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#otd 1826, The Menai Suspension Bridge designed and built by Thomas Telford was opened. The world's first modern suspension bridge - and Grade I listed building - links North Wales to the island of Anglesey. Hand-coloured engraving, Grosvenor Prints @Mary_Evans
Born #otd 1736, James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's steam engine with his steam engine in 1781 which was fundamental to the changes of the Industrial Revolution. Image bySir William Beechey repr. Bibby's Annual, 1920
#OTD d. Edward Lear (1812-1888), writer, artist & musician. “There was a Young Lady of Norway, Who casually sat in a doorway; When the door squeezed her flat, she exclaimed "What of that?" This courageous Young Lady of Norway.” #OnThisDay #nonsense #Limerick
Scottish landscape painter John MacWhirter died #OTD 1911. He was greatly inspired by the Alps and Scotland's mountain landscapes.
Ossian's Grave
Mist on the Mountains
Before a Storm
June in the Austrian Tyrol
#Art #ArtHistory #Scotland #Alps #Mountains #Ossian
#OTD Jan 27 1973 - The Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S. participation in the Vietnam War
#OTD b. Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll. Most famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” #OnThisDay
Born #OTD 1621, Thomas Willis, considered the father of neurology. He was the first person to use that word in print and greatly expanded contemporary understanding of the nervous system
#OTD 1568 Lady Katherine Grey, the wife of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford died aged 27. Katherine, sister of Lady Jane Grey, was, according to Henry VIII's will, heir to Elizabeth’s throne. She'd been under arrest for 7 years for marrying without consent https://t.co/AIXskQbXa0
Go For Gold Week: #OTD in 1924, the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France. PLM poster by Roger Soubie. #ThisDayinHistory
"The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands forever I love." #BurnsNight #OTD Painting 'Salmon Spearing - Loch Katrine' by George Vincent
Born #OTD in 1806, Scottish painter Daniel Maclise, renowned for his romanticised & often sentimental historical genre paintings.
The late great Paul Robeson died #otd in 1976- the American singer and actor became a prominent Civil Rights campaigner.
He was 1st black actor to play Othello in UK since Ira Aldridge in the 1800s.
More: https://t.co/vwXXKB5KTd
Pics: @ullsteinbild #NeilLibbert @UoB_Theatre_Col
#OTD in 1849, British-born Elizabeth Blackwell, becomes the first woman to qualify as a physician in the U.S. after earning her degree from Geneva College in New York. She would go on, with her sister Emily, to found the Medicine College for Women in NY.
#OTD in 1957, American toy company Wham-O launch an aerodynamic plastic disc destined to give millions of dogs hours of endless fun - the frisbee
Édouard Manet was born #OTD 1832. Here are his illustrations from Stéphane Mallarmé’s French translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, or Le Corbeau (1875).
#Art #ArtHistory #Poe #EdgarAllanPoe #TheRaven #Raven
Born #otd 1788 George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS, known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. Flamboyant and notorious, Byron was both celebrated and castigated during his life for his excesses
il Mago: Legend Federico Fellini #bornonthisday 1920–a cinema that wove both the baroque + rustic cores of Italy’s soul… Portrait by Piero Roccosalvo #federicofellini #italiancinema #illustrazione #illustration #artiswork #whatitalyis #otd
Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe. Gustave Dore illustrations from the 1884 Elephant Folio edition here: https://t.co/hcUNrVcouq
[Yes, I really bought that] #Friday #FridayFeeling #birthday #poetry #Poe #OTD