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Near disaster the French night attack before Talavera, 27 July 1809 #OnThisDay
Surprised, the 87th & 88th Regiments fell back, although the 60th stood firm.
Wellesley rode forward, withdrawing the 24th, 31st & 45th Regiments, where they drove back the advancing French columns.
Born #OnThisDay 1781 bird artist Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline Knip née Rifer de Courcelles, 1781-1851. Responsible for the #book 'Les Pigeons'. These prints are from the 2nd ed., 1808-43, text by C.J. Temminck & Florent Prëvost. #WomensArt #SciArt #Pigeons #OTD
#Summer of Colour
#OnThisDay
54年前の1968年7月26日、ムーディ・ブルースのサード・アルバム『失われたコードを求めて(In Search of Lost Chord)』がリリースされた。
「Ride My See-Saw」(UK42位/US61位)、「Voice in the Sky」(UK27位)がヒット、アルバム・チャートは全英5位/全米23位。
#TheMoodyBlues
American painter Francis Coates Jones (1857-1932), born #OnThisDay 165 years ago. By the Fireside, oil on canvas. A Quiet Time, oil on canvas. Fishing Along the River Bank, oil on canvas, Gone but Not Forgotten, oil on canvas
I can kinda animate
drew the bois doin the tango because I had a major need to see them dance all cutely
I'vespentmywholedayworkingonthisdearlord
Spanish painter Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (1841-1920), born #OnThisDay 181 years ago. Una Gitana (The Gypsy), 1872, oil on canvas. Girls at a Window, ca. 1875
oil on canvas. The Girl with the Golden Hair, 1898, oil on canvas. The Reading. Aline Masson, ca. 1880, oil on panel
Czech painter Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), born #OnThisDay 162 years ago. Fruit, 1897. Flower, 1897. Girl with Loose Hair and Tulips, 1902, oil on canvas. Madonna of the Lilies, 1905
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Happy 95th birthday to Alex Katz, born #OnThisDay in 1927, who has devoted his career to crafting a singular painterly vision: Self-Portrait Swimming #2, 1991
“I was happy to be involved in an art for the people and not for private drawing rooms. It was inexpensive, accessible to the general public,and it found a home in poor families as well as in more affluent circles.”
#BornOnThisDay Alphonse Mucha
🖌Woman Watching a Burning Candle
"Caterpillar, Pear, Tulip, and Purple Snail " (1561–96) — from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe Georg Bocskay and artist Joris Hoefnagel, who died #onthisday in 1601: https://t.co/mHEGK9rp4X #OTD
This is one of my favorite #illustrations of the whole #boardgame. It highlights how #happy a #rescuedog gets when they see something as simple as a #bouncingrubberball. Does anyone out there have a good story like this? I'd love to know what you'd #captionthis for #DogsBONDGame
#OTD 1568 Carlos, Prince of Asturias, eldest son and heir-apparent of King Philip II of Spain, died in solitary confinement in Madrid after being imprisoned by his father as a result of how mentally unstable he was. Verdi composed an opera based on his story. #History #OnThisDay
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21年前の2001年7月24日、ケイクの4枚目のアルバム『Comfort Eagle』がリリースされた。
「Short Skirt/Long Jacket」がAlternative Airplay 7位にランクされ、全米アルバム・チャートは13位。
#Cake
Happy 2nd Anniversary of The Loud House episode “Coupe Dreams” 🎉🏡🚘 It aired on @Nickelodeon in July 23, 2020 🚗🎊 I Love how Lori becomes a local rideshare driver. 🧡🏠 #TheLoudHouse #OnThisDay #Happy2ndAnniversary #LoriLoud
Born #OnThisDay in 1721: Prussian painter #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (1721-82)
Portrait of Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau (1753-1820), 1776
#AnnaDorotheaLisiewski #Therbusch #PrussianArt #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1721: Prussian painter #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (1721-82)
Self-portrait with Johann Christian Samuel Gohl, ca. 1764-5
#AnnaDorotheaLisiewski #Therbusch #PrussianArt #WomenArtists
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
Born #OnThisDay in 1721: Prussian painter #AnnaDorotheaTherbusch (1721-82)
Self-portrait, ca. 1782
#AnnaDorotheaLisiewski #Therbusch #PrussianArt #WomenArtists
Danish painter Paul Fischer (1860-1934), born #OnThisDay 162 years ago. Ballerina, 1893, oil on canvas. Portrait of a Young Girl, 1903, oil on canvas. Windy Weather, oil on panel. The Red Umbrella, oil on canvas laid on cardboard
#OnThisDay 1931: MPs voted down a bill, introduced by Labour MP Archibald Church, which would have paved the way for the compulsory sterilisation of “mental defectives.” Similar laws were passed in the early 1930s in the U.S. and, with the most terrible consequences, in Germany.