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Rupert Brooke died onboard a hospital ship–#OTD 1915–having developed sepsis from an infected mosquito bite en route to Gallipoli. As the expeditionary force had orders to depart immediately, he was buried less than 7 hours later in an olive grove on Skyros where he remains.

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2019-04-23

Noon Hour at the Puget Sound Navy Yard (). Postcard mailed from Bremerton in 1908

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2019-04-22

A happy discovery while trawling through ... the colour remake of an old Saga of Noggin the Nog, shown in 1982.

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2019-04-19

19 April 1770, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are married by proxy at the Augustinerkirche in Vienna.

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2019-04-19

Darwin died in 1882 but his ideas and contributions to science continue to aid our understanding of the natural world. We have scanned some of his fossil mammals in 3D to enable his collection to be shared around the world. find out more at https://t.co/gxyNfMhIhS

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2019-04-19

🎨 185 years since Grigory Myasoedov birth! (19 Apr. 1834 - 31 Dec. 1911)

A prominent realist artist. Interestingly, Myasoedov posed as a model to another artist Ilya Repin when he painted Tsar Ivan the Terrible on the famous picture.

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2019-04-19

OTD 50 Years Ago
The 50th story began
The 10 part epic which ended the Sixth Season, the Second Doctor's tenure & was the last story produced in black & white

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2019-04-19

17 April 1958, Belgium opened the world fair, and included a ‘human zoo' displaying black men, women, and children in their "native conditions" found in Congo. The people used were mocked by white spectators, until they left in July

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2019-04-17

For the Battle of Culloden, fought in 1746:
The Culloden Widow, cut paper collage
https://t.co/jGuX9U5gkM

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2019-04-16

15 April 1719, Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon and secret second wife of Louis XIV, dies aged 83.

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2019-04-15

the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 was passed allowing Catholics to sit in
the Duke of Wellington worked tirelessly to ensure passage in the House of Lords, and threatened to resign as Prime Minister if the King did not give Royal Assent.

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2019-04-13

13 April 1742 Handel’s ‘Messiah’ was premièred at the (new) Music Hall in Dublin

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2019-04-13

Poster variations for MAD MAX - released on this day in 1979.

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2019-04-13

"A reign of horror!...A man-made monster on the loose!" BLACK FRIDAY starring Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi, released in 1940.

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2019-04-12

in 1966, during the river patrol boats began operations on inland waters of South Vietnam. Hundreds of these PBR boats were built in Bellingham WA! Their story's in our exhibit, Patrol Boats on Puget Sound.

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2019-04-12

in 1900, accepted its 1st USS Holland (SS 1), marking the start of the Navy's Silent Service.

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2019-04-11

"Not all monsters are scary. Not if it's one fighting crime in the Garden State." THE TOXIC AVENGER, released in 1986.

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2019-04-11