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March 10, 1709, birthday of German zoologist and Siberia explorer Georg Wilhelm #Steller. The figure - from his travel account - shows the smoking Klyuchevskoy #volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula, the highest (4.649m) active volcano of #Eurasia 🌋
https://t.co/gq56mgnF9y
daily kirby #1709, 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)
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
#folklore
Having died of dropsy at her house at Chiswick on 9 October, 1709, Barbara Palmer (Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland, was buried on 13 October.
Image: @britishmuseum
#Cleveland #Castlemaine #Babs
#CleverSchemer or #UtterRip?
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 !
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Nouvelle version
1er pixel noir supérieur gauche en 1709,1074 https://t.co/4DzI0MlHvj
March 10, 1709, birthday of German zoologist and Siberia explorer Georg Wilhelm #Steller. The figure - from his travel account - shows the smoking Klyuchevskoy #volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula, the highest (4.649m) active volcano of #Eurasia 🌋
https://t.co/gq56mgnF9y
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.
Having died of dropsy at her house at Chiswick on 9 October, 1709, Barbara Palmer (Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland, was buried on 13 October.
Image: @britishmuseum
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
➡️Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, 1709, par Baptiste Santerre
➡️Suzanne au bain, avant 1704.
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. #otd
Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, The Watermills at Singraven near Denekamp
Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, Forest landscape with a merry company in a cart
Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, Another Watermill
Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, A Wooded Landscape with Cottages
Meindert Hobbema, 1638 – 1709, Dutch Golden Age painter, A watermill