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‘Boris Johnson does not want to miss his date with history’. An illustration for L’Express magazine. Can this deceitful clown become a real statesman? https://t.co/9Mf1My7zv0
#illustration #illustrator #europe #editorialillustration #conceptualillustration #politics #news
Meet Sephiran: Hoary Sovereign from the #FireEmblem: Path of Radiance game. Senior Statesman of Begnion and Prime Minister who serves Sanaki. Wields his abilities with great skill even at the winter festival. #FEHeroes
https://t.co/hn5Sqwr5O2
Born #OnThisDay 16Nov1811 John Bright was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. A Quaker, Bright is most famous for battling the Corn Laws. #19thcentury #British
For 12 years - between 336 and 324 BC - the Athenian statesman Lycurgus oversaw a remarkable rebuilding and rearmament program in his home city, rebuilding its strength as Alexander the Great campaigned far away to the east.
#TIL that @ESPNcricinfo has both a Mickey Mouse as well as an Odisha connection
It is currently(partly) owned by the @WaltDisneyCo & its founder-editor & present Editor-in-chief @sambitbal is born & brought up in #Bhubaneswar & is the son of #Odia statesman,journalist & MP
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For 12 years - between 336 and 324 BC - the Athenian statesman Lycurgus oversaw a remarkable rebuilding and rearmament program in his home city - rebuilding its strength as Alexander the Great campaigned far away to the east
"forced to grapple with a problem far beyond his statesmanship & indeed well-nigh insoluble, his career was one of disaster". Died #OnThisDay 1792 former #PrimeMinister Frederick North, 2nd earl of Guilford, better known as Lord North.
#HistParl
For 12 years - between 336 and 324 BC - the Athenian statesman Lycurgus oversaw a remarkable rebuilding and rearmament program in his home city - rebuilding its strength as Alexander the Great campaigned far away to the east.
#OnThisDay in 1888, statesman & abolitionist Frederick Douglass received a vote in nomination for the US Presidency. Here, Charles White depicts Douglass—who was born into slavery c. 1817 & lived until 1895—guiding 20th-century Black men.
"Frederick Douglass Lives Again" 1949
Executed #OnThisDay in 1535 by order of #HenryVIII : #ThomasMore (1478-1535), English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, Lord High Chancellor of England
Portrait drawing by Hans #Holbein (1497/8-1543), ca. 1526-7
#More #Humanism #Utopia
Executed #OnThisDay in 1535 by order of #HenryVIII : #ThomasMore (1478-1535), English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, Lord High Chancellor of England
Portrait drawing by Hans #Holbein (1497/8-1543), ca. 1526-7
#More #Humanism #Utopia
Want to know what people did before texting? This is “Beauty Revealed”
(1828). It is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge. She sent it to statesman Daniel Webster, following the death of his wife - but he decided to marry someone else.
Born #OnThisDay in 1650: English soldier and statesman #JohnChurchill, Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire
Portrait after #GodfreyKneller (1646-1723), ca 1690
#Marlborough #Churchill
Loden Greatstorm redesign. He's said to be a strong and wise Jedi Master, and since #StarWars #TheHighRepublic takes place during a "frontier age” of the galaxy, I thought he should look more like a seasoned and battle-scarred frontier warrior and less like an elder statesman.
This my villain Charles Macmillan aka “White Vulture”, a British General of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 turned ICS statesman. #seppukucomics #seppukucomic #comics #comicart #comicartist #characterdesign #britishindia #indianrebellion #indiancivilservices
Waterford's Centenary Programme for 2020 begins with a conference on General Richard Mulcahy, 'Soldier to Statesman', 22 Feb, The Large Room, City Hall, The Mall, Waterford. More details and registration:
https://t.co/jgPNrxZK0X
Born #OnThisDay in 1711: Wenzel Anton, Prince of #Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711-94), Austrian statesman under #Habsburg Emperors #MariaTheresa, #JosephII & #LeopoldII
Portrait by Jean-Étienne #Liotard (1702-89), 1762
#GenevanArt
📰DINNER WITH EDITORS🚬🍷
“Your paper has such a fetish for #Anna! Your royal redhead is a shrew playing statesman.”
“Your Snow Herald kissed Agnarr’s arse for years, so shut your big hole!”
“She’s an amateur.”
“An amateur who’ll surpass her father AND grandfather, you shit.”