Today's Classic:

.時鳥我身ばかりに降雨か
hototogisu waga mi bakari ni furu ame ka

cuckoo--
is this rain falling
only on me?

Kobayashi Issa

Image (ukiyo-e): 'Cuckoo Flying in the Rain' (ca.1835), Utagawa Hiroshige

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🙏🏻Donato👏🏼e per la x te/voi ...

“Di tutte le stelle tu sei la più bella, stella della sera.”
(Saffo)

Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835)
“La morte di Saffo” 1801
Museo Baron Gérard, Bayeux

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I've heard the phrase 'the hills have eyes', but I've never heard 'the ground has teeth' before 🤔

Edward Lear kangaroo from 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', v.1 (1835)

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MOONBATS. The pejorative expression comes from the Great Moon Hoax (1835) in which U.S scientists 'discovered' human-like creatures on the moon: "Unlike earth-bound humans, these creatures ... had wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs."

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Seishū Hanaoka (1760-1835), a Japanese surgeon, developed a herbal concoction he called tsusensan, which allowed him to remove a breast tumour from a patient on October 13, 1804. The Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists have a Datura flower in their emblem in honour of this.

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Deutschlands Vögel in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen (1835) https://t.co/1NUeBF1yU5

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(2/2) “Great Esquimaux Curlew” by John James Audubon (1835)

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Scottish writer James Hogg (1770-1835) is probaly best known for his psychological Gothic Novel 'Confessions of a Justified Sinner' (1824) inter alia, but he also produced some great ghost stories - the revenge tale 'Mary Burnet' is regarded as one of the finest in the 19c.

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Look at that face! Look at those EARS! Brown Long-eared (Plecotus auritus) (c1835): https://t.co/W5zPxoucWZ

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Vi è un'energia immensa nei cieli di questi acquerelli di John Constable (1834-1835).

La potenza della natura e il potenziale del talento.

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Stonehenge by John Constable (1835)

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Stonehenge by John Constable (1835)

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Caspar David Friedrich's "Sea Shore in Moonlight" (c.1835)

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Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)

Musica: Gaetano Donizetti

Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano

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There's a tonight, which made us think fondly of James Arthur O'Connor's ‘The Poachers’ (1835)

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Snowy Heron (1835)
John James Audubon

more works by this artist:
http://t.co/iOBY7RkHqJ

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