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, December 25, 1871, at the age of twenty-four, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell (1855–1884), whom he had met two months earlier; she was an employee at one of his shops. 

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2018-12-24

This black and white press photograph from our collection shows Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, being driven to Sandringham House in Norfolk for Christmas in 1952

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2018-12-24

classic "A Christmas Carol" is 175 years old today!!
The Christmas tale that has captured imaginations from the minute it first appeared was published 1843, two years after Dickens joined as a founder member.
Here's our 1845 edition.

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2018-12-19

to expressionist Paul Klee, born in 1879 🎉 Did you know that Klee was a musician for most of his life, often practicing the violin as a warm-up for painting?

[#PaulKlee, Loewenmensch (Lion Man), 1934]

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2018-12-19

Principal Sam's Calendar

December 18

On this day in 1777, the United States celebrated its first Thanksgiving.



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2018-12-18


Happy 392nd anniversary of Christina of Sweden.
I can't wait for the next leader of

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2018-12-18

Day 17
The familiar tradition of decking the halls with boughs of holly for winter festivals pre-dates Christmas. Today is the Roman festival of Saturnalia, when Romans would decorate their houses with holly & exchange gifts.

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2018-12-17

1916
Shirley Jackson was in
"Fear...is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway."

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2018-12-15


“Fear is the relinquishment of logic... We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
–Shirley Jackson (1916–1965)
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2018-12-14

Thomas Tenison died 14 December 1715. He was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1694 until his death. Portrait from Lambeth Palace.

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2018-12-15

British women voted in an election for the first time. Here's our round-up of fictional suffrage campaigners to mark the centenary: https://t.co/3yzLnh3S0o

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2018-12-14

Principal Sam's Calendar

December 14

Did you know that December is celebrated as "Tie Month?"




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2018-12-14

Il si festeggia la martire cristiana, morta durante le persecuzioni di Diocleziano a Siracusa.

Nella Pinacoteca dei potete ammirare questo olio su tavola del Garofalo che raffigura la santa.

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2018-12-13

Inside a gipsy caravan, Latimer Road by W. H. Overend, published in The Illustrated London News in 1879

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2018-12-13

Happy Birthday to artist born in 1928.

["Madridscape." 1959. Anonymous Gift. BMA 1966.54]

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2018-12-12