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“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye.
(Reus Van Zuidwijk, Neerland’s Plantentuin, 1865-1867)
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the freedom of all enslaved people in the US. On this day in 1865 Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army landed in Galveston, TX with news that Civil War had ended & slavery was abolished. (1/2)
#Juneteenth
#Juneteenth is a holiday marking the emancipation of the last remaining enslaved African Americans in the United States in 1865. You can learn more about the history of this holiday on #PebbleGo. Find more June holidays with the PebbleGo calendar: https://t.co/NS4Pd0HSCc
Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when news of emancipation arrived in Texas to the last group of slaves in America. Dash stands with the activists campaigning for Congress to recognize Juneteenth as an official federal holiday but we're not doing enough... (THREAD)
18 juin 1865: mort d'Antoine Wiert, peintre, sculpteur belge.
➡️Autoportait à l'âge de 18 ans, 1824.
➡️L'inhumation précipitée, 1854.
BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF FROM BIRTH It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them ONE is of necessity a WEREWOLF. The Seven sisters werewolf myth was popularised by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865 #FolkloreThuursday #GothicNewWorlds
Tres chicas leyendo
En realidad son las tres hemanas e hijas del pintor
Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938) y su esposa Emeline Arnold Souther (1865-1938)
Josephine Tarbell (1890-1966)
Mercy Tarbell (1895-1961)
Mary Tarbell (1897-1991)
1/2 J is for Joy William (1803-1865) & John (1805-1859) Joy , brothers born in Southtown, Gt Yarmouth. Prominent maritime artists from the Norwich School of Painters.Captain George Manby, the barrack master, commissioned them to paint harrowing scenes of vessels in distress.
Do you know the work of #Polish #painter #OlgaBoznańska (1865-1940)? She was born in #Kraków, and she was active in Munich and Paris 👀 https://t.co/4UHIGwVLud
📷 “Girl with #Chrysanthemums”, 1894 @MNKrk https://t.co/GoRMvDHkMG
#ArtNouveau #FemaleArtists @culture_pl
Children’s books abput Juneteenth commemorating the daye in zuS history—June 19, 1865–when the last enslaved Africans Americans were freed. @floydcooper4 @iameblewis @AngelaLeeper
I will find out where she has gone,
& kiss her lips & take her hands;
& walk among long dappled grass,
& pluck till time & times are done,
'The Song of Wandering Aengus': #WBYeats, born #otd 1865
https://t.co/xj2qgJKbuI 🌟 @xoselbrea
🖼️'Boreas',1903:#JWWaterhouse: WikiArt
Гюстав Курбе. «Порыв ветра». 1865 г. Холст, масло. 147 × 231 см. Музей изящных искусств, Хьюстон. США
Trist and Isolde premiered #otd 10 June 1865, Munich National Theatre, Munich, Germany #wagner #opera #operaforkids #Operalittle
Oggi nel 1819 nasceva il pittore francese #GustaveCourbet.
(LA TEMPESTA SI AVVICINA, anno 1865).
#10giugno.
#nightmusic
Carl Nielsen #botd in 1865: Søvnen (Sleep)
#art by Carl Holsøe
https://t.co/6wCrCyK8AN
#OTD in 1865, #CharlesDickens was in a railroad crash near Staplehurst. Although he escaped injury, the accident affected him greatly for the rest of his life. He died five years to the day after this event.