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Sir William Matthews was born #onthisday. He was ICE President 1907 and partner in Coode, Son and Matthews company, overseeing harbour works including Singapore and Colombo. Also Hodbarrow Barrier and naval harbour, Dover. https://t.co/EqCpeKcYz2
Legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born #OnThisDay. He co-discovered evolution through natural selection during an 8-year journey through Southeast Asia, a journey of over 14,000 miles, during which he collected over 125,000 specimens. #histsci
Sir William Matthews was born #onthisday. He was ICE President 1907 and partner in Coode, Son and Matthews company, overseeing harbour works including Singapore and Colombo. Also Hodbarrow Barrier and naval harbour, Dover. https://t.co/EqCpeKcYz2
Legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born #OnThisDay. He co-discovered evolution through natural selection during an 8 year journey through Southeast Asia, a journey of over 14,000 miles, during which time he collected over 125,000 specimens. #histsci
Anthony van Dyck died 380 years ago #OnThisDay.
Using watercolour, he captured this lush rural scene, ‘An English Landscape’. 🌳
His rapid technique suggests it was created as he waited to set sail to Antwerp. If you could go anywhere, where would you travel to today?
Remember legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace #OnThisDay. Wallace co-discovered evolution through natural selection during an 8-year journey through Southeast Asia, a trek that spanned over 14,000 miles and resulted in the collection of over 125,000 specimens.
“Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”
Roy Lichtenstein, a leading figure in the #PopArt Movement, was #BornOnThisDay.🎂♏️
[Image: #RoyLichtenstein. Untitled Hand, 1973. Gift of Robert Rauschenberg]
Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 125 years ago #onthisday. More caricatures of leading (male) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873): https://t.co/5h182DQ5td
Queen Victoria was born #OnThisDay. We recently restored Queen Victoria’s bedroom at the Royal Pavilion with the original wallpaper from the early 1830’s.
Come along and see the wallpaper at the Royal Pavilion. We are now open!
Sir William Matthews was born #onthisday. He was ICE President 1907 and partner in Coode, Son and Matthews company, overseeing harbour works including Singapore and Colombo. Also Hodbarrow Barrier and naval harbour, Dover. https://t.co/EqCpeKcYz2
Legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born #OnThisDay. He co-discovered evolution through natural selection during an 8-year journey through Southeast Asia, a journey of over 14,000 miles, during which time he collected over 125,000 specimens. #histsci
Celebrating #BiodiversityDay with botanical artist & environmental advocate #MargaretMee (1909-1988), born #OnThisDay.
Mee painted #biodiversity in the Amazon & spoke out against its devastation. Explore her work: https://t.co/AHopSy1qQe.
#PortraitsOfPlants @UNBiodiversity #OTD
William Matthews was born #onthisday. He was ICE President 1907 and partner in Coode, Son and Matthews company, overseeing harbour works including Singapore and Colombo. Also Hodbarrow Barrier and naval harbour, Dover. https://t.co/EqCpeKcYz2
"Paleontology can satisfy the most enthusiastic lover of the marvelous." -Gideon Mantell. I couldn't agree more. Remembering the Iguanodon-describer #OnThisDay.
Remember legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace #OnThisDay. Wallace co-discovered evolution through natural selection during an 8-year journey through Southeast Asia, a trek that spanned over 14,000 miles and resulted in the collection of over 125,000 specimens.
Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 123 years ago #onthisday. More caricatures of leading (male!) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873): https://t.co/OqsHCIBeYv
#OnThisDay...
🎮 Splatterhouse 2
🕹️ #SEGA Genesis
📅 August 03rd 1992
❓ 3 months since your escape you have a recurring dream where Jennifer is begging you to come and rescue her. The mask from the Splatterhouse appears, promising that there is still a chance to save her...
#OnThisDay...
🎮 Streets of Rage
🕹️ #SEGA Genesis
📅 August 02nd 1991
❓ Follows the story of 3 police officers in a city controlled by a criminal syndicate led by "Mr. X". Crime is rampant and the 3heroes make a pact to leave the force and topple the syndicate by themselves.
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."
#RobertZemeckis' WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) w/ #BobHoskins and #KathleenTurner was released 31 years ago today. #OnThisDay.
We're still waiting for a sequel. 🤔 #RogerRabbit