Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, The gods themselves throw incense.

🎭 in 1606, the first known performance of  tragedy "King Lear" took place before the court of King James I at Whitehall, London.

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, born July 15, 1606, "Self Portrait" (1658)
https://t.co/0lzi0Ufail

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in 1606, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman and printmaker, whose etched tronies (such as this one) influenced Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's work, First Flight, which you can view in our Exchanges exhibition.

https://t.co/p6hdEdwBmu

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This modern flying metro whale reminds me somehow of the sea elephant by Adam Fuchs, after Giovanni Andrea Maglioli, ca. 1526 - 1606, Same strange vibe. https://t.co/q5pR9Gsu67

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Tal día como hoy de 1606, nacía en Leiden.

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Dutch-Hungarian-Ottoman relation in the soil of North-Holland: earthenware dishes with Ottoman heads found in c.1605-1606, made at the end of the Fifteen Years' War against the in coll. .

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10 February 1606, birth of Christine de France, Duchesse de Savoie, the third child and second daughter of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis.

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Macbeth was first performced in 1606, a time when only males were allowed to act in theatres. When an actor called in sick, Shakespeare himself was forced to play Lady Macbeth 😂 https://t.co/YCHWfhVqUO

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In 1606, females could not act in plays, so males filled these roles in the first performance of Macbeth. Legend has it that himself played Lady Macbeth after an actor became sick! 😀 https://t.co/EwscX1vlR0

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Shakespeare's Macbeth, first performed in 1606, was actually historical fiction. So, who was he really: a tyrant, or a heroic King? https://t.co/4sKzVcYtrP

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December reading: 'A Schiaminossi Plate' by Jaco Rutgers in our current issue. A partially cut copperplate for Schiaminossi's set of etchings 'The Twelve Caesars', 1606, was recently discovered, having been used as a support for a painting.

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1606,白雪姬...大概...

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