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South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid...
South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa’s president says.Mandela fought against apartheid and white minority rule in South Africa for decades,...
View ArticleHI FOLLOWERS, sorry for rarely updating these days; hopefully after finals...
HI FOLLOWERS, sorry for rarely updating these days; hopefully after finals and such this blog will be regularly updated again, unless I die in the process, which is possible. Until then though, happy...
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unhistorical: HI FOLLOWERS, sorry for rarely updating these days; hopefully...
unhistorical:HI FOLLOWERS, sorry for rarely updating these days; hopefully after finals and such this blog will be regularly updated again, unless I die in the process, which is possible. Until then...
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Sheherazade, Op. 35, II. The Story of the Kalendar Prince |...
Sheherazade, Op. 35, II. The Story of the Kalendar Prince | Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovFritz Reiner & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Tibetan depiction of Yama, mid-17th-early 18th...
Tibetan depiction of Yama, mid-17th-early 18th centuryMetropolitan Museum of Art
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January 9, 1839: The French Academy of Sciences announces the...
January 9, 1839: The French Academy of Sciences announces the invention of the daguerreotype.The daguerreotype process, named for French painter Louis Daguerre, was an early and the earliest practical,...
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unhistorical: January 9, 1839: The French Academy of Sciences...
unhistorical:January 9, 1839: The French Academy of Sciences announces the invention of the daguerreotype.The daguerreotype process, named for French painter Louis Daguerre, was an early and the...
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unhistorical: January 15, 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. is...
unhistorical:January 15, 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. is born.Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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January 22, 1875: D.W. Griffith is born. Called “the...
January 22, 1875: D.W. Griffith is born.Called “the Teacher of us All” by Charlie Chaplin, David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was born in Kentucky to a Confederate Civil War veteran and his wife and began...
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Detail from the Nine Dragons handscroll (1244), Chen Rong Museum...
Detail from the Nine Dragons handscroll (1244), Chen RongMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
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January 23, 1964: The Twenty-fourth Amendment is passed,...
January 23, 1964: The Twenty-fourth Amendment is passed, prohibiting poll taxes in federal elections.On this day fifty years ago, South Dakota became the thirty-eighth state to ratify the 24th...
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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (1885-1892) ukiyo-e series,...
The moon of Ogurusu in Yamashiro Cao Cao on the Yangtze River looking at the rising moon over Mount Nanping a fox on Musashi Plain Fujiwara no Yasumasa playing the flute to ward off a bandit Minamoto...
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February 4, 1861: The Confederate States of America is...
February 4, 1861: The Confederate States of America is formed.In November of 1860, Abraham Lincoln, a one-term U.S. representative and candidate for the newly-formed Republican Party, was elected...
View ArticleIn your post on the secession of the Confederacy you said "the last state to...
Yeah, I think it was.. during one of FDR’s terms that the beginning of the term was pushed back to January instead of March 4, which was the date of the inception of the new government under the...
View ArticlePavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50, Gabriel Fauré
Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50, Gabriel Fauré
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Taira no Kiyomori’s Spectral Vision (1845), Hiroshige
Taira no Kiyomori’s Spectral Vision (1845), Hiroshige
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