CLOSING SOON: 'Goya. Yo lo vi – Ich sah es – I saw it' at Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin (until 16 November 2022), featuring over three dozen Goya prints and his 4 print cycles.
Below: Francisco de Goya, 'Yo lo vi (I saw it)', 1799, etching

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Happy 💛🌮🥑!!!
Check out the collection at https://t.co/3SoqTQoNkY

Here is my favorite because... who does not love work lunch time?
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Auguste-Xavier Leprince (August 28, 1799,- December 26, 1826) was a French painter. (3)

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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution. Becoming First Consul of France in 1799, then Emperor in 1804 until 1814, then again in 1815. He was also responsible for the Napoleonic Code

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❄️🎨🖌🕰✒️Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, A Girl at a Window, after 1799, Louis-Léopold Boilly.

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The Bristol and Bath area has long been the subject of geological mapping - William Smith 1799, William Buckland and W.D. Conybeare, 1823 & 1824, William Sanders 1850

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On this day in 1799, André Masséna won one of his greatest victories at the Second Battle of Zürich, defeating a combined Austro-Russian army and shattering the Coalition offensive into Switzerland.

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Bombay Gossipium / Silk Cotton Tree, Wild Ipecacuanha, 1799, by (British, 1722-?), baptized (Sept 4). Published in A collection of exotics, from the island of Antigua, held at , https://t.co/wAxo19cecU

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No surveillance camera needed in the period: house sign "the eye of God", ca. 1700-1799, Vienna. https://t.co/3N3wOwrtNn

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It’s the “Mother of Paleontology,” Mary Anning’s, birthday! Born in 1799, she hailed from Dorset, England, & grew up collecting fossils. A few of her many accomplishments include unearthing one of the first ichthyosaurs & discovering Dimorphodon & Plesiosaurus!

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May 21, 1799, of Mary Carpenter daughter, she founded a fossil business in Lyme Regis, Dorset, making important discoveries like complete skeletons of Ichthyosaurus & Plesiosaurus
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1783 Maria Branwell is born in Penzance, Cornwall - she became mother of the most famous writing siblings of them all - the Brontes. Here she is in 1799, in blue (centre front) in a Penzance mural, and here also is the house she grew up:

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William Dargan was born in Carlow in 1799, & is considered a great engineer & ‘Father of Irish Railways’. He built 1st passenger railway line in Ireland from Dublin-Dún Laoghaire, & built 1300 kms of railway line in his career. He also helped set up National Gallery of Ireland.

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"The revolution is over. I am the revolution."

🇫🇷 in 9 November 1799, staged his famous 18th Brumaire coup. Audacious yet bloodless, the coup resulted in seizing dictatorial powers as First Consul of France.

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