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#OnThisDay 13 August 1659 part of Booth's Uprising, a Royalist insurrection against the republic, took place when Viscount Mordaunt declared for the King at Barnstead Down in Surrey. He only raised 80 men, who melted away as soon as government troops appeared. #17thCentury #OTD
Happy 5th Anniversary of DuckTales (2017) 🎉🦆 the series premiered on @DisneyXD in August 12, 2017 🦆🎊 the series ran for 3 seasons in total of 69 episodes. 🦆❤
I missed the show since 2021 last year but we will remember it Is in our hearts. 💕😊🦆 #DuckTales #OnThisDay
Today in #history: Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War. (1676 CE) #OnThisDay
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#OTD 1499 First encounter of the Battle of Zonchio /Sapienza (part of the Second Ottoman-Venetian War 1499-1503) took place. The Venetian fleet was commanded by Antonio Grimani, the Ottoman one by Kemal Reis. #OnThisDay #History
42 years ago the Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) album was released. This week @SkyArts named David Bowie as Britain’s most influential artist of the last 50 years
#duffy #duffyarchive #brianduffy #davidbowie #bowie #scarymonsters #onthisday #picoftheday #vinyl #bowieskyarts
Swedish painter Emma Löwstedt-Chadwick (1855-1932), born #OnThisDay 167 years ago. Metande Gosse (Angling Boy), 1882. oil on panel. Till Sjöss (Off to Sea),
oil on canvas. Kvinnostudie (Woman Study), print. Interiör med Kvinna (Interior with a Woman), oil on canvas
Today in #history: Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. (1519 CE) #OnThisDay
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@OnthisdayRN 1512 the #MaryRose was in the #Battle of #Brest #French #flagship exploded taking with it the #English flagship Regent . @MaryRoseMuseum @DominicJonesUK @NatMuseumRN #watercolour in my #summersale @RCYard @moreGosport @BPiniuta #OnThisDay
British painter John William Godward (1861-1922), born #OnThisDay 161 years ago. Far Away Thoughts, 1892
oil on canvas. A Siesta, 1895. oil on canvas. The Signal, 1899. oil on canvas. Girl in Yellow Drapery, 1901. oil on canvas
Happy 6th Anniversary of Steven Universe episode "Back to the Moon“ 💖💎🎉🌙 it aired on @cartoonnetwork in August 9, 2016 💕🎊🌟I love how Steven and the Gems revisit the Moon Base. 🌸🌹⭐ #StevenUniverse #OnThisDay #Happy6thAnniversary
Died #OnThisDay 9Aug1738 famous #French engraver, Pierre Drevet whose #engravings were mainly portraits of distinguished people. Among them is his engravings of Louis XIV, where he captured with precision the rich textures and materials in Hyacinthe Rigaud’s painting.
Joseph Locke, railway engineer and ICE past President, was born #onthisday 1805 - Dutton viaduct, Liverpool and Manchester railway with George Stephenson, French railways with William Mackenzie and Thomas Brassey. Is that his dog under his chair? https://t.co/OpUZMHjqF1
#ThisDayInMetal #OnThisDay #HeavyMetal
Aug 9th 1986 #Motorhead released the album "Orgasmatron"
What’s your favourite song off the album?
Born #onthisday1646 Sir Godfrey Kneller German-born #artist Leading #portrait #painter in England during late 17th early 18th-centuries Court painter to monarchs Charles II to George I Best known for The Chinese Convert (1687) 10 George III “beauties” & 40 Kit-Cat Club portraits
#OnThisDay, 1987, the #movie 🎬 "Who´s That Girl" was released in theaters - #80s
Happy 93rd birthday to artist Jo Baer, born #OnThisDay in 1929, who has remained committed to the practice of painting - from minimalism to maximalism - for more than half a century
The Chimney Sweepers and Chimney Regulation Act, which made it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to sweep chimneys, was passed #OnThisDay 1840. The Act was largely ignored due to the lack of any means of enforcement, and children younger than 10 continued to climb chimneys.
William Owen Pughe, linguist, lexicographer, grammarian, poet and antiquary who was regarded as the principal authority on the Welsh language and scholarship, was born in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant #Meirionethshire #Wales #onthisday 1759 https://t.co/hvlhvO5VxZ #WelshHistory
Born #onthisday1869 Dora Meeson Australian #artist established self in Chelsea & became member of extensive circle of Australian expatriate artists Elected member of London’s Royal Institute of Oil Painters Member of Artists’ Suffrage League