thelovelylovestory replied to your post: Are you going to college to study...
thelovelylovestory replied to your post: Are you going to college to study history?Where are you applying?Haha honestly, my list is way too long and unrealistic and optimistic, but - most of the UCs...
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December 16, 1775: Jane Austen is born. The celebrated British...
December 16, 1775: Jane Austen is born.The celebrated British novelist was born to a large family consisting of six brothers (one of whom became her literary agent) and a sister (to whom Jane was close...
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The Pietà.
Bronzino Delacroix el Greco Tintoretto Michelangelo Morales Titian van Gogh BouguereauThe Pietà.
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December 17, 1903: The Wright Brothers fly the Wright Flyer near...
December 17, 1903: The Wright Brothers fly the Wright Flyer near Kitty Hawk.Orville and Wilbur Wright’s simple but memorable aircraft was the first heavier-than-air powered machine to achieve...
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RIP Daniel Inouye (September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012),...
RIP Daniel Inouye(September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012), representative and Senator for the state of Hawaii since it acquired statehood in 1959; President pro tempore; highest-ranking Asian-American...
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December 19, 1946: The First Indochina War begins. The...
December 19, 1946: The First Indochina War begins.The “dirty war” was fought between France, its colonies and allies (most significantly the United States), and the State of Vietnam versus the...
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December 20, 1941: The 1st American Volunteer group engages...
December 20, 1941: The 1st American Volunteer group engages enemy forces for the first time.Famously called the “Flying Tigers”, this group of volunteer pilots flew their famous shark-mouth-painted...
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December 21, 1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is...
December 21, 1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released.Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length cel-animated feature film in history and a major landmark in animation...
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December 22, 1864: William Tecumseh Sherman’s “March...
December 22, 1864: William Tecumseh Sherman’s “March to the Sea” ends.Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Savannah Campaign, which famously employed scorched earth and total war tactics to...
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December 23, 1948: Seven defendants at the International...
December 23, 1948: Seven defendants at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed.The IMFTE, sometimes called the Tokyo Trials or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, found all of its...
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December 24, 1914: The “Christmas truce” on the...
December 24, 1914: The “Christmas truce” on the Western front begins.The first Christmas of World War I took place four months after war broke out, before the bloody battles at Somme and Verdun and...
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Happy Holidays! Other historical events that took place on...
Happy Holidays!Other historical events that took place on December 25:496 - Clovis I, first king of a united Francia, is baptized as a Catholic.800 - Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Leo...
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December 26, 1991: The Soviet Union is dissolved. On Christmas...
December 26, 1991: The Soviet Union is dissolved.On Christmas Day in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union. The next day, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union dissolved...
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December 27, 1831: The HMS Beagle embarks on its second voyage,...
December 27, 1831: The HMS Beagle embarks on its second voyage, with Charles Darwin aboard.Twenty-two-year-old Charles Darwin boarded the Beagle, a sloop captained by one Robert Fitzroy, an amateur...
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December 28, 1065: Westminster Abbey is...
December 28, 1065: Westminster Abbey is consecrated.Construction on Westminster Abbey (or properly, the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster) began during the reign of Edward the Confessor, so...
View ArticleYou really should do a Facebook page.
Maybe, yeah! Although I don’t really use Facebook all that much, and I don’t know how to run a page… one of the many things I don’t know how to do. I’ll figure it out I guess, if I see any significant...
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Yes!! The acting was fantastic (DDL fan for life) although I haven’t actually read that much about Lincoln, so I don’t know how accurate his portrayal was? But I personally thought it was very human...
View ArticleIt's sort of messed up though that there was no portrayal of Frederick...
From what I’ve read about production it seems like the filmmakers had trouble deciding what part of Lincoln’s life/term to focus on, like apparently one of the script’s drafts focused on his entire...
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December 29, 1890: A massacre by U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment takes...
December 29, 1890: A massacre by U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment takes place near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.The massacre at Wounded Knee was one of the last major conflicts of the American Indian...
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