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Factoid Extra:@neilmbriscoe @TopOfTheTower @t2stu @DarraghMcKenna @StvCr I don’t much about the Statesman, the largest car Holden sold in from the early ‘70s to early ‘80s.
For example, Statesman was a marque in its own right & here’s a late limited model, subtle it is not...
Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910) was a man of amazing ability and talent. He was an Ottoman statesman, intellectual, painter and archaeologist. Here is a photo of the great man at an archaeological dig in Nemrut Dağ and one of his most famous paintings, 'The Tortoise Trainer'.
@Svelien Gideon Northgate - statesman, swordsman, and bubblegum addict.
April 17, 1790: Benjamin Franklin died at the age of 84 in Philadelphia.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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#BenjaminFranklin #Philadelphia #FoundingFathers #AmericanHistory #Inventor #Statesman #GrandLodgeOfPennsylvania #PennsylvaniaFreemasonry #Freemasons
#OTD
13th March 1573
Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman, died at Vignay, France.
https://t.co/fiAFMcxbY5
#MicheldelHôpital #Statesman #ChancellorofFrance #KingFrançoisIIofFrance #CatherinedeMedici #ValoisAngoulême #France #History
Wonderful Wiener Werkstätte postcards by Austrian illustrator Moriz Jung (1885-1915) from c.1911.
Clockwise top left: Viennese cafe: the man of letters. Bloodless giraffe hunt. Editor's conversation with a statesman. Sepp and Kathi Steidler, popular house comedians.
Henry Clay. American Statesman
@HenryClayEstate
By Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV
#HenryClay #Ashland #AmericanHistory #History #Statesman #GrandMaster #GrandLodgeOfKentucky #KentuckyFreemasonry #TravisSimpkins #LexingtonLodgeNo1 #Freemasons #GreatCompromiser
A drypoint of Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) who was a prominent French statesman and military leader during the French Revolution leading several successful campaigns.#KateBoxer #cricketfineart #Napoléon #contemporaryart #artistsontwitter https://t.co/Y6CDXgOQbr via @pinterest
The village of 'Dragley Beck', now part of Ulverston, is the birthplace of Sir John Barrow, English statesman, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society.
It gets it's name from the dragon that legend says, sleeps underneath it. #mythologymonday #folklorecumbria
Meet Sephiran: Hoary Sovereign from the #FireEmblem: Path of Radiance game. Senior Statesman of Begnion and Prime Minister who serves Sanaki. Wields his abilities with great skill even at the winter festival. #FEHeroes
https://t.co/hn5Sqwr5O2
Born #OnThisDay 16Nov1811 John Bright was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. A Quaker, Bright is most famous for battling the Corn Laws. #19thcentury #British
For 12 years - between 336 and 324 BC - the Athenian statesman Lycurgus oversaw a remarkable rebuilding and rearmament program in his home city, rebuilding its strength as Alexander the Great campaigned far away to the east.
#TIL that @ESPNcricinfo has both a Mickey Mouse as well as an Odisha connection
It is currently(partly) owned by the @WaltDisneyCo & its founder-editor & present Editor-in-chief @sambitbal is born & brought up in #Bhubaneswar & is the son of #Odia statesman,journalist & MP
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For 12 years - between 336 and 324 BC - the Athenian statesman Lycurgus oversaw a remarkable rebuilding and rearmament program in his home city - rebuilding its strength as Alexander the Great campaigned far away to the east
"forced to grapple with a problem far beyond his statesmanship & indeed well-nigh insoluble, his career was one of disaster". Died #OnThisDay 1792 former #PrimeMinister Frederick North, 2nd earl of Guilford, better known as Lord North.
#HistParl
For 12 years - between 336 and 324 BC - the Athenian statesman Lycurgus oversaw a remarkable rebuilding and rearmament program in his home city - rebuilding its strength as Alexander the Great campaigned far away to the east.
#OnThisDay in 1888, statesman & abolitionist Frederick Douglass received a vote in nomination for the US Presidency. Here, Charles White depicts Douglass—who was born into slavery c. 1817 & lived until 1895—guiding 20th-century Black men.
"Frederick Douglass Lives Again" 1949
Executed #OnThisDay in 1535 by order of #HenryVIII : #ThomasMore (1478-1535), English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, Lord High Chancellor of England
Portrait drawing by Hans #Holbein (1497/8-1543), ca. 1526-7
#More #Humanism #Utopia