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Walt Whitman: "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring." -- Abraham Lincoln died today in 1865 https://t.co/dBAFr4DGNj

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2021-04-16

Of this orchid flower, Ophrys apifera, painted by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937) writes 'the pollinaria appear to be dangling into the curve of the column. This drops the masses directly onto the stigma, self-pollinating the flower'

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2021-04-15

Celebrating World Art Day, some favourites from the collection chosen by our Gallery & Museum Manager.
Drawing Room, 1a Holland Park by Anna Alma-Tadema (1865-1943), and The Fruit Seller by Guiseppe Signorini (1857-1932)

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2021-04-15

15 April 1865. US President Abraham Lincoln (aged 56), died at 7.22 AM in William Petersen’s boarding house, opposite Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC, where he had been fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth on the night before.

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Olga Boznańska (15 April 1865 – 26 October 1940)
Self-portrait, 1893

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2021-04-15

April 15, 1865:
The murder of Pres. Lincoln. Every day of American history has been about race. Mr. Lincoln died for the right of Black lives to matter, in a line that stretches from the first slave ship in 1619 to Daunte Wright.

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2021-04-15

April 14, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/DpR4w19d2L

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2021-04-14

A ittle snapshot of what happened in history..
* 1471 the Yorkists beat the Lancastrians in the battle of Barnet
* 1865 President Lincoln was assassinated
* 1894, publication of the Kinetoscope by Thomas Edison - first moving pictures
* 1912 the Titanic strikes an iceberg

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2021-04-14

On 14th April 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the following day.
FULL VIDEO ON US PRESIDENTS HERE:
https://t.co/maA2q7bmDV

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2021-04-14



Robert Henri (/ˈhɛnraɪ/; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher.

At Joinville, 1896.

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2021-04-13

今日は、1861年、南軍が北軍のサムター要塞を攻撃し、アメリカ南北戦争が始まった日です。この内戦は1865年４月９日南軍のリー将軍の降伏宣言により終結。
五反田、器

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2021-04-12

The Headland of the Heve at Low Tide, 1865

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2021-04-10

1865 At the Battle of Sailor's Creek, Irish-American Maj Gen Philip Sheridan captured 1/4 of General Robert E. Lee's Army, including six generals (& son). The restructured Irish Brigade took part in the battle too. Lee surrendered three days later.

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2021-04-06

WHITE RABBIT
Lewis Carroll:1865
Jefferson Airplane:1967 (song)
Marvel:1983
Matrix:1999 (tattoo)
DC:2011 (she's not on the cover😕)
.
Fair Use / Public Domain?
Either way...DC is last.

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2021-04-05

Today is Whilst parties feel like a thing of the past now, we hope it's not too long before we can start celebrating together again 🎉

A print of a painting and calligraphy party, or shokagai, by Japanese artist Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865).

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2021-04-03

Las ilustraciones de Mads Berg (Norwegian, 1865-1955)
y el Art Déco.

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2021-04-02

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Portrait of Mrs. Vernon Lushington, 1865 https://t.co/oK78sM6zJp

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2021-04-02