On the 28th of July 1866, Helen Beatrix Potter, English author of the Peter Rabbit children’s books, was born in Kensington, London. Less known is her career as a naturalist and realist artist....
https://artlark.org/2022/07/28/beatrix-potter-nature-as-first-and-last-resort/
On the 17th of June 1939, Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, was guillotined in Versailles outside Saint-Pierre prison. He was the last person to be guillotined in public. Since then, until th...
https://artlark.org/2022/06/17/the-guillotine-does-death-by-decapitation-equals-instant-death/
On the 21st of May 1688, English poet Alexander Pope was born in London, England. At twelve, Pope composed his earliest extant work, Ode to Solitude; the same year saw the onset of the debilitati...
On the 12th of April 1990, Jim Gary (1939 – 2006) opened his exhibition Twentieth Century Dinosaurs at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Gar...
On the 21st of March 1656, the archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, James Ussher, died in Reigate, Surrey, England. He was one of the few scholars who attempted deciphering biblical chronology and ...
https://artlark.org/2022/03/21/the-beginning-of-the-world-according-to-james-ussher/
On the 10th of March 1876, three days after his patent was issued, Scottish-born Canadian scientist Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922) succeeded in communicating with sound, using a liquid tra...
https://artlark.org/2022/03/10/is-there-one-true-inventor-of-the-telephone/
On the 29th of November 1877, Thomas Edison, an American inventor and businessman, demonstrated his phonograph for the first time. It is difficult for us to imagine the kind of stir it caused as ...
https://artlark.org/2021/11/29/thomas-a-edison-invention-as-a-cognitive-process/
On the 23rd of November 1963, just one day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the BBC broadcast the very first episode of Doctor Who – the television sci-fi series, which by now has en...
https://artlark.org/2021/11/23/who-is-doctor-who-question-of-identity/
On the 8th of November 1884, Swiss Freudian psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach was born in Zürich. He was famous for devising the inkblot test which he believed helped reflect unconscious parts of t...
https://artlark.org/2021/11/08/art-into-science-in-hermann-rorschachs-psychiatric-work/
Sir Thomas Browne was an English author of numerous medical, religious, scientific and esoteric works. He was born on the 19th of October 1605 and died exactly 77 years later on the 19th of Octob...
https://artlark.org/2021/10/19/quincunx-electricity-computer-the-mastermind-of-sir-thomas-browne/