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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
Happy Birthday Grange Calveley! Born #onthisday & creator of Roobarb & Custard. Here is one of our cards
#OnThisDay in 1936, Edna St Vincent Millay's Conversations at Midnight book of poetry was destroyed in a hotel fire.
#OnThisDay Children's Book Week #CBW16 - https://t.co/uZWPrNczEJ
#artist Charles Gleyre was born #OnThisDay in 1806.
pic: "The Bath" at the @ChryslerMuseum
#art
Remembering a founder of American paleontology, Joseph Leidy #OnThisDay https://t.co/cKd1CgxdiS #fossils #hadrosaurs
#Onthisday in 1814, #Napoleon left France to go into exile on #Elba https://t.co/yjep7XxBCu
#artist Niklaus Manuel died #OnThisDay in 1530.
pic: "Temptation of Saint Anthony" at the @KunstmuseumBern
#art
"I believe in deeply ordered chaos"
#FrancisBacon died #onthisday in #Madrid in 1992
Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton, British engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, was born #OnThisDay in 1854.
#OnThisDay in 1893 Anita Loos was born. Her most enduring creation is the 1925 novel, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
#OnThisDay in 1898 William S. Porter - future "O. Henry" - began a five-year prison sentence for embezzlement.
#artist Nathaniel Hone was born #OnThisDay in 1718.
pic: "The Conjurer" at the @NGIreland
#art #history
“It is never too late to be wise.”
📖 Robinson Crusoe.
Daniel Defoe, trader, writer and spy, died #OnThisDay in 1731.
#OnThisDay in 1910, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], dies at 74.
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
Dracula author Bram Stoker died #onthisday in 1912 (...and was reborn?) https://t.co/QJH2Svs7yk