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Kenyan archaeologist Louis Leakey was born in 1903. His excavations in the Oduvai Gorge in what is now Tanzania led to his human evolutionary theory of African genesis - that early man originated in Africa.

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2018-08-07

Born 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign. Caricature by an unnamed artist in 'The Hornet' 6 November 1872

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2018-08-06

Diego Velázquez died in Madrid 1660. Here are two early paintings, done when he was about 19, where the same boy appears, almost identically posed in both ~ Woman Cooking Eggs & Water Seller of Seville

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2018-08-06

in 1812: Tecumseh leads indigenous forces in The War of 1812's Battle of Brownstone. Today, we suggest reading "A Native Nations Perspective on the War of 1812" by Donald Fixico, available on the site: https://t.co/NU9AFqNiMZ

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2018-08-06

1 August 1664, at the Battle of Saint-Gotthard a fiery Turkish soldier challenged a Christian soldier to single combat. The challenge was met by the Chevalier de Lorraine, who defeated the Turk quickly and took his horse back to camp.

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2018-08-01

b. M.R. James (1862-1936). Writer, academic & teller of ghost stories. "It was, as you might suppose, a person of antiquarian pursuits who said this, but, since he merely appears in this prologue, there is no need to give his entitlements." Illus. by James McBryde.

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2018-08-01

From our archives 1930 'How Doth The Little Busy B?' A gorgeous colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing a bear jumping in the air after being stung by a bumble bee. Ouch! The Sketch. 30th July 1930. ©Estate of Lawson Wood/ILN

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2018-07-30

🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky (born in 1817), "Gibraltar by Night", 1844

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2018-07-30

Isidor Isaac Rabi, who discovered nuclear magnetic resonance, was born in 1898.
About 10% of structures in the PDB are determined by NMR, including https://t.co/BaST9IH9QZ solved by

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2018-07-30

29 July 1588: Martin Frobisher's 'The Triumph' again clashes protractedly with the flagship the 'San Martín' off

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2018-07-29

in 1745, the first recorded women's cricket match took place—on Gosden Common, nr Guildford—“between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white… The girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do.”
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2018-07-26

25 July 1632: George Abbot Archbishop of makes his will - among his bequests was £100 to Princess Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of (NPG/BM) He died Aug 1633.

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2018-07-25

Page from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe, the Croatian-born Georg Bocskay, and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, who died in 1601. More here: https://t.co/mHEGK9J0tx

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2018-07-24

Feast of St Bridget of Sweden - had some truly spectacular visions of the Passion. In one of her visions, she saw the 5480 wounds of Christ. She prayed 15 times a day for a year, totaling 5475 prayers, with 5 left over symbolising the Five Wounds of Christ.

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2018-07-24

1373: Feast day of St Bridget of Sweden, best known as author of of "Revelation" + founder of Brigittines (Order of the Most Holy Savior). From childhood she had visions + extraordinary understanding of divine realities. In 1999, she was named one of patronesses of Europe.

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2018-07-23

20 July 1603: Walter Ralegh placed in Tower of where he made a botched/unconvincing suicide attempt with a table knife (NPG/BM)

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2018-07-20

1964: Shotaro Ishinomori's was first published on Weekly Shonen King.

In April 1968, a b/w anime was produced with music by Koichi Sugiyama, now renowned worldwide for his work on the Dragon Quest videogames series.

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2018-07-19

15 July 1665, death of Charles de La Baume Le Blanc, the first child of Louis XIV and Louise de La Vallière. The boy was not legitimised and died one and a half years after his birth.

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2018-07-15