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Elizabeth Blackadder born 1931
Cats and Flowers 1980
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2019-09-24

1852 Sept 23: Surgeon William Halsted born https://t.co/sde8DDbkqF Helped develop local anesthesia w/cocaine in the 1880’s among many other achievements

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2019-09-23

Novelist, playwright and creator of one of the first detective novels, Wilkie Collins, died in 1889. 'Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.' (The Moonstone, 1868)

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2019-09-23

Arthur Wellesley's army won a decisive victory at
Hugely outnumbered, using the ground (a trademark) AW led from the front, directing aggressive flanking attacks.
Later on when asked his greatest victory Wellington replied "ASSAYE"
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2019-09-23

Happy Discovery Day to my neighbor discovered 9-23-1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle using the calculations of Urbain Le Verrier. Neptune's predicted position was based on discrepancies in Uranus' orbit & turned out to be only 1° off.🤩#Space https://t.co/Ie4JMiP2BJ

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2019-09-23

"Warning! Beware their stare!" FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER, released in 1965.

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2019-09-22

in 1745 the Battle of Prestonpans takes place & is the first major victory for the jacobite forces

📷PIC BY Andrew Hillhouse

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2019-09-21

Born 1887 Lawrence Kay-Shuttleworth of
This recently discovered photo shows Lawrence in uniform (on right) with wife Selina, brother Edward and Sibell his wife. A rare and touching photo of the couples. Both brothers were killed in 1917.

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2019-09-21

To celebrate his birthday in 1857, commissioned 3 trains to take 2,600 of his millhands to the largest art show in Britain, the Art Treasures Exhibition in born 1803

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2019-09-21

Keats wrote To Autumn 200 years ago, in a letter to John Hamilton Reynolds he described what inspired him... "Somehow a stubble plain looks so warm – in the same way that some pictures look warm – this struck me so much in my Sunday’s walk that I composed upon it.”

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2019-09-19

'The Three Gables', the 55th story in the Canon, published 1926 in Liberty Magazine.

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2019-09-19

Happy 80th Birthday to 5th Dimension founding member Lamonte McLemore (born Sept 17, 1939), the singer/songwriter with mellow bass vocals who put the group together. He co-wrote the gorgeous A Love Like Ours (1970) https://t.co/deV7OmMwML

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2019-09-18

This pencil drawing on card is of Potter Heigham, Norfolk and was drawn in 1928, by King's Lynn artist Walter Dexter.

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2019-09-17

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was published 1954:
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!”
“Who cares?”
“We've got to have rules & obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, & the English are best at everything.”

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2019-09-17

Curiosity is often a fatal poison.
TARZAN AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY, Ch. 13

in 1938, Inc. published the first edition of the 20th novel, featuring John Coleman Burroughs art: https://t.co/fPvBcvJ0yr.

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2019-09-16

"Who are you to say that the impossible cannot be accomplished?"
BACK TO THE STONE AGE, Ch. 3

in 1937, Inc. published the first edition of the fifth novel, featuring John Coleman Burroughs art: https://t.co/e5TkQ3YsI2.

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2019-09-16

Steel fingers encircled the python just back of its head....
TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE, Ch. 4

in 1928, A. C. McClurg published the first edition of eleventh novel, featuring St. John dust-jacket and interior art: https://t.co/IYx3nv4xkp.

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2019-09-16

15 Sep 1931, 1,000 sailors in the British Navy at Invergordon, Scotland mutinied against a proposed 25% pay cut forcing the government to grant concessions, before taking reprisals on the strikers https://t.co/mZDEJFFfBM

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2019-09-16

Constantin Fahlberg was granted a patent in 1885 for the use of artificial sweetener saccharin, which is found bound to 3 different proteins in the PDB

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2019-09-15