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“Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”


5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893

  He wrote 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse.

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2021-08-06

Born on this day, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893).

Here's Tales of Supernatural Terror, with cover art by Josh Kirby.

Maupassant died of syphilis at 43. He wrote his own epitaph: "I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing."

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2021-08-05

Mary Cassatt
メアリー・カサット

《Girl with a Banjo》1893-94年

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2021-08-05

John William Waterhous
ジョン・ウィリアム・ウォーターハウス

《The Naiad》1893年

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2021-08-04

Here's a visual match for the image on the left: Jules Chéret, The Aura of Noon , 1893 from

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2021-08-04

Here is another all time favourite of mine. "View of Nature in Ascending Regions" by the marvelous Levi Walter Yaggy from 1893. The visuals puts important global references to altitude into the same frame. Super high-res version in the source: https://t.co/J2ZVexmjVu

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2021-08-02

Simeon Solomon - Night and her child Sleep (1893)

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2021-08-02

This chromolithograph is from our 2-volume set of 'Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty,' by Henry Nehrling (1853-1929), and published in MKE by George Brumder from 1893-1896. It features birds like the Ruby-throated Hummingbird & the Northern Cardinal! https://t.co/W5tlnO83oA

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2021-07-30

渡辺 省亭　わたなべ せいてい
1852-1918

《雪中群鶏図》
1893（明治26）年
東京国立博物館蔵

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2021-07-29

Paul Gauguin, Te po (The Night) from the Noa Noa Suite, 1893 https://t.co/3P1qygxfKQ

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2021-07-28

Happy Birthday, She was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Her entire oeuvre was attributed to Frans Hals or to her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer, until 1893. It wasn't until the late 19th century that she was recognized for her artistic abilities https://t.co/1bJrold0r1

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2021-07-28

Stanislav Szuklaski (1893-1987)

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2021-07-28

Костянтин Трутовський . (1826-1893)
Дівчина з кошиком

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2021-07-26

With season likely to heat up, a reminder that being in low-lying areas can be deadly.

Cheniere Caminada was a thriving fishing village on LA's coast until Oct. 2, 1893, when a 130 mph hurricane wiped it out, killing almost 800 of its 1500 residents. Storm total ~2k.

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2021-07-26

エドヴァルド・ムンク『夏の夜、人魚』1893年 ムンク美術館

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2021-07-24

Los cordeleros (The rope makers), 1893
Joaquín Sorolla
Oil on canvas

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2021-07-24

Illustration from ‘The royal natural history’, Depicting various examples of European land snails and slugs, 1893

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2021-07-22

You just know Edvard Munch is rolling around in his grave...

...he knew back in 1893 that we would all want to 'Scream' from the top of our lungs... NO MORE MASKS!

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2021-07-22