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[2] Many Jews chose to commit suicide rather than be murdered or forcibly baptised by the rabid attackers.
I studied in York for three years. Around the anniversary they plant daffodils, whose six-pointed shape echoes the Star of David, around the tower mound in memoriam.
🗡 #OnThisDay in #History 16 March 1190 in #York, England, THE MASSACRE AT CLIFFORD’S TOWER took place.
One of the worst anti-Semitic massacres of the Middle Ages, the city’s entire Jewish community was trapped by an angry mob inside the tower of York Castle. [1]
@PenguinUKBooks Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass; and George Eliot - Middlemarch. Great writing on the sheer joy of nature in springtime.
“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happy Hour.”
🎞 #OnThisDay in #Film #History 25 January 1970, #RobertAltman's black #comedy classic M*A*S*H, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, was released. It won the #Cannes Palme d'Or.
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." ✒ Canadian literary critic, theorist and scholar #NorthropFrye passed away #onthisday 23 January 1991. #Literature
"A home is not dead, but living, and like all living things must obey the laws of nature by constantly changing." 🎨 Swedish painter #CarlLarsson passed away #onthisday 22 January 1919. #Art #Painting
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." ✒ English writer #AAMilne, author of the #WinnieThePooh book series, was born #onthisday 18 January 1882. #Literature #WinnieThePoohDay
Inside this week’s issue of @NewYorker: [https://t.co/nZ6978G3H0]
🎨 Italian Renaissance artist Domenico #Ghirlandaio, who ran a thriving workshop in which #Michelangelo was an apprentice, passed away #onthisday 11 January 1494. #Art #ArtHistory #Painting
✒ The late, great @NewYorker cartoonist #LeoCullum was born #onthisday 11 January 1942. #Art #Illustration