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Charles V was born in 1500 and in 1530 he was the last one crowned as Emperor by a Pope (Clemente VII). It happened in in His kingdom was so wide that people said the sun never set on it. 👑 https://t.co/ar68SDxcXy

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2018-02-24

Born in Halle, 1685, German composer and adopted Londoner, George Frederic

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2018-02-23

was born in 1732. Check out our life mask (and even rotate it!) here: https://t.co/p8Go2zFWIK

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2018-02-23

On this day in 1943, German student Sophie Scholl, with her brother Hans, was executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi resistance leaflets. "...what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” https://t.co/uRw6QZs2mo

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2018-02-22

On this day in 1935, Danish-Norwegian explorer Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica, on an island. Norwegian Ingrid Christensen is the first woman to set foot on the Antarctic mainland, a year later. https://t.co/ugg1hFcZn4

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2018-02-20

1906 Will Keith Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin found the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's. Vintage adverts for Kellogg's from the Saturday Evening Post of 1917 from our archives

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2018-02-19

Happy Birthday to Galileo Galilei, born 15 February 1564; brief video of Galileo's portraits https://t.co/vPX0aeVX9K

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2018-02-16

“I would be free down to my very rhymes,” from the Preface to Hunt’s Rimini (pub 1816). But you’ll not find the quote in print. Clarice Short examines Hunt’s manuscripts, revisions, & creative process in (1972/73) https://t.co/5cgPr8htuu

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2018-02-16

| Il 1539 moriva a Isabella d'Este. Figlia di Ercole I e di Eleonora d'Aragona, sposò Francesco Gonzaga divenendo di Mantova. Tra le più importanti del fu ritratta tra gli altri da e da

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1945, Allied planes bombed Dresden in 3 waves over a 14-hour period, devastating one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Over 3 days, the bombs reduced much of the city to rubble and killed between 35,000 and 135,000 civilians, causing an public outcry in Britain

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b. Anna Pavlova (Russia, 1881-1931). Celebrated ballerina & the first to tour ballet around the world.

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Artist & designer Margaret De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar born 1878. Like fellow she used her art to support the movement

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Thomas Cole died 1848. The last painting was based on Lord Byron’s witch poem “Manfred”.

Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower
The Course of Empire: The Savage State
Moonlight Landscape
Scene from Manfred

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2018-02-11

1976 Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to go beyond the orbit of Saturn. The probe sent its last signal in 2003 7.6 billion miles away from Earth but continues to travel deeper into space

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2018-02-10

Henry Thomas De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist, was born in 1796. He was the first director of the Geological Survey and President of the Palaeontographical Society.

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1840: Queen Victoria & Prince Albert marry! Brooch found in bay (2016) identical to brooch found in 97 by same detectorist! Both reported via Likely imitating late

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2018-02-10

ninety years ago, Frank was born in Brooklyn, NY.
Frazetta cover art for LOST ON VENUS and CARSON OF VENUS (2)

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2018-02-10

Born 1920, American actress and pin-up model Lana Turner.

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2018-02-09

Born in 1819, John Ruskin, writer, critic, prominent social thinker and artist. This exquisite watercolour of a kingfisher was painted by him in 1871 and is available through our representation of the (image no. 10501030)

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2018-02-09