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This photograph shows flooding in Wisbech Road, King's Lynn following the North Sea flood surge in 1953

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30 January 1670, the Chevalier de Lorraine is arrested, in presence of Monsieur, without any reason given.

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Richard Brandon was the Common Hangman of London in 1649, it is debatable as to whether he beheaded Charles I as his identity was concealed on the scaffold & his confession, shown here, was published posthumously.

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2019-01-30

Happy birthday to Hungarian-Indian avant-garde artist & painter Amrita Sher-Gil, born in 1913! She won a gold medal aged 19 at the 1933 Paris Salon for her painting, 'Young Girls', and UNESCO declared 2013 the Intl Year of Amrita Sher-Gil. https://t.co/RhbbNKq5Ay

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Died 1888, English Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author and poet, renowned today primarily for his limericks and his literary nonsense. Fabulous nonsense images from Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, c1875 edition. Evans Picture Library

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2019-01-29

Jan 27 1973 - The Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S. participation in the Vietnam War

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2019-01-28


27th January 1606
The trial got underway of Guy Fawkes and seven other men, for attempting to blow up the Parliament House.

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2019-01-27

Edward Jenner, physician, scientist and 'father of immunology' (who did refine the discipline of vaccination) died 1823 < Holding Their Breath https://t.co/GtG1WtxiSl <

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2019-01-26

Edith Wharton b.
The Edith Wharton Collection at BRBL, estimated at some 50,000 items, consists of manuscripts, letters, photographs, and miscellaneous personal papers https://t.co/dkvT31Hu5j

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2019-01-24

🎉🎂Joyeux anniversaire, Monsieur Manet, born in 1832. For this special occasion, I am sharing a playful pod of porpoises. That’s right, PAINTED PORPOISES🐬🐬🐬❗️ Pictured: ‘The Steamboat: Seascape with Porpoises’1868 . 🌊#19thC

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2019-01-23

in 1570 James Stewart was assassinated in Linlithgow. He had ruled Scotland as regent since the abdication of his half sister in 1567. He was shot by a supporter of Mary in the first recorded assassination by firearm in history

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2019-01-23

I will never get tired of this beautiful & iconic image, the first Dáil Éireann sitting in 1919 in the Mansion House, Dublin. The end of a long road, and the beginning of another that we are still on.

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Louis XVI, French King was beheaded during the French Revolution 1793

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2019-01-21

My of in part of my 13 Blondes series. Multiple print sizes in two colors & magnets currently on sale at my shop: https://t.co/5AeScWAsOM.

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2019-01-20


Berthe Morisot was in
"It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience."

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2019-01-14

OTD 1905: Arsenal are denied a win against Middlesbrough by a decidedly dodgy referee. The local Kentish Independent cartoon of the game gives a pithy synopsis of the poor officiating

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14 January 1664, Françoise-Madeleine d’Orléans, Duchesse de Savoie, dies aged 15.

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Turning nature into art: the pioneering naturalist, entomologist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian died in 1717. She travelled the world & created brilliant drawings & illustrations of plants & insects, making detailed notes on the behaviour & life cycle of butterflies.

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