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31 March 1671, Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and of Albany, first wife of the future James II, dies aged 34.

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2018-03-31

Sir William Lawrence Bragg was born 128 years ago

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2018-03-31

in 1853 the great Vincent van Gogh was born. Happy birthday!


Sunflower by Basilius Besler in 1613

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2018-03-30

Albert Pinkham Ryder died 1917. Sadly, because of his layering paint upon varnish, much of his work is unstable & cracking—some have disintegrated.

Death on a Pale Horse
The Flying Dutchman
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens

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2018-03-28

New Avengers by , and José Villarrubia. Published 10 years ago today.

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2018-03-27

1708: A French naval squadron attempted unsuccessfully to land James Francis Edward Stuart and a 5000-strong army on the Firth of Forth. Bad weather and the presence of a Royal Navy squadron under Admiral George Byng, prevented the landing

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2018-03-23

in 1920, Katsuko Saruhashi, a Japanese geochemist who likely helped save the world from radioactive oceans, was born. She would have been 98 today. Happy birthday Saruhashi-san!

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2018-03-23

in 1925, A. C. McClurg issued the first edition of THE CAVE GIRL, with J. Allen St. John dust-jacket art.

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2018-03-22

Heinrich Lefler died 1919. These illustrations are from “Grimms Märchen” (Grimms’ Fairy Tales) and were by both Lefler and his brother-in-law Joseph Urban.

Godfather Death
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and Rose Red
Snow White

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2018-03-17

Born 1856, Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial of France. Died a nasty & unnecessary death during the Zulu War when he insisted on joining the British Army & left hurriedly one morning in a scouting party without sufficient support. He was attacked by Zulus & killed.

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in 1879 Cambridgeshire-born 6' 5" Charles Rowell, the famous pedestrian, wins the Great International Six Day Walking Contest in New York completing the course in 5 days, 19 hrs, 58 mins & 5 seconds.

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2018-03-15

d. Walter Crane (1845-1915). English artist & book illustrator.

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2018-03-15

Karl Friedrich Schinkel was born 1781. Known as an architect of neo-Classical and neo-Gothic buildings, he was also a brilliant painter.

Gothic Church on a Rock by the Sea
The Gate in the Rocks
Medieval City on a River
Queen of the Night

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2018-03-13

Philip James de Loutherbourg died 1812. The first painting—one of my favorites—depicts the ruins of Tintern Abbey.

Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard
The Vision of the White Horse
An Avalanche in the Alps
Château de Chillon

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2018-03-11

b. William Etty (England, 1787-1849), artist. Paintings inc. The World Before the Flood (1828), The Destroying Angel (1832), The Sirens and Ulysses (1837, restored 2010). Also - photo from 1844 - William (right) & his brother & niece.

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2018-03-11

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari,an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period,was born https://t.co/5BXPpjPer7

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2018-03-10

in 1683—Marmaduke Cradock of Babcary began his apprenticeship to Fairfax Burden, Haberdasher of London. Once the term was completed, Cradock made his career as a painter of This canvas is one of only three works signed by him that remain. https://t.co/MqsyR7LFs7

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2018-03-10

Born in 1879, Otto Hahn, winner of the prize in chemistry in 1944! Known for his work in radioactivity and radiochemistry. See our photos of him: https://t.co/BSkOoQjLML

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2018-03-08

Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of chemical elements to the Russian Physicochemical Society in 1869. To celebrate, we’re sharing alternative layouts of the table from the Edward G. Mazurs Collection of Periodic Systems Images in our

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2018-03-06