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- ‘Tis the day b4 & all thru the land, families send excited children to bed with a reading of Clement Moore’s classic “A Visit from AKA “The Night B4 Christmas”.

🖼️Merry Old Thomas Nast

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2022-12-25

OTD we share ⬇️ painting, by survivor Janina Tollik (1946) "Christmas Eve".

Follow -an account that keeps the names & lives of those who passed through its gates alive, that preserves the historical record, will inform, challenge & inspire.

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in 1946
‘Part of the American Scene - White Christmas & it’s Maxwell House wherever you go.’
Life magazine, [23] December, 1946.

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2022-12-23

- 🇬🇧 Queen LIVE! at London 1979 🇬🇧
The last Show before Christmas eve 1979 - On December 22nd, 1979 rocks the next Party in the Alexandra Palace the today "Ally Pally" 🇬🇧🏟 Today, the Ally Pally was use by the 🎯
©️ Queen Productions Ltd

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2022-12-23

Four rabbits in the snow, 1890s, by (British, 1866-1943), who died (Dec 22). Held by , https://t.co/f9YsFYH5Od

Drawn to Nature is on at the through 8 January: https://t.co/imovnzWXFf

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2022-12-22

The Tale of Beatrix Potter, who died in 1943
Thirty-three books bearing the name “Beatrix Potter” have sold close to 200 million copies. Frank Delaney enquires into the more complex woman behind the safe and warm-hearted stories
https://t.co/UHjvyGidAq

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2022-12-22

Portrait of King Charles IX as a young boy, when Duc d’Orleans, c.1555
François Clouet

(British Museum)

Clouet was b. 22 Dec 1510

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2022-12-22

👉 Ernest Casimir, Count of Nassau-Dietz was born on December 22nd. 1573 in Dillenburg. More about him @ https://t.co/tTBHNtSkEf
in The

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2022-12-22

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

🐇#BeatrixPotter, English children's author and illustrator (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), passed away 22 December 1943

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2022-12-22

Gustaf Tenggren's concept art for Walt Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, which was released in 1937.

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2022-12-22

in 1375 author (Decameron) and poet, correspondent of Petrarch, Renaissance humanist, the Certaldese, Giovanni Boccaccio died at the age of 62 in Certaldo, Tuscany, Italy. Chiesa dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo, Certaldo https://t.co/ps7wRwW9AB

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2022-12-21

(+1) in 1976
Cover of The New Yorker, December 20, 1976
Charles Saxon

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2022-12-21

OTD in issue no. 56 of the Evening Post, a newspaper published in 1709, was a curious description of a Flying Ship, stated to have been invented by a Brazilian priest, and brought to the notice of the king of Portugal

The paper carried this engraving and a description

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2022-12-20

20 December 1979 the brilliant Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 cartoonist Leslie Illingworth died. He contributed scores of covers and cartoons to PUNCH and became a political cartoonist for the magazine towards the end of Some covers....

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2022-12-20

in 1873
‘Hard Times - Rent Day’ Harper's Weekly, Dec. 20, 1873:
‘Our on page 1140 presents one of the many sorrowful incidents of the life of the poor during hard times like the present, when work is scarce, and every penny that can be earned is required to...

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2022-12-20

(20th Dec, 1305) the Delhi Sultanate led by Malik Kafur crushed an invading Mongol army at the Battle of Amroha. 9000 Mongol soldiers & their commanders were taken captive to Delhi, a number who were crushed to death by elephants by the orders of Sultan Allaudin Khalji.

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2022-12-20

there’s no good solid gay otd accs so.

gay otd is Jambu! he is a gay man :33 and has a canonical male partner

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2022-12-20

Todays 2nd Asian character OTD is Tamiko from A Japanese-American woman, Tamiko divorced her jerk husband after 30 years of marriage and now lives larger than ever! She lives life by putting her happiness first and even married herself in an act of self love! 💖

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2022-12-20

OTD 1599 Capt Humfrey Willis proposed forts in Ulster, inc. Derry, Lifford, Armagh & Toome. His incursion into Fermanagh sparked war in 1593. Fought throughout but killed in mopping up op. summer 1602. So crucial at the start, his passing went almost unremarked

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2022-12-19