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Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) I have always...
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999)I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I’ve always liked fairy tales and myths,...
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July 27, 1953: The Korean War ends. After three years of...
July 27, 1953: The Korean War ends.After three years of hostilities between North Korea (and its primary allies China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (and its primary allies the United States and...
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July 30, 1818: Emily Brontë is born. Few details are known about...
July 30, 1818: Emily Brontë is born.Few details are known about the relatively short life of the middle Brontë sister, due in part to her reclusive and shy personality; according to most who knew her...
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The Twa Corbies (from Some British Ballads, 1919) - Arthur...
The Twa Corbies (from Some British Ballads, 1919) - Arthur Rackham
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July 13, 1863: The New York City draft riots begin. The United...
July 13, 1863: The New York City draft riots begin.The United States employed a national conscription system for the first time during the American Civil War via the Enrollment Act of 1863, which...
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August 4, 1792: Percy Bysshe Shelley is born. Though he died...
August 4, 1792: Percy Bysshe Shelley is born.Though he died before he reached the age of thirty, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced during his short life a substantial collection of poetry, dramas, and...
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Ilya Repin (August 5, 1844 - September 29, 1930)
Ilya Repin (August 5, 1844 - September 29, 1930)
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Hey, so… in an effort to not become extremely detached on this blog, I’m going to make an audio post sometime soon answering some (like a dozen or so) of your questions; this is a social networking...
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Hiroshima, August 6, 1945; Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. In time I...
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945; Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. In time I came to an open space where the houses had been removed to make a fire lane. Through the dim light I could make out ahead of me the hazy...
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August 9, 1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the...
August 9, 1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics. One can unfortunately experience that often the free man must even fight with blacks, with Negroes, for the victory...
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August 12, 30 BC: Cleopatra VII commits suicide. One year after...
August 12, 30 BC: Cleopatra VII commits suicide.One year after the decisive Battle of Actium, in which Octavian (the future Roman emperor Augustus) soundly defeated Mark Antony at sea, Alexandria fell...
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Alfred Hitchcock (August 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980) The only...
Alfred Hitchcock (August 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980)The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be...
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.August 18, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S....
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August 22, 1902: Leni Riefenstahl is born. The infamous director...
August 22, 1902: Leni Riefenstahl is born.The infamous director once said of her most famous film, Triumph of the Will (1935): “it casts such a shadow over my life that death will be a blessed...
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August 24, 79: Mount Vesuvius erupts. Much of what is known of...
August 24, 79: Mount Vesuvius erupts.Much of what is known of the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius comes from the descriptive epistles of Pliny the Younger (nephew of Pliny the Elder), who wrote...
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Hi. I run a history blog as well, but I notice that whenever I tag a post...
The history tag is one of those broad general interest tags (like illustration, art, music, education, gif, etc) that has this special function where certain posts get featured by tag editors, so that...
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laststrix said: And if I run a history blog, how do I get featured? This...
laststrix said: And if I run a history blog, how do I get featured? This seems quite unfair for rather small blogs =/ Or how does it work?It takes time to build up your blog, I guess, and I actually...
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