I usually don’t post silly things like this, but…...
I usually don’t post silly things like this, but… help. This is my new favorite version, by the way.
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It would take many books, my life, and no one wants anyway to...
It would take many books, my life, and no one wants anyway to hear such stories. (I was taking pictures of the chapter illustrations for this comic book because my scanner broke (and then I cleaned...
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September 24, 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald is born. You...
September 24, 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald is born. You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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September 25, 1957: Little Rock Central High School is...
Elizabeth Eckford September 25, 1957: Little Rock Central High School is integrated. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in the monumental case Brown v. Board of Education that separate but equal...
View Articlewhat's the new painting you have as your background?
It’s another Turner painting; it’s Fishermen at Sea. I think I’ll be changing it every few weeks or something, though, because there are a lot of paintings I’d like to use.
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Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Rage has twisted Into...
Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Rage has twisted Into minotaurs, harpies Relentlessly swift; So you must walk past the pincers, The swaying horns, Sister, sister, Straight through the gusts Of...
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September 26, 1888: T.S. Eliot is born. Thomas Stearns Eliot was...
September 26, 1888: T.S. Eliot is born. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis to the old and distinguished Eliot family of Boston. Later in his life, Eliot listed his birthplace and native state...
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September 27, 1962: Silent Spring is published. Fifty years...
Los Angeles Times Archive/UCLA September 27, 1962: Silent Spring is published. Fifty years ago, a marine biologist named Rachel Carson published a controversial book on the harmful nature of...
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Wow, thank you for following, guys! I was meaning to catch this...
Wow, thank you for following, guys! I was meaning to catch this one, but I missed it. But yes, thanks!! I repeat the sentiment I expressed when I hit my last milestone - the fact that people other than...
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September 29, 1571: Caravaggio is born. There was art before...
The Calling of Matthew, 1610. David with the Head of Goliath, 1607. Penitent Magdalene, 1595. St. John the Baptist, 1604. Narcissus, 1594. Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1598 Still Life with Fruit,...
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September 30, 1955: James Dean is killed in a car crash. James...
September 30, 1955: James Dean is killed in a car crash. James Dean was twenty-four-years old when he crashed his Porsche nearly head-on with another car on the way to an auto rally in Salinas. He was...
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October 1, 331 BC: Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at...
Andre Castaigne Darius III at Issus, mosaic. October 1, 331 BC: Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at the Battle of Gaugamela. Also called the Battle of Arbela, this clash between a...
View ArticleThank you for existing in this internet world! Much appreciate your posts and...
Thank you so much!! And thank you for following :)
View Articlefor recommended blogs you left out: refinedjester, theoddmentemporium,...
Yeah, my rec list is a little outdated. I’ll add those blogs; thanks for the input.
View ArticleIf you do ads, Google ads are the ONLY ones that pay decently! Trust me!
I don’t know… I guess it’d be nice to make something off here, but eurghh, ads look ugly, to be blunt. I’ll do some more research into this whole ads thing later.
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October 2, 1950: The first strip of Charles M....
October 2, 1950: The first strip of Charles M. Shulz’s Peanuts is published. By the end of its run, nearly 18,000 strips of the comic had been published.
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20th/21st century presidential campaign posters. Happy election...
Calvin Coolidge, 1924. Adlai Stevenson, 1952. Bobby Kennedy, 1968. Eugene McCarthy, 1968. Richard Nixon, 1968. George McGovern, 1972. Jimmy Carter, 1976. Ronald Reagan, 1984. 20th/21st century...
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October 3, 1942: The V-2 rocket becomes the first man-made...
V-2 on display in Trafalgar Square, 1945 post-war October 3, 1942: The V-2 rocket becomes the first man-made object to reach space. At the time of this launch, the V-2 was called the A-4...
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October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1. Sputnik 1...
October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1. Sputnik 1 (“Satellite” or “Companion” 1) was mankind’s first artificial satellite; its successful launch from the Site No. 1 launchpad in...
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