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On Dec. 30, 1899, Helge Ingstad was born. He was a Norwegian explorer. He discovered Viking settlement remains in Newfoundland. This proved Vikings beat Columbus and Cabot.

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On Nov. 1, 1871, short story writer, novelist, poet, and journalist Stephen Crane was born. His most notable work was “The Red Badge of Courage.”

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On Oct. 20, 1740, Dutch writer Isabelle de Charrière was born. She wrote novels, pamphlets, and music.

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On Oct. 10, 1846, English astronomer William Lassell discovers Triton, the largest moon around Neptune.

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On Aug. 19, 1921, Gene Roddenberry was born. He was a screenwriter who created “Star Trek.”

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On Nov. 5, 1780, Miami chief Little Turtle defeats French-American forces in the Battle of LaBalme’s Defeat.

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On Nov. 24, 1868, African American composer Scott Joplin was born. He is famous for his Ragtime compositions such as “The Entertainer.”

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On Nov. 10, 1940, Screaming Lord Sutch was born. He was an English musician. He ran for Parliament 39 times

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Jean Crotti was born April 24, 1878. He was a Swiss French painter who embraced many styles: Impressionism, Fauvism, Art Nouveau, and Orphism.

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American painter Colin Campbell Cooper was born March 8, 1856. He’s known for his paintings of city skylines.

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Limited colour palette with some old cheap pencils for stress relief. Book is the Arteza "Unique Mandala Illustrations" Book.

Testing out watercolour paints with supermarket gel pens. Book is the Arteza "Unique Mandala Illustrations" Book.

On March 1, 1896, French physicist Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.

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Arteza Winery, Sonoma, CA

American boxer Jack Johnson was born March 31, 1878.

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On Dec. 2, 1867, English author Charles Dickens gave his for reading in America. It was at Boston’s Tremont Temple Baptist Church.

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On Oct. 31, 1620, English gardener and diarist John Evelyn was born. He wrote about the execution of Charles I and the Great Fire of London in 1666 among other events and people.

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Testing out watercolour paints with Arteza pencils. Book is the Arteza "Unique Mandala Illustrations" Book.

On April 1, 1789, the U.S. House of Representatives reaches its first quorum. It elects Frederick Muhlenberg as it’s first Speaker.

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On Oct. 5, 1781, Bernard Bolzano was born. He was a Czech Bohemian priest, mathematician, logician, and philosopher.

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On Nov. 2, 1696, Conrad Weiser was born. He was an interpreter in the Pennsylvania Dutch community. He was once a monk in a Protestant community called Ephrata Cloister.

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On Jan. 6, 1912, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first proposes his theory of continental drift.

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On Oct. 26, 1871, German-Mexican photographer Guillermo Kahlo was born. He was the father of painter Frida Kahlo

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Swedish athlete Eric Lemming was born Feb. 22, 1880. He competed in the 1900, 1906, 1908, and 1912 Olympics. He won gold in javelin.

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On Sept. 24, 1929, Jimmy Doolittle flies a plane without windows to prove instrument flight is possible. The “blind” flight included the take-off and landing.

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On Dec. 6, 1917, Finland declares independence from the Russian Empire. Two days before the chairman of the Senate, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud read the declaration to the Parliament.

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2021-08-18 Alfred Wallis

 

On Aug. 18, 1854, Alfred Wallis was born. He was a Cornish fisherman who was also a self-taught artist.

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Testing Arteza Inkonic pens in the Arteza "Unique Mandala Illustrations" Book.

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