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Love to go to the beach

(from Thomas Rowlandson's 1815 "The English Dance of Death")

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2020-07-06

On his exile to Elba, Napoleon vowed he’d return to Paris the next year, just as his favourite flower, the violet, did each spring. Here, Canu celebrates that return in March 1815 by hiding silhouettes of Napoleon, his son & 2nd wife Marie Louise in bunch of violets (Clues at R)

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2020-07-03

Born in 1804: French writer Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, aka (1804-76)

Portrait by Thomas (1815-79), ca. 1850

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2020-07-01

French Dragoons by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815 - 1891)🇫🇷🗡

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2020-06-27

🏆 TOP 50 PERSONAGENS MAIS BONITOS DE NARUTO🏆

SASORI 1778 votos (3,3%)
HIDAN 1787 votos (3,3%)
KONAN 1815 votos (3,4%)

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2020-06-26

Born in 1860: (1860-78), Queen of Spain as spouse of King

Portrait by y López (1815-80), 1878

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2020-06-24

John Singleton Copley.1738-1815. Watson and the Shark.1778. (Depicts the Rescue of Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana,Cuba). National Gallery of Art,Washington D.C.

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2020-06-23

Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson (England, 1756-1827), for the frontispiece of 'The English Dance of Death' by William Combe (1815). To get you in a weekend mood.

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2020-06-20

On this day, 18th June 1815, Waterloo. Major Chalmers leads the charge of the 52nd over the dead and wounded 4th Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard. Private collection, with working stages, oil on board © Christa Hook

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2020-06-18

1815: The Battle of Waterloo was fought near Waterloo in present day Belgium. Forces, under the command of Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon’s forces. Some say Napoleon’s horse Marengo reared in Co & Duke of Wellington’s horse, Copenhagen in Co

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2020-06-18

in 1815 - The Battle of
Always been fascinated by this event. Perhaps because its anniversary falls on my birthday, or because I used to live up the road from the battlefield, or I've read more Bernard Cornwell than is healthy.

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2020-06-18

誕生（1922、日本研究者）、#ロアール・アムンセン 遭難死（1928、探検家）、#横山光輝 誕生（1934、漫画家）、#トブルク 攻撃開始（1942、#第二次世界大戦）、#エルヴィン生誕祭2020

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2020-06-18

Another from the most recent ECF special issue:
"Crusoe's Animals, Annotated: Cats, Dogs, and Disease in the Naval Chronicle Edition of Robinson Crusoe, 1815" by Lucinda Cole
ECF 32.1, 2019
https://t.co/9Pp2TI8mxY

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2020-06-17

Born in 1792: English painter (1792-1882)

Portrait of William Coningham (1815-84), 1842

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2020-06-16

The Death of Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel at the Battle of Quatre Bras, 16 June 1815 - Johann Friedrich Matthäi, c. 1836. (Royal Collection Trust).

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2020-06-15

Carlo Bossoli (Italian, 1815-1884)

Constantinople - a view across the Bosphorus towards Leander's Tower by night

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2020-06-14

🔴 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗗𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗡𝗘 | Le 9 juin 1815 est signé l'Acte final du Congrès de Vienne qui redéfinit les contours de l'Europe après les périodes révolutionnaire et napoléonienne. Talleyrand, âgé de 60 ans, est en première ligne pour défendre la France. 💪🏻

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2020-06-09

After several months of dancing, affairs, challenges to duels, and the occasional meeting around the table, the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna was signed in 1815, a few days before the Battle of Waterloo. (Image: British Museum https://t.co/HvFmlwGdAU)

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2020-06-09