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in 1982, the stellar self titled debut album by supergroup Asia was released. Featuring John Wetton, Geoff Downes, Carl Palmer and Steve Howe, it was the album of 1982 in the US (selling 4 million copies) and featured smash hit Heat of The Moment.

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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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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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