Category: OnThisDay
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8th July, 1822 – The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died on this day when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia, Italy. #OnThisDay
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🐢 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published OnThisDay, 24th November 1859 📚
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Percy Bysshe Shelley died on 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of Spezia.
#OnThisDay
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OtD 4 Jun 1913 socialist suffragette Emily Davison was seriously injured while trying to grab the King’s horse during the Derby at Epsom and died 4 days later: the 1st martyr of the movement.
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John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795, in Moorgate, London, where his father worked in a livery stable at the Swan and Hoop inn. A small blue plaque at the site reads
In a house on this site the “Swan and Hoop” John Keats, Poet, Was born 1795
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John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795. And on 31st October 1820 the 25 year old poet also first set foot on Italian soil after 35 days at sea and 10 in quarantine. Keats-Shelley Memorial Association podcast 🔗
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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay, 4th August 1792.
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The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died #OnThisDay, 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his boat went down in a sudden storm off the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia.
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William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770. #OnThisDay 250 years ago.
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William Blake, poet and printmaker, was born #OnThisDay 1757 BBC In Our Time
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The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay in 1792 - The Later Romantics
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“Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.” - John Waters - #qotd
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RT @BBCInOurTime: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, conceived in a long summer storm in 1816, was published #OnThisDay 1818 https://t.co/IBRFGta…
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RT @BBCInOurTime: Lord Byron, poet, was born #OnThisDay 1788 https://t.co/Vophborhnx
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RT @britishlibrary: Percy Bysshe Shelley died #otd in 1822. Explore how he came to write his poem ‘To a Skylark’ https://t.co/NOYOvXiEly ht…
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…time, like money, is measured by our needs. #qotd
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Life wants padding. #QOTD
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Digger’s Gold from @greytreesbrewer fantastic on the Rhos today (@ Rhoswenallt Inn) http://t.co/J9YVOTDSDs
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From Middlemarch #QOTD http://t.co/jZ3gUKWu36
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Not seen Shinji Kagawa play for MU before today. Now watching him on MOTD - looks very composed - great hat-trick.
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“Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.” #qotd
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RT @AtheistQOTD: “It can’t be seen, smelled, felt, measured, or understood, therefore let’s worship it.” Anon.
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“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” Plato (#qotd)
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RT @AtheistQOTD: “If atheism can be called a belief, can I say that my not collecting stamps is a hobby?” Anon.
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RT @AtheistQOTD: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it …