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The Magic Circle (1886) - John William Waterhouse
The Magic Circle (1886) - John William Waterhouse
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Victorian-era portraits of African-Americans, 1899 or 1900; from...
Victorian-era portraits of African-Americans, 1899 or 1900; from a collection assembled by W.E.B. Du Bois for the Exposition Nègres d’Amerique of the1900 Exposition Universelle. Library of Congress
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February 28, 1933: The Reichstag Fire Decree is issued. The...
February 28, 1933: The Reichstag Fire Decree is issued.The February 27 arson attack on the Reichstag Building (the house of the Weimar-era parliament) took place just weeks after Adolf Hitler was...
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Dragon slaying - World War I-era propaganda from Great Britain...
Dragon slaying - World War I-era propaganda from Great Britain and Austria-Hungary. via
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March 1, 1914: Ralph Ellison is born. Ralph Ellison, named for...
March 1, 1914: Ralph Ellison is born.Ralph Ellison, named for Ralph Waldo Emerson, was born in Oklahoma City. As a student, he studied music at Tuskegee University for three years before moving to New...
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March 2, 1965: Operation Rolling Thunder begins. “Rolling...
March 2, 1965: Operation Rolling Thunder begins.“Rolling Thunder” was an aerial bombardment campaign conducted over North Vietnam by the U.S. and South Vietnamese Air Forces and U.S. Navy from March...
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notasamalander: sydneyflapper: wonderfinch: unhistorical: Vic...
notasamalander:sydneyflapper:wonderfinch:unhistorical:Victorian-era portraits of African-Americans, 1899 or 1900; from a collection assembled by W.E.B. Du Bois for the Exposition Nègres d’Amerique of...
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I’m part of this quiz bowl club at school, and I’ve been interested in history together, so I figured that for as much time as I spend on the Internet and on tumblr, I had might as well do something...
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March 3, 1861: Alexander II of Russia issues the Emancipation...
Grigoriy Myasoyedov - Reading of the 1861 Manifesto (1873)March 3, 1861: Alexander II of Russia issues the Emancipation Reform of 1861.For centuries after the fall of the Kievan Rus’, varying...
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March 6, 1820: The Missouri Compromise is ratified. The issue of...
Henry Clay James MonroeMarch 6, 1820: The Missouri Compromise is ratified.The issue of slavery was, in the early years of the United States, treated cautiously, handled warily, and often tip-toed...
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March 7, 1965: The first Selma to Montgomery March...
March 7, 1965: The first Selma to Montgomery March (“Bloody Sunday”) takes place. During the 1960s, only small percentages of the large populations of eligible black voters in certain parts of the...
View Articlenothing unhistorical happened on my birthday..? (march 5th)
Many (un)historical things took place on March 5th! And happy birthday.
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March 8, 1010: Ferdowsi completes...
March 8, 1010: Ferdowsi completes the Shahnameh (شاهنامه).Ferdowsi’s “Book of Kings”, a poem consisting of over 50,000 couplets, took him over three decades to complete; the end result was the poet’s...
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Happy International Women’s Day! Here’s one of my...
Happy International Women’s Day! Here’s one of my favorite women in history…. Lise Meitner (7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968), an Austrian physicist who worked alongside Nobel laureate and chemist...
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March 9, 1945: Operation Meetinghouse begins. The first bombings...
March 9, 1945: Operation Meetinghouse begins.The first bombings conducted by the United States over Japan came in the form of the Doolittle Raid, a 1942 air raid that succeeded in boosting American...
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Tokyo after the firebombings, 1945. Koyo Ishikawa
Tokyo after the firebombings, 1945.Koyo Ishikawa
View ArticleI'm not sure if someone has already recommended these books, but Charles C....
They’re actually both on that old book recommendations list that I tried to compile (based on user opinions) a couple of months ago. They’re also both high on my personal to-read list…. which grows...
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March 13, 1938: The Anschluss is...
ViennaMarch 13, 1938: The Anschluss is declared.The Anschluss (Anschluß) was the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, in which Austria ceased to be an independent state and was incorporated into...
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