Okay, I’m going to be taking like a three-day hiatus because I’ve...
Okay, I’m going to be taking like a three-day hiatus because I’ve been a lazy procrastinator this past week and I reeeeeeallly (really really) desperately need to get these apps done. Bye guys! Wish me...
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December 31, 1600: The British East India Company is...
December 31, 1600: The British East India Company is chartered.Originally named Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies, the British East India Company was a...
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A sailor and his girlfriend drink a toast to a new year, New...
A sailor and his girlfriend drink a toast to a new year, New York, 1941.
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January 1, 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation is...
January 1, 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation is issued.…And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate...
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One of the world’s first color photographs (taken in 1861)...
One of the world’s first color photographs (taken in 1861) was of a tartan ribbon.
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January 2, 1492: Granada surrenders to Spanish forces, ending...
January 2, 1492: Granada surrenders to Spanish forces, ending Muslim rule in Iberia.In the year 711, the first Muslim troops crossed from North Africa across the Strait of Gibraltar to Hispania, which...
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January 3, 1892: J.R.R. Tolkien is born. All that is gold...
January 3, 1892: J.R.R. Tolkien is born.All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost…
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January 3, 1905: Anna May Wong is born. Anna May Wong, who was...
January 3, 1905: Anna May Wong is born.Anna May Wong, who was born in Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, is considered the first Chinese-American movie star. Along with the...
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Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Complete) - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, 1969
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Lamia (Λάμια), in Greek mythology, was a queen of Libya who,...
Lamia (Λάμια), in Greek mythology, was a queen of Libya who, after the death of her children, become a child-eating dæmon, a kind of spirit neither mortal nor god. Her name, claimed Aristophanes, was...
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January 5, 1895: Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason and...
January 5, 1895: Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment.Captain Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer who, in October of 1894, was arrested for treason,...
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ragingbitchfest: unhistorical: January 5, 1895: Alfred...
ragingbitchfest:unhistorical:January 5, 1895: Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment.Captain Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer who, in October of 1894,...
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I have no idea how this relates to history at all, but… I think...
I have no idea how this relates to history at all, but…I think there’s a difference between what people call the “idiot nerd girl” and girls who enjoy “nerdy” things. If you get annoyed at the former...
View Articlejoylannister replied to your post: I have no idea how this relates to…...
joylannister replied to your post: I have no idea how this relates to…could you repost this as text? i would love to reblog your answerIt actually is a text post already; I didn’t know how to do a...
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do you know of any BBC/history channel-style history documentaries?
Of BBC’s history documentaries I’ve watched Egypt (2005) which was good but should probably be renamed The European Discovery of Egypt since its focus was on Howard Carter, Giovanni Belzoni, and...
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I can’t help at all in this area, unfortunately, but I feel like this is a universal problem. (/subtly directs question toward followers)
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January 7, 1891: Zora Neale Hurston is born. Zora Neale Hurston...
January 7, 1891: Zora Neale Hurston is born.Zora Neale Hurston was one of the principal figures of the Harlem Renaissance. She was born to a Baptist preacher and a schoolteacher in Notasulga, Alabama,...
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January 8, 1918: Woodrow Wilson issues his “Fourteen...
January 8, 1918: Woodrow Wilson issues his “Fourteen Points”.Ten months before the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson delivered to a joint session of Congress a speech in which he detailed...
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