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date: 01 Nov
The First View of the paintings on the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel     -  1st November 1512   -       Pope Julius II celebrated his first mass in the Sistine Chapel for four years on All Saints’ Day 1512 due to, what might be called in modern...
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  • 16th Century
  • Art & Culture
  • Classical Art
  • Religion
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date: 30 Nov
The Death of Oscar Wilde     -  30thNovember 1900  -     “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”    These were reportedly the last words of Oscar Wilder before he died of meningitis in a seedy Paris...
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  • 20th Century
  • Art & Culture
  • This week in history
date: 06 Dec
The Death of Anthony Trollope     -  6th December 1882  -     From a childhood that was unhappy, uncertain, in terms of a stable home, and socially awkward to a career in the Civil Service that was, in many ways, unimpressive by his own admission,...
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  • 19th Century
  • Art & Culture
  • Biography
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date: 30 Nov
The Death of Oscar Wilde   -  30th November 1900  -     “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”   These were reportedly the last words of Oscar Wilder before he died of meningitis in a seedy Paris...
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  • 20th Century
  • Art & Culture
  • This week in history
  • Victorians
date: 30 Sep
The First Performance of the Magic Flute      - Vienna, September 30th 1791 -    The music critic Neville Cardus wrote that The Magic Flute is, “the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.” Beethoven considered the...
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  • 18th Century
  • Art & Culture
  • Music
  • This week in history