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Celebrating the birth of artist and designer Henry Collins 1910 whom painted this beautiful view for the 1967 calendar

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The Stony Monday Riot erupted in 1849! The riot began at a political meeting and quickly degenerated into all-out gang warfare during which an unarmed bystander, David Borthwick, was shot and killed and more than 30 others were injured.

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to John Gould who was born in 1804. An eminent ornithologist, who worked here at ZSL as Curator of Birds. Gould described the birds Darwin brought back from his expedition aboard HMS Beagle, so we decided to share the famous 'Darwin's finches'!

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French painter Nicolas Lancret died in 1743

These Chinese dinner plates, c. 1750, are decorated after Lancret’s work ‘Les Oies de Frere Philippe’

The original is housed in the Metroplitan Museum, New York

Plates courtesy of Cohen & Cohen https://t.co/KEcBWPFfxc

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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
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Bishop William Morgan, translator of the into died 1604 https://t.co/bK0fDUbqxY

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Superman: The Animated Series made its debut in 1996.

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22 Years ago, September 6th, 1996:
Superman: the Animated series
Premiered on Television!!
Thank you to all the Cast & Crew behind this amazing series.

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Principal Sam's Calendar:

September 5

Many children go back to school today.

I wish everyone a most wonderful school year!

Remember to work hard and be kind.




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90 yr ago Alexander Fleming discovered the mould that saved millions of lives &changed the world🔬

that he painted using The rare eye helped him to discover the effects of
https://t.co/vOpqzr0Zd6

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📖“Every real story is a never ending story.”
― Michael Ende.
The Neverending Story was published in 1979.

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Principal Sam's Calendar:

August 31

The famous educator Maria Montessori was born on this day in 1870.




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"Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art."

—Man Ray, born in 1890

See nine works by Man Ray now on view in the Modern Wing.

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Parmigianino died in 1540. He was the leading painter of Parma after Correggio, and is celebrated as one of the originators and leading exponents of Mannerism. Reveal the story of 'The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine' in Room 8: https://t.co/M9eyZeiEvB

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in 1895, "The Adventure of Norwood Builder", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories, starts.

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It was (1858) Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution were published https://t.co/a7SvWofrz5

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It was (1858) Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution were published https://t.co/a7SvWofrz5

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