March 28, 1936: General Douglas MacArthur joined the Scottish Rite, receiving the 32nd Degree at Gaumata Consistory in the Philippines.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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1936: Birth Patrick Procktor RA.👨‍🎨! Moved to London as boy.👨‍🎓 ! Princess Margaret loved his work! "The Guardian Readers" cover 's 1976 album Blue Moves! Friend of David Hockney/Jimi Hendrix! https://t.co/VcKpwaIr8n

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January 14, 1936: General Douglas MacArthur was made a "Mason at Sight" in the Philippines.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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Fact The tweet announcing Angry Birds Journey's worldwide release refers to it as the "first slingshot game in seven years." This is not true, as (not counting smaller releases) Angry Birds 2, Isle of Pigs & Reloaded all released less than 7 years ago.

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November 18, 1936: Aleister Crowley began cutting some wax 78rpm records of himself reciting invocations and poetry.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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March 28, 1936: General Douglas MacArthur joined the Scottish Rite, receiving the 32nd Degree at Gaumata Consistory in the Philippines.
By Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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1936: Birth Patrick Procktor RA.👨‍🎨! Moved to London as boy.👨‍🎓 ! Princess Margaret loved his work! "The Guardian Readers" cover 's 1976 album Blue Moves! Friend of David Hockney/Jimi Hendrix! https://t.co/VcKpwaIr8n

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December 2, 1936: Atanas Fedynec (pseud. Fruci), physician & painter, is born in Užhorod 🇺🇦 († 2012). He was an accomplished painter of landscapes, portraits & still-lifes, & worked primarily in a variant of expressionism. Virtually all his subjects are drawn from his homeland.

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From 1929 until 1941, Bull was exclusively “the man who shot Garbo.” The one exception was in 1930 when MGM execs wanted new portraitist hire George Hurrell to take her photos for Romance. She hated the experience and called Hurrell “that crazy man.” More Garbo by Bull, 1936:

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Incredibly talented Phoebe Anna Traquair died in 1936: painter, enamellist, illuminator, embroiderer, jewellery-maker, book-binder. Tours of her spectacular murals at The Song School, St Mary's Cathedral & Mansfield Traquair Centre are on during Edinburgh Festival

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Daily thing Fanart of Coral from The underworld enemies never failed to delight, baffle, and occasionally frighten me.

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Jesse Owens (1913-80)
1936: Jeux Olympiques de Berlin
4 médailles d'or (100 m+200 m+4 x100 m+saut longueur), dvt Hitler et ls caméras de Leni Riefenstahl.
Période ségrégationniste aux EU.
A son retour de Berlin, Owens n'est pas reçu à la maison Blanche com ses coéquipiers blancs

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1936: Record-breaking French aviator Jean Mermoz and his crew of four while flying mail from Argentina to France. No trace of the Latécoère 300 or the men has ever been found.

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Sep 15, 1936: Alpine Tavern was destroyed by fire. postcard (in the Online Archive of CA): https://t.co/HmKoHhahjA

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August 3rd 1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 m at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. http://t.co/krZEjSShDr

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