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#OTD in 30 B.C. Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Egypt, commits suicide in her own mausoleum by means of a poisonous serpent.
Died #OTD in 1857, William Daniel Conybeare, described the marine reptile plesiosaurus found by Mary Anning https://t.co/Ci2cV4MFDP
Celebrating Andrew Carnegie d.1919 #OTD whose legacy in libraries, education & scientific research still shapes our world.
William Morton was born #OTD in 1819. Known for being the man who first publicly demonstrated the use of ether as a surgical anaesthetic
#OTD in 1492 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with three ships, Santa María, Pinta and Niña from Spain for the "Indies".
#OTD #thierryhenry joined #Arsenal in 1999 https://t.co/0nkJbemteu
Died #OTD in 1788: Thomas Gainsborough. We offer, in remembrance, his portrait of Frances Duncombe. https://t.co/ctCJNbjRVV
#OTD 1943 #USNavy Lt (&future pres) John F Kennedy saves PT109 crew after boat rammed/sunk by Japanese destroyer in Pacific #WWII #OnThisDay
US abstract artist Arthur Dove was born #OTD He's the missing link between #Cézanne #Rauschenberg & #FrankStella https://t.co/B78IB1P9bj
#ThomasGainsborough died #OTD 1788 See two of his Irish sitters today @UlsterMuseum Theodosia Magill and the Marquess of Donegall
#ThomasGainsborough, #18thcentury #portrait and #landscape #artist, died #otd in 1788 #art #history #arthistory
Edwin Austin Abbey died #OTD 1911. The first is “The Play Scene in #Hamlet" (1897) from Act III, Scene 2 #Art #ArtHistory #Shakespeare
“Little Prince” author Saint-Exupéry, who died OTD in 1944, on what the Sahara taught him about the meaning of life https://t.co/jyAhGEBrv6
"Justice" (1542) @ Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice by Giorgio Vasari, born #OTD 1512
Carl Blechen
* 29.7.1798; † 23.7.1840
Galgenberg
#OTD #twitart
@peterschiedam @UnholyEdgar @kontaminiert @Sashainua @hihi0806 @ssandcs
The award for best job title goes to Robert Hooke, Curator of Experiments @royalsociety, born #OTD in 1635 https://t.co/d23r4hH8ti
#BeatrixPotter,#author, talented #artist and lover of the natural world, was born #otd in 1866 #history #Literature
Robert Hooke, scientist, born #OTD 1635. Micrographia, 1665 @britishlibrary https://t.co/IWOxYuXxKg
The world's first woman to receive a PhD, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, died #OTD in 1684. #womenphilosophy
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