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The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West who was born in 1738.

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2016-10-10

Copley, Portrait of Colonel Fitch and his Sisters

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2016-09-30

An Unsuccessful Reformer: William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau. https://t.co/TpObJXeffN

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2016-09-02

Boney and his new wife quarrel about nothing by Thomas Rowlandson.

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2016-08-30

27/8 1816 Adm. Exmouth's British-Dutch fleet bombarded Algiers to stop slave-trade.

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2016-08-27

The Gravenor Family by Thomas Gainsborough.

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2016-08-16

A dragon illustration in a 1460 edition of the Medieval Liber Floridus

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2016-08-12

George, Elector of Hanover, became King George I of Great Britain on this day in 1714.

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2016-08-01

German Sausages & Flying Ambulances... battlefield medicine. https://t.co/fUOuYQwLD2

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2016-07-08

Hans Christian Andersen, author of terrifying was born in 1805.

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2016-04-03

Giacomo Casanova, famed adventurer, was born in 1725.

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2016-04-02

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden by John Constable, who died in 1838…

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2016-04-01

William Smith, the Father of English Geology, was born in 1769.

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2016-03-23