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William Williams, MP who called for 'an Inquiry... into the state of Education in ... Wales, especially into the means ... of acquiring a knowledge of the English tongue' - the Blue Books, died at Regent's Park, 1865 https://t.co/1g8l98sA61

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2022-04-28

Today in Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapulapu. (1521 CE)

Read more: https://t.co/K0Ui9n9zvo

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2022-04-27

Released today in 2015, Blur's The Magic Whip album.
What's your favourite track?

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2022-04-27

Born in 1575: (1575-1642), Queen of France as spouse of

Portrait by Frans the Younger (1569-1622), ca. 1606-7

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2022-04-26

Born in 1575: (1575-1642), Queen of France as spouse of

Portrait by (1536-1603), 1590s


Slovenská národná galéria

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2022-04-26

Delacroix - who was born - regarded as a leader of the French Romantic School.
Painting this late work for himself - he was attracted by the theme of the outsider as the victim of the crowd, feeling that this mirrored his own fate as an artist, mocked by the critics.

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2022-04-26

1999
Electronic's third studio album 'Twisted Tenderness' was released on Parlaphone.
The album reached number 9 in the UK charts.

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2022-04-26

📖🏔 in the of 26 April 1336, the Italian Renaissance poet famously climbed Mount Ventoux in Provence. At the peak he gazed out over the land, contemplated his life, his love for Laura, and read passages from Saint Augustine.

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2022-04-26

Today in Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion. (404 BCE)

Read more: https://t.co/acLuhJ8uD8

First image: © by The Creative Assembly.

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2022-04-25

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel was born 1769. Images show him with his block making machinery, with image of the Thames Tunnel for which he invented the tunnelling shield and birthday entry from his diary. Notice the comment re. vandalism in the tunnel.

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2022-04-25

Happy 7th Anniversary of Steven Universe episode “Love Letters” 🎉💖💎 it aired on in April 23, 2015. 🌟🎊💕 I Love how Steven and Connie help Jamie the mailman try to win Garnet's affections. 🌸🌹⭐️

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2022-04-24

Born Jan Peeters Flemish & Best known for masterful frequently depicting atmospheric stormy seas & catastrophic shipwrecks + his topographical drawings Also painted architectural & some

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2022-04-24

Happy Birthday Born in 1775 🎂

🎨 Turner enjoyed watercolours for their quick-drying ability to record the effects of fleeting light. They were also more portable than oils, which aided Turner in his travels around the UK and Europe.

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2022-04-24

‘To be or not to be, that is the question’
✍🏽
William Shakespeare 🖋was born
in 1564.
What's your
favourite quote of his?

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2022-04-23

Happy birthday Shakespeare! See our collection of art inspired by his plays, including works by William Blake, Henry Fuseli + George Cruikshank: https://t.co/1vPbmvdhHs

Pictured here: Scene from The Tempest (Caliban), Franz Marc, 1914.

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2022-04-23

JMW Turner, the master of English romantic painting, was born in 1775.

Turner’s magnificent landscape painting demonstrates the sublime, a term used in art to describe the astonishment and powerlessness felt in the face of divine nature.

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2022-04-23

in 2008 Flight of the Conchords released their Grammy nominated, New Zealand Music Award winning album 'Flight of the Conchords' on . Happy Anniversary guys! 🎉

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2022-04-23

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”

Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816

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2022-04-22