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The Man Who Painted the Sky and Designed Everything

The Man Who Painted the Sky and Designed Everyt...

The Man Who Painted the Sky and Designed Everything | Ella's Adventures Letters Home  ·  Hidden Heritage Through Sketches & Stories Today in History 15 April 1452  ·  4 min...

The Man Who Painted the Sky and Designed Everyt...

The Man Who Painted the Sky and Designed Everything | Ella's Adventures Letters Home  ·  Hidden Heritage Through Sketches & Stories Today in History 15 April 1452  ·  4 min...

The First Volvo: 14 April 1927, Gothenburg | Ella's Adventures

The First Volvo: 14 April 1927, Gothenburg | El...

On 14 April 1927, amid a date better known for Lincoln, the Titanic, and a UFO over Nuremberg, a ball-bearing salesman and an England-trained engineer quietly rolled the first Volvo...

The First Volvo: 14 April 1927, Gothenburg | El...

On 14 April 1927, amid a date better known for Lincoln, the Titanic, and a UFO over Nuremberg, a ball-bearing salesman and an England-trained engineer quietly rolled the first Volvo...

Handel's Messiah: Why the World Premiere was in Dublin, Not London

Handel's Messiah: Why the World Premiere was in...

Fishamble Street is Dublin's oldest thoroughfare. Vikings named it. And on a Tuesday lunchtime in April 1742, it became the most musically significant street in the world: the place where...

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Handel's Messiah: Why the World Premiere was in...

Fishamble Street is Dublin's oldest thoroughfare. Vikings named it. And on a Tuesday lunchtime in April 1742, it became the most musically significant street in the world: the place where...

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Watercolour portrait of Yuri Gagarin in orange Soviet space suit, stars and Earth behind him, Saratov Russia 1961

The Earth Is Blue (Yuri Gagarin Orbits the Worl...

On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin completed a single orbit of the Earth, ejected from his capsule at 7,000 metres, and landed in a farmer's field in Saratov, Russia. He...

The Earth Is Blue (Yuri Gagarin Orbits the Worl...

On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin completed a single orbit of the Earth, ejected from his capsule at 7,000 metres, and landed in a farmer's field in Saratov, Russia. He...

1755: The Dictionary That Defined the English Language | Ella's Adventures

1755: The Dictionary That Defined the English L...

In 1755, Samuel Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language : 42,773 entries, nine years in the making, and considerably more opinionated than a reference work has any right...

1755: The Dictionary That Defined the English L...

In 1755, Samuel Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language : 42,773 entries, nine years in the making, and considerably more opinionated than a reference work has any right...

Thomas Johnson's apothecary on Snow Hill, Holborn, where Britain's first bananas were displayed on 10 April 1633

The Day London Met a Banana | Ella's Adventures

On 10 April 1633, botanist Thomas Johnson displayed Britain's first bananas in his Holborn shop window. Nobody bought one. History has never quite forgotten it.

The Day London Met a Banana | Ella's Adventures

On 10 April 1633, botanist Thomas Johnson displayed Britain's first bananas in his Holborn shop window. Nobody bought one. History has never quite forgotten it.