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10 February 1606, birth of Christine de France, Duchesse de Savoie, the third child and second daughter of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis. #otd
#OTD Ruskin was born 200 yrs ago. He was a frequent visitor to the BG Windus collection of #JMWTurner watercolours @TottenhamGreen
"I feel as if Mr Windus's parlour at Tottenham had been familiar to me since the dawn of existence in Brunswick Square"
https://t.co/YSkW2pBBZ1
Exquisite watercolour of a kingfisher, painted by #JohnRuskin - art critic, artist, philanthropist, polymath - born #OTD 1819. Image part of the @AshmoleanMuseum collection represented at the library #ruskin200
Mary Queen of Scots, whose story is told on-screen in cinemas at the moment, was executed at Fotheringhay Castle #OTD in 1587, after her death warrant was signed by her cousin, Elizabeth I.
On this day in 1812 Charles Dickens was born. He is considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era and celebrated for his depictions of London life during the period. You can find this image and others like it here: https://t.co/3SIhcB96Az #OTD #charlesdickens
#OTD 6 February 1840: the treaty of Waitangi establishes New Zealand as a British colony. https://t.co/EqMMSUzaqJ
2/2 Adoration of the Magi, with baby a bit unsettled by all this attention from total strangers. By Cornelis de Bailleur of Antwerp, born OTD 1607. @medievalpoc
Nigel Bruce, the beloved bumbling Watson, to Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes on both screen and radio, born #OTD 1895.
Natural #disasters can raise security concerns. 1169 Sicily Earthquake #OTD killed 15 to 25,000 people, damaging/destroying settlements. It also raised fears exiles would exploit situation with a Byzantine invasion/rebellion, although this did not occur. #MondayMorning #medieval
#OTD 2/2/1942, street outside main gate of Puget Sound Navy Yard (@PSNSandIMF). @ 1st and Pacific (approximate current location of Puget Sound Navy Museum)
#Otd 1882: Birth in #Rathgar, #Dublin of James Joyce. Novelist, short story writer & poet e.g. Ulysses (1922), short-story collection Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Finnegans Wake (1939), 3 books poetry, a play & published letters! #IrishAuthors
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Doris Lee was #bornonthisday in #Illinois.
#art #artist #modernart #painting #paintings #fineart #americanart #folkart #discoverher #botd #onthisday #otd
Poet #LangstonHughes was born #otd in 102. Hughes focused on a deep commitment to African American history, treating the subject with the framework of modernist poetry. 🎨: Winold Reiss, c. 1925 Learn more: https://t.co/C7Aau8HA92 #BlackHistoryMonth
#OTD 2/1/1943, keel was laid for USS Bremerton (CA 130). Ship's name chosen following a bond selling competition btwn Bremerton's Puget Sound Navy Yard @PSNSandIMF and Mare Island Navy Yard in CA (@MareMuseum). Bremerton won! #WWII
#HappyBirthday to Takashi Murakami, born on this day in 1962.
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