#Portrait

Ada Lovelace, née Augusta Ada Byron, was born #OTD in 1815. A mathematician and the first published computer programmer, she offered a prescient vision of what computing would become.Portrait: Margaret
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This is the bed of the legendary courtesan Émilie-Louise Delabigne (1848-1910). The writer Emile Zola wrote about it in his novel, Nana. ‘A bed such as has never existed, a
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A thread. #Microhistories. I was browsing @AncestryUK for vintage photos of cemeteries: I love finding old photography and then seeing what the exact same spot looks like now. Henry Thomas
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Medical visualizations (vizs; #visualAbstract, #infographic, or #graphicalAbstract) are ⬆︎popular. In this tweetorial I'm going to detail how I make vizs to help you in your #meded/#FOAMed endeavors. Here's my portfolio
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Something as a reader I like to remind myself: just because I don't see a character arc, or I don't see a theme, doesn't mean it's not there. I have
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This image is being shared again as a portrait of George Moses Horton. It is not Horton: it is a photo of Martin Delany. Unfortunately, there are no known images
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Here’s a very 2020 thing I just learned about myself: this picture of the 8-year-old, 3rd grade version of me has been a meme FOR YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!Like, there’s merch and everything.
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1) A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: this enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester in 1785. The square bezel has a portrait
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I started this project with an idea, to model a chair. But it evolved into what I'm about to present. My goal evolved into discovering how far I could go
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Welcome to Sam Art Heughan Gallery. In this short but intense thread you’ll be able to witness the purest and most impressive beauty on Earth. Let’s begin with Sam rocking
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"As bad as the mental health numbers sound, they are not an entirely fair portrait of what’s really going on."In a way this is so obvious, but it's still worth
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Happy holiday season to all our listeners and followers! To end the year we wanted to celebrate your hard work and creativity, so check out this thread below full of
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Among the very hardest hit today are any bestselling authors who used Steve Bannon—now a federal fraud defendant—as a primary source, even as everyone was telling them not to do
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A Princess is born — Princess Margaret RosePic 1: 1930 The Duchess of York & future Queen MotherPic 2: 1933 A young Princess Elizabeth & Princess MargaretPic 3: 1935 The
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Art was never truly apolitical or not influenced by the current world state. You'll know this if you study art history. During the Gothic period, art was mainly produced for
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1/1The relationship between Gogol's "Arabesques" and the line, transitional between one-dimensionality and two-dimensionality, is illuminated by Benjamin's comparison of Arab architecture and ornament with argumentation of
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