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【5th Oct M-Swift "Moving With The Changes" Album Launch in London】
I will perform around 20:30.
Doors: 19:00 - 2:00
Entry: £8 adv, £12 otd
Ticket: https://t.co/BgiOOvCSMc

Please enjoy, Jazzy, Neo Soul, Fusion night!

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2018-09-06

🌴Born 1802, Alcide d'Orbingy - zoologist, palaeontologist, and archaeologist (d. 1857). Find out more about d'Orbigny and our collection of his remarkable hand-coloured lithographs of Palms from South America: https://t.co/qjMiu8zBbb 🌴

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2018-09-06

In honour of Arthur Rackham who died 1939, here are some of his illustrations from The Ingoldsby Legends (1898 & 1907) which contain ghost stories, tales of strange myths & legends, and poetry.

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2018-09-06

Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my paintings? One must submit oneself many times to death in order some day to attain life everlasting.

—Caspar David Friedrich, born 1774

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2018-09-05

4 Sept 1666: The Royal Exchange burns in the (BM)

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2018-09-04

Joseph Wright was born 1734. He portrays his “Alchymist” in a romantic way putting him in a sort of Gothic chamber with moonlight creeping in from the arched windows above.

The Old Man and Death
Caernarvon Castle by Moonlight
The Alchymist
Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno

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2018-09-03

20 years since brought a newfound language, demeanour and confidence to videogames as a medium.

It also brought a metaphor of everyone's life in the story of a modern Hero, struggling to push thought things that are immeasurably bigger than him

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2018-09-03

Today in Final War of the Republic: Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. (31 BCE)

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2018-09-03

2.9.1666: wird durch ein großes Feuer weitgehend zerstört
https://t.co/wQjmdf64jk

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2018-09-02

A title of nobility does not make a man noble. You may call a jackal a lion, but he will still be a jackal.
TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD, Ch. 9

in 1933, Inc. issued the first edition of TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD, featuring dust-jacket art by J. Allen St. John.

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2018-09-02

Mary Putnam Jacobi, medical pioneer and suffragette, born in 1842. Read the article by on : https://t.co/4w2nRRhXDo

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2018-09-02

in each of the years 1932, 1933, 1934, and 1936, released a new first edition on his birthday.
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2018-09-01

Congrats to on his epic achievement - 330 miles from Lands End to Dover - to push for action on oceans. in 1905, 4 swimmers, incl. Annette Kellerman had to abandon attempts to swim in a race across Channel due to adverse weather conditions

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2018-08-30

Constant Troyon
* 28.8.1810; † 21.2.1865
Boeufs allant au labour, effet de matin


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2018-08-29

Happy Birthday born OTD 1833 - here are his Holy Grail stained glass panels (now ) made with William Morris. As BJ said 'I like a thing perfect and he likes a thing done'. What a partnership!

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2018-08-28

25 August 1707, birth of Louis I of Spain, great-grandson of Louis XIV. His reign is one of the shortest in history, lasting for just over seven months.

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2018-08-25

25 August 1819 James Watt died at his home at Heathfield, Birmingham - next year there will a series of events across the UK marking his Bicentenary, & also the 250th anniversary of his 1769 patent for the condensing engine

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2018-08-25

Max Beerbohm, essayist, parodist & caricaturist, was born in 1872. Here he is caricatured by three others: Powys Evans in the Saturday Review, Tom Titt & Sickert in Vanity Fair.

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2018-08-24