His first task was to capture the New Orleans, which he accomplished in April, 1862, by daring to run his fleet past the confederate positions at Forts Jackson and St. Philip on the Mississippi River.

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Happy Alice Day! On July 4, 1862, Alice in Wonderland was told for the first time in a summer boat ride. If you like Alice retellings, check out my fairy tale adventure webcomic Namesake. https://t.co/JQuKCT0SXy

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It was in 1862, that Charles Dodgson would dream up the story that would go on to become Alice in Wonderland.
(illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk)

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【今日は何の日?】
1862年7月4日
がヘンリー・ジョージ・リデルの娘3人と川遊びをし、その時にリデルの次女アリスの求めに応じドジソンの話をした話が『地下の国のアリス』(『#不思議の国のアリス』の原型)となりました。
(出典:wiki) 
 
 

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Paul Gavarni, Gulliver Awed by Three Giant Beggars in the Land of Brobdingnag, 1862

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Winslow Homer, War for the Union 1862 - A Bayonet Charge, July 12, 1862 https://t.co/OCzxsutbGv

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by Joseph Bail (1862-1921)

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Foote was promoted to Commodore, and received the Thanks of Congress twice for leading his flotilla in the Battles of Fort Henry, and Island Number Ten. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in late 1862.

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“Die Umarmung (The Embrace)”

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.

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Tonight's goodnight image is 'Sunset, Winter', by Louis Rémy Mignot, oil on canvas, 1862.
Sleep tight.

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Good morning - I hope you slept like a bilberry stuffed capercaillie. I'm starting with 'The Eye of God', by the extraordinary Victorian artist, Georgiana Houghton. Watercolour, 1862.

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"The Kiss"
Odd Nerdrum (1944-)
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

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🎨Colazione sull'erba

ED.MANET, 1863

created in 1862 and 1863. It depicts a female nude and a scantily dressed female bather on a picnic with two fully dressed men in a rural setting.

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The ocean: 'our planet's blue heart' (Sylvia Earle)

Happy from us at the map library! 🌎🌊

'Geometrical projection of two thirds of the sphere' (1862-63) https://t.co/nOGrImFZF7

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1862年の今日は『日本二十六聖人』が列聖された日です。
豊臣秀吉の命令によって長崎で処刑された26人のカトリック信者が、ローマ教皇ピウス9世によって列聖。聖人の列に加えられ、列聖100周年には日本二十六聖人記念館と記念碑が建てられました。

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The Death of Arthur (c. 1862) by John Mulcaster Carrick (British, 1833 - 1896).

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"Darial Gorge" (1862) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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