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#OTD in 1918, the women of Ireland, Mná na hÉireann, were granted suffrage and first cast their ballots in the 1918 election. In 2018, Hon. MRIA Eavan Boland (1944-2020) wrote a poem to mark the centenary: https://t.co/9dTdtrE4oK
(🖌️ Illustration by @PaulaMcGloin)
13 Dec 1627: Kenelm Digby receives letters of marque as a privateer #otd He has big plans (NPG)
#OnThisDay 13 December 1643 in a surprise attack, Sir William Waller's Parliamentarian forces stormed Alton in Hampshire. The Royalist defenders conducted a last stand in the Church of St Lawrence, which still has scars of the fighting today. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#OTD of 1777, a pioneer of #physiology, the swiss Albrecht von Haller, died at the age of 69. He studied the properties of the nervous and muscular system and in 1766 published the "Elementa physiologiae corporis humani".
#histmed #medtwitter #historiamedica #mediczin #history
"A work of art comes only from inside a human being. "
Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter 🎂 born #OTD #OnThisDay #BOTD #creativity #inspiration
👇 Melancholy 1893
230th Anniversary 🎶#OTD in #Music #History 12 December 1792, in Vienna, Ludwig van #Beethoven, then aged 22, received his first lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph #Haydn.
The legendary Morris “Morrie” Turner was born OTD in 1923. Best known for WEE PALS—the first integrated comic strip—Morrie left behind a body of work which celebrated inclusivity, acceptance, and love. We clearly still have much to learn from him.
#OTD #Yacht 1866 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean between 3 of richest & most influential at the time: Pierre Lorillard (Vesta), George Osgood (Fleetwing), John Gordon Bennett Jr. (Henrietta). Fleetwing was favourite, followed by Vesta & Henrietta https://t.co/58exexe10E
#OTD in 1954
‘New Phillip Morris “Snap-Open” Pack. “ZIP the tape… SNAP it’s open… PRESTO it closes”’
#Illustration by Edwin Georgi (1896-1964)
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #EdwinGeorgi #cigarettes #PhilllipMorris #packaging
The Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 11, 1954
December 11, 2002, the #UN celebrating the International Year of #Mountains declares #OTD the International #MountainDay - 1911 cross-sections of the #Alps showing fold and thrust belt to explain #mountain building ➡⛰️⬅
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bandori rarepair otd is airi x aya, ayri!! this ship consists of airi from MMJ(pjsk) and aya from pasupare!! cutesy idols, they met through an idol agency and was originaly planning on being in the same group but stuff changed, they still hang out tho!!
#OTD in 1938
Christmas tree supply chain
Cover of The New Yorker, December 10, 1938
Ilonka Karasz
#TheNewYorkerCover #IlonkaKarasz #christmastrees #Christmas #Natale #holidays #railroads
The disabled character OTD is...
Jessica Cruz, better known as Green Lantern!
After a hunting trip that ended with her friends being murdered by mobsters, Jessica developed agoraphobia didn't leave her apartment for 3 years. She also has PTSD from the incident and anxiety.
#OTD in 1934
Cover of The New Yorker, December 8, 1934
Richard Decker
#TheNewYorkerCover #RichardDecker #ChristmasShopping #plumpudding #Christmas #Natale #holidays #Christmasgifts #Christmaspresents #departmentstore
Bisexual character otd is Anne Savisa Boonchuy from Amphibia!
[headcanon; requested] 💖💜💙
#OTD 8 December 1881 Albert Gleizes was born. he became an artist, theoretician, philosopher & a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism.
Edith Durham born #OTD in 1863, anthropologist, artist, traveller. She illustrated 'Amphibia and reptiles' by Hans Gadow, 1901; wrote & illustrated 'Notes on the Mode of Feeding of the Egg‐eating Snake...' a paper in ZSL's Proceedings (@JZoology): https://t.co/8is7JDl5Ke #HERpers