Make trains great again!
Coming up for the #Bicentenary of the #railway.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02980-2

Bedrich Smetana, le père de la musique tchèque, est né le 2 mars 1824.

#smetana200 #smetana200anniversary2024 #bicentenary #musiquetcheque #geoffsmusicians #fcecontinuo

The Wilkie Collins Guide to Modern Life (known for Woman in White, The Moonstone)

Wilkie Collins @200 (1824-01-08 — 1889-09-23)

Matthew Sweet discusses the modern subject matter in Collins' novels: polyamory, disability and gender fluidity.

Wilkie Collins was hardly a conformist himself, he supported two women, two properties and two households, had lifelong gout and an addiction to laudanum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001tr6h

#novels #plays #dickens #polyamory #disability #gender #bicentenary

#November 27, 1959
#OTD, the #Edmonton #Journal wrote of the #Kew #Bicentenary:

Less than 10 miles from the heart of #London lies an area of nearly 300 acres in which #Color, #Fragrance, & #Birdsong are the companions of #Research, #Learning, & #Economics.

Here the lover of #Plants can #Wander to his heart's delight while the #Botanist studies new & hardier strains of plants & the #Ecologist determines their value to man.

#Gardening #Gardens #GardenersofMastodon

En honor a nuestro Libertador y Padre de la Patria Grande, Simón Bolívar.

#3ene #2021Bicentenario #jerusalemachallenge #honor9x #libertadores #simónbolívar #bicentenary