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#OnThisDay 1799 @RoyalNavy Frigate HMS LUTINE wrecked off Holland. Originally a French ship she was won by British after Siege of Toulon under Adm Hood. Her bell was recovered in 19th Century and hangs @LloydsofLondon as the famous LUTINE Bell, tolled for lost and found ships
#TodayInMystery 1871
Millions of acres are razed by firestorms in #Wisconsin & #Michigan lakeside towns, including Peshtigo, where over a thousand died. These #unsolved tragedies have been eclipsed by #Chicago's Great Fire that began the same day.
#OnThisDay #OTD #TodayInHistory
#Onthisday in 1789, the women of Paris marched on Versailles to confront Louis XVI. It was a turning point in the French Revolution. #royal #twitterstorians
#Onthisday
In un giorno come oggi del 1712 nacque il pittore veneziano Francesco Guardi. Celebriamo il compleanno di #Guardi con questa veduta del sottoportico di #PalazzoDucaleVenezia.
#VedutismoVenezia
@CaRezzonico
@visitmuve_it
#ArtHistory 1927
Kenojuak Ashevak was #bornonthisday in what is now #Nunavut.
"There is no word for #art [in Inuktitut]. We say it is to transfer something from the real to the unreal."
#artist #fineart #modernart #painting #paintings #illustration #canadianart #botd #onthisday
#OnThisDay 1815 Keats registers as a trainee surgeon-apothecary at Guy's Hospital. What effect did Keats' time at Guy's have on his life and work? @keatsbabe blogs for us /2 https://t.co/ZqwCWcCIeQ
#onthisday 1969 Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time #aviation #artprints #poster
https://t.co/jAPtCH13Ih
François Boucher - The Fountain of Love, 1748
#art #arthistory #ArtLovers #DonneInArte #painting #museum #culture #ArteYArt #ScrivoArte #OnThisDay #NatiOggi
Principal Sam's Calendar:
September 29
Today is World Heart Day. What a great day!
Take a moment to tell someone that you love them.
#PrincipalSamsCalendar
#PrincipalSam
#OnThisDay
#WorldHeartDay
#Love
#Heart
"I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self"
Mark #Rothko, one of the greatest exponents of American abstraction, was born #onthisday in 1903
Principal Sam's Calendar:
September 24
Today is Family Day.
Take time to spend with the people you love.
#PrincipalSamsCalendar
#PrincipalSam
#OnThisDay
#FamilyDay
In the year 3018-2, Frodo left The Shire. "...Frodo was going on foot. His plan—for pleasure and a last look at the Shire..." #OnThisDayinMiddleearth #FrodoBaggins
Principal Sam's Calendar:
September 22
Today is the first day of Autumn.
#PrincipalSamsCalendar
#PrincipalSam
#OnThisDay
#Autumn
#OnThisDay In Fictional history:
Kara Zor-El is born!
Supergirl by Bruce Timm
Principal Sam's Calendar:
September 18
Today is National Respect Day!
#PrincipalSamsCalendar
#PrincipalSam
#OnThisDay
Celebrating the birth of artist and designer Henry Collins #OnThisDay 1910 whom painted this beautiful view @Portmeirion for the 1967 @Shell_UKLtd calendar
The Stony Monday Riot erupted #onthisday 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.
#HappyBirthday to John Gould who was born #OnThisDay 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'!
French painter Nicolas Lancret died #OnThisDay 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 #OTD