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Bruno Hoffmann, who resurrected the glass harmonica's ethereal beauty, died 1991. https://t.co/rlxmeqqK4C

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Poster variations for The Howling - released in the U.S. on this day in 1981.

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1939 in history, African American opera singer Marian Anderson performs on Easter Sunday for 75,000 people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial--a historic preface to the Civil Rights Movement. ( 📷: Interior Sec. Ickes with Anderson).

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(Meant to post this yesterday but got a little busy 🤷‍♂️) 5th April 2009. The day Kimi Raikkonen got bored of waiting and worked out what his priorities are.

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Albrecht Dürer died 1528, almost 500 years ago, but his studies of animals and bugs live on ~ here’s his finely-observed stag beetle ■ up close with a hare ■ and a sceptical-looking stork

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in 1937 in history, Secretary Harold Ickes worked his 1st full day in his office at the newly-completed Interior headquarters building. [Note: This historical photo (INTR 07671) depicts him in his office but at a later 1930s date.]

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in 1888 African-American soprano Sissieretta Jones made her NY debut at Steinway Hall. She performed at the White House in Feb 1892 & toured internationally, by 1895 becoming the best-known, highest paid African American performer of her day. https://t.co/91NOklI94V

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Udo J. Keppler was born 1872. The first chromolithograph, "The Tenament—A Menace to All", shows the spectres of alcoholism, gambling, prostitution, opium dens, crime, and Death materializing from the tenement building.

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Josephine & Lydia in the nursery, 1908. By their father Leonid Pasternak, who was born OTD in 1862.

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🎨 157 years since Leonid Pasternak birth! (3 Apr. 1862 - 31 May 1945)

painter and graphic artist, student of Ivan Shishkin and father of famous writer and poet, Nobel Prize winner - Boris Pasternak.

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in 1972, Captain John W. Ripley, USMC, single-handedly halted an NVA offensive by destroying Dong Ha Bridge. Facing heavy enemy fire. he spent 3 hours swinging under the bridge to place 500 lbs of TNT. He received this "bill" from Hanoi for the cost to replace the bridge

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Celebrating born
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w/the that influenced me as a kid.
Loved reading Classics Illustrated Junior & these were some of my faves!
Comics inspire!

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to the incredibly talented Maria Merian who was born in 1647. She was a remarkable woman who combined her passion for natural history with her skill in art, resulting in some stunning artwork

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Happy Bday Maria Sibylla Merian (born 1647)! Celebrate with "De Europischen insecten" (1730), a Dutch translation of Merian's earlier "Der Raupen", with drawn from first-hand observations of insect metamorphosis. In via : https://t.co/xm9wccrUi4

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The marriage of Napoleon to his second wife, Marie-Louise, Archduchess of Austria took place in 1810. Marie-Louise Painting by Georges Rouet (1784-1869).

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Maria Sibylla Merian born 1647 was a self-taught naturalists and artist who created stunningly detailed illustrations of insects and plants. I was humbled to draw her portrait for the

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in 1513, Juan Ponce de León claimed for He had just left he was governor, in search of new land. Learn more in this Topic from "Exploring the Americas"
🌊 ⚓️ 🌎 👉 https://t.co/VyjEpiOG41

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