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Died #OnThisDay 1788 Thomas Gainsborough, unmistakable artist of the #18thcentury. He is supposed to have painted this portrait of William Wollaston c.1759; a decade later Wollaston became MP for #Ipswich. Read more about him below: https://t.co/c3nbkv7eon
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“...all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude...”
#BornOnThisDay Herman Melville
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English painter, Isobel Lilian Gloag was born #OnThisDay in 1865. Some of her work shows Pre-Raphaelites tendencies in terms of mood, subject and colour. Featured here: the magnificent 'Kiss of the Enchantress' 1890, 'The Magic Mantle' 1898 and 'Four Corners to My Bed' c.1901
American artist & naturalist Mary Morris Vaux Walcott was born #OnThisDay in 1860. Her meticulously rendered watercolours of wildflowers & passion for Nature strike a Pre-Raphaelite note. Vaux became the first woman to accomplish the 10,000 feet ascent of Canada's Mount Stephen
#OnThisday in 2015: Roderick George Toombs, best known to as the legendary "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, dies of cardiac arrest.
In addition to being a WWE Hall of Famer, Piper is a member of the inaugural @WONF4W Hall of Fame class in 1996.
A one of a kind.
He was 61. RIP.
“Find things beautiful as much as you can; most people find too little beautiful.” - Vincent van Gogh who died #OnThisDay 1890
Vincent van Gogh died #OnThisDay in 1890. Today, he is one of the most popular Post-Impressionist painters, although he was not widely appreciated during his lifetime. He is now famed for the great vitality of his works, characterised by his emotive use of brilliant colour.
Principal Sam's Calendar
July 29
NASA was created on this day in 1958!
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#OnThisDay
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Beatrix Potter was born on this day (28th July) in 1866.
Many people know Beatrix Potter for her marvellous illustrated works.
She was also a skilled scientific illustrator, conservationist and scientist.
#OnThisDay #OTD #WomenInSTEM
Much loved children's author Beatrix Potter was born #onthisday in 1866! She wrote and illustrated 28 books, translated into more than 35 languages. Who remembers the name of this cheeky little rabbit?
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July 27
Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny!
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#Bugs
The first women's #cricket match took place #onthisday in 1745, when the villages of Bramley and Hambledon met. Hambledon claimed the victory and The Mercury reported that, "The girls bowled, batted, ran and catches as well as most men could do in that game." #gloriousGeorgians
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Lizzie Siddal was #bornonthisday in London.
#art #artist #artist #fineart #modernart #englishart #britishart #painting #paintings #painter #discoverher #botd #onthisday #otd
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall was born #OnThisDay in 1829. Painter, poet, muse & model, Siddal(l) has such a special & significant place and presence in the art, literature and history of the Pre-Raphaelites #ElizabethSiddal @serena_t
#OnThisDay in 1909 Blériot completed the first flight across the English Channel. Ordinarily we'd not fancy a ride in this plane, but today we'd take any opportunity for a breeze https://t.co/tk2PVCo1Mf #otd #HottestDayOfTheYear
Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, was born #OnThisDay in 1897. https://t.co/8bFQVH7XBJ
#onthisday in 1897, author & American #aviation pioneer #AmeliaEarhart was born! If you want to celebrate #AmeliaEarhartDay & find out more about her achievements & disappearance, pick up #fantasticallygreatwomenwhochangedtheworld by the magnificent @kateisdrawing! ✈️#nonfiction
"Caterpillar, Pear, Tulip, and Purple Snail " (1561–96) — from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe Georg Bocskay and artist Joris Hoefnagel, who died #onthisday in 1601: https://t.co/mHEGK9rp4X #OTD
#OnThisDay in 1897, one of the greatest pioneers in American aviation was born. ✈️ #AmeliaEarhartDay #FirstNamesSeries https://t.co/QuT34dpiHU
Botanist #GregorMendel is purported to have been born #OnThisDay in 1822. His experiments with pea plants laid the groundwork for the field of #genetics.
📷: Pea plants 2 centuries earlier by artist Giovanna Garzoni. Learn: https://t.co/Eot2xQCyBJ.
#Mendel #MendelsBirthday #OTD