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And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.
Casey At The Bat: https://t.co/W4Xy2K2tnK
✒️ #ErnestThayer, American poet, was #BOTD 14 August 1863. #Poetry #Literature
🎨 #CarleVernet, French painter and lithographer, was #BOTD 14 August 1758. #Art #Painting
The commission for a new Cathedral in Coventry to replace the one destroyed by the Luftwaffe, made the reputation of architect Basil Spence #botd. He helped secure some of the best craftsmen and artists of the time, including Graham Sutherland and John Piper.
Perspective sketch
📰 #WilliamCaxton, English printer and translator, first to print in the English language, was #BOTD 13 August 1422 (date disputed). #Publishing #History
🎨 #AntonLosenko, Russian painter, was #BOTD 10 August 1737. #Art #Painting
Billie Burke on Hollywood: “To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor and the physical stamina of a cow pony.”
Best known as Glenda, Billie Burke was BOTD in 1884 in Washington D.C.
🎨 #EmilNolde, German painter and graphic artist, was #BOTD 7 August 1867. #Art #Painting
🎨 #LawrenceJosset, British artist, was #BOTD 2 July 1910. #Art #Painting
🎨 #JohnFrenchSloan, American painter and etcher, was #BOTD 2 August 1871. #Art #Painting
🎨 #SamuelDirkszVanHoogstraten, Dutch painter, was #BOTD 2 August 1627. #Art #Painting
'Indeed, except as toned by the former, the comeliness and power, always attractive in masculine conjunction, hardly could have drawn the sort of honest homage the Handsome Sailor in some examples received from his less gifted associates.' ~BILLY BUDD, by #BOTD Herman Melville
“What a long strange trip it's been.”
🎤 #JerryGarcia, American rock and bluegrass guitarist, singer-songwriter (#GratefulDead), and painter, was #BOTD 1 August 1942.
#NowWatching 🫣Mario Bava’s KILL BABY KILL (1966) on what would’ve been his birthday! #BOTD An atmospheric masterclass in lighting, dissolves, & zooms; this Gothic Golden Age finale had a budget of less than 50K & was the only film funded by F.U.L. Film/Catenacci, who plays Karl!
🎨 #MaryVauxWalcott, American artist and naturalist, was #BOTD 31 July 1860. #Art #Painting #Nature