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#OTD 1221. The king to the Earl of Salisbury, greetings. We send to you our huntsman Richard Pincun, with our dogs, to pursue fallow bucks in our forest of Clarendon. Thus we command you to receive Richard with our dogs for this purpose.
📸https://t.co/HkCsVRxT5A
16-year-old schoolgirl Lena Mukhina wrote a diary about the WW2 Siege of Leningrad which began #OTD in 1941. She documented her rage and concern, her cheerfulness despite everything, the horror of starvation. The diary runs until May 1942; in June she was evacuated from the city.
#OTD in 1956
disappointed Gringos
Cover of The New Yorker, September 8, 1956
Constantin Alajálov
#TheNewYorker #ConstantinAlajálov #Mexico #tourism
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♡ the first sapphic object show pairing OTD is tacobulb from inanimate insanity !! lightbulb is a she / it / zap transfem lesbian &&. taco is a he / she / they nb lesbian !! ( lb canon transfem, taco implied lesbian ) ♡
The american #surgeon William S #Halsted died #OTD 100 years ago. In 1889 he introduced the gloves in to the operating room. His most important contribution to #surgery was breast #cancer therapy.
#histmed #historiamedica #medtwitter #chirurgia #medicine #medizin #medicina
1846 Sept 7: Gilbert Abbott met with surgeon John Collins Warren in Boston about his neck tumor; the Oct 16 surgery is now known as Ether Day https://t.co/TSF8TN22h4 #histmed #OTD
#otd 7 September 1778 – American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
#britishhistory #d7sep #onthisdayinhistory
#OTD 7 September 1778 France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the American Revolutionary War
It is the birthday of artist Jacob Lawrence (#otd 1917). His iconic series on the Haitian revolutionary hero Toussaint L'Ouverture is one of his best known works.
Learn more about the artist and the series in this online exhibition: https://t.co/R4ZQpRdcjt
#OTD in 1533. Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk married his 4th wife Katherine Willoughby. #History #Tudors #OnThisDay
♡ the second object show sapphic OTD is microphone from inanimate insanity, who usez he / thing pronouns, is autistic + hypersexual, has BPD &&. is a headphonian nightcorianostic lesbiangender lesbian !! ♡
OTD: on this day in 1151 Geoffrey Plantagenet died at the age of 38. He was the husband of the Empress Matilda and father of Henry II of England.
His wife, Empress Matilda, was the subject of three episodes in this show’s first mini-series.
#OTD in 1651, the future King Charles II arrived at #Boscobel House in #Shropshire, following his failed attempt to cross the Severn. Greeted by the tenant Penderel family, he’s hidden in a nearby pollarded oak tree, as Parliamentary troops search the surrounding woodland.
the autistic character otd is Carlos the scientist from Welcome to Night Vale! (heavily implied/canon)
(art by @/anaquariusfox !!)
General William Rosecrans was born #OTD in 1819. A graduate of West Point, he secured several critical victories for the U.S. in the Western Theater of the #CivilWar, including the Battles of Iuka, Corinth, and @StonesRiverNPS. 🧵
Alcide d' Orbigny, French paleontologist who founded the science of #micropaleontology, was born #OTD in 1802 https://t.co/XgU4ZnXaGY #histSTM #histsci #forams
"O'er all the hilltops
Is quiet now,
In all the treetops
Hearest thou
Hardly a breath;
The birds are asleep in the trees:
Wait, soon like these
Thou too shalt rest"
Goethe pencilled "Wanderer's Nightsong" on the wall of a hunting lodge #OTD 1780
🎨 Caspar David Friedrich