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Favorite Artists - Viktor Vasnetsov (May 15, 1848 – July 23,...
Favorite Artists - Viktor Vasnetsov (May 15, 1848 – July 23, 1926)
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December 5, 1848: President Polk announces the discovery of gold...
December 5, 1848: President Polk announces the discovery of gold in California, sparking the California Gold Rush.In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered flakes of gold in a segment of the...
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December 6, 1865: The Thirteenth Amendment is adopted,...
December 6, 1865: The Thirteenth Amendment is adopted, abolishing slavery.The large-scale emancipation of American slaves began in 1863, with the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, which...
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December 7, 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches an attack...
December 7, 1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches an attack on Pearl Harbor.During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Japanese military spread across Asia, declaring war on China in 1937, invading...
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Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the...
Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon)December 8, 1861: Georges Méliès is born.Dubbed a “cinemagician” for his experimentation with special effects and cinematography, this early filmmaker was,...
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If I’m being offensive or insensitive and unaware of that, I do think people should let me know; I’m just so confused as to why someone would try to dismiss the attacks on Pearl Harbor and then try to...
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December 9, 1946: The Doctors’ Trial of the Subsequent...
December 9, 1946: The Doctors’ Trial of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials begins.Two months after the end of the main Nuremberg Trials, which put twenty-three of Nazi Germany’s most powerful political,...
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December 10, 1815: Ada Lovelace is born. Today’s Google...
December 10, 1815: Ada Lovelace is born.Today’s Google Doodle honors Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s only legitimate child and the woman who is popularly credited as “the world’s first computer programmer”....
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December 11, 1936: Edward VIII abdicates the throne. After the...
December 11, 1936: Edward VIII abdicates the throne.After the death of King George V in January of 1936, the throne passed to his forty-one-year-old son Edward, who became King Edward VIII upon his...
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Jewish-American soldiers conduct services in Schloss Rheydt...
Jewish-American soldiers conduct services in Schloss Rheydt in Mönchengladbach, former residence of Joseph Goebbels - March 1945.
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December 12, 1935: Heinrich Himmler establishes the...
December 12, 1935: Heinrich Himmler establishes the Lebensborn program.Lebensborn (“Fountain of Life”), a program administered partly by the Schutzstaffel, aimed to reverse Germany’s declining...
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December 12, 1863: Edvard Munch is born. I painted the...
December 12, 1863: Edvard Munch is born.I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
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December 13, 1937: The Nanjing Massacre begins. The fall of the...
December 13, 1937: The Nanjing Massacre begins.The fall of the Chinese city of Nanjing (former capital of the Republic of China) to the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War was...
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December 14, 1911: Roald Amundsen and his expedition party reach...
December 14, 1911: Roald Amundsen and his expedition party reach the South Pole.In September of 1910 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen set off on an expedition to Antarctica. Two rival American...
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Favorite Artists - Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528)
Favorite Artists - Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528)
View ArticleI’ve received so many lovely messages and compliments in my inbox this...
I’ve received so many lovely messages and compliments in my inbox this week. Thank you guys so much; I appreciate it! The college application process is terrible (why didn’t anyone warn me?) but your...
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[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against...
[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse.- Thomas Jefferson, 1787.December 15, 1791: The...
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I’m hoping to, but first I’d have to get into college.
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