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Born in 1856: Irish painter (1856-1941)

Portrait of Aïda, Early 20th Century

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Born in 1856: Irish painter (1856-1941)

Portrait of Ellen Julia Myers, Lady Jackson, 1919

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Born 20Mar1811 II also known as Duke of Reichstadt was son of Napoleon I and Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. He never ruled France but was briefly the titular Emperor of the French. https://t.co/ycgbniVvTD

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Joseph Simpson in 1968, the first Met Commissioner to have joined as a PC and one of only two to die in office. Ten days later his body lay in state in the foyer of New Scotland Yard, which had reopened at 10 Broadway near the previous year.

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"If you want to kill your Emperor, here I am!"

🇨🇵 in 1815, enters Paris, having escaped exile on Elba, and ascends the throne. Bourbon King Louis XVIII has fled. Soldiers sent to capture Napoleon and "bring him back in an iron cage" had joined him.

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22 Years ago, March 20, 1999: the episode "Dead Man's Hand" aired on television.
Directed by Dan Riba
Written by Stan Berkowitz

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1950 died Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author, known for Tarzan. https://t.co/FgAFI8q4k9 Still © in Europe until Jan 1

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"Art is free but you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the they choose me."

Mirka Mora (1928–2018) in

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“Wildflowers can’t be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.”
Melody Lee

🖌#BornOnThisDay (Giuseppe) Beppe Ciardi🇮🇹Portrait of the Nulli Girl,1912

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18 March 1643 Royalist forces under the Earl of Derby summoned Lancaster to surrender, to be rejected by the Mayor. "Enraged to see their sauciness" the Royalists plundered much of the town but were unable to capture the castle. (NPG)

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the largest art heist in American history took place in 1990.

13 works valued at $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. None have been recovered, and the frames still hang empty...

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“We raise the watch-word liberty;
We will, we will, we will be free!”

The Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of Dorset rural labourers who were arrested for swearing a secret oath as members of a friendly society, were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia 1834.

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O mel é o único alimento doce que contém sais minerais e vitaminas essenciais para a saúde do ser humano, além de ter propriedades medicinais que oferecem
uma ação antibacteriana.
~🦋

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is the birthday of Irish stained-glass artist 🇮🇪 He was born in 1889. His gorgeous stained glass windows can be seen in many buildings around Ireland and overseas including the Geneva Window now housed Florida

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1854, Dickens wrote to the widow of Thomas Noon Talfourd: https://t.co/BIg1WxezMP "I well know (or have hoped so) that if I could be of the smallest service or comfort to you or to anybody dear to you, you would instinctively trust my love for my dear departed friend."

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The Treason Act, which made it high treason to assassinate the Prince Regent, gained Royal Assent 1817. The Act was one of two 'Gagging Acts' which banned meetings of over 50 people and instructed magistrates to arrest anyone suspected of spreading seditious libel.

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Born in 1839: Scottish painter (1839-93)

Portrait of William Quiller Orchardson (1832-1910), ca. 1870

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On 17th March somewhere between 460 and 493 St Patrick, who successfully brought Christianity to Ireland died.
FULL VIDEO ON IRISH HISTORY HERE: https://t.co/HxiZ1oFCiH

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