in 1811, Charterhouse alumni William Makepeace Thackeray was born. The author's time at school here was thought to be unhappy & he famously parodied it as the "Slaughterhouse", but was more benevolent to his alma mater in later writings. https://t.co/dHKCSW23Q5

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Bombardment of Copenhagen, 2 September 1807, the destruction of the French fleet at the Basque Roads, 12 April 1809, the frigate action at Lissa, 13 March 1811, the gunboat action on Lake Borgne, 14 December 1814

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Using a sensitive the italian physicist Carlo (1811-1868) was able to prove that injured excitable biological tissues generated direct electrical currents, and that they could be summed up by adding elements in series.

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【4コマのバハムート】
第1811話「なんでも出品編」
今すぐチェック!
https://t.co/6EqPCsmEwn

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Elsewhere in there were scenes of despair for budding socialites unable to gain entry to the newly appointed Prince Regent's legendary Fete which was staged at Carlton House, June 19th 1811

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Tonight's goodnight images are of Donati's Comet. After the Great Comet of 1811, it was the most brilliant comet that appeared in the 19th century. It was also the first comet to be photographed. Credits in comments.
Sleep tight.

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Head of Collections Helen loves cream teas and recommends Dutton's on the fortified seafront at overlooking the site of this rather dramatic event from 1796, captured here by Nicholas Pocock in 1811

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We are still celebrating the works of our local internationally acclaimed author, Today we have an extract from Sense & Sensibility which was published in 1811: https://t.co/rVBhnrCBdP

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Pierre Narcisse Guérin
(French painter 1774-1833).

Morpheus and Iris 1811

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Harriet Beecher Stowe, author and abolitionist, born June 14, 1811.

"In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's."

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5/9. The final line, the termaktub, with the date and place of writing, was often calligraphically impressive: examples here from letters to Raffles from Johor, Siak, Palembang and Aceh in 1811 https://t.co/Qu4j6Mu9MM ATG

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Writing my upcoming thesis chapter will be interesting in the current context. The two contests between Tom Cribb and Tom Molineaux in 1810 and 1811, were racially loaded encounters, with the laurels of the championship, and racial pride at stake.

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“Barges on the Stour” (c.1811) by ,

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Flatford Mill from a Lock on the Stour, 1811

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Morning in the Sudeten Mountains, 1811

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This acquisition adds to our Gainsborough family portraits including two magical double portraits of Margaret & Mary (NG3812 & NG1811). There's another portrait of the sisters from late 1750s (pic 3) 2/

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Peter Francis Lewis Bourgeois (November 1753 – 8 January 1811) was a British painter

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Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), 1777

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Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti, 1759-60

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