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We’ve been since 1846! 1857 a volunteer for the 's Meteorological Project tracked a tornado passing through Wisconsin and sent the findings via telegraph. The project led to the founding of the ! Image ID: SIA2010-0732 https://t.co/lLLcTnzlZb

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2018-08-22

in 1745, Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, marries Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna who would, after his death, and a coup d'état in 1762, become Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia until her death in 1796.

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2018-08-21

"Altogether such a cheeful king" The future William IV, reigned 1830-37 was born in 1765 at Buckingham House. Went variously by the nicknames 'Sailor Bill' (due to his naval career), or, rather more cruelly, 'Pineapple Head' due to his large cranium & tufts of hair!

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2018-08-21

in 1942 Disney's 5th animated film is released - Bambi. Artists working on the film were taken to LA Zoo & a menagerie of animals including rabbits, owls & skunks was kept at the studio so those working on the film could see animal movements 1st-hand, with gorgeous results

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2018-08-21

Alfred Kubin died 1959. His work has had a bizarre influence on my writing over the years — his Mythical Animal in particular inspired a somewhat “hallucinatory” piece recently.

Death as a Horseman
The Terror
Mythical Animal
Dream Animal

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2018-08-20

206 years ago, engaged and defeated and earned her nickname One of our crew members saw a cannonball hit her, make a dent in her side, then fall into the sea. He then cried out, "Huzzah! Her sides are made of iron!"

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2018-08-20

Frank Earle Schoonover was born in Oxford, NJ in 1877.
His cover art graced first editions of A PRINCESS OF MARS (https://t.co/fEP01bBcrf ) and THE GODS OF MARS (cover restored by https://t.co/V6j5oZZprR).

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2018-08-20

160 years ago today Queen Victoria sent the first transatlantic telegram, to US President James Buchanan over the new transatlantic electric telegraph cable 1858 https://t.co/QWHLkONUfq

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2018-08-16

Edith Nesbit, author of over 60 children's books under the name E. Nesbit and a political activist who co-founded the Fabian Society, was born in 160 years ago. https://t.co/93ohXEv05y

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2018-08-15

d. John Everett Millais (1829-1896). English artist & illustrator, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. "It doesn't matter how beautifully a thing is painted, it is no good if it isn't right."

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2018-08-14

James Gillray, the British caricaturist and printmaker, was born in 1756. Here's an image from an album of satirical prints about the stormy relationship between the British government and the East India Company during the 18th century: https://t.co/IVRQnD22KN

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2018-08-13

Caricaturist James Gillray born in London 1756, famous for his etched political & social satires,

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2018-08-13

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight…
Some are born to endless night.

—William Blake, died 1827

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2018-08-12

1316: Second Battle of Co when the Connacht Gaels allied with Edward Bruce (younger brother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland) against the Anglo-Irish victors. 1,500 Connacht men decapitated inc 2 kings! Site of battle uncertain https://t.co/bFSqusZjnx

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2018-08-10

Born 1841 in Fanny Salt had TB & despite wintering in the French of Pau & she died just before her 20th birthday at home, Methley Hall. Immortalised in

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2018-08-08

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