12 January 1866. The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain was founded in London (later to become the Royal Aeronautical Society). Still in existence today. The first public meeting was held in the rooms of the Society of Arts (later Royal), Adelphi, on 27 June 1866.

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Moscú 1866. Un 16 de diciembre nace el padre de la pintura abstracta, Wassily Kandinsky.

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[작가] 오늘은 러시아의 화가 『바실리 칸딘스키 (Wassily Kandinsky)』가 태어난 날 입니다.
1866.12.16 - 1944.12.13
● Artist CV: https://t.co/5NC0AyIbCB

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"Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view." 🎨 Russian painter and theorist was born 4 December 1866.

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"L'automne venait, vert encore et froid comme une poire savoureuse".

Anna de Noailles, La nouvelle espérance.

/ Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, La Solitude. Souvenir du Vigen, Limousin, 1866.

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Looking forward to the first Zoom meeting organised by the Broadstairs Branch this evening. Good luck to all involved. The talk connects Messrs Spiers & Pond and the extra Christmas number of ATYR for 1866.

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Satan’s Fall by from John Milton’s Paradise Lost illustrated by Gustave Doré in 1866.

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Herbert George Wells was born on this day, 1866. His classics like War of the Worlds are still very readable and very well know.
What is less well known is that Wells was lead by 'Little Herbert' and had a string of affairs.

Catch up via our blog!
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H. G. Wells, surtout connu aujourd'hui pour ses romans de science-fiction est né le 21 septembre 1866...La Machine à explorer le temps, L'Île du docteur Moreau, L'Homme invisible, La Guerre des mondes, Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune...

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28 July 1866. Beatrix Potter was born in London. She wrote thirty books, with the best known bring her twenty-three children’s tales, most notably, The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

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🐰🐇 Beatrix Potter nació en 1866. El compartió estas hermosas ilustraciones que la escritora británica creó para su libro "El cuento de los conejitos de Flopsy" en 1909.

¿Quién es tu personaje favorito de Beatrix Potter?

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🐰🐇 Beatrix Potter was born in 1866. She made these lovely illustrations for her 1909 book ‘The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies’.

Who’s your favourite Beatrix Potter character?

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Beatrix Potter was born in 1866. The Potter family were friends with Millais & Beatrix's incredible myopic studies of fungi surely echo the early Pre-Raphaelite fidelity to nature. Flora & Fauna abound in Beatrix's work, magical microcosms with a wonderful cast of characters

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Swimmer, John La Farge , 1866.

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John La Farge.1835-1910. Swimmer.1866. Watercolor. Yale University Art Gallery.

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John La Farge. Swimmer. 1866.

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Antonia Maury, American astronomer who worked at the College Observatory & discovered the first spectroscopic binary, was born 1866.

Further details via : https://t.co/Pp0yRBMNbr


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Cholera Ship Virginia in 1866: Liverpool to New York - What became known as the cholera ship Virginia set sail from Liverpool on 4 April 1866. At the time there were no cases of cholera ... https://t.co/qUBPX0ZhYj

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