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#onthisday in 1865 these two and 151 others sailed on the Mimosa to https://t.co/UpXgpYxCsM #Patagonia
#Onthisday: 115th marriage #anniversary of #artists Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn.
#OnThisDay in 1873 "The Snow Maiden" by Alexander Ostrovsky was premiered
Vasily Perov, "Melting Snow Maiden", 1879
#OnThisDay 22 May 1826: HMS Beagle leaves Plymouth on 1st voyage, under Capt Pringle Stokes https://t.co/NFvQW5x3Sp
American #artist Mary Cassatt was born #OnThisDay in 1844.
pic: "The Tea" at the @mfaboston #art #impressionism
#OnThisDay in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of master sleuth Sherlock Holmes, was born in Scotland.
#OnThisDay 20 May 1845: John Franklin sets out on disastrous expedition to find NW Passage https://t.co/vjBScwy0Uu
#OnThisDay 17 May 1805: Surgeons & Physicians in Royal Navy given their own dress & undress uniforms
#Onthisday in 1510 #Botticelli died. Browse his #illustrations of Dante's #DivineComedy https://t.co/I7tKAdyPIs
Charles Perrault, who laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, died #OnThisDay in 1703.
#artist Sebastiano Ricci died #OnThisDay in 1734
Pic: "The Flight into Egypt" @ChatsworthHouse
#art #baroque
Nowegian #artist Knud Bergslien was born #OnThisDay in 1827.
Pic: "St. Johns Evening" at the @Nasjonalbibl
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#artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born #OnThisDay in 1828.
Pic: "The Bower Meadow" at the @mcrartgallery
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#onthisday #Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in 1828 https://t.co/Em11cNPksx
The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (1814) by Hokusai, who died #onthisday in 1849: https://t.co/Wu2VTs6Mgg
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, and novelist, died at age 75 in poverty #OnThisDay in 1968.
Gower Peninsula became the first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain #onthisday in 1956 #flickr
"The heart only listens to the heart" – Willem Elsschot, born #OnThisDay 1882