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Diego Velázquez died in Madrid #OTD 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
#OTD 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 @PBS site: https://t.co/NU9AFqNiMZ
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. #otd #Versailles
Isidor Isaac Rabi, who discovered nuclear magnetic resonance, was born #OTD in 1898.
About 10% of structures in the PDB are determined by NMR, including https://t.co/BaST9IH9QZ solved by @tsba98
29 July 1588: Martin Frobisher's 'The Triumph' again clashes protractedly with the #Spanish flagship the 'San Martín' off #Gravelines #otd #Armada
#OTD 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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MT @GeekyNerfherder, 7/24
#JohnCarterOfMars, book 11 of the #Barsoom series written by #EdgarRiceBurroughs, first published #OTD in 1964
#CoverArt for the 1979 edition by #MichaelWhelan
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25 July 1632: George Abbot Archbishop of #Canterbury makes his will #otd - among his bequests was £100 to Princess Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of #Bohemia (NPG/BM) He died Aug 1633.
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 #onthisday in 1601. More here: https://t.co/mHEGK9J0tx #OTD
#OTD 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.
#OTD 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.
1964: #OTD, Shotaro Ishinomori's #Cyborg009 was first published on Weekly Shonen King. #manga
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.
ALIENS was released on this day 1986. Go get ‘em, Ripley. #otd #aliens #strongfemale #ellenripley #ripley #horror #scifi #disney #cartoon #alien #xenomorph #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #noahsart #noaheisenman #hiremedisney
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. #otd
#OTD in 1912, #ERB began work on his fourth novel, a sequel to UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS, which he would call THE GODS OF MARS. Earlier in the year, his editor at "The All-Story" had given him suggestions.
Today's FB post: https://t.co/KtCpi1byn4.
Famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54) died OTD. Throughout her life she focused on exploring her own image - as for her, the personal was universal - in understanding herself, her country & the role of woman in society. Here are self-portraits from 1940 & 1939