"Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion." ✒ English writer author of "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", the great classic of addiction passed away 8 December 1859.

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🦴 Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud
Paris: Chez P. Bertrand, 1850-1859.
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Self-portrait, oil on canvas, from 1859.😁

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"It was a darkness shaping itself forth..." - The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1859. 👤🕯👻

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Danish painter Anna Ancher was b. in 1859. She studied in Paris, influenced by Impressionist cropping, scenes of women's daily life, & plein air painting. She & her husband joined the Skagen Painters in creating light-filled works.

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🔭 Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud
Paris: Chez P. Bertrand, 1850-1859.
https://t.co/0HMLJ7VxqV

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🐟 Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud
Paris: Chez P. Bertrand, 1850-1859.
https://t.co/0tWIdogKRm

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Hall of Fame umpire Hank O’Day was born on this date in 1859.

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Centaurea amblensis was described by Graells in 1859. It differs well from other centaureas for its numerous flowers pink, which in the other species are scarce and yellow. The drawing of the species was made by a former director of

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Zacharie Astruc, artist, sculptor and writer - etchin by his friend Whistler1859.

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Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Algae, Foraminfera, Marine meteorology, Oceanography) https://t.co/LdoEeRrA89

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« Je passai dans la matinée chez mon ami Sherlock Holmes (...). Il était en costume de chambre, paresseusement étendu sur un sofa. »

Naissance de l'écrivain Arthur Conan Doyle, le 22 mai 1859. Lisons les Premières aventures du célèbre détective https://t.co/TrfKc2HuLq

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"The Nun" by Henriette Browne, 1859.

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Guide of Surgical Bandages, Gadgets and Dressings. 1859. https://t.co/tk74ogQ6f0

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🦎 Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud: .
Paris: Chez P. Bertrand, 1850-1859.
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Happy Spring! 📷Colored engraving, title page of "A Wreath from the Woods of Carolina," Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1859. Rare Books Collection. Government & Heritage Library. Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1st woman in NC to have written & illustrated a children's book.

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Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinovich) was born in 1859.
Members of the B'nai Zion society, Berdichev, via 's Territorial Photographic Collection, RG 120.
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Birthday in the park: Wilhelm Grimm, 1786-1859.......https://t.co/YfVo8krHu6

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Happy Birthday to Paul César
Born this day in 1859. Best known for his portraits of beautiful society women of the

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