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'A Gallant Rescue' by Ebenezer Colls, HMS Endymion rescues a French two-decker, Spanish Coast, 1803 [7200 x 5086] [Art] from /u/MuteQuaker at https://t.co/bHKIzLTsHN

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Hibiscus hybrid from Hibiscus cameronii and Hibiscus fulgens, 1844, by (#SarahAnneDrake, English, 1803-1857), who died (July 9). , https://t.co/CTPWLTP0jW, via Raven Lib at

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George Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) developed a close affinity with the Romani people, who figure prominently in his work. His best-known books are The Bible in Spain, and the novels Lavengro and The Romany Rye.
https://t.co/jk0GeY2nuI

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Pretty proteas from issues of Curtis' botanical magazine, published in 1803 and 1805

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The deadly Fool’s Parsley ☠️ (Aethusa) contains poisonous alkaloids and is responsible for much of the death-related folklore surrounding its look-alike the common Cow Parsley.

Plate by Grandville (1803-1847) 💛

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Born in 1803: Scottish painter (1803-69)

Portrait of John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) & Charlotte Sophia Scott (1799-1837), after 1838

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Born in 1803: Scottish painter (1803-69)

Portrait of Thomas Duncan (1807-45), ca. 1839

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¡Buenos días!

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (Paris, 1803 - Fontainebleau, 1860).

‘Job y su compañía’ (h. 1852, óleo sobre lienzo, 119.38 x 85.73 cm).

Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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カール・フリードリヒ・アウグスト・ギュツラフ(Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff、1803年7月8日 - 1851年8月9日)は、中国で活躍したドイツ人宣教師である。日本ではとくに、聖書を日本語に翻訳した人物として知られる。ギュツラフの訳は現存する最古の日本語訳聖書である。

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Todays’ Find: Linda Caldwell’s 2020 biography of John Gorrie (3 Oct 1803 – 29 June 1855), “He Made Ice & Changed the World”, a U.S. physician who developed mechanical cooling in an effort to help his malaria & yellow fever patients https://t.co/tHd0CJV6Ft

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🦎 Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles: .
A Paris: De l'Imprimerie de F. Dufart, an X-XI [1802-1803].
https://t.co/8eiJROxrlS

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Offerta di Ringraziamento di Noè (c.1803) di Joseph Anton Koch. Noè costruisce un altare al Signore dopo essere stato trasportato dal Diluvio; Dio manda l'arcobaleno come un segno del suo patto. (Genesi 8-9).

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💐 Jardin de la Malmaison
A Paris: De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, et se trouve chez l'auteur . ., 1803-1804.
https://t.co/P8AnSFX7O7

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Born 25May1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist/philosopher poet who led the movement and wrote well-known essays "Self-Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," "The Poet," and "Nature."

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🐚 The natural history of British shells
London: Printed for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington . ., 1799-1803.
https://t.co/yeDpl8zfpz

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Botanical illustration and the park: Curtis's Botanical Magazine, v.42, no 1726, 1815.......several vols, 1803-1906....BHL/Missouri Botanical Garden....... https://t.co/LqEDKTIQ1T

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🐚 The natural history of British shells
London: Printed for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington . ., 1799-1803.
https://t.co/tIcAw3E1sa

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18th May 1803, Britain declared war on France, bringing the peace negotiated at Amiens to an end.

Gillray's stunning print 'The Plumb Pudding in danger' (1805) satirises how both sides were consumed with terrirtorial ambitions during this period.

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