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Tsimshian bear headdress (c. 1850) and grizzly bear war helmet...
Tsimshian bear headdress (c. 1850) and grizzly bear war helmet (c. 1870), British Columbia.
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January 9, 1806: Horatio Nelson’s state funeral takes...
January 9, 1806: Horatio Nelson’s state funeral takes place.Admiral Lord Nelson, regarded as one of Britain’s greatest heroes both during life and even more so after death, lost his arm and sight in...
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By the way, guys, “misc” is my new tag for assorted...
By the way, guys, “misc” is my new tag for assorted non-photography, non-painting things I find on the Internet, mostly arms and armor and clothes and craft-type things. And chicken helmets.
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January 10, 1920: The Treaty of Versailles goes into...
January 10, 1920: The Treaty of Versailles goes into effect.Exactly five years after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Allied Powers (France, the British Empire, Japan, Italy,...
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Medusa burgonet, Italy, 1543 (Filippo Negroli)
Medusa burgonet, Italy, 1543 (Filippo Negroli)
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January 11, 1757: Alexander Hamilton is born. Here, sir, the...
January 11, 1757: Alexander Hamilton is born.Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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Evidently, manually manipulating photographs to decapitate...
Evidently, manually manipulating photographs to decapitate people was a popular pastime before the age of Photoshop.
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The Hall of Mirrors before and during the signing of the Treaty...
The Hall of Mirrors before and during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919.
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Hey do you know any really good documentaries on communism, the Kennedys' or...
I personally haven’t watched many/any documentaries on those periods so I wouldn’t be able to tell you anything beyond what a Google search could… PBS has documentaries on communism, the Kennedys and...
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January 13, 1898: ”J’accuse” is...
January 13, 1898: ”J’accuse” is published.Émile Zola’s letter denouncing the French government for its anti-Semitism was directed at the president of France, Félix Faure, and it was published on the...
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January 14, 1943: The Casablanca Conference begins. Codenamed...
January 14, 1943: The Casablanca Conference begins.Codenamed “SYMBOL”, this Allied conference was conducted in a hotel in Casablanca two months after the British-American invasion of French North...
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Once the world’s tallest man-made structure, the Eiffel...
Once the world’s tallest man-made structure, the Eiffel Tower was also, for nine years, the world’s tallest advertising space.(And halfway through those nine years, it lost the title of “world’s...
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January 15, 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. is born. Nothing in...
January 15, 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. is born.Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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January 16, 1547: Ivan IV Vasilyevich (“Ivan the...
January 16, 1547: Ivan IV Vasilyevich (“Ivan the Terrible”) is crowned Tsar of All the Russias.Ivan IV was the son of Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow, a title he acquired upon his father’s death...
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President Eisenhower warns Americans of the dangers of the...
President Eisenhower warns Americans of the dangers of the “military-industrial complex” in his farewell address - January 17, 1961. Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing...
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January 18, 1871: Wilhelm I is proclaimed German Emperor. Ten...
January 18, 1871: Wilhelm I is proclaimed German Emperor.Ten days before the fall of France to German forces and seven months into the Franco-Prussian War, William Frederick Louis of the House of...
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Arthur Rackham’s illustrations for Alice in Wonderland
Arthur Rackham’s illustrations for Alice in Wonderland
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January 19, 1809: Edgar Allan Poe is born. Edgar Allan Poe was...
January 19, 1809: Edgar Allan Poe is born.Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to an actor and actress, who named their son after a character from William Shakespeare’s King Lear. In...
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