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The 3 oldest structures in the PDB are date stamped as released #OTD in 1976! They've been in the archive for 42 years
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Vincent du Vigneaud, born #OTD in 1901 worked on many biological molecules, and won the 1955 @NobelPrize for synthesis of hormones including oxytocin.
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Born #OTD 1886, King Alfonso XIII of Spain. King from birth as his father had died the previous year & his mother Maria Christina served as regent until he came of age. Married Princess Ena of Battenberg in May 1906 Couple narrowly escaped death when anarchists bombed procession
Born #otd Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, founder of the English School of portrait and landscape painting, and founding member of the @royalacademy was born. Here he is with some of the society beauties he painted @Mary_Evans
10 May 1774, the nineteen year old Louis XVI succeeds to the throne of France after the death of his grandfather Louis XV. #otd
The Fairies have their tiffs with the birds
Peter Pan
in Kensington Gardens (1906)
by J. M. Barrie born #OTD 1860
illustration by Arthur Rackham
#Art #Literature
Wyatt Eaton
* 6. 5.1849; † 7.6.1896
Paris
#OTD #ArteYArt
@lisamyway @mervalls @ele9061 @BrindusaB1 @mariaireneali @yianniseinstein @menkareh
Frederic Edwin Church was born #OTD 1826. My obsession with The Terror is still in full bloom, so here are some more paintings of the Arctic:
Aurora Borealis
The Icebergs
Icebergs and Wreck in Sunset
Oosisoak
#Art #ArtHistory #Arctic #TheTerror
4 May 1677, birth of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchesse d'Orléans, youngest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and the Marquise de Montespan. Françoise-Marie married the heir of Monsieur, Philippe II d'Orléans, who nicknamed her Madame Lucifer. #otd
Born #OTD 1852, Alice Liddell (later Hargreaves). Daughter of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, she became photographic subject of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll. Whether she was inspiration for Carroll's Alice in Wonderland remains subject of debate
#OTD 2.5.1335: Der #Habsburger Otto der Fröhliche erhält von Kaiser Ludwig dem Bayern #Kärnten und den südlichen Teil #Tirol|s als Lehen
Romantic painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky died #OTD 1900. I’ve always found his use of the color green rather brilliant.
Moon Path
The Darial Gorge in the Moonlight
Lord Byron's visit to San Lazzaro degli Armeni
The Tower
#Art #ArtHistory #Romanticism #Byron
Before #Saltaire was built #TitusSalt exhibited alpaca cloth at the 1851 Great Exhibition #HydePark opened #OTD 1851. He was advised not to buy part of the building for a weaving shed. #Vibrations
#TheMarriageofFigaro, #K492, #operabuffa by #WolfgangAmadeusMozart #libretto by #LorenzoDaPonte. premiered #otd at the #Burgtheater #Vienna 1 May 1786
#OTD in 1455 the Battle of Arkinholm took place, effectively marking the end of perhaps the most formidable magnate dynasty in late medieval Scotland - the Black Douglases:
The Black and (Maybe) the Red: The Battle of Arkinholm, 1455 https://t.co/aWJVPquAgj
Frederick Sandys was born #OTD 1829. The first image is a study for the skeleton that he used in his wood engraving “Until Her Death”.
Study of a Skeleton
Until Her Death
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards
Yet Once More on the Organ Play
#Art #ArtHistory #Death
New Avengers #40 by @BRIANMBENDIS and Jim Cheung, cover by @AleksiBriclot. Published 10 years ago today. #OTD #Avengers #Hulk #Thor #SecretInvasion