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June 11, 1963: Thich Quang Duc self-immolates as an act of...
June 11, 1963: Thich Quang Duc self-immolates as an act of protest.Thich Quang Duc was a Buddhist monk who, fifty years ago on this day, set himself alight on a street intersection in Saigon. His act...
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June 12, 1963: Medgar Evers is assassinated. Medgar Evers was a...
June 12, 1963: Medgar Evers is assassinated.Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who, until his assassination on June 12, 1963 outside his home in Mississippi, worked with the NAACP in his home...
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June 25, 1947: The Diary of a Young Girl is published. Look at...
June 25, 1947: The Diary of a Young Girl is published.Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.- Anne Frank (June 12, 1929– February/March 1945)
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June 26, 1892: Pearl S. Buck is born. Pearl S. Buck was a...
June 26, 1892: Pearl S. Buck is born.Pearl S. Buck was a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author most famous for her 1931 novel The Good Earth, and for her advocacy of the rights of women and...
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Study of a woman’s head in three-quarter profile (Study...
Study of a woman’s head in three-quarter profile (Study for Unchastity in the “Beethoven Frieze") (1902) - Gustav Klimt
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June 28, 1969: The Stonewall riots begin. The Stonewall riots,...
June 28, 1969: The Stonewall riots begin.The Stonewall riots, though not the first protest of its kind, is commonly regarded as the beginning of the gay liberation movement of the 1960s and 70s and the...
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Gustave Doré → the Crusades Description: Florine, the daughter...
Gustave Doré → the CrusadesDescription: Florine, the daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, courageously fights alongside her fiancé, the son of the king of Denmark.
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July 2, 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 goes into...
July 2, 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 goes into effect.Forty-nine years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was designed to:… enforce the...
View Articleit's actually been forty-nine, not thirty-nine years. :x
Yeah, I fixed that, thanks. What is math????
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July 3, 1863: Confederate forces are defeated at the Battle of...
July 3, 1863: Confederate forces are defeated at the Battle of Gettysburg.The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the turning points of the American Civil War, marking the high tide of the Confederacy and...
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Gustav Klimt “Golden Phase" detail from Judith...
Gustav Klimt “Golden Phase" detail from Judith I (1901), Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), and The Kiss (1907-1908).
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July 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence is adopted. When...
July 4, 1776: The Declaration of Independence is adopted.When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,...
View ArticleFantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910) - Ralph Vaughan...
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
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July 6, 1907: Frida Kahlo is born. I used to think I was the...
July 6, 1907: Frida Kahlo is born.I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre...
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July 7, 1937: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident begins. The battle...
July 7, 1937: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident begins.The battle on the Marco Polo (or Luguo) Bridge, located kilometers outside Beijing, then called Beiping, marked the beginning of the full-scale...
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My Sweet Rose (1908) - John William Waterhouse
My Sweet Rose (1908) - John William Waterhouse
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July 10, 1553: The reign of Lady Jane Grey begins. On this day...
July 10, 1553: The reign of Lady Jane Grey begins.On this day in 1553, the disputed monarch, a great-granddaughter of King Henry VII, began her nine-day rule. She came to the throne at age sixteen...
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The hangman went to her to help her therewith; then she desired...
The hangman went to her to help her therewith; then she desired him to let her alone, and also with her other attire and neckercher, giving to her a fair handkercher to knit about her eyes.Then the...
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James Van Der Zee’s photographic chronicle of the Harlem...
Wedding dinner Marcus Garvey "Couple Wearing Raccoon Coats with a Cadillac" Flapper twins Alpha Phi Alpha basketball team Dancing girlsJames Van Der Zee’s photographic chronicle of the Harlem...
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