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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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2019-03-19

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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2018-11-14

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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2018-06-12

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

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2018-04-27

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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2017-09-26

Stonehenge by John Constable (1835)

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2017-05-21

Stonehenge by John Constable (1835)

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2016-11-22

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

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2016-09-06

Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)

Musica: Gaetano Donizetti

Libretto: Salvadore Cammarano

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2016-06-06

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

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2016-02-23

Snowy Heron (1835)
John James Audubon

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

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2015-09-08