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02 September 2026 22:47

#OnThisDay in 1942, Eric Ravilious became the first British war artist to die on active service in WW2, when the aircraft he was in was lost off the coast of Iceland. Frank Delaney re-visits the work of this understated, yet significant figure: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd

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06 May 2026 11:59

#OnThisDay in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was opened to the public in Paris. Not to be outdone, London decided to get a new tower of their own and held a competition to design it, with some interesting results! publicdomainreview.org/collection/c... #OTD

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02 May 2026 17:35

John Tresch on the mysteries and symmetries of Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/still-farther-south #EdgarAllanPoe

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25 April 2026 15:23

Happy #WorldPenguinDay! Images here from Frederick Cook’s Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898–1899, a remarkable journal recounting the highs and (many) lows of the Belgica expedition, including experiencing a night two months long: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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22 April 2026 22:20

"The Book of Divination", a Lubok print from the collection of Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich Rovinskiĭ (1824-1895). See more highlights from the collection here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th%E2%80%9319th-century/