Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson was born on this day, February 5, in 1872.

Four years after his wife, Mabel, died in the 1918 Pandemic, he illustrated “The Velveteen Rabbit”.

Winston Churchill said Nicholson was the best painting teacher he ever had.

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Started writing a short story for a call but ended up falling in love with the characters, so I'm going to give it a shot and turn it into a 'longer thing'. Think Victorian London 1872... a spate of unsolved murders... and the obvious suspect is the one person who didn't do it...

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Benito Juárez (1806-1872)
Benito Pablo Juárez García was a Mexican liberal politician who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in 1872. Taking part in the liberal reforms under Álvarez and Comonfort, and led Mexico against the French Intervention

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A Dog of Flanders" is a novel written by Ouida and exhibited in 1872. In Japan, it was made into an animated cartoon in 1975, and the interaction between the main character Nero and his dog Patrush, as well as the tragic ending, shocked many children.
https://t.co/LuhXwYACRy

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Evelyn Denison, by Alfred Thompson - Published in Vanity Fair, 12 March 1870

He was a British statesman who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1857 to 1872. He is the eponym of Speaker Denison's rule.

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Fashion plate from Victoria, 1872.

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Fashion plate from La Gazette Rose, 1872.

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Netflix HBO Max. Trump mañana. 2025. manga comics. Dibujar ¿Abraham Lincoln, 1865. Benito Juárez, 1872. Frankelda: 1873. 🎩? 👇👇

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“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.”

✒️ English caricaturist, writer and parodist (Saturday Review), was 24 August 1872.

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Did you know that we have a range of prints, accessories and gifts available to purchase at our shop or on ’s website?

A range of Barber artworks are featured, including ‘The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles’ by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), born 1872.

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14 août 1803 : le corsaire bordelais la Bellone - commandée par Jacques Perroud (1770-1822) - capture le Lord Nelson, vaisseau de la compagnie britannique des Indes orientales, dans la baie de Bantry. Peinture d'Auguste Mayer, 1872.

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今日は学制発布記念日です。
れお君も勉強をしています。
1872.8.2太政官から「学事奨励に関する被仰出(おおせだされ)書」が布告されました。我が国の近代学校制度の基本を定めた最初の規定の学制が発布された日として記念日にされています。
  

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Roald Amundsen — the Norwegian explorer who, with his team, became the first to reach the South Pole — was born in 1872. See our highlights of the wonderful set of photos from the 1910–12 expedition: https://t.co/NeIvHPOlvz

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Eva Gonzales, Peony and June Bug, 1871-1872.

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Artist Thomas Moran’s artwork, such as his painting Yellowstone Canyon made during the Hayden Survey, helped influence Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant to create Yellowstone National Park in 1872.

More about The Grand Old Park at https://t.co/V74aIZyjvZ

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This is me, again, in fancy dress as the Queen of Spain for my Fancy Ball at our home Normanhurst Court, in 1872.

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The Colossi of Memnon, Thebes, Carl Werner, 1872.

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Hans Dahl (1827-1902), Norwegian painter.
Drinking pigeons and sparrows. 1872.
Oil on canvas.

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🦎 Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum /.
London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1855-1872.
https://t.co/cAFraDgO4l

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