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60 years ago, 101 Dalmatians first came out in theaters. Happy 60th Anniversary! My favorite characters in this movie are Patch and Cruella De Vil. I do parsh Susanne Blakeslee's role as Cruella in House of Mouse as well as Patch's London Adventure.

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2021-01-25

Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight of a self-propelled aircraft near Kitty Hawk, NC. Here are two images from that day by James H. Hare. Not on view. See more of Hare's work: https://t.co/e59xEvGt9P

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2020-12-17

Writer Shirley Jackson was Dec. 14, 1916 Known for horror, mystery & "The Lottery" (1948). Wrote 6 novels, 2 memoirs, & over 200 short stories. Suffered from smoking, alcohol, pills, & Passed in 1965 (age 48) Cardiac arrest.

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2020-12-14

November 16: one was born...

Francis Danby was an born in 1793. He was a part of the movement & was known for his dramatic

Photo credit: , "The Deluge" by 1837-39.

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2020-11-17

◼️◻️#Onthisday, Nov 7th, is the national day of North Catalonia, which commemorates the & territorial dismemberment of with the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees

Against all odds, the Catalan people keep fighting for

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2020-11-07

Before becoming an artist, Burne-Jones, who was born studied at Exeter College where he befriended William Morris over a mutual love of poetry. The Knights Farewell, an ink-on-paper drawing by Burne-Jones, 1858

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2020-08-28

One of the most understudied aspects of career of Marcel Duchamp, born was his involvement with illustration. Early on he made numerous magazine drawings, including these . His lifelong interest in humor & wordplay is already evident in these early efforts

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2020-07-28

from fbook, an old on paper // somehow never seem to fit my face even in a rendering 😎

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2020-05-27

21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied France.

Having escaped over the Pyrenees mountains whilst with the British Special Operations Executive, she returns with the American Office of Strategic Services. She trains 3 battalions of resistance fighters.

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2020-03-21

7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928.

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2020-02-07

13 Jan 1976, Sarah Caldwell takes up the baton the New York , becoming the first woman to conduct an opera there.

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2020-01-13

28 November 1974, YES released their seventh studio album, Relayer!

What is your favourite moment from the Relayer album?

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2019-11-28

26 NOV 1971, YES released Fragile!

Explore Fragile now at https://t.co/Hr9MXPIwT8

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2019-11-27

23 Nov 1909, Clara Lemlich called a general strike by garment workers in New York, USA. Within 48 hours, around 20,000 mostly female workers walked out.

I/V with Clara:
https://t.co/5YWZmeV3p9

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2019-11-23

Thread:
Sept 25, 1839:
The ships and of the set sail on their incredible voyage to Captains & would make discoveries in oceanography, magnetism, geography, botany, zoology and more.

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2019-09-25

Work at the intersection of & as our Postgraduate Fellow. Apply by May 1: https://t.co/FPR9JbHoTV.

📷: dedicated to President born 1660.

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2019-04-17

1548, Jacques Francis, a Guinean who is the earliest known person to dive on the Mary Rose, gives testimony in court, the first to do so.

https://t.co/BxEhc8S0NW

Image by

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2019-02-08