Born on this day: writer, playwright and politician Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

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Two royals Alices were born on 25th February and appear on Tuxen’s Golden Jubilee painting of 1887. Alice of Albany in 1883 and Alice of Battenberg in 1885. Alice of Albany was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and Alice of Battenberg was Prince Philip’s mother.

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🐞 Rapport présenté à la Chambre de commerce de Lyon par la Commission administrative
Lyon: A. Rey, 1885-
https://t.co/I2tYhNFLhq

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1885年の今日、マーク・トウェイン『ハックルベリー・フィンの冒険』がアメリカで刊行。「現代アメリカ文学の源泉」とヘミングウェイ絶賛の傑作は、冒頭に「この物語に主題を見出さんとするものは告訴さるべし」という警告が。

文庫☞ https://t.co/lIjy1LxK8e
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🐞 Rapport présenté à la Chambre de commerce de Lyon par la Commission administrative
Lyon: A. Rey, 1885-
https://t.co/IOlK0QVOPr

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« Ces gens qui […] ont labouré la terre avec ces mêmes mains qu’ils mettent dans leur plat ont honnêtement gagné leur nourriture »
Les mangeurs de pommes-de-terre (1885)
« Aucune joliesse ne ressort de ce tableau,seulement une bonhommie et une certaine quiétude. »

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Botanical illustration and the park; Belgique horticole, 35 vols, 1852-1885 ...... BHL/Smithsonian .......https://t.co/R4xxbg4cDE

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"Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette" by Vincent van Gogh. According to some sources, this eerie work was most likely painted in the winter of 1885–86 as "a satirical comment on conservative academic practices." Currently located in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

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Paintings by Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935). Summer Sunlight (1892), Late Afternoon, New York, Winter (c. 1900), Rainy Day, Boston (1885), Celia Thaxter in her Garden (1892).

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Iris, by (American, 1842-1908), who was born (Feb 13). From her book Wild Flowers of Colorado, published in 1885; source, https://t.co/8VSGG8Jego

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"1885? It's a very interesting story, future boy. But there's just one little thing that doesn't make sense. If the me of the future is now in the past...how could you possibly know about it?"

"You sent me a letter."

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"1885? It's a very interesting story, future boy. But there's just one little thing that doesn't make sense. If the me of the future is now in the past...how could you possibly know about it?"

"You sent me a letter."

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Halbakt vor Feigenkaktus (Selbstbildnis) (Half Nude in front on Fig Cactus (Self Portrait)), 1922-25
Selbstbildnis, 1915
Selbstportrait (Self Portrait), 1905-07
Selbstporträt (Self-Portrait), ca. 1905-15
__ Anita Clara Rée (German painter) 1885 - 1933

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