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1783 time was running out for the Fox North coalition. Viscount Maitland argued in the Commons against royal influence asking: ‘whether this country was henceforth to be governed by a public & responsible administration, or by a secret cabal’

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2019-12-17

Born genius Russian & credited as pioneering Taught at Bauhaus school of art 1922 to 1933 when Nazis closed it Expressed the communion between artist & viewer as being available to both the senses & the mind (synesthesia)

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2019-12-16

Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: https://t.co/s1Zj5ATcz9

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2019-12-16

1467 Battle of Baia fought between the principality of Moldavia led by Stephen the Great and Hungary led by Matthias Corvinus ends with a decisive victory for the Moldavians, despite being heavily outnumbered.

Image from medieval Chronica Hungarorum

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2019-12-15


“Fear is the relinquishment of We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) in

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2019-12-14

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.

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2019-12-13

'quinologist' John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) - expert in botany and chemistry of government advisor and collector of many of specimens. https://t.co/YSdzg7LMfk

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2019-12-11

Born Hector Berlioz French Romantic composer best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique Harold in Italy & Grande messe des morts & 3 operas Berlioz made significant contributions to modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation

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Born Mark Tobey American of densely structured compositions inspired by Asian calligraphy resembled & creator of "white writing" overlay of white calligraphic symbols on abstract field of thousands of interwoven brush strokes

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2019-12-11

Happy birthday to Anton Rudolf Mauve, who was born on this day in 1898. He was a very significant early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh.

Image: “Shepherd and Sheep” by Anton Mauve

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2019-12-11

- the episode Red Museum debuted in 1994. I always liked this one for starting out as a monster of the week episode but then suddenly taking a surprise mythology arc detour halfway through. Here's my poster.

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2019-12-10

in 1751, botanist and zoologist George Shaw was born

Shaw was the first Western scientist to describe several Australian animals, including the platypus and red bellied black snake

His series 'The naturalist's miscellany' is a cornucopia of gorgeous

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2019-12-10

Born Mark Gertier British society & Gertier’s sense of self & egotism conflicted with prevailing patronage system & circle he moved in hindering his career hence later works showed a harsh edge influenced by often poor health

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2019-12-09

in 1886, Mexican painter Diego Rivera was born.
📷 Diego Rivera at work on "Liberation of the Peon," New York [photograph] / (photographed by Peter A. Juley & Son), 1931. .

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2019-12-09

John Cosin was enthroned as Bishop of Durham in 1660.
He was instrumental in the promotion of neo-Gothic woodwork. The towering 12 metre font canopy was designed for Cosin by Durham architect James Clement & installed in 1663.

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2019-12-08

1842 James Nasmyth patented his steam hammer 🔨 Built at his Patricroft foundry next to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bridgewater Canal, there's one on display in Making the Modern World Gallery https://t.co/VsBOlJDdVv 🔨🔨

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2019-12-08

December 8 1913

Caitlin Macnamara born in Hammersmith

Photo: Nora Summers

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2019-12-08

Born Albert Gleizes French art theoretician philosopher & self-proclaimed founder influenced School of Paris founding member of Section d’Or Der Sturm artistic groups & co-wrote 1st significant treatise Du Cubisme on Cubism Ideas adopted by Bauhaus

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