March 10, 1709, birthday of German zoologist and Siberia explorer Georg Wilhelm The figure - from his travel account - shows the smoking Klyuchevskoy on the Kamchatka peninsula, the highest (4.649m) active volcano of 🌋
https://t.co/gq56mgnF9y

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daily kirby it snowed again and I got to see it this time :> (in a little over 2 weeks we will find out if we're moving somewhere with winter this time)

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OTD in issue no. 56 of the Evening Post, a newspaper published in 1709, was a curious description of a Flying Ship, stated to have been invented by a Brazilian priest, and brought to the notice of the king of Portugal

The paper carried this engraving and a description

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Having died of dropsy at her house at Chiswick on 9 October, 1709, Barbara Palmer (Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland, was buried on 13 October.

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L'oreille est commencée, on a besoin de pixels bleus !
(1709,1074). Venez sur Twitch et créez un compte Reddit si c'est pas le cas !

https://t.co/iDD1duKyFW

https://t.co/oLngWRByZF

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Nouvelle version
1er pixel noir supérieur gauche en 1709,1074 https://t.co/4DzI0MlHvj

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March 10, 1709, birthday of German zoologist and Siberia explorer Georg Wilhelm The figure - from his travel account - shows the smoking Klyuchevskoy on the Kamchatka peninsula, the highest (4.649m) active volcano of 🌋
https://t.co/gq56mgnF9y

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🏝 📖 in 2 Feb 1709, Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, marooned on a desert island for four years and four months, was rescued by William Dampier. His amazing story reached Daniel Defoe and was a key inspiration for the popular early novel ROBINSON CRUSOE.

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Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Santerre, 1709, of Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, wife of Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy, and mother of Louis XV.

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Having died of dropsy at her house at Chiswick on 9 October, 1709, Barbara Palmer (Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland, was buried on 13 October.

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Le 8 juillet 1709, le tsar Pierre le Grand bat Charles XII, roi de Suède, à Poltava, en Ukraine. Il inaugure la tactique de « la terre brûlée » : entraîner l'ennemi dans l'immensité de la plaine russe et le vaincre par épuisement. La suite ici : https://t.co/rzYTr0YhbY

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➡️Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, 1709, par Baptiste Santerre
➡️Suzanne au bain, avant 1704.

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Meindert Hobbema (Oct 31, 1638 - Dec 7, 1709, Dutch)

A Watermill, c. 1665.

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9 October 1709, death of Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, who was one of the most famous mistresses of Charles II. She died aged 68, after suffering from oedema, known at the time as dropsy.

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Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, The Watermills at Singraven near Denekamp

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Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, Marshy Wood

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Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, Forest landscape with a merry company in a cart

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Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, Another Watermill

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Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, A Wooded Landscape with Cottages

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Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, A watermill

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