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Happy Birthday to legendary comics artist Jose Luis Garcia Lopez #bornonthisday ( March 26, 1948) !!
#DCComics #comics
#JoseLuisGarciaLopez @tbwUltraPowers
It's our 149th #Birthday 🎂
#OnThisDay in 1871 @Scotlandteam beat @EnglandRugby to win the first international rugby match and so the line of winners for which we award the @RaeburnShield began
#Rugby #Winnerssince1871 #WorldChallengeShield #DoesntExistButShould #ScoVEng
#OnThisDay 26Mar1832 Cholera takes its first victim in France. Learn More about this disease and its victims at https://t.co/hbbPo3hLVv #19thcentury #medhist #cholera
‘Opposition are in great want of a leader & a general system. One set are so candid, another so violent, a third so dissatisfied, that the scene is dreadful'
John Calcraft MP to the earl of Chatham #OnThisDay 1771
#leadership #HistParl
Born #OnThisDay in 1621: Swiss engraver and portrait painter #MatthäusMerian (1621-87)
Portrait of Anna Margareta Wrangel (1622-73), ca. 1650
#Merian #SwissArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1621: Swiss engraver and portrait painter #MatthäusMerian (1621-87)
Portrait of Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613-76), 1652
#Merian #SwissArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1621: Swiss engraver and portrait painter #MatthäusMerian (1621-87)
Portrait of Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613-76), 1662
#Merian #SwissArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1490: #FrancescoMariaIdellaRovere (1490-1538), Duke of Urbino
Portrait by #Titian (1490-1576), 1536-8
#dellaRovere
Born #OnThisDay in 1541: #FrancescoIdeMedici (1541-87), Grand Duke of Tuscany
Portrait by Alessandro #Allori (1535-1607), 1570-5
#Medici #FlorentineRenaissance
#MuseumMayervandenBergh
'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.' #WilliamMorris was #bornonthisday in 1843. William Morris Decor & Design by @ewilhide is available both as ebook and print book. https://t.co/mnvJ8oKefi
#OnThisDay in 1986, Van Halen released "5150" , their 1st album with Sammy Hagar. Featuring singles Why Can't This Be Love (#3 on the Hot 100), Dreams and Love Walks In, the album was the bands 1st #1 record and is certified 6x platinum in the US. An all time Top 10 for me!
John Rennie's Southwark Bridge opened #onthisday 1819. Originally called Queen Street bridge, the centre span was said to be the longest cast iron span ever built, at 240ft (73m). It was replaced in 1921 as it was too narrow to cope with the growing traffic.
Born #OnThisDay in 1732: #MarieAdélaïdeofFrance (1732-1800), daughter of King #LouisXV
Portrait by Élisabeth Louise #VigéeLeBrun (1755-1842), 1791
#MadameAdélaïde #Bourbon #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1732: #MarieAdélaïdeofFrance (1732-1800), daughter of King #LouisXV
Portrait as Diana by Jean-Marc #Nattier (1685-1766), 1745
#MadameAdélaïde #Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1732: #MarieAdélaïdeofFrance (1732-1800), daughter of King #LouisXV
Portrait by Jean-Marc #Nattier (1685-1766), 1758
#MadameAdélaïde #Bourbon
#OnThisDay 1917 the Frank Salisbury painting of Boy Sailor John Travers Cornwell, commissioned by the City of London is presented to @RoyalNavy Cornwell was awarded a #VC for gallantry at Jutland, at 16 he is the 3rd youngest recepient. The painting is in the church @HMS_Raleigh
Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of a Woman and Child, ca. 1620-1
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt
#ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Philadelphia and Elisabeth Wharton, 1640
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt
#ChildrenInArt #SistersInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Catherine Howard, Lady d'Aubigny, ca. 1638
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Katherine, Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy, Countess of Huntingdon, 1636-40
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt