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Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (died 1901) achieves a sense of easy but intense intimacy in this series of paintings depicting two workers in a Paris brothel sharing a bed (1892)

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2018-09-09

82 years ago, the last known died in captivity in Hobart. To mark this sad day we wanted to share these beautiful images from John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia' vol. 1 (c.1845-63)

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2018-09-08

in 1935, Inc. issued the first edition of TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN with J. Allen St. John dust-jacket and interior art. https://t.co/rsaALzRhzN

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2018-09-07

1298 Battle of Curzola. Genoese Navy defeats Venetians. Explorer Marco Polo, allegedly captured in this but probably earlier battle, spent his time in captivity dictating later famous work 'The Travels of Marco Polo', detailing his journeys around world.

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2018-09-07

1778 France invaded & captured Dominica in Caribbean: 2000 French soldiers to around 40-100 British + militia. French already infiltrated & got support of (mostly French) population, distracting one part of the garrison with drink & spiking cannons with sand.

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2018-09-07

【5th Oct M-Swift "Moving With The Changes" Album Launch in London】
I will perform around 20:30.
Doors: 19:00 - 2:00
Entry: £8 adv, £12 otd
Ticket: https://t.co/BgiOOvCSMc

Please enjoy, Jazzy, Neo Soul, Fusion night!

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2018-09-06

🌴Born 1802, Alcide d'Orbingy - zoologist, palaeontologist, and archaeologist (d. 1857). Find out more about d'Orbigny and our collection of his remarkable hand-coloured lithographs of Palms from South America: https://t.co/qjMiu8zBbb 🌴

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2018-09-06

In honour of Arthur Rackham who died 1939, here are some of his illustrations from The Ingoldsby Legends (1898 & 1907) which contain ghost stories, tales of strange myths & legends, and poetry.

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2018-09-06

Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my paintings? One must submit oneself many times to death in order some day to attain life everlasting.

—Caspar David Friedrich, born 1774

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2018-09-05

“I want to depict the most romantic idea in the most detached form.” –#OskarSchlemmer | Born in 1888, Schlemmer was a utopian with visionary intentions related to the concept of the gesamtkunstwerk. (1 of 2)

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2018-09-05

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

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2018-09-04

Joseph Wright was born 1734. He portrays his “Alchymist” in a romantic way putting him in a sort of Gothic chamber with moonlight creeping in from the arched windows above.

The Old Man and Death
Caernarvon Castle by Moonlight
The Alchymist
Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno

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2018-09-03

20 years since brought a newfound language, demeanour and confidence to videogames as a medium.

It also brought a metaphor of everyone's life in the story of a modern Hero, struggling to push thought things that are immeasurably bigger than him

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2018-09-03

Today in Final War of the Republic: Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. (31 BCE)

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2018-09-03

2.9.1666: wird durch ein großes Feuer weitgehend zerstört
https://t.co/wQjmdf64jk

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2018-09-02

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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2018-09-02

Mary Putnam Jacobi, medical pioneer and suffragette, born in 1842. Read the article by on : https://t.co/4w2nRRhXDo

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2018-09-02

in each of the years 1932, 1933, 1934, and 1936, released a new first edition on his birthday.
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2018-09-01

Congrats to on his epic achievement - 330 miles from Lands End to Dover - to push for action on oceans. in 1905, 4 swimmers, incl. Annette Kellerman had to abandon attempts to swim in a race across Channel due to adverse weather conditions

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2018-08-30