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MORE OLD, OLD FAIRY BOOKS that I love. J. A. Adams, Fairy Book 1836. Mrs Craik, The Fairy Book, 1869; Andrew Lang, My Own Fairy Book, 1895. Dinah Craik's collection was a lonely precedent to Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. Her story books include 'The Unkind Word' 1870

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2019-07-03

1/2... On May 23, 1843 Thomas McKay – famous for building the Locks, the Commissariat, & - laid the cornerstone for the Union Suspension Bridge at The new bridge replaced the original wooden arch that collapsed in 1836.

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2019-05-23

A blast from the past. This is what North and Middle America looked like in 1836. Source: https://t.co/Bta7ne5lye

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2019-04-02

Henry Harris Lines, R.B.S.A. (1801-1889)
A pastoral idyll.
1836.
Oil on canvas.
38 x 53 in. (96.5 x 134.7 cm.)
Private collection.

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2019-02-19

Happy Birthday to Charles Dickens, born 1812. A literary superstar in his day 1st book of "Sketches" was published under the pseudonym of 'Boz' in 1836. We love nothing more than unearthing 1st editions, manuscripts & original illustrations of his work.

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2019-02-07

. told about our herbarium which has over a thousand plants - with some dating back to 1836. (Part 1 at 1:47:25 and Part 2 at 2:11:36) https://t.co/aCPbtiCMuS

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2019-01-16

From the Beagle to the Bookshelf: Darwin at McGill Library. This illustration from "The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle under the command of Captain Fitzroy during the years 1832 to 1836. Read more:
https://t.co/q6g2ARYaUo

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2018-10-12

The Greeks and Trojans fighting over the body of Patroclus. 1836.
Many versions have been made, but I particularly like this one because you can feel their desperation and efforts to retrieve the body, and it’s almost tearing the corpse apart!...
Art by Antoine Joseph Wiertz

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2018-09-29

Headed to Then you don't want to miss and sharing some great info on Ditch that Homework at the Booth Tuesday June 26th.
https://t.co/UZg3aBp1Bu
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2018-06-18

Orest Kiprensky.1782-1836. Standing Male Study.1802.

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2018-06-08

Snow is forecast for next week, so here’s ‘The Avalanche at Lewes, East Sussex’, on display at Anne of Cleves House. It depicts the deadliest avalanche in British history, where 8 people were killed by snow falling on a row of cottages in Lewes on 27 December 1836.

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2018-02-25

Two sailors fix their vessel’s position amid stormy seas in this dramatic etching by Winslow Homer, born in 1836. https://t.co/3PWBCiXhpd

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2018-02-25

Today is Ash Wednesday and this oil painting entitled 'Great Gale at Yarmouth on Ash Wednesday' was painted by John Crome in 1836. It's on display in the Colman Galleries alongside other great works by the Norwich School of Painters

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2018-02-14

Happy birthday to born in 1836. Over the course of his career, the artist painting over 800 canvases of flowers. https://t.co/wLQrWS7p8l

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2018-01-15

Ignace-Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour was born in 1836. Though he preferred to paint imaginative compositions rather than still lifes later on in his career, his flower pieces such as 'A Basket of Roses' remained popular with collectors: https://t.co/imaBq0OXxX

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2018-01-15

Congrats to Vincent Leys and Christophe Houver (FRA01) who flew 1,836.06 km to win the Gordon Bennett 2017! Story https://t.co/UrsYSOiZRk

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2017-09-11

Northern art: "Whitby Harbour, North Yorkshire" 1836..Oil by (Senior) [1803-1840] Marine artist born in

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2017-08-18

American landscape painter Winslow Homer was born on this date in 1836. This is "Summer Night, 1890."

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2017-02-25