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Today in History
September 9th
Died This Day
1997 - Burgess Meredith
after suffering from melanoma and Alzheimer's disease. He was 89.

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Wisdom from the great Leo Tolstoy, b otd 1828:

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."

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Toulouse Lautrec died 1901, at only 36. His friends ranged from sex workers to Oscar Wilde, his interests from cycle-racing to cooking, and his paintings from high art to illustration ~ here's La Toilette ■ La Vache Enragée ■ The Kiss

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Today in History
September 8th
DIED ON THIS DAY
1965 Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and singer, and was the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She died at age 42

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2019-09-08

The British illustrator Eric Hill, best known for Where's Spot?, was born in 1927

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2019-09-08

FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER which recieved the treatment was released in 1956.

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2019-09-06

From our 1924, Albert, Duke of York - later King George VI - at the controls of a Glasgow Tram, which he drove for more than a mile to the depot. Photo in The Coronation Book of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ©Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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2019-09-06

1939, British illustrator Arthur Rackham died. He was one of the leading literary figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration, & famous for illustrating Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol and many more. Here's just a few of his beautiful works

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2019-09-06

Romantic German painter Caspar David Friedrich was born in 1774. Although too early too be a Pre-Raphaelite, his reverence for Nature, evident in his stunning & often haunting woodland & alpine landscapes, & attention to detail, echo that of the PRB

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2019-09-05

Solitude is indispensable for my dialogue with nature.

—Caspar David Friedrich, born 1774

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2019-09-05

4 Sept 1666: The Royal Exchange burns in the (BM)

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2019-09-04

J.R.R. Tolkien died 45 years ago 1973. Great piece by on his experience as a Signals Officer during and its profound influence on his thinking and writing. https://t.co/6nJGRLyNbf …

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2019-09-03

A title of nobility does not make a man noble. You may call a jackal a lion, but he will still be a jackal.
TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD, Ch. 9

in 1933, Inc. issued the first edition of TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD, featuring dust-jacket art by J. Allen St. John.

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2019-09-02

1.9.1816: In Prag wird Louis Spohrs romantische Faust uraufgeführt
🎼 Ouverture 🎶
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Christian Fröhlich
https://t.co/aix6iQkHOi

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2019-09-01

On this day 246 years ago, African American author Phillis Wheatley's collection of poems was published in London https://t.co/Ohcfgquo7I

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2019-09-01

Japanese manga artist Yumiko Ōshima was born in 1947.

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2019-08-31

in 1919, Henry & Arabella Huntington signed the trust indenture that would transform their private estate into the public institution we know today. But before The Huntington was even established, Henry had a vision for the future of https://t.co/axHSlr6aTN

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2019-08-31

Mary Shelley was born in 1797 in London. "Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful." ―from THE ORIGINAL FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley

https://t.co/tuYS7KfV7x

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Supremely talented & radical artist Evelyn de Morgan was born in 1855. Her arresting paintings are imbued with a rich spiritual, mythological & allegorical symbolism.
Evelyn & ceramicist husband William de Morgan were involved in Spiritualism, Suffrage & Pacifism

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2019-08-30

Edinburgh surgeon Andrew Fyfe was born 1752. Fyfe was an exceptional anatomist & illustrator, although was described by Sir Astley Cooper as “a horrid lecturer” (Illustration from 'Anatomy of the Human Body', 1814)

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