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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.

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in 1928, Frank was born in Brooklyn, New York. These are among his most iconic cover illustrations:
AT THE EARTH'S CORE
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS / THE CHESSMEN OF MARS
THE SON OF TARZAN
CARSON OF VENUS

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Ruskin was born 200 yrs ago. He was a frequent visitor to the BG Windus collection of watercolours
"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

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A Cluster of Oak Leaves

John Ruskin

Morgan Library

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Exquisite watercolour of a kingfisher, painted by - art critic, artist, philanthropist, polymath - born 1819. Image part of the collection represented at the library

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Mary Queen of Scots, whose story is told on-screen in cinemas at the moment, was executed at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, after her death warrant was signed by her cousin, Elizabeth I.

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100 years ago, Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney (Jock Mahoney) was born in Chicago, He starred as Tarzan in two feature films, "Tarzan Goes to India" (1962) and "Tarzan's Three Challenges" (1963).

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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

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I have always respected courage, and I believe that it requires the highest courage to do that which fills one with fear.
THE MOON MAID, Ch. 8

in 1926, A. C. McClurg issued the first edition of THE MOON MAID, with J. Allen St. John cover art.

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6 February 1840: the treaty of Waitangi establishes New Zealand as a British colony. https://t.co/EqMMSUzaqJ

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Artist H.R Giger was born in Switzerland in 1940.

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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.

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Nigel Bruce, the beloved bumbling Watson, to Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes on both screen and radio, born 1895.

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Natural can raise security concerns. 1169 Sicily Earthquake 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.

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2/2/1942, street outside main gate of Puget Sound Navy Yard (). @ 1st and Pacific (approximate current location of Puget Sound Navy Museum)

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1882: Birth in 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!

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Poet was born 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

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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 and Mare Island Navy Yard in CA (). Bremerton won!

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