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#OnThisDay 30 June 1643 was the Battle of Adwalton Moor in Yorkshire, where Royalist forces under the Earl of Newcastle defeated Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax. As a result all of Yorkshire was left under Royalist control except for Hull & Bradford. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay 1983
New Order @ First Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Your Silent Face, Procession, Ultraviolence, Thieves Like Us, Truth, In A Lonely Place, ICB, Confusion, Everything's Gone Green, Temptation
Epic drumming from Stephen Morris during In A Lonely Place ⬇️
Born #onthisday1877 Ambrose Patterson #painter #printmaker made block prints paintings inspired by Kilauea (1916-17) One-man exhibition at SFAA galleries Contributed 3 colour prints (The Steeple Chase The Bull Fight The Long Beach) to Seventh Annual California Society of Etchers
Born #OnThisDay 1577: Southern Netherlandish painter #PeterPaulRubens (1577-1640)
Self-portrait, ca. 1618
#Rubens #SouthernNetherlandishArt
The painter Peter Paul Rubens was born #OnThisDay in 1577! 🌠In this moonlit scene, the stars seem like joyous flecks of paint than a carefully observed night sky.
Peter Paul Rubens, Landscape by Moonlight, 1635–40, The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld
Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a book of traditional Japanese ghost stories compiled by the great scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn, who was born #onthisday in 1850. Read the book here: https://t.co/RopiXB1BBa #otd
Died #OnThisDay 27Jun1756 Famous French ballerina Marie Sallé and first female choreographer of the ballet. Learn more about her life: https://t.co/TrG0u4Mf17 #18thcentury #ballerina #dance
Born #onthisday1892 Paul Colin one of France’s greatest poster #artists Made name in 1925 with his Revue Negre poster launching his mistress Josephine Baker’s career Worked for forty+ years in theatre creating promotional posters numerous sets & costumes
Released today in 2001. @gorillaz 19-2000
#OnThisDay #Gorillaz #DamonAlbarn
“Hippogriff,n. Animal…half horse and half griffin.The griffin was itself…half lion and half eagle.The hippogriff was…therefore,only one-quarter eagle,which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold.The study of zoology is full of surprises”
#BornOnThisDay Ambrose Bierce
🖌Ingres
TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE was first released #onthisday in 1983!
The sci-fi/horror anthology was inspired by the iconic 60’s series created by Rod Serling. Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Joe Dante, & George Miller each direct
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Dutch-Swedish painter #MartinvanMeytens (1695-1770), active at the Royal Court of Austria
Portrait of Birgitta Christina Sparre, Ulrika Lovisa Tessin and Carl Gustaf Tessin, 1736
#Meytens
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Dutch-Swedish painter #MartinvanMeytens (1695-1770), active at the Royal Court of Austria
Portrait of Bernhard Otto von Rehbinder
#Meytens
Thread: Voices from today, 210 years ago
#Onthisday June 24, 1812, the main body of Emperor Napoleon’s Grand Armee crossed the Prussian-Russian border at the Niemen River. The I~III Corps under Davout, Ney, and Oudinot and cavalry under Murat had crossed the day before.
𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟭𝟮 - 𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟰)
"Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible." 🎂🏳️🌈
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Released 🎬 #OnThisDay in 1955,
Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp
Happy Birthday to author Dan Brown.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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#DanBrown #Birthday #DaVinciCode #TheLostSymbol #RobertLangdon #Langdon #Inferno #Origin #AngelsAndDemons #books #author #mystery #thriller #TravisSimpkins #OnThisDay #otd
Born #onthisday1870 Antonio Rubbo Italian-born #artist Inspiring art teacher introduced a generation of Australian #painters to #Modernism via his art school Critic Robert Hughes once said muddy genre portraits of very wrinkled old Tuscan peasants were his strong suit
Buried #OnThisDay in 1657: Dutch painter #JanvanRavesteyn (ca. 1572-1657)
Portrait of a Girl from the Van Paffenrode Family, 1629
#Ravesteyn #DutchBaroque #ChildrenInArt
Buried #OnThisDay in 1657: Dutch painter #JanvanRavesteyn (ca. 1572-1657)
Portrait of #HugoGrotius (1583-1645), 1599
#Ravesteyn #DutchBaroque