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April 16, 1889: Charlie Chaplin is born. A tramp, a gentleman,...
April 16, 1889: Charlie Chaplin is born.A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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Sketch of Cthulhu drawn by H.P. Lovecraft in 1934: To R.H....
Sketch of Cthulhu drawn by H.P. Lovecraft in 1934:To R.H. Barlow, Esq., whose Sculpture hath given immortality to this trivial Design of his oblig’d of all servants. CthulhuH.P. Lovecraft11th May, 1934
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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul....
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain...
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April 23, 1775: J.M.W. Turner is born. [Turner] became known as...
April 23, 1775: J.M.W. Turner is born.[Turner] became known as ‘the painter of light’, because of his increasing interest in brilliant colours as the main constituent in his landscapes and seascapes.
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April 25, 1917: Ella Fitzgerald is born. I guess what everyone...
April 25, 1917: Ella Fitzgerald is born.I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don’t have...
View ArticleHello! I've been to see Turner from the Tate at the Art Gallery of South...
Yes, only one though - I saw his painting Modern Rome-Campo Vaccino when I went to the Getty Museum, and I agree. A picture on the Internet cannot compare at all.
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April 27, 1945: Benito Mussolini is captured. On this day in...
partisan Urbano Lazzaro points out the bullet hole in the wall behind the spot Mussolini was allegedly executedApril 27, 1945: Benito Mussolini is captured.On this day in 1945, Italy’s former father...
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April 29, 1946: The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal...
April 29, 1946: The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal convenes.Officially called the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), the Tokyo Trials took place nearly eight months after the signing...
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How to Spot a Communist But there are other communists who...
How to Spot a CommunistBut there are other communists who don’t show their real faces… who work more silently…
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Online museum collections are the best. My favorites, though, are the National Museum of the American Indian, which has a really neat search function, and the Met, although the other Smithsonian...
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May 1, 1960: The U-2 incident takes place. By 1955, both the...
Plane wreckage on display in Moscow, November 1960May 1, 1960: The U-2 incident takes place.By 1955, both the United States and Soviet Union had developed and successfully detonated thermonuclear...
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Flappers at an outdoor sports event, Addison Scurlock,...
Flappers at an outdoor sports event, Addison Scurlock, 1920s-30s.SIRIS
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Flappers. Roaring Twenties. Jazz, short hair, alcohol, cigarettes, sexual liberation, short dresses, overturning of Victorian values and expectations for women, youth and glamor and hedonism, etc...
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May 2, 1945: Berlin falls to Soviet forces. The next day,...
Captured members of the Hitler Youth Raising the flag over the ReichstagMay 2, 1945: Berlin falls to Soviet forces.The next day, General Wilding, the commander of the German troops in Berlin, finally...
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Russian soldiers and a civilian attempt to move a bronze eagle...
Russian soldiers and a civilian attempt to move a bronze eagle that had previously been installed above a doorway of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945.LIFE
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May 4, 1970: The Kent State shootings take place. The shooting...
May 4, 1970: The Kent State shootings take place.The shooting of unarmed students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University, was one of the most notorious domestic events of the...
View ArticleHi. I freakin' love history haha. I plan on majoring in history when I get to...
Thank you, and I agree! It was actually my very loud and passionate APUSH teacher who inspired me to make this blog. Good luck with your future plans.
View ArticleSo I'm going to be a sophmore next year and I'm taking APUSH. Is it really as...
I personally didn’t think it was as hard as people make it out to be, especially since people totally like to over-exaggerate how difficult certain classes are, and I know this because I’ve had like...
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