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He turned to politics, and counted on war fatigue and the support of his former troops to win the Presidency in 1864. His plan failed, and he won only three states and 21 electoral votes as Lincoln routed him for a second term. (@ALPLM)
💦 The reptiles of British India
London: Pub. for the Ray society by R. Hardwicke, 1864.
Look closely, this Chinese Water Dragon, or Physignatus cocincinus, has a "3rd eye" #pod > C why: https://t.co/iiAHgxEvwq
The first was during the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. While serving aboard the USS Brooklyn, "Cooper fought his gun with skill and courage throughout the furious battle".
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The first was during the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. While serving aboard the USS Brooklyn, "Cooper fought his gun with skill and courage throughout the furious battle".
#SharkAwarenessDay has become a whole week! #SharkWeek 🦈
To begin celebrations, here are several examples of wonderful #prints depicting #sharks. All from a #book in our #specialcollections by Leopold Joseph Fitzinger, published 1864. #sciart
The Battle of @KennesawNPS Mountain was fought #OTD in 1864. Part of General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, it involved a frontal assault Sherman elected to launch on the confederate line at Kennesaw Mountain after a series of flanking movements failed. #CivilWar
Aloysius "Alois" #Alzheimer was born #OTD of 1864. He was a german #psychiatrist and is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile #dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimer's disease.
#histmed #medizin #medicine #historiamedica #storia
Albert Gallatin Jenkins died #OTD in 1864. Born in 1830 to wealthy parents on a plantation in Cabell County, near what is now Huntington, WV, Jenkins attended @marshallu and graduated from @wjcollege in 1848 before completing a law degree at @Harvard_Law in 1850.
'An #AprilFool' by ‘A H’, illus. by Adelaide Claxton in London Society Vol.5 1864. A recently bereaved & brazen Mrs Honiton, strides out, turns heads and 'worse than all, she wore so natty and retiring a widow's cap, that you could scarcely detect that emblem of her bereavement'.
Franklin's lost expedition
1. The Erebus and the Terror in the ice, Pierre Eugene Grandsire, 1860.
2. Man Proposes, God Disposes, Edwin Landseer, 1864.
Thanks a lot to my patrons for helping me pick one amongst my other options:
Pre-Culloden Highlander fighting the English.
Circassian in the russo-circassian war, somewhere between 1763 and 1864.
Underground Railroad agent protecting fleeing slaves in 1850 antebellum USA.
North again over the #MarlboroughDowns & we pass 2 white horses carved into the chalk. Don't be fooled, these are more recent additions to the landscape. The #BroadHinton horse (left) was created in 1838 & the #BroadTown horse (3 miles away) followed in 1864. #ExploreYourArchive
🦎 The reptiles of British India
London: Pub. for the Ray society by R. Hardwicke, 1864.
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