Wikipedia article of the day is Bath School disaster. Check it out: https://ift.tt/13uQtzt Summary: The Bath School disaster was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe in Bath Township, Michigan. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people. On the morning of May 18, 1927 – having previously murdered his […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 18, 2020: Emerging flower of a cockade flower Gaillardia aristata focus stacked from 28 pictures. https://ift.tt/2TeMQBz
Wikipedia article of the day is Frank Matcham. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2EFZmAo Summary: Frank Matcham (22 November 1854 – 17 May 1920) was an English theatre architect and designer. Matcham was best known for his work in London, under Moss Empires, which included the designs of the Hippodrome (1900), Hackney Empire (1901), Coliseum (1903), Palladium (1910), and the Victoria Palace […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 17, 2020: Historical view of Trier, Germany, by Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. 1, 1572. https://ift.tt/2WBKNcT
Wikipedia article of the day is Juan Davis Bradburn. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3bCfxPa Summary: Juan Davis Bradburn (1787–1842) was a brigadier general in the Mexican Army. His actions as commandant of the garrison at Anahuac (historical markers pictured) in Mexican Texas in 1831 and 1832 led to the events known as the Anahuac Disturbances. Born […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 16, 2020: Interior of Wilhering Abbey Church, Upper Austria https://ift.tt/361g4JB
Wikipedia article of the day is Claudio Monteverdi. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1J3k5LK Summary: Claudio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and maestro di cappella. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a transitional figure between the Renaissance and the Baroque […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 15, 2020: Königshöhle (King’s Cave) near Baden bei Wien, Lower Austria https://ift.tt/3dSsZAl
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 14, 2020: Red clover (Trifolium pratense). Ukraine https://ift.tt/2T1TFGM
Wikipedia article of the day is Spalding War Memorial. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1mNtSim Summary: Spalding War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the gardens of Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in eastern England. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The proposal originated with Barbara McLaren; her husband Francis McLaren, the town’s member […]