also destroyed in a fire in 1809. The building that stands today opened in 1812.

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2022-05-07

'The Collier' is my favourite of all the plates in George Walker's 'The Costume of Yorkshire,' (1813) featuring the Middleton Colliery and associated Railway near Leeds. It became the first to commercially use steam locomotives including the locomotive Salamanca (1812)

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2022-05-06

Some drawings of Finno-Ugric people from "Illustrations of the people of Russia" (1812-1813).
"Inside a Khanty yurt"
"A Khanty"
"Nenets"
"Udmurt women"

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2022-05-02

Scene of Rape and Murder, 1812

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2022-04-29

« La disputa de griegos y troyanos por el cuerpo de Patroclo » (vers 1812) œuvre réalisée par José de Madrazo y Agudo

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2022-04-23

"Arbres fruitiers - Prune"
Prunus domestiqua - Prunier domestique"
aquatint by Aliais
after Pancrace Bessa
Publ in "Nouveau Duhamel, ou Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France"
By Henri Louis Duhamel de Monceau
Publisher: Pierre Antoine Poiteau
Paris, 1812

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2022-04-22

In the 1800s, when famine was more common, a magic house made of gingerbread, candy, & cake would have ignited the imagination of any child & did. In 1812, the Grimms’ Hansel & Gretel drew from old tellers & ancient myths to create a sweet but scary story 🍭🍰#FairytaleTuesday

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2022-04-19

TOKEN ID : 1812
Name : 백창수(Beak Chang Soo)

창수는 귀가 안 들린다.
하지만, 창수는 항상 이어폰을 귀에 꽂는다. 사람들은 창수의 행동에 의아해 한다. 그럴 때마다 창수는 말한다."눈을 감고 이어폰 진동에 집중하는 거야, 그럼 누구도 듣지 못한 나만의 노래가 들려. 그게 나의 케이팝이야!"

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2022-04-17