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Oops, I just realized that today is my blog’s one year...
Oops, I just realized that today is my blog’s one year anniversary/birthday. Here’s a cake for my…self. Hello and thank you, followers, both new and old - and a special thanks to you who’ve been with...
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August 28, 1955: Emmett Till is kidnapped and...
Till and his mother. Bryant, Milam, and their wives celebrate the two mens' acquittal. August 28, 1955: Emmett Till is kidnapped and murdered. The appalling, brutal murder of Emmett Till, a young...
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August 29, 1949: The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic...
August 29, 1949: The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb. A little over four years after the United States conducted its first nuclear test Trinity Site in New Mexico, the Soviet Union...
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August 31, 12: Caligula is born. The Roman emperor Caligula...
August 31, 12: Caligula is born. The Roman emperor Caligula succeeded the his great-uncle Tiberius in the year 37 at the age of twenty-four. Like his predecessor, Caligula was popular with the public...
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unhistorical: French filmmaker Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the...
unhistorical: French filmmaker Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) is widely considered the first ever science fiction movie. It turns 110 years old this year. It drew...
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September 2, 1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out. The...
Lieve Verschuier. The Great Fire of London - Philip James de Loutherbourg. September 2, 1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out. The populous and quickly urbanizing city of London had just begun...
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September 3, 1783: The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the...
Bunker Hill - 1775, Howard Pyle. Declaration of Independence - 1776, Trumbull. Washington Crossing the Delaware - 1776, Emanuel Leutze. Saratoga - 1777. Surrender of Lord Cornwallis - 1781, Trumbull....
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September 5, 1774: Caspar David Friedrich is born. Here is a man...
Easter Morning, 1828-35. Ruine Eldena, 1825. Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, 1824. Woman at a Window, 1822. Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818. Wreck in the Sea of Ice, 1798. The Chasseur in...
View ArticleReplies can now be enabled on secondary blogs!
Not that this feature is particularly pertinent to this blog, but I’ve been waiting for it to become available for a loooong time. Everyone celebrate. (Can someone confirm that it actually works now?...
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September 6, 1901: Leon Czolgosz fatally shoots President...
Czolgosz imprisoned. September 6, 1901: Leon Czolgosz fatally shoots President William McKinley. Less than half a year after being sworn into office for the second time, William McKinley travelled to...
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September 7, 1812: The Battle of Borodino is fought. Two hundred...
Kutuzov Napoleon September 7, 1812: The Battle of Borodino is fought. Two hundred years ago on this day, over a hundred thousand soldiers from Napoleon’s Grand Armée met forces of around the same...
View Articleknow any good historical movies?
Tough question. Trying to think of some films that are both NOT egregiously historically inaccurate while still quality in terms of filmmaking. Mongol, Gangs of New York (a personal favorite), The Lion...
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Tough question. Trying to think of some films that are both NOT...
Tough question. Trying to think of some films that are both NOT egregiously historically inaccurate while still quality in terms of actual filmmaking. Mongol, Gangs of New York (a personal favorite),...
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September 8, 1941: The Siege of Leningrad begins. The battle...
Tsentralniy Gosudarstvenniy Arkhiv Kinofotofonodokunmentov Sankt-Peterburga collecting water Boris Kudoyarov, October 1942. September 8, 1941: The Siege of Leningrad begins. The battle over the city...
View Articledo ou get annoyed when people comment on your posts?
Comment as in reblog with a comment below? It depends on what they say. I love it when people connect a post to their own lives/families, or tell little anecdotes; in fact I actually encourage that...
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September 10, 1946: Mother Teresa receives her “call...
September 10, 1946: Mother Teresa receives her “call within the call”. On board a train from Calcutta to Darjeeling, Mother Teresa received a message (so she claimed) from God, and an epiphany of...
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September 11, 2001 9/11 was a reminder that the bonds of family...
AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova AP Photo/Matt Moyer AP Photo/Dan Loh September 15, 2001 September 11, 2001 9/11 was a reminder that the bonds of family can be severed in an...
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September 12, 1940: The Lascaux cave paintings are...
September 12, 1940: The Lascaux cave paintings are discovered. The discoverers of the celebrated Paleolithic cave paintings were four teenagers, who had stumbled upon the site while searching for...
View ArticleYou might want to read this: sciencesetavenir(.)nouvelobs(.)com /...
404 La page n’existe pas… EDIT: never mind, it works! Link. If you guys don’t have the time to read the article, it’s basically describing how they’re opening another exact replica of the entire...
View ArticleIt's also about the fact that our government isn't going to help the building...
Oops, that seems to be the main point of the article, which I missed. But how unfortunate… Hopefully they manage to raise funds regardless. Imagine if we lost something like the Lascaux caves simply...
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