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November 30, 2015
George II: “never mind the crash, send me a billion” (Snippets 45)
Originally posted on Windows into History:
Edward Matthew Ward’s interpretation of the “South Sea Bubble”, painted in the style of Hogarth more than a century after the events depicted.
In 1746, William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, became Prime Minister. He held the post for a grand total of two days. Admittedly, this is debatable as strictly speaking there was no official office of Prime Minister at the time, but there is no doubt that he occupies a very unusual place in history.
During the ea...
November 29, 2015
The Night Witches
Originally posted on The Night Witches were the world’s first all-female flight unit, a Sovietregiment who became feared amongst Nazi pilots during the Second World War.
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The 1,700 year old Roman and Byzantine-era mosaics of Lod.
Originally posted on The History of the Byzantine Empire:
The construction and modernization of Israeli infrastructure across fields, suburban blocks, highways and streets has seen an unprecedented wave of ancient structures and mosaics surface over the past few decades. This year alone, the archeological communities of Israel and news sites around the world have reported on a number of amazing discoveries, of which some of them have been reported here and here. One should not be surprised t...
November 28, 2015
Anne of Gloucester, Daughter of a Traitor
Originally posted on History... the interesting bits!:
Arms of Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford
Born sometime around 1382 Anne of Gloucester was the daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, and Eleanor de Bohun.
Anne’s parentage was impeccable. Her father was the youngest son of the late king Edward III and his queen Philippa of Hainault, making Anne first cousins with the 2 subsequent kings, Richard II and Henry IV. Along with Henry IV’s wife, Mary de Bohun, Anne’s...
November 27, 2015
Lou Henry Hoover: The Desk Story
Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:
In 1914 when World War I began in Europe, Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover were millionaires, living in a posh London townhouse.
The Millionaire Part
Neither of the Hoovers were born rich. Lou’s family were solidly middle class, but hardly wealthy. Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), on the other hand, was a poor farm boy completely orphaned by nine, and sent to live with relatives.
Herbert Hoover became a millionaire by the time he was thirty. It was al...
Newgrange Passage-Tomb, Co. Meath, Southern Ireland
Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:
Newgrange (photo by Shira – for Wikipedia).
OS grid reference O 0073 7272. The ancient megalithictomb complex of Newgrange in Co. Meath stands in the middle of a field, just north of the River Boyne (Bend of the Boyne),3 miles south-east of Slane, and is said to date from the Neolithic period over 5,000 years ago. The tomb is surrounded by a large stone circle of a similar age, thoughmany of the stones are missing.It can be reachedon countr...
November 25, 2015
The Forgotten Caricatures of Miguel Covarrubias
Originally posted on A R T LR K:
On the 22nd of November 1904, artist, art historian and anthropologist J. M. Covarrubias Duclaud (d. 1957) was born in Mexico City. Being offered a special government grant from his country at the age of 19, Covarrubias was able to move to New York in 1924 where his talent was quickly discovered by his compatriot poet Tablada and the New York Times critic and photographer Carl Van Vechten, who introduced him to the N.Y. ‘smart set’, opening up avenues to a v...
The Storyteller
Originally posted on History Witch:
Te Ata Fisher, also known as Mary Frances Thompson (1895-1995) was a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, and performed as a representative of Native Americans throughout the United States, including a state dinner for President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939.
She made her debut as a storyteller/performer when she was a senior in the Oklahoma College for Women- telling stories and singing songs from various Native American tribes. Soon after graduating, she to...
Profiling courage: The wisdom and compassion of John F. Kennedy.
Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:
Today is the 52nd anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, one of my personal and political heroes. The day on which he was shot by the solitary action of a small, petty, angry and otherwise insignificant man–Lee Harvey Oswald–was a very dark day for America and for the world. I wasn’t born when Kennedy was alive, but his vision for a compassionate and courageous democracy has inspired me for as long as I’ve been interested in p...
