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#OnThisDay 100 years ago these arms were matriculated for Robert Lister #Macneil of #Barra, Chief of @clanmacneil
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1756 – The Seven Years' War begins as Great Britain declares war on France.
May 17th,1510 Sandro Botticelli died in Florence
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Probable self-portrait in his Adoration of the Magi, 1475
#OnThisDay in 1711, Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously (one of his first major poems).
Thomas Gainsborough was born #OnThisDay in 1727. Have you been to visit 'Mr and Mrs Andrews'? http://t.co/yPcIafpEKj
Here's "Heneage Lloyd and his Sister Lucy" by Thomas Gainsborough born #onthisday in 1727
Artist Mary Delany was born #onthisday in 1700. She began making these 'mosaicks’ at age 72! http://t.co/wdfIq2Gkxu
Léon Bakst was born #OnThisDay in 1866. His illustration graces our July 2013 issue cover: http://t.co/Ayz72dqmux
Costume designer Léon Bakst was born #onthisday in 1866. His stunning 'Firebird' designs to celebrate ^C
#OnThisDay 150 years ago the Lord Lyon granted arms to Charles Hay, a banker living in Edinburgh's New Town #heraldry
#OnThisDay 21 years ago, the racing world lost the legend that was Ayrton Senna #RIPSenna #retrogaming #GamersUnite
Ottone Rosai was #bornonthisday in 1895 in Florence. See his work Man Waiting, 1919 @estorick http://t.co/O4UJiLfyBl
French artist Claude Gillot was born #onthisday in 1673. Here's one of his ink drawings http://t.co/iqO9bHj7tJ
Delacroix born #onthisday in 1798 drew inspiration for this ptg. from his 1832 trip to Morocco http://t.co/rIBoELEfpb
Willem de Kooning was born #OnThisDay in 1904. Here is his painting 'Woman I' (1950-52) http://t.co/JsXU4q7yps
Born #onthisday in 1707: author Henry Fielding. Here are illustrations to his novel Tom Jones http://t.co/dy5jdqXEZf
#OnThisDay in 1910, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], dies at 74.
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company".
#OnThisDay in 1932 Sir Patrick Geddes died - today we have a researcher studying his valley diagram papers #archives