画質 高画質

Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, and novelist, died at age 75 in poverty in 1968.

32 52

Gower Peninsula became the first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain in 1956

18 17

"The heart only listens to the heart" – Willem Elsschot, born 1882

3 6

Happy Birthday Grange Calveley! Born & creator of Roobarb & Custard. Here is one of our cards

1 2

Rudolf Jordan was born in 1810.
pic: "Marriage proposal on Helgoland" at the

0 0

in 1936, Edna St Vincent Millay's Conversations at Midnight book of poetry was destroyed in a hotel fire.

47 70

Charles Gleyre was born in 1806.

pic: "The Bath" at the

0 0

Remembering a founder of American paleontology, Joseph Leidy https://t.co/cKd1CgxdiS

11 9

Niklaus Manuel died in 1530.

pic: "Temptation of Saint Anthony" at the

0 1

"I believe in deeply ordered chaos"
died in in 1992

36 45

Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton, British engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, was born in 1854.

87 104

Expo67—noted for providing an international platform for Indigenous artists—opened in in 1967.

8 9

in 1893 Anita Loos was born. Her most enduring creation is the 1925 novel, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

65 74

in 1898 William S. Porter - future "O. Henry" - began a five-year prison sentence for embezzlement.

30 29

Nathaniel Hone was born in 1718.

pic: "The Conjurer" at the

0 0

“It is never too late to be wise.”
📖 Robinson Crusoe.
Daniel Defoe, trader, writer and spy, died in 1731.

130 155

in 1910, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], dies at 74.
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

175 181

Dracula author Bram Stoker died in 1912 (...and was reborn?) https://t.co/QJH2Svs7yk

2 5