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d. John Everett Millais (1829-1896). English artist & illustrator, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. "It doesn't matter how beautifully a thing is painted, it is no good if it isn't right."

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2018-08-14

James Gillray, the British caricaturist and printmaker, was born in 1756. Here's an image from an album of satirical prints about the stormy relationship between the British government and the East India Company during the 18th century: https://t.co/IVRQnD22KN

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2018-08-13

Caricaturist James Gillray born in London 1756, famous for his etched political & social satires,

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2018-08-13

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight…
Some are born to endless night.

—William Blake, died 1827

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2018-08-12

1316: Second Battle of Co when the Connacht Gaels allied with Edward Bruce (younger brother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland) against the Anglo-Irish victors. 1,500 Connacht men decapitated inc 2 kings! Site of battle uncertain https://t.co/bFSqusZjnx

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2018-08-10

Born 1841 in Fanny Salt had TB & despite wintering in the French of Pau & she died just before her 20th birthday at home, Methley Hall. Immortalised in

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2018-08-08

Kenyan archaeologist Louis Leakey was born in 1903. His excavations in the Oduvai Gorge in what is now Tanzania led to his human evolutionary theory of African genesis - that early man originated in Africa.

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2018-08-07

Born 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign. Caricature by an unnamed artist in 'The Hornet' 6 November 1872

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2018-08-06

Diego Velázquez died in Madrid 1660. Here are two early paintings, done when he was about 19, where the same boy appears, almost identically posed in both ~ Woman Cooking Eggs & Water Seller of Seville

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2018-08-06

in 1812: Tecumseh leads indigenous forces in The War of 1812's Battle of Brownstone. Today, we suggest reading "A Native Nations Perspective on the War of 1812" by Donald Fixico, available on the site: https://t.co/NU9AFqNiMZ

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2018-08-06

1 August 1664, at the Battle of Saint-Gotthard a fiery Turkish soldier challenged a Christian soldier to single combat. The challenge was met by the Chevalier de Lorraine, who defeated the Turk quickly and took his horse back to camp.

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2018-08-01

b. M.R. James (1862-1936). Writer, academic & teller of ghost stories. "It was, as you might suppose, a person of antiquarian pursuits who said this, but, since he merely appears in this prologue, there is no need to give his entitlements." Illus. by James McBryde.

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2018-08-01

From our archives 1930 'How Doth The Little Busy B?' A gorgeous colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing a bear jumping in the air after being stung by a bumble bee. Ouch! The Sketch. 30th July 1930. ©Estate of Lawson Wood/ILN

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2018-07-30

🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky (born in 1817), "Gibraltar by Night", 1844

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2018-07-30

Isidor Isaac Rabi, who discovered nuclear magnetic resonance, was born in 1898.
About 10% of structures in the PDB are determined by NMR, including https://t.co/BaST9IH9QZ solved by

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2018-07-30

29 July 1588: Martin Frobisher's 'The Triumph' again clashes protractedly with the flagship the 'San Martín' off

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2018-07-29

in 1745, the first recorded women's cricket match took place—on Gosden Common, nr Guildford—“between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white… The girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do.”
https://t.co/JWDcicrsL4

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2018-07-26

25 July 1632: George Abbot Archbishop of makes his will - among his bequests was £100 to Princess Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of (NPG/BM) He died Aug 1633.

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2018-07-25