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July 26, 1928: Stanley Kubrick is born. The screen is a magic...
July 26, 1928: Stanley Kubrick is born. The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself. He died two days...
March/April 1887. 1887. Spring 1887. January 1889. September 1889. July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself. He died two days later, at age thirty-seven. In late 1888, van Gogh, desperate and...
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WELL. Thanks a lot, Martin Luther. I started laughing at “full of the devil’s feces”. It almost sounds like Julius Streicher lifted some lines from him, too. And thanks, you too!
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Greatest Olympic Moments: Jesse Owens, Berlin, August 1936. In...
Greatest Olympic Moments: Jesse Owens, Berlin, August 1936. In August of 1936, American athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals, setting three world records and tying a fourth in the 100 yard dash -...
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July 28, 1794: Maximilien Robespierre is executed. Robespierre,...
July 28, 1794: Maximilien Robespierre is executed. Robespierre, one of the key figures in the Reign of Terror (which ended with his death) met his end the same way as the French king and queen, as the...
View ArticleIf you disagree with the facts presented in a post, it’s fine to add...
If you disagree with the facts presented in a post, it’s fine to add something on (with a source, hopefully) in a polite manner. But when people obnoxiously say “NO THIS IS TRUE NOT THAT”, especially...
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Propaganda posters directed at various territories of the...
Propaganda posters directed at various territories of the British Empire, from the National Archives.
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Greatest Olympic Moments: Wilma Rudolph, Rome, 1960. Wilma...
Greatest Olympic Moments: Wilma Rudolph, Rome, 1960. Wilma Rudolph was born premature (weighing 4.5 pounds), the 20th of 22 children, and as a child she suffered from all sorts of illnesses. The most...
View ArticleYES, I deleted the last line from the Wilma Rudolph post. It’s still...
YES, I deleted the last line from the Wilma Rudolph post. It’s still implicitly there, directed at all of us who really need to get off Tumblr and do productive things, but I apologize for not...
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Hiatus; the laptop broke, and I won’t have easy access to the Internet for a few days.
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Greatest Olympic Moments: Bob Beamon, Mexico City, 1968. So...
Greatest Olympic Moments: Bob Beamon, Mexico City, 1968. So incredible was Bob Beamon’s long jump (8.90 meters, or 29 feet and 2.5 inches) that the athlete himself collapsed and broke down after...
View Articleexistentialist-trotskyist: unhistorical: July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh...
existentialist-trotskyist: unhistorical: July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself. He died two days later, at age thirty-seven. In late 1888, van Gogh, desperate and growing increasingly...
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August 2, 1945: The Potsdam Conference ends. The Potsdam...
the conference room in Cecilienhof. August 2, 1945: The Potsdam Conference ends. The Potsdam Conference was attended by Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman (Roosevelt had died that year in April), and Winston...
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August 3, 1943: Operation Gomorrah ends. “Gomorrah”...
August 3, 1943: Operation Gomorrah ends. “Gomorrah” was the name chosen for the eight-day long Allied bombing of Hamburg, after the Biblical city that incurred God’s wrath and fell to “fire and...
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Greatest Olympic Moments: Kerri Strug, Atlanta, 1996. The...
Greatest Olympic Moments: Kerri Strug, Atlanta, 1996. The American women’s gymnastics team of that year’s Olympic Games was known as the “Magnificent Seven”; together in Atlanta, this diverse group...
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August 5, 1962: Nelson Mandela is arrested and imprisoned. In...
Mandela revisits his old cell. August 5, 1962: Nelson Mandela is arrested and imprisoned. In 1948, the National Party came to power in South Africa, establishing a formal system of apartheid that...
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August 6, 1945: An atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. The...
August 6, 1945: An atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. The “Little Boy” bomb was the second nuclear device detonated in history. “Little Boy”” measured three meters long and less than a meter wide....
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