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Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinovich) was born #OnThisDay in 1859.
Members of the B'nai Zion society, Berdichev, via @yivoinstitute's Territorial Photographic Collection, RG 120.
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Delighted to share details of Irish Historical Fiction - a celebration on Saturday 4 April @Hodges_Figgis - talking books and what inspired them from some of the top #histfic writers in Ireland today. Free to attend. Spread the word! #irishhistfic #writingcommunity
The musician Daniel Protheroe, conductor of several music societies in #America, who is best known for composing anthems, hymn-tunes and children's hymn-tunes, died at #Chicago #onthisday 1934 https://t.co/PEFk7hmWIa #WelshHistory #Wales @MusicNLW Image: @MusicofWales
Illustration by Gernot. From #fetish, #kink & #bdsm #archives #fetishhistory #fetisharchives
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Zionist leader, political theorist, and early proponent of the kibbutz movement Nachman Syrkin was born #OnThisDay in 1868 in Mohilev, Russia (now Belarus).
🧐 his correspondence via several @yivoinstitute collections.
📂 https://t.co/DhJcqYyJYR
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Executed #otd in 1587, the tragic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.
Trouble just seemed to follow her around.
Cut paper collage ©Amanda White
#MaryQueenofScots #BritishHistory #naiveart #collage
Learn more about the musician and composer Alun Sbardun Huws in the @WelshBiography https://t.co/rJJAnDZZLz #DyddMiwsigCymru #WelshLanguageMusicDay #WelshHistory #Wales @MusicNLW Image: @Sainrecords
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Dinner in honor of Herbert Lehman given by American ORT Federation Labor Division #OnThisDay in 1943 at the Hotel Commodore, NYC.
🧐 more via @yivoinstitute's
ORT Photograph Collection, RG 380.
📂https://t.co/h8HYFmUGSz
📷 https://t.co/GUR2LkwaPW
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SIR THOMAS RANDOLPH
Sir Thomas was one of Bruce's loyal men and took @edinburghcastle with just 30 men by climbing the rock face he was also a top diplomat for Scotland
#Scotland #scotspirit #ScotlandIsNow #VisitScotland #scottishhistory #medievaltwitter #Alba #OutlawKing
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, one of Wales' most influential and versatile composers, died in #Llanberis #onthisday 2012 https://t.co/VYMq3GjwOW @MusicNLW #WelshHistory #Wales Image: @RSMusicians
Invitation to the Launch of 'Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House' edited by Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway Tues 28 Jan in the GAA Museum at @CrokePark All are welcome #irishhistory #sport @IrishGeorgian @FourCourtsPress @SSNCI_tweets @MaynoothUni
Alun Sbardun Huws, musician and composer of some of the most popular #Welsh pop songs died at the #Heath Hospital, #Cardiff #onthisday 2014 https://t.co/rJJAnEhBa9 #WelshHistory #Wales @MusicNLW Image: @Sainrecords
Take a trip back in time to Rhyl's East parade in the 1880s! ⬇️
https://t.co/y68I6ARFYV
Creator: Francis Bedford (1816 - 1894)
Date: c. 1880
Collection: National Media Museum Collection
#yagym #Rhyl #WelshHistory
Read how Captain Arthur Edwards from Blaenafon in south Wales oversaw the explosion of the first British mine on the Western Front in March 1915 ⬇️
https://t.co/gUSMV6NX8c
Via @AmgueddfaCymru
#WW1 #yagym #WelshHistory
Maria Jane Williams of #Aberpergwm, singer and harpist, and a pioneer in the field of #Welsh folk music died at Ynys-las Cottage, #Blaen-gwrach #onthisday 1873 https://t.co/Gan6mLbJYa #WelshHistory #Wales @MusicNLW
The musician Daniel Protheroe, conductor of American music societies, remembered for composing anthems and hymn-tunes, was born at #Cwmgiedd near #Ystradgynlais, #Brecknockshire #onthisday 1866 https://t.co/PEFk7hmWIa #WelshHistory #Wales @MusicNLW Image: @MusicofWales
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Yiddish author and playwright Sholem Asch was born #OnThisDay in 1880
Yiddish writers at the Czernowitz Conference, 1908 (Asch standing)
🧐 more via @yivoinstitute's Sholem Asch Papers, RG 602
📂 https://t.co/yOz62TSigT
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