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Jane TomlinsonThe suicide of Vincent van Gogh – 29 July 1890
No CommentsRead moreOn 29 July 1890, Vincent van Gogh, an unknown 37-year-old Dutchman, died of a gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise. Why did he commit suicide?
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Jane TomlinsonVincent van Gogh mutilates his ear – 23 December 1888
Read moreOn this day in 1888 in Arles in southern France, Vincent van Gogh performed the most infamous act of self-mutilation…
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Jane TomlinsonInternational Women’s Day
No CommentsRead moreToday is International Women’s Day, a day when women all over the world celebrate their achievements. And I’m not just…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Captain James Cook – 14 February 1779
No CommentsRead more“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” Whatever…
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Jane TomlinsonGuns ‘n’ roses: the murder of Joan Root – 13 January 2006
Read moreOn this day in 2006, 69-year-old Joan Root lay alone bleeding to death from gunshot wounds at her home on…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Carl Linnaeus – 10 January 1778
No CommentsRead moreThe Bible, Genesis 2:20, states: “And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Jane Digby – 11 August 1881
Read moreHere’s a bodice-ripping love story of sex and adventure: the story of Jane Elizabeth Digby, Lady Ellenborough. She died on…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Frida Kahlo – 13 July 1954
Read more“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Artist Frida Kahlo was born in 1907, the daughter of Hungarian Jewish father and indigenous Mexican mother….
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Jane TomlinsonThe Shakespeare triptych
Read moreThree paintings in praise of Shakespeare: 1 a map of Europe with the plays shown in their approximate location, 2.…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Mary Leakey – 9 December 1996
Read moreNo matter who we are and what we think, the beautiful truth is that we are all children of Africa.…
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