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Gregory Geshev was born Oct. 8, 1903. He was a Bulgarian chess master.
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Kamini Roy was born Oct. 11, 1864. She was a Bengali poet, social worker, and feminist. She was the first woman honors graduate in British India.
(I got birthdate wrong in sketch.)
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Samuel Barber was born March 9, 1910. He was an American composer known for “Adagio for Strings.”
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On Oct. 14, 1888, Frenchman Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture. It was titles “Roundhay Garden Scene.”
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On Jan. 3, 1848, Joseph Jenkins Roberts becomes the first president of Liberia.
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Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah was born Dec. 27, 1872. He was an educator and Islamic theologian in pre-partition India.
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Yanka Kupala was born July 7, 1882. He was a Belorussian poet and novelist.
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Lucien Mérignac was born Oct. 5, 1873. He was a French fencer. He won Gold in Masters Foil at 1900 Paris Olympics.
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Welsh painter Augustus John was born Jan. 4, 1878. He was a noted portrait artist.
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Jean-Gaspard Deburau was born July 31, 1796. He was a Bohemian-French mime. He created the character Pierrot.
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On Oct. 14, 1888, Frenchman Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture. It was titles “Roundhay Garden Scene.”
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Rembrandt Bugatti was born Oct. 16, 1884. He was an Italian sculptor of wildlife.
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Margaret Travers Symons was the first woman to speak in the British House of Commons. It was Oct. 1908. She broke away from her escort in the debating chamber. She called for the vote for women.
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Sometimes one must accept mistakes and see what happens. I forgot what color ink I had in my TWSBI Vac Mini. Forgot it wasn’t waterproof. Surprise! Well, I like it
Juana de Ibarbourou was born March 8, 1892. She was an Uruguayan poet. She received four nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Kamini Roy was born Oct. 11, 1864. She was a Bengali poet, social worker, and feminist. She was the first woman honors graduate in British India.
(I got birthdate wrong in sketch.)
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Friedrich August Kummer was born Aug. 5, 1797. He was a German cellist and composer.
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Samuel Johnson was born Sept. 18, 1709. He was an English writer and lexicographer
After almost 3.5 years and over 1,970 faces, it’s time for a hiatus. Thank you for following me on this journey
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Welsh painter Augustus John was born Jan. 4, 1878. He was a noted portrait artist.
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Abbas II of Egypt was born July 14, 1874. He was the last Khedive, Ottoman viceroy, of Egypt and Sudan.
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On March 4, 1386, Władysław II Jagiełło becomes King of Poland.
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn
Pen: Lamy Safari
watercolor: Daniel Smith
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Johannes Linnankoski was born Oct. 18, 1869. He was a Finnish writer and playwright. His most famous work was “The Song of the Blood-Red Flower.”
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Asaph Hall was born Oct. 15, 1829. He was an American astronomer who discovered the Martian moons Deimos and Phobos.
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American novelist John Steinbeck was born Feb. 27, 1902. He wrote “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men.” He received the Nobel Prize in 1962.
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Johan Herman Wessel was born Oct. 6, 1742. He was a Danish-Norwegian poet, satirist, and playwright
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Johan Gadolin was born June 5, 1769. He was a Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist. He discovered the chemical element yttirium.
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Frederic Remington was born Oct. 4, 1861. He was an American painter and illustrator of Western American Art.
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René Seyssaud was born June 16, 1867. He was a French Provençal painter. He painted in bold colors and is a precursor to Fauvism
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Jake Beckley was born Aug. 4, 1867. He was a baseball player who hit over .300 for 13 seasons. He’s 4th on number of triples. He holds the Major League record for 23,767 putouts.
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Big Bill Broonzy was born June 26, 1903. He was an American blues singer.
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On March 6, 1869, Dmitri Mendeleez presented the first Periodic Table of Elements to the Russian Chemical Society.
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Sholem Aleichem was born March 2, 1850. He was a Ukrainian American writer in Yiddish. He wrote “Fiddler on the Roof.”
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On Jan. 3, 1848, Joseph Jenkins Roberts becomes the first president of Liberia.
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French geologist Constant Prévost was born June 4, 1787. He studied volcanoes in Italy and France.
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Yanka Kupala was born July 7, 1882. He was a Belorussian poet and novelist.
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Eleanor Norcross was born June 24, 1854. She was an American painter who did Impressionistic portraits.
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Jón Sigurdsson was born June 17, 1811. He was a leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement
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Jacobus Kapteyn was born Jan. 19, 1851. He was a Danish astronomer. He discovered evidence of galactic rotation.
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Hamilton Hume was born June 19, 1797. He was an Australian explorer. He was part of the first Europeans to find the Darling River.
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Florencio Sánchez was born Jan. 17, 1875. He was a Uruguayan playwright, journalist, and politician. He helped found the theater in the River Plate region of Uruguay and Argentina.
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Admiral Takijiro Ōnishi was born June 2, 1891. He was part of the ImperialJapanese Navy. Initially calling it heresy, he later ordered the kamikaze attacks.
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James Marion Sims was born Jan. 25, 1813. He was an American surgeon and gynecologist. He established the first hospital for women in NYC. He was forced out of it for wanting to treat cancer patients.
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Henry Wood was born March 3, 1869. He was an English conductor who created The Proms.
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Jacques Inaudi was born Oct. 13, 1867. His Italian name was Giacomo. He was a calculating prodigy
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English botanist N.E. Brown was born July 11, 1849. He was a taxonomist and an authority on succulents.
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Heitor Villa-Lobos was born March 5, 1887. He was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical pianist.
Sketchbook: Stillman & Birn
Pen: Lamy Safari
watercolor: Daniel Smith
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Maurice Prendergast was born Oct. 10, 1858. He was an American painter and watercolorist. He was a member of The Eight, Post-Impressionist painters of the Ashcan School.
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Asaph Hall was born Oct. 15, 1829. He was an American astronomer who discovered the Martian moons Deimos and Phobos.
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Géza Gárdonyi was born Aug. 3, 1863. He was a Hungarian journalist and writer of historical fiction.
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René Cassin was born Oct. 5, 1887. He was a French lawyer and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He co-authored the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
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