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Charles Rennie Mackintosh ~ born 1868

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Glasgow-born Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in 1868🎂🎉 . Although best known as an architect and designer, Mackintosh also produced a large number of drawings and watercolours, including this, The Road Through the Rocks, Port Vendres: https://t.co/6pFWa1Bv7h

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George III born in 1738.Some of George III-related special collection items include his wife's signature from 1816. The work is decorated with Strelitzia (#birdofparadise), a genus named after Queen Charlotte's birthplace, the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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Born in 1879, Mabel Lucie Attwell, popular and prolific artist best-known and well-loved for her illustrations of chubby-cheeked children and fairyland

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Helen Stratton died 1961. These illustrations are from The Lily of Life: A Fairy Tale, by Marie of Romania.

Beasts of Prey
The Stag
The Frozen Lake
The Tombs

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in 1879, Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial of France, is ambushed and killed by Zulus while serving with the British. His needless death occurred when the impetuous prince took command of a scouting party without official permission. His body suffered 18 assegai wounds.

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Dutch artist Cornelis Saftleven may have died 1681.

Witch's Tavern
Gates of Hell
Temptation of St. Anthony (detail)
College of Animals

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Some images of the illustrious Joan of Arc, who was martyred in 1431.

"Jehanne was gentle in the roughest struggle, good amongst the bad, pacific in war itself; she bore into war...the spirit of God." - Jules Michelet

Art by: T.A. Dean, G. Pownall, and H. Piffard.

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Born in 1900, artist Rudolph Belarski painted "Argosy Weekly" pulp covers for three of most famous series: and
January 8, 1938: "Carson of Venus"
March 19, 1938: "The Red Star of Tarzan"
January 7, 1939: "Synthetic Men of Mars"

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27 May 1541: Bl. Margaret Pole Countess Salisbury executed - her beheading was badly botched at Tower (NPG - possible portrait) Cardinal Reginald's mum

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26 May 1650: Oliver Cromwell leaves Co. for ( ) there he goes...

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in 1660, Britain is about to get a whole lot merrier when King Charles II arrives in Dover to claim the throne. Coincidentally, he gets married too a year later, to the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza

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Carl Linnaeus was born in 1707. Have you seen our Linnean Correspondence collection? https://t.co/hVGANf40XU We have digitised letters sent & received by the great man himself. To also celebrate we have found this letter sent to him by Thomas Pennant.

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Left wing of a blue roller, studied in 1512 by the great Albrecht Dürer. You would not believe that watercolor & gouache could capture this much detail! Dürer was born OTD in 1471.

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21.5.1358: In Compiègne beginnt der genannte Bauernaufstand im Nordosten Frankreichs https://t.co/Pv7t4ZhGYP

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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Starring Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald & Michael Ironside
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Released 20 May 1983

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May 20, 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.

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The 3 oldest structures in the PDB are date stamped as released in 1976! They've been in the archive for 42 years
https://t.co/Kc8inLiAnh
https://t.co/8BZMiDdVp9
https://t.co/cLfsPlIqyT

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Vincent du Vigneaud, born in 1901 worked on many biological molecules, and won the 1955 for synthesis of hormones including oxytocin.
https://t.co/k8Z7Xt6oxb

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