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"Women are never passive in my movies… [they] are never victims!”

Happy birthday Nelly Kaplan

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2019-04-11

IK Brunel was born 1806. Engineer for Great Western Railway, South Devon atmospheric railway SS Great Britain, Eastern and Western, Royal Albert Bridge and Clifton suspension bridge which was completed after his death.

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2019-04-09

Artist & activist Joe Jones 1909 in St Louis, Missouri. Largely self-taught, he left school at 15 to work as a house painter. He lived for a while in a houseboat & painted several New Deal murals.Although a communist he was enlisted as a combat artist during WW2.

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2019-04-08

18 years ago, April 7, 2001: the episode "Countdown" aired on television.
Directed by Kyung Won Lim
Written by Rich Fogel &

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2019-04-07

1917
Leonora Carrington was in
“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”

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2019-04-06

The Ancestor by Leonora Carrington who was born

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2019-04-07

Raphael died in 1520. His “The Three Graces” (1517-18) ; part of the excellent show

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2019-04-06

Napoleon abdicated in 1814. Thanks to Abba, we all know what happened to him!

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2019-04-04

Happy Birthday to the great Fauvist Maurice de Vlaminck, and as the spring weather has so far decided to remain rather grey we thought Vlaminck’s ‘Nature morte’ (sold by Dickinson to a private collector) might provide some much needed colour!

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2019-04-04

"Portrait of Emily St. Clare as a Bacchante," by John Hoppner, who was born April 4, 1758 Known for more formal portraits, Hoppner conveys youthful exuberance in this through dynamic brushwork, flowing draperies, and an alluring smile. On view in

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2019-04-04

1647
Naturalist & Maria Sibylla Merian was in
"Art & shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."


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2019-04-02

April 2 1914

Alec Guinness, actor, born in Maida Vale, London

His Broadway stage portrayal of Dylan Thomas in Sidney Michaels' play 'Dylan' earned him a Tony Award in 1964

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2019-04-02

The artist Archibald Rees Griffiths (1902-1971) who made an important contribution to the artistic response to the traumatic experience of mining communities between the two world wars, died 1971 https://t.co/3lsV7KCE6O Image:

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2019-04-02

Principal Sam's Calendar

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It's April Fool's Day!

(I wonder what tricks the kids will play on me today.)



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2019-04-01

Sir Benjamin Baker was born 1840. Bridge, Aswan Dam and London Metropolitan Railway. He designed the boat which transported Cleopatra's needle.

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2019-03-31

"Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way."

—Vincent van Gogh, born

See 9 paintings by Van Gogh on view https://t.co/VnPRmb7d1w

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2019-03-30

Hideko Takamine 高峰秀子 (March 27, 1924 – December 28, 2010)

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2019-03-27