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Parallel efforts to produce coloured photographic images affected the popularity of hand-colouring. In 1842 Daniel Davis Jr. patented a method for colouring daguerreotypes through electroplating, [4] and his work was refined by Warren Thompson the following year. The results of the work of Davis and Thompson were only partially successful in ...
Examples of computer clip art, from Openclipart. Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form.
Chester A. Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States from 1881 to 1885. Born in Vermont and raised in upstate New York, Arthur practiced law in New York City before serving as a quartermaster general in the Civil War.
Humpty Dumpty wearing the cravat he received as an unbirthday present from the White King and Queen. From Through the Looking-Glass, illustration by John Tenniel. An unbirthday (originally written un-birthday) is an event celebrated on all days of the year which are not a person's birthday.
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Water-color portrait from after Darwin's return from the voyage of the Beagle: 1842 Daguerrotype of Darwin (age 33) with his son William, reproduced in The Life, Letters, and Labours of Francis Galton by Karl Pearson: 1849 Thomas Herbert Maguire: 1853 Samuel Laurence: Pastel chalk drawing of Darwin by Samuel Laurence probably 1854 Henry Maull ...
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year ... 1946 – Willard White, Jamaican-English actor and singer; 1947 – Gary Beach, American actor and singer (d. 2018)
October 18 is the 291st day of the year ... 1963 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.