# arknights アークナイツ speranza seaserpentday zodiac globes 18c 19c goodmorning

Happy New Year!
[YEAR OF THE RABBIT 2023]
"Rabbit arose 14c. to mean the young of the species, but gradually pushed out the older word 19c., after British slang picked up coney as a punning synonym for 'cunny'."

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2023-01-11

December 2021 will be the bi-centenary of the birth of Lady Jane Wilde Join us online with Merlin Holland & Dr Noreen Doody discussing her contribution to 19c. literary and cultural life, chaired by Dr Eibhear Walshe online on 8 Dec, 7pm
🎟️https://t.co/Z5OfsdWdih

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2021-11-17

is our chance to share pics from one of our gorgeous Hand-coloured in sea-green, they're printed from engraved plates made by J. & W. Newton some time late or early

Got some scissors & glue? Looks like fun ...

https://t.co/sYmpWOJEll

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2021-08-07

If you fancied an outing in the early 19c., you might have gone to the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, to see Bullock's Museum, and take in "the great volume of creation, the work of an all-wise Providence" (a bit of a jumble, though!) https://t.co/Xph8SW1E80

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2021-06-06

"The Bunch of Grapes Tavern, Kensington" by James Ward (1769-1859). The surprise here is the place! It must be early 19c. Ward was admired for his animal paintings. The horses are perhaps straining to pull a grindstone (?). https://t.co/zK0DfhzYoV

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2020-03-19

Scottish writer James Hogg (1770-1835) is probaly best known for his psychological Gothic Novel 'Confessions of a Justified Sinner' (1824) inter alia, but he also produced some great ghost stories - the revenge tale 'Mary Burnet' is regarded as one of the finest in the 19c.

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2018-01-26