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Louis Armstrong atop a camel at the Giza Necropolis, January...
Louis Armstrong atop a camel at the Giza Necropolis, January 1961. He and his wife, Lucille (pictured far left with camera) embarked on a tour of Africa and the Middle East in 1961. AP Photo
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Isidor and Ida Straus were both born on February 6 in 1845 and...
Isidor and Ida Straus were both born on February 6 in 1845 and 1849, respectively. The co-owner of Macy’s and his wife not only shared a birth date but also, famously, a death date. When Isidor refused...
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17th-18th century Kabuto helmets. Metropolitan Museum of Art
17th-18th century Kabuto helmets.Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Bertha Gilbert, a 22-year-old civil rights activist, is led away...
Bertha Gilbert, a 22-year-old civil rights activist, is led away by policemen after attempting to sit at a segregated lunch counter, Nashville - May 1964.NPR
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February 7, 1984: Bruce McCandless and Robert L. Stewart perform...
February 7, 1984: Bruce McCandless and Robert L. Stewart perform the first ever untethered space walk.On February 3, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying five men,...
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dangerousmeta: unhistorical: February 7, 1984: Bruce...
dangerousmeta:unhistorical:February 7, 1984: Bruce McCandless and Robert L. Stewart perform the first ever untethered space walk.On February 3, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Cape...
View ArticleDidn't mean to be a butt-insky ... thought adding that detail (the...
Oh, no, you weren’t butting in at all. I love it when people add extra details and their own anecdotes, and things like that. Plus, it was very interesting.
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February 8, 1968: The Orangeburg massacre takes place. Like the...
February 8, 1968: The Orangeburg massacre takes place.Like the later Kent State and Jackson State shootings, the violence in Orangeburg, South Carolina, began as a student protest. Around two hundred...
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February 8, 1931: James Dean is born. Being an actor is the...
February 8, 1931: James Dean is born.Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
View ArticleHi. I really love your blog, you always post the most interesting tid-bits of...
Thanks!! And… I don’t know, could you be more specific? Just anything interesting? Because there’s a lot that falls under “interesting”.
View ArticleHave you ever checked out the history of coffee?
One of the passages in the reading comprehension section of a version of the SAT (or ACT?) I took was about English coffeehouses of the 1600s - that is the extent of my knowledge on the history of...
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February 9, 1944: Alice Walker is born. Alice Walker, best known...
February 9, 1944: Alice Walker is born.Alice Walker, best known for her 1982 novel The Color Purple, was born in Georgia - the youngest of eight children - to a sharecropper and a maid. She began...
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The Grable shot of Operation Upshot-Knothole - the first and...
The Grable shot of Operation Upshot-Knothole - the first and only nuclear artillery shell ever fired as part of the United States’ nuclear weapons testing program. Its yield was just under that of the...
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thorthescienceguy replied to your photo: The Grable shot of Operation...
thorthescienceguy replied to your photo: The Grable shot of Operation Upshot-Knothole - the…Is that lightning?Actually I was wondering what those little white streams are. I thought the ground was...
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Victorian era women and flappers Flappers - The Roaring...
Victorian era women and flappers Flappers - The Roaring Twenties
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Am I too late on this one? Perhaps the smoke trails on the Grable shot are...
Someone beat you to it!liketotallyme reblogged this from unhistorical and added:Here, I found a website with another grable shot. They mentioned what they were: “Smoke trails to the left are from...
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Over 3 million Eastern Front Medals (Winterschlacht Im Osten)...
Over 3 million Eastern Front Medals (Winterschlacht ImOsten) were awarded to personnel of Axis military forces and the Waffen-SS who served on the Eastern Front during the first winter of Operation...
View Article"Frozen Meat Medal" not flesh! :)
I’ve seen it referred to as both of them, and the words are interchangeable… (plus, “frozen flesh” is alliterative, so I prefer that translation, haha.)
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rykemasters: ladyhistory: unhistorical: Victorian era women...
rykemasters:ladyhistory:unhistorical:Victorian era women and flappers Flappers - The Roaring Twentieshaha OH MY GOSH I LOVE THIS CLASH OF AGESThat’s more like Edwardian era though, get that shit in...
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