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#HappyBirthday #SirJohnTenniel who illustrated #LewisCarroll's #AlicesAdventuresinWonderland, #BornOnThisDay in 1820. We hope he would have liked our #AliceinWonderland #ChocolateBar: #CandiedRosePetals in #MilkChocolate!
#Chocolate #Literature #Illustrations #Illustrator #Food
Happy birthday to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born #onthisday in 1841! For this special occasion we’re breaking out the onions - we’re not crying...you’re crying. #clarkart #onview #intheberkshires #happybirthday
Phoebus Levene was born #OnThisDay in 1869. He published a paper in 1919 @jbiolchem showing nucleic acids are linked via the phosphate group.
Two sailors fix their vessel’s position amid stormy seas in this dramatic etching by Winslow Homer, born #onthisday in 1836. https://t.co/3PWBCiXhpd
Charles V was born #OnThisDay in 1500 and #OTD in 1530 he was the last one crowned as Emperor by a Pope (Clemente VII). It happened in #SanPetronioBasilica in #Bologna. His kingdom was so wide that people said the sun never set on it. 👑 https://t.co/ar68SDxcXy
A very happy birthday to Johan Christian Dahl who was born #OnThisDay in 1788
#DidYouKnow 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
#OTD #bornonthisday Pamela Colman Smith, 16th February 1878,Pimlico, London. #art #tarot #PamelaColmanSmith #occultist #illustrator #artists
#onthisday in 1826: the British military brought me out of retirement to build the #RideauCanal from #OttawaRiver to #LakeOntario. Despite immense difficulties and controversy, the canal and #Bytown #Ottawa would become my enduring legacy. 💂♂️⚒️🏗️
#OnThisDay in 1849, James Knox Polk becomes the first sitting US President to have his photograph taken (the photographer was Mathew Brady). #earlyphotography #daguerreotypes
Baron Rodney, naval commander at American War of Independence, was born #onthisday in 1718. #twitterstorians
#OnThisDay 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.
Paris, 19th-century style! Browse the French street views of photographer Eugène Atget, born #onthisday in 1857: https://t.co/yo3mjv0VWA
#OTD b. Anna Pavlova (Russia, 1881-1931). Celebrated ballerina & the first to tour ballet around the world. #OnThisDay #Ballet #DyingSwan
1/2 #OnThisDay in 1877, Darwin was presented with two photograph albums showing Dutch, German and Austrian scientists to mark his 68th birthday. We've collaborated with @MyDearDarwin at @CamDigLib to share these online for #DarwinDay https://t.co/pSL6Jd1qvs
To celebrate the birth anniversary of #CharlesDarwin the doodles Darwin's children made in his “On the Origin of Species” manuscript.
https://t.co/9OeLKUVduT #OnThisDay 1809
Charles Darwin, legendary naturalist, was born #onthisday in 1809. #twitterstorians
Alexander Pushkin, an icon of Romanticism, died #onthisday in 1837. #twitterstorians
#OnThisDay 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.
Today is the centenary of #PeterLanyon's birth, he was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Britain. His iconic 'Thermal' painting is currently on display as part of Modern Art and St Ives #OTD #OnThisDay #TateStIves https://t.co/MoWPjc04BG