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#OTD in 1946
The ever-enterprising ‘Hokinson Woman’ tries her hand at cake decorating
Cover of The New Yorker, January 5, 1946
Helen E. Hokinson
#TheNewYorkerCover #HelenHokinson #cook #kitchen
#OTD in 1935
Cover of The New Yorker, January 5, 1935
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #ChristmasGifts #ChristmasPresents
Todays picrew otd is YoLii Creator!
Creator: Taovia
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James Ussher was born #OTD 1581, his library, (containing over 10,000 books & gifted to @TCDLibrary by King Charles II in 1661) contains some of the finest manuscripts in the collection, which are being digitised as part of a @CarnegieCorp supported #VirtualTrinityLibrary project
Happy Birthday Edward Linley Sambourne, born #OTD 4 January 1844 🎉
Cartoonist, illustrator, photographer & family man, learn more about this fascinating figure 👉 https://t.co/j42UruPJu4
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bandori rarepair otd is mayui! this ship consists of mashiro from morfonica and yui from Diabolik lovers!! They met on the internet cause they had the same special interests like dark novels and mangas, they like horror movies and romance mangas and they cuddle alot!
Today's brown skin character OTD is: Talim from Soul Caliber! She seeks to restore the balance of nature by purging the powers of the two swords. She's Filipina!
Malus domestica / St. Lawrence apple, 1909, by #DeborahGriscomPassmore (American, 1840-1911), who died #otd (Jan 3). @USDA, https://t.co/RdMBBPThpU #artherstory #womenartists #womenbotanicalillustrators #hernaturalhistory
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
—Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien was born #otd 1892.
Pope Leo X issued a papal bull excommunicating Martin Luther from the Catholic Church #OTD 3 January 1521.
Today’s Henson Creatures OTD are the urSkeks from The Dark Crystal, performed by Lyle Conway, Melissa Whitmire, and Dave Barclay.
Today's brown/dark skin character OTD is: Ryme from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet! Montenevera's ghost type gym leader! She's black!
Bisexual character otd is Evelyn Elena Herrera "Evelyn Hugo" from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo!
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#OTD in 1879 novelist, Liberal, pacifist, and humanist EM Forster was born. Forster was a friend of spiritual socialist Edward Carpenter and visited him and his partner George Meril at their home outside Sheffield. The visit inspired Forster's novel 'Maurice'.
#OtD 1 Jan 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, not because he was anti-racist but to undermine Confederacy: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white & Black races" https://t.co/s6STHbJtVW
#OtD 1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here: https://t.co/E7oPZOr58a
#OTD 31 December 1869 Henri Matisse was born. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century.
#OTD in 1932
Fireworks: New Year burst on the scene as the Old Year fades
Cover of The New Yorker, December 31, 1932
Harry Brown
#TheNewYorker #HarryBrown #NewYear #NewYearsEve #Capodanno #fireworks
30 Dec 1654: Augustine Garland and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper move #otd that Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell be crowned
(British Museum)