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#OTD in 1875, Captain Matthew Webb became the first known person to swim the English Channel.
Webb swam from Admiralty Pier at Dover to Calais.
It took him 21 hours and 40 minutes.
Although the Channel is 21 miles at its narrowest, Webb’s zig-zag course was nearly 40 miles.
In 1875, Pierre Babolat, founder of French tennis, badminton, and squash equipment company Babolat, discovered that cow intestines can be used to make strings for tennis racquets.
Words by Jonn Aaron Metierre
Art by Kai Javier
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875, French)
#realism #landscape #painting #artlovers #art #fineart
Souvenir de Mortefontaine, 1864.
El 3 de junio de 1875, Madeleine Brès obtuvo su título de doctora en medicina con la tesis titulada "De la mamelle et de l’allaitement".
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ART APPRECIATION!
California Spring, 1875, By Albert Bierstadt
“...and so many colors
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the soft pink and purples
of spring…”
― Sanober Kha
Starting a new series of #FridayFavourites, the first of which is 'The Mirror of Venus' by Burne-Jones (1875, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum) with all of its serene, glassy and ethereal beauty. Alas a difficult one to recreate during times of social distancing! ;-)
#IoRestoaCasa con #MUVE
Un tesoretto di monete d’oro 💰
Nel 1875, a Nerviano (MI) si rinvenne un vasetto con 21 monete d’oro datate tra 457 e 527 d.C., donato poi al Museo Correr.
Probabilmente apparteneva a un mercenario che morì in battaglia.
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Edward Cucuel (August 6, 1875, San Francisco – April 18, 1954, Pasadena, California)was an American-born painter who lived and worked in Germany.
8 Facts about Bizet's Carmen 🎶🎵 1.French composer Georges Bizet wrote over 30 operas, but Carmen is the only one that is performed with any regularity.
2.After its premiere in 1875, Carmen was critically panned, and many believe the poor reception led… https://t.co/IOMerjnbpr
Oggi nel 1818 nasceva il pittore #AntonioFontanesi.
(LA SOLITUDINE, anno 1875, olio su tela, cm. 114 x 149, Musei Civici di #ReggioEmilia).
#23febbraio.
#BuonaDomenica.
February 22, 1875, died #OTD, Charles Lyell, the advocate of modern #geology ⚒️
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M6.8 earthquake in eastern Turkey possibly occurred on Palu-Sincik segment of left lateral East Anatolian fault. From Aktug et al. (2016): "Since most recent earthquake on this segment occurred in 1875, it has slip deficit of 1.5 m & potential of producing earthquake of Mw7.4"
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Diyarbakırlı Tahsin (Siret) Bey (1875, Diyarbakır - 1937, Kadıköy) was an Turkish soldier, artist & painter, mostly of seascapes and other marine-based works. He was a student of Hoca Ali Rıza (1858–1930).
Ortaköy Mosque/Landscape of Istanbul
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#Chinese #painting #ChineseArt #ChinesePainting #TraditionalChinesePainting
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Diyarbakırlı Tahsin (Siret) Bey (1875, Diyarbakır - 1937, Kadıköy) was an Turkish soldier, artist & painter, mostly of seascapes and other marine-based works. He was a student of Hoca Ali Rıza (1858–1930).
Ortaköy Mosque/Landscape of Istanbul
Wishing you a happy #Thanksgiving filled with family, food, and maybe even a mound of butter.
The Gallery is open until 5:00 pm today.
[Antoine Vollon, “Mound of Butter,” 1875/18875, oil on canvas, on view in gallery 23 in the West Building]
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Diyarbakırlı Tahsin (Siret) Bey (1875, Diyarbakır - 1937, Kadıköy) was an Turkish soldier, artist & painter, mostly of seascapes and other marine-based works. He was a student of Hoca Ali Rıza (1858–1930).
Ortaköy Mosque/Landscape of Istanbul