#OnThisDay in 1928, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen disappeared with 5 crew while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic. Their bodies were never found. 17 yrs earlier he became the 1st to reach the S. Pole. See photos from that expedition here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/amundsen-s-south-pole-expedition #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1878, Eadweard Muybridge took this series of images of a racehorse in motion. A former governor of California reportedly had bet on whether all the hooves were airborne at once, and hired Muybridge to settle the debate: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-attitudes-of-animals-in-motion-illustrated-with-the-zoopraxiscope-1882 #OTD

Double birthday salutations to W. B. Yeats + Fernando Pessoa — both fascinated by the occult, both with a penchant for heteronyms and both appearing in @WithEdSimon's essay on the ouija board writings of Pearl Curran (AKA Patience Worth): https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ghostwriter-and-ghost-the-strange-case-of-pearl-curran-patience-worth #onthisday #otd

Born #onthisday in 1865, the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt. 63 years later he published his 1st photography book, the groundbreaking and best-selling Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Plants). See our highlights here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/karl-blossfeldt-s-urformen-der-kunst-1928 #otd