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#OTD 1941 #WW2 end of raider Bismarck, as depicted in this map of fight & pic @RoyalNavy's HMS Rodney opening fire. Also, book extract with POV of George Bell, Yves Dias (RN) & Len Nicholl of @RoyalMarines as in 'Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom' https://t.co/cyEJoYLJfp @AgoraBooksLDN
27 May 1199: John ‘Lackland’, sole surviving son of King Henry II and brother of Richard Cœur de Lion, is crowned King of England. Much of his reign will be taken up with unsuccessful attempts to assert his hoped-for dominance in Europe over France and the Pope.
#OTD #OnThisDay
#OTD (May 26 OS), #Linnaeus was shown #stinkhorn (#Phallus impudicus; a scarce #fungus found in #Småland by a local doctor). Boys were eating #Pinus sylvestris #sapwood as a snack; he extolled its virtues as a #medicinal plant. Then he saw #nightjars (#Caprimulgus europaeus).
Anders Dahl–died #OTD 1789, aged 38–was interested in botany from an early age & co-founded The Swedish Topographic Society in Skara. The dahlia was named after him, an honour wrongly thought to have been bestowed on him by Carl Linnaeus of whom he was a pupil.
#OTD 1973年5月25日、細野晴臣1stソロ・アルバム『HOSONO HOUSE』が発売されました。#細野晴臣 #HaruomiHosono
Empire Day was celebrated #OTD on Queen Victoria's birthday each year. Read about its origins and history in our blog here https://t.co/5gw6LAqzNQ
Two Illuminated Pages: ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning illustrated by Phoebe Anna Traquair born OTD 1852 @NatGalleriesSco https://t.co/HmeUSlgVhL
スクールゾンビの生首カードは岩元辰郎のこだわりで、表裏でビミョーな違いがあります。ナードならば歯が欠けていたり。そして両面に生首をプリントすることで、うっかり混ぜてシャッフルしてもすぐに生首カードだけを分けられるようにもなっています。
#爆散OTD
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23 May 1667: Margaret Cavendish Duchess of #Newcastle #writer, #philosopher & #scientist invited to attend the Royal Society #otd She went on the 30th.
3/3 Summertime in 1894. Life was good. Ducks got fed. Nobody drowned. By Mary Cassatt, born OTD 1844.
No (errrrr....) way, Sherlock? Did you know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first publication was in a medical journal? Celebrate his birthday, #OTD in 1859 by reading about his #histmed contributions https://t.co/mINkxiNdk1
#OTD 1871, John Wesley Powell's expedition embarks on a second voyage down the Colorado River, following on his famous 1869 survey. Our #ObjectoftheMonth is this 1936 painting by William Henry Jackson showing a camp scene in Marble Canyon from the 1871 expedition (INTR 03003).
These studies of sheep are entitled 'In the Chase'. Drawn by Henry Baines #onthisday in 1861 the page is just one of his many pencil drawings in our collection. #otd
#OTD 163 years ago (1856), the world famous State Tretyakov Gallery was founded in #Moscow.
It houses over a 100 thousand artworks and is the worlds most comprehensive collection of Russian fine art 🎨🖌️
ℹ️ https://t.co/GqO8GzV1Ae
Born #OTD 1859, Arthur Conan Doyle's attitude towards his famous creation was ambivalent: "I think of slaying Holmes, …& winding him up for good & all. He takes my mind from better things." In an attempt to deflect publishers' demands, he raised his price…
This striking chalk drawing, "Bearded Saint in a Forest", is housed at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria.
Albrecht Dürer, "Bearded Saint in a Forest", c. 1516 #Art #ArtLovers #OTD
Life was often a jungle for tax collector Henri Rousseau, an artist with a proper job, who was born #OTD 1844.