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1896 the Abyssinian army of Menelik II defeats invading Italian forces at the Battle of Celebrated annually in Ethiopia, it is commemorated on Ethiopia's 1971 stamps designed by M&S Dubois and printed by .

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Turbulent Jupiter, observed by NASA’s Voyager 1 probe in 1979.

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Happy birthday to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born in 1841! For this special occasion we’re breaking out the onions - we’re not crying...you’re crying.

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2018-02-26

Phoebus Levene was born in 1869. He published a paper in 1919 showing nucleic acids are linked via the phosphate group.

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2018-02-25

Charles V was born in 1500 and in 1530 he was the last one crowned as Emperor by a Pope (Clemente VII). It happened in in His kingdom was so wide that people said the sun never set on it. 👑 https://t.co/ar68SDxcXy

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A very happy birthday to Johan Christian Dahl who was born in 1788

the boat in 'Mother and Child by the Sea' by Dahl may be an autobiographical reference, as the artist's father was a fisherman?

Find it in our Blue Gallery

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2018-02-24

in 1826: the British military brought me out of retirement to build the from to Despite immense difficulties and controversy, the canal and would become my enduring legacy. 💂‍♂️⚒️🏗️

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2018-02-14

in 1849, James Knox Polk becomes the first sitting US President to have his photograph taken (the photographer was Mathew Brady).

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Baron Rodney, naval commander at American War of Independence, was born in 1718.

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2018-02-13

in 1991, Sotheby's announced the discovery of a long-lost manuscript of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
📖Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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b. Anna Pavlova (Russia, 1881-1931). Celebrated ballerina & the first to tour ballet around the world.

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1/2 in 1877, Darwin was presented with two photograph albums showing Dutch, German and Austrian scientists to mark his 68th birthday. We've collaborated with at to share these online for https://t.co/pSL6Jd1qvs

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2018-02-12

To celebrate the birth anniversary of the doodles Darwin's children made in his “On the Origin of Species” manuscript.
https://t.co/9OeLKUVduT 1809

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Charles Darwin, legendary naturalist, was born in 1809.

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2018-02-12

Alexander Pushkin, an icon of Romanticism, died in 1837.

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in 1881, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov) died of a pulmonary hemorrhage.
According to one reporter, more than 100,000 mourners were present in his funeral.

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Born in 1812 in Portsmouth, Victorian writer and novelist Charles Dickens, creator of such legendary characters as Ebenezer Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Miss Havisham and Little Dorrit.

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in 1907, more than 3,000 women trudged through the muddy streets of London to process from Hyde Park to Exeter Hall to advocate for women's suffrage in what become known as the Mud March. ©March of the Women Collection

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