This day 172 years ago – 7 March 1848 – the Irish tricolour is said to have been flown in public for the first time.

Thomas Francis Meagher flew it in Waterford during a by-election. It was given to him and fellow Young Irelander William Smith O'Brien by French republican women.

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🍎 The Florist.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1848.
https://t.co/Hoeqnfb3hp

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Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), Homme en Blouse 1884
(Le père Magloire sur le Chemin de Saint-Clair à Étretat)

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🌻 Flore universelle
Saint-Denis: Au Bureau et chez Meilhac: [1848]-[1849]
https://t.co/rkRQokowr1

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左上 2267.35cm
右上 3124.94cm
左下 1848.12cm
右下 1667.05cm

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Sir Winston Churchill, O.M, R.A (1874-1965).

The Terrace at Mrs Alice Keppel's (1848-1947) Villa d'Ombrellino, nr.Florence, c. 1930-35.

Alice was the longterm mistress of Edward VII &great Granny to Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

Private collection.

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🌻 Flore universelle
Saint-Denis: Au Bureau et chez Meilhac: [1848]-[1849]
https://t.co/Sh2BvzH2y7

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騎兵本、おおよそ行き渡ったかなという感じのようなので、時間的にもページ数的にも余裕がなくて本の方では文章説明投げっぱなしジャーマン状態だったけども本当は個人的に滅茶苦茶描きたかった1848年の市民衛兵さんの図を投稿しておきます。

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"Mr Tenniel has been here today and will go to work on the frontispiece (for the Haunted Man - below). We must arrange for a dinner here, very shortly, when you and he may meet." Letter to John Leech 30/10/1848 https://t.co/m5JDobkHGH

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Morning, happy Friday !
Weekend round the corner
A selection of the brighter emission Nebulae
IC 405, IC1848, NGC2264 and NGC1396

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🌊 The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843-1846 /.
London: Reeve and Benham, 1850 [i.e. 1848-1850].
https://t.co/MHSsZqTSQF

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2/2 Family on the barricades, ready to stand strong in 1848, and painted by Daumier.

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Gustave Caillebotte, né à Paris le 19 août 1848 et mort à Gennevilliers le 21 février 1894.

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One of the worst actors in history, died 21Feb1848. He was Robert “Romeo” Coates, a very bad actor and an eccentric man. https://t.co/YvPwV46XjB

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Feb. 21, 1848: The Communist League publishes The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

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The Communist Manifesto was first published February 21, 1848.

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Né le 19 février 1848

"Elimar Ulrich Bruno Piglhein"

Était un allemand de l'école de

Décédé le 15 juillet 1894
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Men-of-war And Other Shipping Off Portsmouth Harbour by John Wilson Carmichael, oil on canvas 1848.

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. Adolph Von Menzel - The Round Table of Frederick II 1848 - Upturned Kettle 1856

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