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Born 1641 Meinhard Schomberg, 3rd & last duke of Schomberg.
Significant military figure under William III - he survived into George I's reign & at his death was honoured with interment in the Henry VII chapel at .

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30 June 1644 compounding his defeat at Cropredy Bridge the previous day, Sir William Waller and his officers were almost killed when the floor of the room in which they met collapsed and they all fell into a cellar...

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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.

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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 ⬇️

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Born Ambrose Patterson 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

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Born 1577: Southern Netherlandish painter (1577-1640)

Self-portrait, ca. 1618

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The painter Peter Paul Rubens was born 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

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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 in 1850. Read the book here: https://t.co/RopiXB1BBa

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Died 27Jun1756 Famous French ballerina Marie Sallé and first female choreographer of the ballet. Learn more about her life: https://t.co/TrG0u4Mf17

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Born Paul Colin one of France’s greatest poster 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

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“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”
Ambrose Bierce

🖌Ingres

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TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE was first released 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

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Born in 1695: Dutch-Swedish painter (1695-1770), active at the Royal Court of Austria

Portrait of Birgitta Christina Sparre, Ulrika Lovisa Tessin and Carl Gustaf Tessin, 1736

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Born in 1695: Dutch-Swedish painter (1695-1770), active at the Royal Court of Austria

Portrait of Bernhard Otto von Rehbinder

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Thread: Voices from today, 210 years ago

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.

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𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟭𝟮 - 𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟰)
"Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible." 🎂🏳️‍🌈

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Released 🎬 in 1955,
Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp

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Born Antonio Rubbo Italian-born Inspiring art teacher introduced a generation of Australian to via his art school Critic Robert Hughes once said muddy genre portraits of very wrinkled old Tuscan peasants were his strong suit

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