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Born OTD 1891 shipyard engineer and socialist activist Harry McShane 🎨 Stanley Bell 1981 @NatGalleriesSco https://t.co/XILYanEKVB
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full … I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.
—Caspar David Friedrich, died #OTD 1840
#Art #Gothic #Romanticism #CasparDavidFriedrich
The 1904 #Bradford Exhibition was to be the greatest seen on this side of the atlantic. Opened #OTD by the Prince & Princess of Wales, they drove down #Manningham Lane to the park where #TitusSalt’s & other textile firms exhibited in the industrial hall.
Happy Birthday USS Nimitz (CVN 68)! #Aircraftcarrier commissioned #OTD in 1975. Now homeported locally at Naval Base Kitsap @NimitzNews
Vernon Castle, who, with his fashion icon American wife Irene, was one of the most famous dancers of the 1910s, was born #OTD 1887 in Norwich. They dominated the dance world giving shows, exhibitions & classes. Vernon served in the RFC but was killed in an air crash in 1918.
Thank you, Leonardo! You've thrown new light on women. The #Renaissance man from Vinci died 500 years ago in Amboise, France. #OTD #OnThisDay #LeonardodaVinci #Leonardo500
Apple blossom, c. 1740, by #BarbaraReginaDietzsch (German, 1706-83), who died #otd (May 1). Held at Colonial Williamsburg, @colonialwmsburg, https://t.co/AzPGKknkIu #BarbaraDietzsch #womenbotanicalartists #womenartists #artherstory @HerstoryDiary
#Otd 1316: Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick (younger brother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland) crowned himself king of Ireland near Dundalk, Co Louth. Had invaded Ireland the previous year. Stayed another 2 1/2 yrs but killed Oct 1318 at Battle of Faughart (near where crowned).
USS Bremerton (CA 130) commissioned #OTD in 1945. Named because @CityofBremerton won a #WWII bond sales competition
Happy birthday to John James #Audubon, born #OTD in 1785. His most famous work, "The Birds of America," consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints; and includes images of several birds that are now extinct, like the great auk and the passenger pigeon. https://t.co/xOKpHhpA9j
Artist Eugène Delacroix was born #otd in 1798.
This lithograph from our collection captures the beauty and power of the wild horse.
Delacroix was inspired by the many horses painted by George Stubbs - who inspires you to get creative? 🐴
#BarberInstitute #hellobrum
John James Audubon born #OTD in 1785, collector & painter of American birds. The Museum has some fantastic Audobon #objects as part of the collection such as this illustration of two passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius) #Archive30 @NHM_Library
@galpalsclub Friday 3rd May - @KomediaBrighton / £3.50 early-bird / £5.50 advance / £6 OTD - 11pm - 3am.
Tickets available on DICE: https://t.co/k3jIHWhdx5
Maria Jeritza in the eponymous role of Turandot in Giacomo Puccini's opera, which premiered in Vienna #OTD in 1926.