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Eberhard Kieser was born 1583. These woodcuts are from the 1648 edition of his Icones Mortis Sexaginta Imaginibus which contains copies of Hans Holbein’s (1497-1543) “Dance of Death” series.

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2018-12-03

USS West Virginia (BB 48) commissioned 1923. Sunk @ Pearl Harbor attack 12/7/1941. After repairs @ Bremerton’s Puget Sound Navy Yard (shown here), she rejoined the fleet.

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2018-12-02

Boots of purple glace kid, c.1910, belonging to Queen Alexandra, who was born in 1844. Photograph by Peter Yapp from the Historic Royal Palaces Collection at our library.

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2018-12-02

‘I put all my genius into my life, I put only my talent into my books’: Oscar Wilde died in 1900. If you haven’t explored the recently digitised Oscar Wilde literary manuscripts on our Discovering Literature website, have a look here https://t.co/xm6bPR9TuE

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2018-12-01

in 1943, USS Hornet (CV 12) commissioned. Served in recovered Apollo 11 & 12 astronauts after moon landing. Decommissioned 1970 at Bremerton's , was in reserve fleet here through 1980s. Now a museum ship .

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2018-11-30

1897
Germaine Krull was in what is now
"With just one click, the lens captures the exterior world at the same time it captures the inner world."

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2018-11-29

🎶 in 1825: Rossini's BARBER OF SEVILLE becomes the first opera sung in Italian to premiere in the United States. 🎼 Learn more about the opera's history in this post on the blog: https://t.co/wYb66Li1pF

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2018-11-30

William Blake born in 1757
was a 19th century writer & artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. His writings have influenced countless writers & artists through the ages, and he has been deemed both a major poet and original thinker.
🎨Minerva Teichert

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2018-11-29

William Blake was born 1757. These illustrations by Blake are for the poem “The Grave” by Scottish poet Robert Blair—one of the so-called Graveyard Poets.

The Skeleton Reanimated
The Gambols of Ghosts
Death’s Door
By an Open Grave

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2018-11-28

"The Lion's Man" first appeared 1926 in Liberty Magazine. https://t.co/Z1b0cNTokp https://t.co/8LbSNQCh6R

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2018-11-27

in court on 25 November 1878. 140 years ago. Godwin sketch of Whistler in court.

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2018-11-25

in 1960 three of the Mirabal sisters, who fought against the dicatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were killed by the secret police. In their honour, today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. https://t.co/GyIeQ4Wb2A

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2018-11-25

in 1809, Nova Scotian fisherman and pirate Edward Jordan was hanged for piracy in Halifax. https://t.co/ejumWtWmqi

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2018-11-24

On This Day, 1718 – The notorious career of the pirate Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, ended in a bloody battle off North Carolina’s Outer Banks when a British naval force sent from Virginia ran him to ground.

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2018-11-22

1890
Jeanne Mammen was in
“I have always wanted to be just a pair of eyes, walking through the world unseen, only to be able to see others.”

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in1951, Rosalind Franklin gave a lecture at Kings College London showing her ground-breaking X-rays of DNA. James Watson, who was present, won a Nobel Prize in 1962 with Francis Crick for solving DNA's structure. Franklin had died in 1958, and could not share in the prize.

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From our George V & the Abbas II Helmy Bey, Khedive of Egypt pictured on board the HMS Medina at Port Said 1911. The royal couple were visiting Egypt on their return from the Royal Durbar in India. Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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