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16th March 1533
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners died at Calais.
He was the son of Sir Humphrey Bourchier and Elizabeth Tilney.
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#JohnBourchier #BaronBerners #DeputyofCalais #Diplomat #Tudors #History
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16th March 1503
Edward Storey, Bishop of Chichester died. He served Elizabeth Woodville as Chaplain and was Chancellor of Cambridge University.
#EdwardStorey #BishopofChichester #CambridgeUniversity #Tudor #History
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16th March 1561
The coffin containing the remains of Mary of Guise, mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Regent of Scotland was sent to France for burial nearly a year after her death.
#MaryofGuise #QueenofScotland #RegentofScotland #Stewarts #Stuarts #Scotland #History
Caroline Herschel was born #OTD in 1750. The sister of William Herschel and the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist, she developed a catalogue of nebulæ published in 1802 that forms the basis of the NGC.
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Georg Ohm was born #OTD in 1789. Ohm’s law that the electric current through a resistor is proportional to the voltage difference arises microscopically from the linear relation between the electric field and the mean motion of charges.
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#OTD in 1942, North Africa. A Matilda tank turret has been concreted into position to be used as part of the defences of the Halfaya Pass. #WW2 #HISTORY
#OTD in 1942, North Africa. The rather thorough investigation of a captured Panzer IV tank. #WW2 #HISTORY
North Africa. Wing Commander R.J. Wells, CO of 108 Squadron, has a final word with his crews in front of a Vickers Wellington Mark IC. Wells lost his life #OTD in 1942. #WW2 #HISTORY
#OTD in 1940, Comblessac, France. Phoney War / Drôle de guerre / Sitzkrieg. A farewell ceremony for troops from the Polish Army. #WW2 #HISTORY
With Beardsley’s distinctive Japanese style monogram, lower right. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Black Cape, pen & ink drawing 1894, for Oscar Wilde’s play Salome; by Aubrey Beardsley, English Art Nouveau decadent artist & aesthete; died #OTD 1898. Co-founder & art editor of The Yellow Book, with a distinctive style shaped by Japanese woodblock prints & Parisian posters of Toulouse-Lautrec.
Napoleon on the Bridge at Arcole, compelling image of the young General of the Republic leading troops to storm the bridge, painted in 1796 by Antoine-Jean Gros, French Romantic artist, born #OTD 1771; pupil of David, influenced Géricault and Delacroix.
Château de Versailles
Today in Bookish and Literary History, March 16
#todayinhistory #OTD #march16 #bookrelease #bookpublication #booksky
#OTD 16 March 1943, US magazine 'New Masses' applauds the release of 900 anti-fascist prisoners but many more still in captivity. 'Vichy dregs' remain in post and Arab rights are unrecognised.
'North Africa the first genuine test of American foreign policy during the war'.
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#OnThisDay in 2018, the British Phonographic Industry certifies 'Some Might Say' (Big Brother) single sales as Platinum.
#OTD #Oasis #TodayInMusic #britpop
#otd 1928, German mezzo-soprano and sometime dramatic soprano Christa Ludwig was born in Berlin. #NowSpinning the 1964 recording of Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" conducted by Otto Klemperer, considered one of the best recordings of this opera.
#music #musicsky #opera
#OTD 16 March 1943. Alan Moorehead joins the correspondents assembled at Tebessa for briefing
He notes that the American 'stuff' - mess-tins, water-bottles, rubber-soled boots, woollen underclothes, shirts and windbreakers - were all superior to the British equivalents.
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#OTD 16 March 1943. #WW2 Tunisia. Andre Gide describes a meeting with a 'very pleasant young German officer, a student of art history ... We did not speak of the war.'
'The war can never make me look upon such representatives of Germany as enemies.'
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#OTD 16 March 1943. Tunis. Andre Gide on the self-congratulation of the British Air Force who claim to be better at precision bombing than the Americans. After the 'useless damage caused by the last raid, such a declaration is rather demoralizing.'
Who pays the price of war?
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12 screenshots from the 24th episode of Blue Seed.
#OTD BLUE SEED - Episode 24: "The Setting Sun, the Coming Day, a Private Time for Each of Us!" (沈む陽 迫る日 それぞれの時, 1995, Takao Katō)... The TAC members cherish what's left of their normal lives as Japan falls into ruin and the public demands Momiji's sacrifice.
#アニメ
#Anime
#OTD 16 March 1943. #WW2 Tunisian Campaign. Reporter, A J Liebling in Gafsa with First Division under Major General Terry Allen. His second in command is Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt.
In WW2 the President's son leads troops into battle.
Times have changed.
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"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind."
25th Anniversary 📸 #OTD in #Film #History 16 March 2001, #ChristopherNolan's superb short-term memory neo-noir MEMENTO, starring #GuyPearce, #JoePantoliano, and #CarrieAnneMoss, was released in 🇺🇸
