Edward Thomas Daniell was an English artist known for etchings and Middle Eastern landscape paintings. Taught by John Crome and Joseph Stannard, he is associated with the Norwich School of painters, who were mainly inspired by the Norfolk countryside. After graduating in classics at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1828, he was ordained as a curate in 1832 and appointed to a curacy in London in 1834. He became a patron of the arts, and a friend of the artist John Linnell. In 1840, after resigning his curacy and leaving for the Middle East, he encountered the archaeological expedition of Charles Fellows in Lycia, and joined as their illustrator. He contracted malaria and died from a second attack of the disease. He normally used a small number of colours for his watercolour paintings; his distinctive style was influenced in part by Crome, J. M. W. Turner and John Sell Cotman. As an etcher he anticipated the modern revival of etching that began in the 1850s.

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1914:

Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_El_Herri

1940:

Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_%281940_film%29

1966:

The Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu in response to a Fatah land mine incident two days earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samu_incident

1985:

Nevado del Ruiz erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, and killed approximately 23,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armero_tragedy

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insatiate: (archaic or literary) That is not satiated; insatiable. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/insatiate

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Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.   --Augustine of Hippo https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo