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#OTD in 1925
Artwork for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, December 26, 1925
Illustration by J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
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“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife...”
Thomas Gray, poet, scholar, born #OTD 1716; author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published 1751, later illustrated by William Blake.
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25 Dec 350: #Pope Julius I proclaimed December 25 the official #celebration for the birthday of #Jesus Christ. #MerryChristmas #Christmas #Xmas #HolidaySpirit #history #OTD #ad https://t.co/BnCzTjLloI
OTD (12/25/1980): Episode 101 of Galaxy Express 999, "Planet of Eternally Pursued Dreams", airs on Fuji TV at 7 PM. #galaxyexpress999 #leijimatsumoto #銀河鉄道999
Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense.
🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History #BoxingDay 1606, the first known performance of #WilliamShakespeare's tragedy "King Lear" took place before the court of King James I at Whitehall, London.
Today's brown skin character OTD is: Pinecone Cookie from Cookie Run Kingdom! A guardian of the forest who can speak with trees, they are learning about the outside world for the first time this holiday season
daily bandori rarepair otd is yukina x mashiro, yukishiro!!! this ship consists of yukina from roselia and mashiro from morfonica!! cat lovers! they go to butterfly museums and cat cafes together!! they hold hands together everytime they see each other!! cutie pies fr
#OTD - ‘Tis #December24, the day b4 #Christmas & all thru the land, families send excited children to bed with a reading of Clement Moore’s classic #poem, “A Visit from #StNicholas.”; AKA “The Night B4 Christmas”.
#OnThisDay #TIH #ChristmasEve
🖼️Merry Old #SantaClaus, Thomas Nast
OTD we share ⬇️ painting, by #Auschwitz survivor Janina Tollik (1946) "Christmas Eve".
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#OTD 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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#OTD - 🇬🇧 Queen LIVE! at London 1979 🇬🇧
The last Show before Christmas eve 1979 - On December 22nd, 1979 @QueenWillRock rocks the next Party in the Alexandra Palace the today "Ally Pally" 🇬🇧🏟 Today, the Ally Pally was use by the @OfficialPDC 🎯
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Four rabbits in the snow, 1890s, by #BeatrixPotter (British, 1866-1943), who died #otd (Dec 22). Held by @V_and_A, https://t.co/f9YsFYH5Od
#BeatrixPotter: Drawn to Nature is on at the @V_and_A through 8 January: https://t.co/imovnzWXFf
#artherstory #womenartists
The Tale of Beatrix Potter, who died #OTD 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
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Portrait of King Charles IX as a young boy, when Duc d’Orleans, c.1555
François Clouet
(British Museum)
Clouet was b. #otd 22 Dec 1510
👉 #OTD Ernest Casimir, Count of Nassau-Dietz was born on December 22nd. 1573 in Dillenburg. More about him @ https://t.co/tTBHNtSkEf
#OnThisDay in #history #Dillenburg #Germany The #Netherlands
“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 #OTD 22 December 1943
Gustaf Tenggren's concept art for Walt Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, which was released #OTD in 1937.
#RIP #OTD 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
#OTD (+1) in 1976
Cover of The New Yorker, December 20, 1976
Charles Saxon
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#OTD in (+1) 1959
Cover of The New Yorker, December 20, 1958
Peter Arno
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