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A Happy Gerda Wegener at rue de Lille, Paris, Photo by Lili Elbe c. 1917
and another of her illustrations for Les Delassements dEros published in 1925

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* Gerda Wegener March 15, 1886, Haderslev Municipality, Denmark 🌹

Plates from Les Délassements d’Eros, published in 1925

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d. Walter Crane (1845-1915). English artist & book illustrator.

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Johan Zoffany, German neoclassical painter who was active mainly in England, was born in 1733 - here is his work 'David Garrick and his wife by his Temple to Shakespeare', painted in 1762 and now part of the collection

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Some Seaside Fashions for 1863. Cartoon by John Leech for Punch's Pocket Book.
William Henry Perkin, chemist responsible for the first mass-produced synthetic dyes born 1838.

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2018-03-13

my two favourite portraits of Gregory the Great for his feast-day (he died in 604):
1. the 10thC miniature by the so-called Master of the Registrum Gregorii : Trier, Stadtbibliothek MS 171/1626
2. the 10thC relief now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in

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in 1977, the rings of Uranus were discovered by astronomers James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Jessica Mink. (NASA art from the same year by Rick Guidice.)

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b. William Etty (England, 1787-1849), artist. Paintings inc. The World Before the Flood (1828), The Destroying Angel (1832), The Sirens and Ulysses (1837, restored 2010). Also - photo from 1844 - William (right) & his brother & niece.

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Happy Birthday to born in 1932. View Uglow's in the group-exhibition 'All Too Human' until 27 August.

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Rosso Fiorentino was born in 1494! With his friend Jacopo Pontormo, also a pupil of the renowned Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino pioneered Mannerism in Florentine painting. https://t.co/fMufdcUIxR

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Michelangelo, one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance period, was born in 1475. For just 4 weeks you can see a remarkable selection of his drawings on display in Gallery 8. Tickets are free but booking is strongly recommended

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in 1982, legendary rockers The Go-Go's start a 6 week run at on the album chart with their debut record "Beauty and The Beat" featuring the smash single We Got The Beat. The album goes on to sell over 2 million copies. https://t.co/BQojvbPeOW

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Michelangelo was born in 1475. Painter, sculptor & architect, he was the first artist recognised by contemporaries as a genius. You can see 'The Entombment (or Christ being carried to his Tomb)' and 'The Manchester Madonna' in Room 8: https://t.co/cu6WD8fRNW

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A large part of Wynnstay mansion was burnt, destroying the valuable library of Welsh manuscripts 1858 https://t.co/iv5ObElgrJ

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Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (author of 'Micrographia') died in 1703.

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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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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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