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#OnThisDay 1857, "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec was published - the first in a series of books that launched Spiritism, and founded beliefs about ghosts and mediumship in France.
#ghosts #spirits #spooky #supernatural #paranormal
Happy #nationalorchidday ! Feast your eyes on this illustration entitled Catasetum saccatum by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), produced for Lindley's 'Sertum Orchidaceum’ publication #orchids #womenartists #WomenInScience #SciArt #kewgardens
The unpublished plates of #Foraminifera by Alcide d'Orbigny (1802 - 1857). 🇬🇧🇫🇷
The dawn of #micropaleontology 🔬
Coll. des planches et des mots :🐚
https://t.co/o9AGET4NMS
#foraminiferes #drawings #mnhn #paleontology #Sciences #Shell
L’Amore sta assiso sul cranio dell’Umanità e da quel trono profano, con riso sfrontato, soffia gaio delle bolle rotonde che si innalzano nell’aria, quasi a raggiungere i mondi al fondo dell’etere…
Charles Baudelaire, Fleurs du mal, 1857
#Bolledisapone #Unoperalgiorno
When the British Museum’s Reading Room was opened in 1857 it was hailed as one of the great sights of London. Here it is under construction in 1855 (Wellcome Collection), during renovation in 1907 (Muirhead Bone) and in 1924 (Macbeth). Currently? It’s, er, closed
Mar. 17, 1857: Went to tea with Tyrwhitt, and to copy his verses on deer-stalking. We had a long talk on Art, Ruskin, etc., etc.
Dreams (1857-58) by John Anster Fitzgerald (England, 1819–1906). The Artist's Dream, The Nightmare, The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of (1 & 2). #worldsleepday2019 #WorldSleepDay #Dreaming #slumber #sopor #nap #rest #fortywinks #shuteye #beautysleep #nodoff #doze #siesta #catnap
On this day in 1857 Coleopterist Thomas John Bold (1816-1874) wrote, "This day has been a perfect tempest of wind and sleet. Kept in house by the weather spending the time in some beetle examinations." Read his journals @NEE_Naturalist @GNM_Hancock Brit. Science Week @BriSciAssoc
On #NoSmokingDay a 19th century warning on tobacco’s harmful effects from Scottish surgeon-anatomist & @rcsed Fellow John Lizars, 'Practical Observations on the Use and Abuse of Tobacco' (1857)
昨年の時点で地球総人口の1857%にあたる1300億人のファンを擁していた渋谷凛ですが、当プロダクション所属の渋谷も本日ファン数1000万人を突破致しました。
Never say neverのパフェコンで有終の美を飾れたのも嬉しく思います。
Roman Kochanowski (1857-1945): ‘Wierzby nad stawem’ / ‘Willows over a Pond’, 1886
#Polishart
Johan Christian Dahl, (1788-1857), View from Vaekero near Christiania, oil on canvas
Daily thing #1857: Fanart of the Big Bob-omb/King Bob-omb from #SuperMario64. #marioenemies