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1916
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"Fear...is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway."

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2018-12-15

Happy birthday Shirley Jackson, born in 1916. Jackson was the master of horror and suspense, authoring the infamous short story THE LOTTERY and the novel recently adapted for Netflix, THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE 🏚️

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2018-12-15


“Fear is the relinquishment of logic... We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
–Shirley Jackson (1916–1965)
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2018-12-14

Thomas Tenison died 14 December 1715. He was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1694 until his death. Portrait from Lambeth Palace.

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2018-12-15

'Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul': celebrating Emily Carr, painter, writer and environmentalist, champion of Canadian aboriginal culture. born OTD in 1871

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2018-12-14

Il si festeggia la martire cristiana, morta durante le persecuzioni di Diocleziano a Siracusa.

Nella Pinacoteca dei potete ammirare questo olio su tavola del Garofalo che raffigura la santa.

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2018-12-13

Inside a gipsy caravan, Latimer Road by W. H. Overend, published in The Illustrated London News in 1879

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2018-12-13

Spanish edition of Gustave Flaubert's novel of marital malaise, Madame Bovary. The French novelist was born in 1821.

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2018-12-12

Two Women at the Seashore (1898, Norwegian print, colour woodcut) by Edvard Munch, who was born in 1863. A change from The Scream, but still an eerily disturbing picture.

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2018-12-12

Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, was born in 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey to Italian parents. Weighing an eye watering 13 lb 5oz at birth his forceps delivery caused scarring to his neck, cheek & ear.

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2018-12-12

Edward VIII abdicated 1936. Here as Prince of Wales in June 1935 reviewing messenger boys at the Central Telegraph Office in London, now the site of BT Centre, launching "telegraph Week" and a 50% reduction in telegram charges. https://t.co/cczTUeRWnI …

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2018-12-11

Discovered in 1912, in Amarna, Egypt, the painted, limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti, wife of Pharoah, Akhenaten. The bust can now be seen at the Altes Museum, Berlin Photo from the Photo Researchers collection

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2018-12-07

7 December 1697, Louis de France, Duc de Bourgogne, marries Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie at Versailles. The groom was a grandchild of Louis XIV, the bride a grandchild of Monsieur. They were the parents of Louis XV.

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2018-12-07

Postcard of Edmundo Ros's club at 177 Regent Street in the 1950s, drawn by Arthur Ferrier. Ros was born in 1910 and was credited with popularising Latin music in the UK.

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2018-12-07

in 1976 Kitty O'Neil, deaf from age 5, became the fastest woman alive, driving a 3-wheeled rocket car at 512.710 mph, a record which still stands. Stuntwoman on the Wonder Woman TV show, she was the first female member of Hollywood's Stunts Unlimited. https://t.co/CvHESyPRAL

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2018-12-06

Born 1830, Christina Georgina Rossetti, English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems and also the words to this carol. Artist: Marta C. Bowerley Lettering by: V. Wilson
©Medici Evans

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2018-12-05

Nurse born 4 Dec 1865 & helped over 200 allied soldiers to escape from occupied Belgium. Shot for treason by the Germans in 1915, the return of her coffin to saw thousands of people line the streets to pay their respects.

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2018-12-05

The lost Lon Chaney classic LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT was released in 1927.

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2018-12-03