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J.R.R. The was published 42 years ago. Here is a majestic depiction by kuliszu of its epic opening, the Ainulindalë: the harmony of the Music of the Ainur and the Discord of Melkor.

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2019-09-15

Pioneer of environmentalism: happy 250th birthday, Alexander von Born in 1769 in the fearless explorer, geographer & naturalist saw nature as a web of life & anticipated human-induced climate change more than 200 years ago.

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2019-09-15

1944 USS West Virginia (BB 48) rejoins fleet. Last of 5 battleships repaired @ Puget Sound Navy Yard after Pearl Harbor attack . Her return marks end of salvage/repair of battleships damaged Dec 7 1941

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2019-09-15

2/2 Two lovely ladies from the Lake family painted in 1660 by Sir Peter Lely, who was born OTD in 1618

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2019-09-14

September 14, 1940, died Swiss geologist Émile Argand. As an early supporter of A.Wegener, he used continental drift theory to explain the as a succession of overthrusted & deformed tectonic nappes ⛰️ https://t.co/sp8FiF6Ip7

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2019-09-14

Alfred Hitchcock said of Grace Kelly, who died 1982: "I didn't discover Grace, but I saved her from a fate worse than death. I prevented her from being eternally cast as a cold woman."

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2019-09-14

In honour of the anniversary of the death of Charles James Fox, 1806, another chance to read 's blog on the 1788 election:
https://t.co/q6EYOJBT8k

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2019-09-13

1759, though the British army takes Quebec from the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, General James Wolfe is fatally wounded and dies on the battlefield. Kronheim print in 'Pictures of English History from the Earliest Times' circa 1892

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2019-09-13

THE BLOB starring Steve McQueen creeped, and leaped into theaters in 1958.

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2019-09-12

Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning in 1846. Featured: Phoebe Anna Traquair's portrait of RB (next to Rossetti) on the walls of the Song School of St. Mary Cathedral, Edinburgh & her exquisite illumination of one of EBB's Sonnets for the Portuguese, both 1890s

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2019-09-12

Keira & Matthew 😍❤️😍💙

& at 🎞 special gala premiere and press conference in Toronto, Canada (September 11, 2005) and portrait session (September 10, 2005) [📸: George Pimentel/WireImage]

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2019-09-12

Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was born 1522! Aldrovandi amassed a collection of 1000s of natural history objects & set out to publish a series of books detailing the known natural world. Explore his volume on sea life via ➡️ https://t.co/U0FNXySjF0

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2019-09-12

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Explorers discover the wreck of the legendary City of Everett in the Gulf of Mexico. The whaleback freighter, the first steamship to circle the globe, sank while hauling Cuban molasses to in 1923.

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2019-09-11

A pea from a mummy from Egypt? & Fuchsia ‘Daniel Lambert,’ by (née Saunders; English, 1845-1927), who was born (Sept 11). Held at ; source, https://t.co/2TWXuV6mmT

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2019-09-11

Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen.

/ There is no true life within a false life.

- Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia


(born 11. September 1903)

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2019-09-11

14 years ago today, 😍 poses for a portrait 🖼 while promoting his film at the (September 10, 2005) in Toronto, Canada. (📸: by Carlo Allegri/Getty Images and George Pimentel/Wire Image)

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2019-09-10

Mary Wollstonecraft died 222 years ago. The foremother of feminism & human rights died in childbirth, had her name trashed for a century, and is still relatively unknown. It's time to put that right. Please follow

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2019-09-10

Following the English victory at the Battle of Flodden 1513 the commander, Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, was restored as 2nd Duke of Norfolk and the Howard arms gained a remarkable augmentation...#poorlion

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2019-09-10

in 1087, the first Norman King of England, William the Conqueror, William the Bastard, William I of England, William II of Normandy and Duke of Normandy, died at the Convent of St. Gervais in Rouen, Normandy; age 59. Abbaye-aux-Hommes, Caen https://t.co/2m4S91fhcr

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2019-09-09

Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scotland at Stirling Castle in 1543. This image is taken from our copy of L.S. Buckingham’s Memoirs of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1844) (shelfmark 601.e.26): https://t.co/zjp5bjfmE1

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2019-09-09