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August 17, 1908: Fantasmagorie is released. This French animated...
August 17, 1908: Fantasmagorie is released. This French animated film is widely considered the first animated cartoon, and it is one of the oldest examples of traditional animation. It was created by...
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August 18, 1590: The colony of Roanoke is discovered...
August 18, 1590: The colony of Roanoke is discovered mysteriously abandoned. The English colony on Roanoke Island (located off the coast of North Carolina) was an early attempt at a permanent...
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During World War II, African-American women enlisted in the WAAC...
Auxiliaries at Fort Huachuca, Arizona 268th Station Hospital, Australia Lt.(jg.) Harriet Ida Pickens and Ens. Frances Wills, first African-American WAVES to be commissioned. 6888th Central Postal...
View ArticleActually it's already been proven that they colony of Roanoke had...
Source: Wikipedia. There’s no proving anything for sure - the fact that White believed the colonists had relocated doesn’t necessarily make it so. It’s more likely a mixture of things (starvation,...
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August 19, 1944: The Battle for Paris begins. After Allied...
Members of the resistance A French man and woman, civilians and members of the FFI, fight with captured German weapons. AP August 19, 1944: The Battle for Paris begins. After Allied forces landed on...
View ArticleSaw your Paris post; are you going to do one on the Warsaw Uprising also (Aug...
I was going to back on the 1st of August, but I never made a post for that day. I’ll probably do one on the end date; thanks for reminding me.
View ArticleWill you do a post for the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia/end of the...
Maybe! But it’s also H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday tomorrow, not to mention the first day of school as well, so I’m very torn.
View ArticleYou should totally do a post for the invasion. No one seems to give a damn...
Oh, apparently it ended on the night between August 20th and 21st, so I could do it then. I’m sure fyeaheasterneurope will do/write/reblog something to commemorate the event too.
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LOVECRAFTIAN - adj. frighteningly monstrous and...
LOVECRAFTIAN - adj. frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly. August 20, 1890: H.P. Lovecraft is born. The celebrated American author of The Call of Cthulhu, ”The Dunwich Horror”, At the Mountains of...
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August 21, 1968: Warsaw Pact troops crush the Prague Spring. The...
August 21, 1968: Warsaw Pact troops crush the Prague Spring. The short-lived “Prague Spring” (a period in Czechoslovakia during which the country underwent liberal reforms and democratization) began...
View ArticleAugust 22, 1862: Claude Debussy is born. I love music...
August 22, 1862: Claude Debussy is born. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth — an open-air art,...
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August 24, 1814: British troops raze Washington, D.C. After the...
the White House after the burning. 1846, after its reconstruction. August 24, 1814: British troops raze Washington, D.C. After the decisive defeat of American militiamen by the British at the Battle...
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August 25, 1944: Paris is liberated. On August 19, as Allied...
Frank Scherschel, Getty Images John Downey, National Archives. August 25, 1944: Paris is liberated. On August 19, as Allied forces approached, resistance fighters in Paris incited a rebellion against...
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RIP, Neil Armstrong. Neil was among the greatest of American...
1960. Armstrong's first photograph on the surface of the moon. Sierra Blanca, February 1969. March 1966. After the historic moonwalk. April 1969. 1970. with Pres. Obama. receiving the Congressional...
View ArticleMISLABELLING PHOTOGRAPHS IS SUCH A PET PEEVE OF MINE TOO. ugh.
It’s a little sad that so many photos/photosets of Buzz Aldrin have popped up today in commemoration of Neil Armstrong’s death. I look at those and go “couldn’t be bothered to find an actual photograph...
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August 26, 1920: The 19th Amendment goes into effect. The 19th...
August 26, 1920: The 19th Amendment goes into effect. The 19th Amendment of the Constitution was ratified early that month, finally granting women the right to vote. In some states, mainly in the...
View ArticleYou run two very wonderful blogs! It's a shame I only started following you...
Somewhat confused about the “two”, but thank you for following!
View Articledo you like any books outside of historical or non-fiction books?
Do I like any? Of course. But yeah, I don’t read a lot of fiction outside of Harry Potter and A Song of Ice and Fire, all that basic Tumblr stuff. I really need to read more.
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August 27, 1883: Krakatoa erupts. The volcanic island of...
lithograph. August 27, 1883: Krakatoa erupts. The volcanic island of Krakatoa, located between the islands of Java and Sumatra, lay dormant for at least two centuries, before a passing European ship...
View Articlekurchina: unhistorical: August 27, 1883: Krakatoa erupts. The volcanic island...
kurchina: unhistorical: August 27, 1883: Krakatoa erupts. The volcanic island of Krakatoa, located between the islands of Java and Sumatra, lay dormant for at least two centuries, before a passing...
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