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Now the first idol is Hijikata Toshizo. Commander of the Shinsengumi (新選組) special Bakufu police force from 1868–1869. He also attacked & occupied Goryokaku fort, & became Deputy Defence Minister of the shortlived Ezo Republic. He was killed in the Battle of Hakodate.
Born #OnThisDay in 1829, Anselm Feuerbach was a #German #painter & leading #Classicist painter of the German 19th-century school, known for his historical, mythological, & genre paintings.
📷 Credit: @WikiCommons, "Plato's Symposium" by #AnselmFeuerbach, 1869.
#birthday #OTD
Les Océanides (détail), 1869.
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré.
In Greek #mythology the Oceanides are the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
Doré depicts the mourning of the Oceanides as they cluster about the rock on which #prometheus is chained.
In 1869, the Post Office Department released the National Bank Note Pictorial Issue, the first set of U.S. stamps printed in two colors. The set included ten different stamps, ranging from 1-cent to 90-cent. #NationalUSPostageStampDay
Scott Catalogue USA 116, 1869. (Smithsonian)
🍄 Les champignons comestibles du Canton de NeuchaÌ 1Atel
NeuchaÌ 1Atel: SocieÌteÌ neuchateloise d'utiliteÌ publique, 1861-1869.
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🦉 The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America
New York: Published by the author, 1869.
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Édouard Manet - Clair de lune sur le port de Boulogne, 1869. Oil on canvas, 82 x 101 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
🌄 Entomological correspondence of Thaddeus William Harris, M. D.;.
Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1869.
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The first transcontinental railroad was completed #OTD, May 10, 1869. Illustrations from Locomotive, photo from 150th anniversary commemorations at Promontory Summit two years ago. (Two years, but it feels like more; there was travel, there were crowds! We were outdoors, though.)
En la mitología clásica cada masa de agua estaba asociada con una ninfa, las oceánides. Eran hijas de Océano y Tetis. Hesíodo nombra a 41 de ellas en la Teogonía. La más importante, claro, era Estigia.
🎨 Las oceánides.
👨🎨 Gustav Doré, 1869.
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Rutgers and New Jersey (later known as Princeton) faced off in what is considered to be the first American football game ever played on Nov. 6, 1869. The game took place in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with an audience of about 100 on hand, according to Rutgers. Rutgers won 6-4
Johann Wilhelm Cordes German, 1824-1869.
After the storm. 1855
Mexico City. Museo Nacional de San Carlos.
"Alegoría de la adhesión de Napoleón Bonaparte al imperio", realizado en 1804 por Georges Rouget, fue un pintor #neoclásico francés. Nacido en París, el 26 de agosto de 1783, falleció el 9 de abril de 1869. Rouget produjo varios lienzos para los Bonaparte. #arte #cultura