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in 1793, Charlotte Corday assassinated French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat, because she believed he was too radical. She was executed by guillotine four days later. At her trial she apparently said: “I have killed one man to save 100,000.” https://t.co/nIcErFXrjz

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OTD in 1863, the Conscription Act takes effect, precipitating the the worst civil unrest in U.S. history. Our neighborhoods, with large populations, were the scene of much of the violence: https://t.co/29JybwmKSB

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2019-07-11

After WWI, Paul Nash–who died 1946–continued to focus on landscape painting, initially in a formalised, decorative style but later in an increasingly abstract & surreal manner, often placing everyday objects into a landscape to give them a new identity & symbolism.

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Feast St Benedict of Nursia (d. 547). Founded 12 monastic communities at Subiaco📷, Moved to Monte Cassino in mts of south. "Rule of Saint Benedict" followed by most religious communities throughout Middle Ages! 1 of 6 patron saints of Europe. https://t.co/XkAZJTv9rc

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2019-07-11

1890 The National Telephone Company, and ancestor of today's BT, opened a long distance trunk circuit between London and Birmingham, the first North to South public phone link in the UK.

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2019-07-10

Self-Portrait, c. 1770, by (Swedish, 1735-1796), who was born (July 10). Held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts; source, https://t.co/z7nMRvntIO

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He abandoned hope as he recognized his assailants, from their leopard skins and masks, as members of the feared secret order of Leopard Men.
Thus died Nyamwegi the Utengan.
TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN, Ch. 1

in 1931, began work on his 18th Tarzan novel. [St. John art]

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2019-07-10

Evening of 9th July 1553. A 'great banquet' was held in honour of the new Queen Jane.

Jane was also probably briefed and prepared for the following days events.

Painting by: John Singleton Copley 1807

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Sobralia macrantha, by (English, 1803-1857), who died (July 9). Published in James Bateman’s The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala (1843). Source, , https://t.co/dAy7PxuAW9

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2019-07-09

1867
Käthe Kollwitz was in what is now
"I want to have an effect on my time, in which humans are so confused and in need of help."

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2019-07-09

Käthe Kollwitz–born 1867–studied art at a time when women were still denied access to art academies, & was vetoed from winning a prize at the Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung by Kaiser Wilhelm II who said: “Orders & symbols of honour belong to the chest of deserved men.”

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2019-07-08

in 1948 Argentine political leader & First Lady Eva Perón set up the María Eva Duarte de Perón Foundation, which aimed to build homes, schools, hospitals & orphanages in underprivileged areas. On 7 May 1952 she was named Spiritual Leader of the Nation https://t.co/4lRPG2IWda

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in Tudor History: 8 July 1503

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in Tudor History: 8 July 1549

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2019-07-08

1809 Byron and his travelling companion Hobhouse land at Lisbon at the beginning of their epic European tour.

What beauties doth Lisboa first unfold!
Her image floating on that noble tide,
Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold

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2019-07-07


Gustav Mahler
* 7.7.1860; † 18.5.1911
österreichischer im Übergang von der Spätromantik zur Moderne

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2019-07-07

Chagall! b otd 1887:
The artist's dignity lies in his duty to keep awake the sense of wonder in the world.
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
All colours are the friends of their neighbours, the lovers of their opposites.
Great art begins where nature ends.

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2019-07-07

7.7.1770: Nach der dreitägigen von Çeşme im Fünften Russisch-Türkischen Krieg ist die Vernichtung der osmanischen Flotte durch die Russen nahezu abgeschlossen.
https://t.co/B2wvGawD7Y

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2019-07-07

Frederic Dorr Steele, the greatest American illustrator of Sherlock Holmes, died 1944. He based his Holmes on William Gillette.

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2019-07-06