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“What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the subconscious, the mystery of what is instinctive in the human race” –Amedeo Modigliani, born in 1884. https://t.co/4nQikmCipG

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2018-07-13

Poster variations for John Carpenter's Escape From New York - released on this day in 1981.

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2018-07-11

in 1931, began work on his 18th Tarzan novel, TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN. The following year, in the depths of the Depression, he sold the serialization rights to "Blue Book" magazine for $6,000, or nearly $100,000 in today's dollars.
[1st ed., 1935, St. John cover art]

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2018-07-10

1938, 35 million gas masks were issued to Britain's civilian population in anticipation of World War II. Even our canine friends and babies were catered for, as seen here in these images from Robert Hunt collection

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2018-07-09

Kenneth Grahame passed away in 1932. His adventures of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger have enchanted children and their parents for over a century. Today's our edition of The Wind in the Willows, is illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk. https://t.co/pL6kkBETYS

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2018-07-07

Sir Thomas More was executed in 1535. This is our book on Holbein's famous portrait of him now in

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2018-07-06

5 July 1725 The relics of Ste-Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris, are brought through the streets of the city. Paris has been experiencing heavy rain through June and it is hoped the saint will intervene. Fascinating article here by https://t.co/qQPZiCxLmw

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2018-07-05

Born in 1807 Italian general, politician and nationalist, Giuseppe Garibaldi, named after the biscuit.

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2018-07-04

Happy Birthday to John Singleton Copley who was born (July 3rd) in 1738!!

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2018-07-03

1575: Elizabeth de Vere was born in Hertfordshire. Considered an adept businesswoman she became Countess of Derby through her marriage prior to taking up the administrative duties of the Isle of Mann (Manx Çhiarn Vannin) in 1609. In 1612 she became the Lord of Mann.

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2018-07-02

1/ in 1965 Norman Rockwell's "Murder in Mississippi" was published in LOOK Magazine in Charles Morgan Jr.'s piece "Southern Justice" about the brutal murders of civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney in 1964.

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2018-06-30

1855 The Daily Telegraph was first published, during the Crimean War. The electric telegraph linking the front to London sent news “with the speed of lightning”. As the Electric Telegraph Co, BT supplied the army's first mobile unit in 1854 in the Crimea

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2018-06-29

🎉🎂A BIG HAPPY EXUBERANT birthday to the Flemish master, -born in 1577 (Siegen, Westphalia). 🖼: One of his most striking portraits, ‘Four Studies of a Head of a Moor’ 1614 . Can’t help marvelling at its *contemporary* feel.

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2018-06-29

28 June 1716, death of George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, youngest illegitimate son of Charles II and Barbara Villiers.

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2018-06-28

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712. We have a large collection of related material, from the libraries of Ralph Leigh & Robert Wokler, including this work by Rousseau inscribed by him to d'Alambert, co-editor of the Encyclopédie with Diderot https://t.co/1uUXstcuOH

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2018-06-28

Born in 1703, John Wesley, who founded the Methodist movement with just four members of the 'holy club' in Oxford, growing it to 132,000 members in Britain & America by the time of his death. It's estimated he rode 250,000 miles on his horse to spread the Methodist gospel.

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2018-06-28

Ornithologist John Latham's (born 1740) "General Synopsis of Birds" was translated into German by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, a pioneer in German ornithology. Explore "Allgemeine Uebersicht der Vögel" ([1792]-1812) in via : https://t.co/bzLTLFyle4

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2018-06-28