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'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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2019-12-11

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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2019-12-08

1914 a Force under Vice Admiral Doveton Sturdee defeated a German force under Admiral Graf Von Spee at the Battle of the Falkland Islands.

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Born Cornelius van Spaendonck Dutch Head of Sèvres porcelain works Became member Académie des Beaux-Arts (1789) Prdeominantly in oils & gouache & is remembered for his lush evocative of flowers Left 29 paintings in studio at his death

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2019-12-07

On this day in 2008 American pin-up model Bettie Page (85) is hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a heart attack.

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2019-12-06

6 December 1642 Royalist forces under William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle defeated Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax at leaving Parliamentarian forces in Yorkshire divided. Newcastle then took the opportunity to secure Pontefract.

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2019-12-06

1941
Painter Amrita Sher-Gil dies suddenly of causes at age 28 in Given the cultural impact of her relatively small oeuvre, she might have been among the most prominent of the century.

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2019-12-06

Principal Sam's Calendar

December 5

Happy Birthday Hagrid!

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Here's my first book: https://t.co/7ClmeYGrpY


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2019-12-05

5 December 1659 London apprentices presented a petition demanding the return of Parliament and an election. Soldiers were attacked as a riot broke out. Col. Hewson ordered his troops to fire on the mob; a number of apprentices were killed or wounded.

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2019-12-05

On this day in 2018, David Attenborough warns collapse of civilization and the natural world on the horizon at UN climate summit in Poland

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2019-12-03