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OTD 1795: Engagement of British light squadron with Dutch squadron in the North Sea, off the coast of Norway. British victory

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2017-08-22

French painter, distinguished by remarkable exuberance & hedonism, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, died 1806.

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2017-08-22

Fragonard (d 1806) depicts daring lady on swing pushed by old codger as young lover enjoys view from the bushes

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2017-08-21

21 August 1808 Battle of Vimeiro. French under Junot vs British under Wellesley. British volleys stop uncoordinated French attacks.

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2017-08-21

Alfred Kubin died 1959. The first painting is Das Grausen (The Horror). The third is Der Vampyr

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2017-08-20

in 1843 "The Black Cat", a short story and a deep study of the psychology of guilt by Edgar Allan Poe, was published.

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2017-08-19

Anna Ancher
* 18.8.1859; † 15.4.1935
Studie til Sypigens hoved

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2017-08-19

Francesco Albani
* 17.8.1578; † 4.10.1660
Jupiter, in the shape of a bull, carrying off Europa

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2017-08-18

Animal Farm, an allegorical novella by George Orwell, was published in 1945..illustrated by Ralph Steadman.

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2017-08-17

Hugo Flink, who played Holmes in 4 unauthorized & now lost silent films 1917-8, born 1879.

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2017-08-16

A Herald of Spring by Walter Crane, 1872. Walter Crane was born 15 August 1845.

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2017-08-16

We're fans of Walter Crane born 1845. Here's his picture we used in our post about hot-cross buns.
https://t.co/XJ9ISdLU18

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2017-08-15

Celebrating b.1771 Poet, novelist, critic, ballad collector & international literary superstar.

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2017-08-15

The legacy. OTD 29 years ago he passed away.

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2017-08-14

Johann Jakob Wick dieD 1588. These are from his “Wickiana” which contains news & documents from 1505-1588

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2017-08-14

Caricaturist James Gillray born in London 1756, famous for his etched political & social satires,

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2017-08-13

in 30 B.C. Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Egypt, commits suicide in her own mausoleum by means of a poisonous serpent.

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2017-08-13

Died in 1857, William Daniel Conybeare, described the marine reptile plesiosaurus found by Mary Anning https://t.co/Ci2cV4MFDP

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2017-08-12

Celebrating Andrew Carnegie d.1919 whose legacy in libraries, education & scientific research still shapes our world.

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2017-08-11

William Morton was born in 1819. Known for being the man who first publicly demonstrated the use of ether as a surgical anaesthetic

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2017-08-09