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Mary & Elizabeth Kirby's book 'The Sea and its wonders',1871, is global in scope & is not simply a guide to the British seashore, it includes oceanography, chemistry & biology as well as information about seals! #InternationalDayoftheSeal #HerNaturalHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
#OnThisDay , December 25, 1871, at the age of twenty-four, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell (1855–1884), whom he had met two months earlier; she was an employee at one of his shops.
#thomasedison #25December #art
'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
#OnThisDay in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone ill and despondent in Tanzania, having abandoned his search for the source of the Nile.
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#otd in 1871, a total solar eclipse occurred. Here astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer waits to observe the eclipse in India. #astronomy #astronomers
#solareclipse #normanlockyer #telescope #telescopes
#10BillionHusbands
I married 5,575,928,563,871,580 Husbands!
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#10BillionWives
I married19,057,871,628,797Wives!
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Scottish Colourist S J Peploe was born #onthisday in 1871, his bold "Still Life" (1930) belongs to @aberdeenuni