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The daughter of a courtesan whose clientele sponsored her education, Sarah Bernhardt–born 1844–performed her 1st dramatic death scene at a boarding school for young ladies in Paris's suburbs. Having never been inside a theatre, she was horrified when t'was suggested she act.

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2020-10-22

🌊 The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur v.1:pt.1 (1844)
London: Smith, Elder, 1844 [i.e. 1843-1846].
https://t.co/Asm4y9puP5

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2020-10-21

A whimsical illustration by French caricaturist J. J. Grandville (1803-1847) from his 1844 collection, "Un autre monde: transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations..." https://t.co/nkt2WeF8H1

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2020-10-18

Johan Christian Dahl (Feb 24, 1788 - Oct 14, 1857, Norwegian)
Frederiksborg Castle, 1817. Frogner Manor, 1842. Dresden, 1844. Vaekero, 1827.

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2020-10-17



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2020-10-15

Gogol burning the manuscript of the second part of "Dead Souls" (1909) by Ilya Repin (Russia, 1844-1930). Tretyakov Gallery. The novel ends in mid-sentence: ".. before us the future looms dark, and that we can scarcely....”

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2020-10-13

🦉 The birds of America: .
New York: J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844.
https://t.co/azieayFYn4

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2020-10-04

🔭 Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842.
Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1844-1867.
https://t.co/w7glyKBTeB

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2020-10-03

☘ Eclogae plantarum rariorum aut minus cognitarum
Vindobonae: Sumptibus auctoris, typis Antonii Strauss . ., 1811-1844.
https://t.co/vFtKb20KYS

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2020-10-03

☘ Eclogae plantarum rariorum aut minus cognitarum
Vindobonae: Sumptibus auctoris, typis Antonii Strauss . ., 1811-1844.
https://t.co/lB16PBggE7

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2020-10-02

Gibraltar by Night, by Ivan Aivazovsky 1844
Oil on canvas
(Private Collection)

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2020-10-02

🍃 The birds of America: .
New York: J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844.
https://t.co/id1q37VRNI

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2020-09-28

Born in 1786: King of Denmark (1786-1848)

Portrait by (1765-1844), 19th Century

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2020-09-18

Konstantin Savitsky.1844-1905. The Monk Inok.1897. Penza Savitsky Art Gallery in Penza,Russia.

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2020-09-17

In 1869, Friedrich Miescher (1844-1895, Swiss biologist) documented nucleic acids (i.e. the biopolymers essential to all known forms of life) in the nuclei of cells, for the first time. The beginning of human comprehension of DNA.

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2020-09-15

🔭 Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842.
Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1844-1867.
https://t.co/56JoLSlC5I

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2020-09-13

Francis Jeffrey Dickens, or Frank, became "Chickenstalker," a nickname probably inspired by Mrs. Chickenstalker in Christmas story "The Chimes" (1844)

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2020-09-13

Gogol burning the manuscript of the second part of "Dead Souls" (1909) by Ilya Repin (Russia, 1844-1930). Tretyakov Gallery. Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death.

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2020-09-12