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#OTD in 1610, Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer Elizabeth Báthory was arrested in her home, along with four of her servants. No witness accounts from her trial or testimonies against her make reference to baths of blood to maintain her looks. https://t.co/SL69CpIKUm
#OTD in 1950
‘Someone in the kitchen dropped a tray with a resounding crash and my memory went completely blank. The silence was oppressive’
#Illustration by Harry Beckhoff (1901–1979) for Tubby Threadbinder, “Speaking of the Boss”
#illustrationartists #HarryBeckhoff
#OTD -12/29/1835- #Treaty of #NewEchota is signed between the #USA govt & representatives of a minority #Cherokee political faction to cede ...
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#OnThisDay #TIH
🖼️The Trail of Tears, Robert Lindneux, 1942
#Art #Painting #NativeAmerican #Lindneux #RobertLindneux #TrailOfTears
Wiliwili, n.d., by #IsabellaMcHutchesonSinclair (Scottish-born, 1842-1900), who died #otd (Dec 29). Published in Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands, 1885. @USDA @National_Ag_Lib via @BioDivLibrary, https://t.co/PrhCUQzfAk #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory
#OTD in 1956
the day after
Cover of The New Yorker, December 29, 1956
Perry Barlow
#TheNewYorkerCover #PerryBarlow #NewYear #NewYearsEve
#OTD in 1928
Cover of The New Yorker, December 29, 1928
Rea Irvin
#TheNewYorkerCover #ReaIrvin #NewYear #sailingship
#OtD 29 Dec 1890 the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota when US troops massacred over 200 Lakota men, women & children, many of them unarmed and fleeing. Learn more about Indigenous genocide and resistance in this book: https://t.co/YomPDwMR39
Fourth bisexual character otd is Akira Fudo from Devilman!
[canon; requested] 💖💜💙
#StanLee was born #OTD in 1922, there have been some #Marvel-ous #JAWS inspired covers over the years, and Marvel also did an adaptation of both #Jaws2 and Peter Benchley's #TheDeep #StanLee100
1st Pathetic Bisexual otd!
Robin from Teen Titans Go!
(Headcanon)
Note from me: Fun fact this is the second robin submission lmao
Submitted by: @kuttauwu
Bisexual character otd is Sett from League of Legends!
[canon; requested] 💖💜💙
Todays picrew otd is flanmaker🎵
Creator: @flanchannn
Quote rt with your version :)
Today's tan/brown skin character OTD is: Damian Wayne from DC comics! The only son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul. He is of mixed heritage [chinese/arab/white]
#OTD 27 December 1794, Alexander Gordon Laing, who would become the first European to reach Timbuktu from the north, was born in Edinburgh. #ScotlandsStory
#OTD 26 December 1790 Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
Born #OTD 1776 – Charles Hamilton Smith. He assembled a huge collection of watercolour drawings to illustrate his books & talks. ZSL's former Secretary, Professor McNeill Alexander, presented ZSL with the Coulton portfolio of 55 watercolours, all except one are probably by Smith.