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Today in History
August 12
2014 - Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall dies
On this day in 2014, actress Lauren Bacall, who shot to fame in her debut film, 1944’s “To Have and Have Not,” dies at her New York City home at age 89.

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2019-08-12

Today in The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia. (106 CE)

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2019-08-11

Construction began on the Menai Suspension bridge 1819, under the guidance of Thomas Telford. This was the longest suspension bridge at the time.

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2019-08-10

109 years ago our founder Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon was born. At a young age she had quite the eye for all things beautiful- whether that be in art, books, or even nature. The legacy that she left behind at Oak Spring will carry on.

Happy Birthday, Bunny Mellon!

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2019-08-10

Louis de Freycinet was born in 1779

Freycinet voyaged around the world in 1817-20, unusually accompanied by his wife Rose after she was able to pass as a man to be allowed on the ship

The ship, the L'Uranie was wrecked on the Falkland Islands in Feb 1820

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2019-08-07

Alfred Tennyson — born in 1809 — enjoying a swing while his "poetic fancy" sparkles in the night sky. From a 19th-century book of celebrity cartoons: https://t.co/5h182DQ5td

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2019-08-06

back in 2000 the Sunday newspaper stories got a big fresh breath of air with starting. In a short period of time with passing away less than a year prior it could have seen the end of the newspaper stories, thankfully it wasnt

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2019-08-06

5 August 1100: Three days after the death of his brother, King William Rufus, Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, promising a return to the laws of Edward the Confessor.
Henry’s older brother Robert ‘Curthose’ remains Duke of Normandy.

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2019-08-05

Incredibly talented Phoebe Anna Traquair died in 1936: painter, enamellist, illuminator, embroiderer, jewellery-maker, book-binder. Tours of her spectacular murals at The Song School, St Mary's Cathedral & Mansfield Traquair Centre are on during Edinburgh Festival

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2019-08-04

Grinling Gibbons died in 1721. Walpole wrote of this master wood carver, "[Only Gibbons] gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.”

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2019-08-03

in 1908, a pickaxe struck the side of a remarkable skull. It was the discovery of the Neanderthal known as the Old Man from La Chapelle, one of the most important specimens in the history of paleoanthropology. https://t.co/PZpEKfSiqe

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2019-08-03

1714 Queen Anne's will was read out. She left £2000 for the poor & asked for her jewels to be divided between the Queen of Sicily & duchess of Somerset: 'the fittest person to wear them after her'
https://t.co/mubCTscfP4

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2019-08-03


🎮 Splatterhouse 2
🕹️ Genesis
📅 August 03rd 1992
❓ 3 months since your escape you have a recurring dream where Jennifer is begging you to come and rescue her. The mask from the Splatterhouse appears, promising that there is still a chance to save her...

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2019-08-03


🎮 Streets of Rage
🕹️ Genesis
📅 August 02nd 1991
❓ Follows the story of 3 police officers in a city controlled by a criminal syndicate led by "Mr. X". Crime is rampant and the 3heroes make a pact to leave the force and topple the syndicate by themselves.

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2019-08-02

Thomas Gainsborough died in 1788. Gainsborough was, with Sir Joshua Reynolds, the leading portrait painter in England in the later 18th century. From portraits of young couples to intimate family moments, come and see some of our paintings by him in Rooms 33 and 34.

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2019-08-02

Died 1788 Thomas Gainsborough, unmistakable artist of the He is supposed to have painted this portrait of William Wollaston c.1759; a decade later Wollaston became MP for Read more about him below: https://t.co/c3nbkv7eon

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2019-08-02

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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...”
Herman Melville

🖌Paul Bond🇺🇸

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2019-08-01