In 1918, the last known Carolina parakeet (the only parrot species native to the eastern USA) died in Cincinnati Zoo; declared extinct in 1939. All evidence points to human activities (e.g. deforestation) being the main reason for their extinction.

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In 1918, US-astrophysicist Dr Harlow Shapley proved that globular clusters are arranged in a halo whose centre is of the galaxy: he realized that The Milky Way is far larger than previously-believed; supporting The Copernican principle: the Earth is not the centre of anything.

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Wassup gang, please say hello to-
The Carolina Parakeet!

Up until 1918, the United States had our own parrot! The exact cause of their disappearance isn't fully known, but is often contributed to habitat loss.

-Plate 26 of John James Audubon/Robert Havell Jr., 1827

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Anita Stewart, Photoplay, December 1918, by Rolf Armstrong

She was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era. She authored the murder mystery novel The Devil's Toy, published in New York in 1935 by E.P. Dutton.

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Enric Serra i Auqué, 1858 - 1918, Catalan painter - The Idol

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Neste dia, a 12 de Abril de 1918, a polícia de Moscovo, sob ordens do governo bolchevique, atacou 26 centros anarquistas na cidade, incluindo a sede da Federação de Grupos Anarquistas de Moscovo.

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1 April 1918, Royal Flying Corps & Royal Naval Air Service merged to form first autonomous air force in world. New service had its own ministry under Secretary of State for Air. It was most powerful air force in world with nearly 300,000 personnel & nearly 23,000 aircraft.

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Dues maternitats molt marineres. La primera, Maria o Mirentxu d’Aurelio Arteta, 1918, davant d’un port Atlàntic. I la segona, la de Joaquim Sunyer, de 1909, q es conserva al ,amb un mar Mediterrani.

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1918, I Guerra Mondiale. Nella notte a cavallo con il per otto ore la città è colpita da incursioni aeree austro-tedesche che non risparmiano l’Arsenale e numerose chiese. Si contano circa 300 bombe che provocano 52 morti e 84 feriti

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😥No war😥
yuki is returning his horrible traumas and fears of war what is happening now He is afraid to remember what He is afraid of remembering what happened in 1918, the Bolshevik revolution, yuki's parents and Alize decapitated him

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"View of Mt. Rainier
Grafton Tyler Brown (United States, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1841-1918, active United States, California)
United States, 1886
Paintings
Oil on canvas mounted to masonite
Frame: 21 × 26 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (53.34 × 67.95 × 9.53 cm)"
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This is Gustav Klimt's "The Bride (Unfinished)", 1918, and it proves that bums can be stunning even if they're not complete 👍🏛️🍑

The painting was left in his studio when he died 6 Feb 1918, and now lives at the Klimt Foundation in Vienna 😁

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"The Dance" by Henri Matisse: commissioned by Russian aristocrat Sergei Shchukin in 1910, confiscated by Soviet decree in 1918, languished for much of the 20th century, now given pride of place at the Hermitage in St Petersburg, Russia. Ah, the life of paintings!

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Richard Woodville - ‘We saw you going, but we knew you would come back’ Entry of the 5th Lancers into Mons, 11th November 1918, 1919.

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On this day in 1918, the armistice was signed.
William Nicholson’s Armistice Night was spent in the Café Royal in Piccadilly, where he made the sketch for this painting. His son, John Anthony, had been killed in action just weeks before.

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11 novembre 397 : Enterrement de Saint Martin de Tours, l'un des saints patrons de la France et le saint patron des soldats.

Cette date fut choisie symboliquement par les négociateurs de l'armistice de 1918, au regard du culte dont il faisait l'objet de part et d'autre du Rhin.

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Tal día como hoy, en 1918, nació Rita Hayworth. Buen día para recordarla, con estas portadas de dos libros de en los que he tenido el placer de colaborar.

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Un día como hoy de 1918, a la corta edad de 31 años, falleció el artista Saturnino Herrán.

Destacado pintor mexicano del indigenismo, seguidor del modernismo pictórico e iniciador del muralismo; retrató en sus pinturas un imaginario de lo nacional.

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