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#OTD 1814 Napoleon defeated the Russians at Montmirail, one of four victories he won during his astonishing ‘Six Days’ Campaign’, fought during his last desperate defence of France.
Watch the entire campaign unfold in our video: https://t.co/yiWWzueJto
#OTD 11 February 1860 Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, known by the pen name Rachilde, was born. Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author & one of the most prominent associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de siècle France.
@A_DiAngelo Born #otd
Burt Reynolds
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Leslie Nielsen
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Additional reviews
Black Sunday
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Blonde
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Sorrowful Jones
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Peter Falk 4 movie set
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@IsmaelR77859620 Born #otd
Burt Reynolds
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Leslie Nielsen
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Additional reviews
Black Sunday
https://t.co/2zLkpuTUzN
Blonde
https://t.co/4eF56n5crb
Sorrowful Jones
https://t.co/lcGnaI8ox2
Peter Falk 4 movie set
https://t.co/gdbyqMT8E3
La fille du régiment is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It premiered #otd 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse.
Bisexual character otd is Kenzie Martin/Lookout from The Parahumans Series!
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#OTD #Artist #Author 1970 Myrea Pettit born Northampton. Studies with Ann Mari Sjogren & becomes acclaimed fantasy & fairy artist and illustrator in own right. Author of '500 Fairy Motifs' and co-illustrated 'Fairies Art Studio'. https://t.co/5rRncH9xVx
Todays picrew otd is Creador de platanitos!
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#OTD in 1957
Snowbirds keeping up with the market between sets
Cover of The New Yorker, February 9, 1957
Leonard Dove
#TheNewYorkerCover #LeonardDove #NYSE #stockmarket #WallSt #wintervacation #tennis
#OTD in 1929
The unforgettably endearing iconographic apotheosis of the incurably romantic ‘Hokinson Woman’
Cover of The New Yorker, February 9, 1929
Helen E. Hokinson
#TheNewYorkerCover #HelenHokinson #ValentinesDay #Valentines
Todays picrew otd is TSIOX's Avatar Maker
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#JohnRuskin, English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath, was born #OTD 1819
The Wealth Of Life https://t.co/QEbY11K7uJ
"To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one."
Victorian polymath & colossus John Ruskin was born #OTD in 1819. Ruskin was a superb draughtsman with an intense eye on the natural world. We highly recommend 'An Instinct to Draw' by Prof Stephen Wildman celebrating Ruskin's drawings at the @AshmoleanMuseum for #WednesdayWonder
Gustaf Tenggren's concept art for Walt Disney's Pinocchio, which was released #OTD in 1940. His original influences were grounded in Scandinavian folklore & fairy tales. A huge influence on Tenggren's style was John Bauer.
2/2 Anne Cresacre, daughter-in-law of Sir Thomas More, and his foster daughter Margaret Giggs. He was born OTD 1478. And they were drawn by Holbein.
#otd 7 February 1813 – In the action of 7 February 1813 near the Îles de Los, the frigates Aréthuse and HMS Amelia batter each other, but neither can gain the upper hand.
#Britishhistory #Royalnavy #hmsamelia
#OTD in 1942
Sunbathing in Jamaica?
Cover of The New Yorker, February 7, 1942
Peter Arno
#TheNewYorkerCover #PeterArno #Caribbean #beach #cocktail
OTD in 1980: Feb 7, Joy Division's first full home town show for over three months. Tony asks me to do a poster; Rob asks me to DJ. Tony also asked Daniel Meadows to take photos - three of them here