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#OnThisDay: 14 years ago today, 'Vampire Knight' aired its first episode in Japan.
#VampireKnight #ヴァンパイア騎士
#OnThisDay 21 years ago, April 7, 2001 - the episode "Countdown" aired on television.
Directed by Kyung Won Lim
Written by Rich Fogel & @Paul_Dini
Teleplay by Stan Berkowitz
#BatmanBeyond
Today in #history: Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) is killed while besieging the castle of Châlus in France. (1199 CE) #OnThisDay
Read more: https://t.co/CO4kdOnAhW
"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill His commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion." ~ Albrecht Dürer
🎨 Albrecht Dürer, "Knight, Death and the Devil", 1513 #DiedOnThisDay
Happy 12th Anniversary of Adventure Time ⚔️🎉 The series premiered on @cartoonnetwork in April 5, 2010 👱🏻🎊🐶
I Still Remembered Finn, Jake and their friends in the first episode of series but is lasted in 2018. 💜👸💘🎊 #AdventureTime #OnThisDay #Happy12thAnniversary
Born #onthisday in 1837, A. C. Swinburne. Read Julian Barnes on when the poet had Maupassant round for lunch. A flayed human hand, porn, the serving of monkey meat + inordinate amounts of alcohol, all made for a truly strange Anglo-French encounter: https://t.co/6YzMe99w4R #OTD
Born #OnThisDay in 1732: French painter Jean-Honoré #Fragonard (1732-1806)
Portrait of dancer Marie-Madeleine Guimard (1743-1816), ca. 1770
#FrenchArt #Rococo
Born #OnThisDay in 1732: French painter Jean-Honoré #Fragonard (1732-1806)
Portrait of Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non (1725-91), ca. 1769
#FrenchArt #Rococo
The first of the Birkenhead docks opened #OnThisDay 1847. Birkenhead Park, laid out by Joseph Paxton was also opened. Images from Illustrated London News.
#words
"Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Whete water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone."
#BornOnThisDay Maya Angelou
🖌Sylvie Vanlerberghe🇨🇵
Born #OnThisDay in 1461: #AnnedeBeaujeu (1461-1522), Regent of France for brother #CharlesVIII, daughter of #LouisXI
Portrait with daughter Suzanne on the right shutter of the Moulins Triptych by #JeanHey (fl. ca. 1480-1500), ca. 1498-9
#AnneofFrance #MadamelaGrande #Valois
#OnThisDay in 1994, FINAL FANTASY VI was released in Japan! Who could ever forget that magical opening scene? The music! The cinematography! Which part of Nobuo Uematsu's legendary soundtrack gives you the most chills?
#finalfantasy #nobuouematsu #ffvi #pixelremaster
Marie Louise had a passion for #violets. She had them embroidered on her wedding dress, when she married Napoleon #OnThisDay 1810.
When she became Duchess of Parma in 1814, the friars of the Annunciata were able to extract violets perfume and produced it only for her.
German artist and scientific illustrator Anna Maria Sybilla Merian was born #OnThisDay in 1647 🇩🇪
She travelled in South America, recording the process of insect metamorphosis. This helped understanding of the process and insect life cycles.
#WomenInSTEM #WomensArt #STEM
Pioneering botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian was born #OnThisDay in 1647.
Merian is famed for her colourful combination of art and science in her botanical drawings.
Find out more about her life and work: https://t.co/4Ua7VBytda
#OnThisDay in 1994, FINAL FANTASY VI was released in Japan! Who could ever forget that magical opening scene? The music! The cinematography! Which part of Nobuo Uematsu's legendary soundtrack gives you the most chills?
#finalfantasy #nobuouematsu #ffvi #pixelremaster
#OnThisDay, the Veneralia festival, in honor of Venus Verticordia and Fortuna Virilis. And for #FrescoFriday, an image of seated Venus from the 4th century CE. Found in #Rome and now in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Italy