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Wow!! How unlucky, or lucky in her case, you can be.
History, anything goes, including pictures
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Wow!! How unlucky, or lucky in her case, you can be.
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When we visited the Peter and Paul Cathedral, their remains are interred there.
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Bette Davis always mesmerised me, particularly in All About Eve and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? where the intensely bitter Hollywood rivalry between the film's two stars, Davis and Crawford, was heavily important to the film's initial success.
According to the LA Times, when Davis received word of her rival Joan Crawford's heart attack and subsequent death in 1977, she allegedly said, "You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
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Nicholas II of Russia with the family (left to right): Olga, Maria, Nicholas II, Alexandra Fyodorovna, Anastasia, Alexei, and Tatiana. Livadiya, 1913. Portrait by the Levitsky Studio, Livadiya. Today the original photograph is held at the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
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The modern history of climate change.
mellowyellow
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Such a handsome-looking familyNicholas II of Russia with the family (left to right): Olga, Maria, Nicholas II, Alexandra Fyodorovna, Anastasia, Alexei, and Tatiana. Livadiya, 1913. Portrait by the Levitsky Studio, Livadiya. Today the original photograph is held at the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
mellowyellow
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February 23
1954 1st mass inoculation against Polio with the Jonas Salk vaccine takes place at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh
Nationality: American
Why Famous: Discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine.
When the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered the most frightening public health problem of the post-war United States.
He was uninterested in personal profit and when asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
Born: October 28, 1914
Birthplace: NYC, New York, USA
Generation: Greatest Generation
1954 1st mass inoculation against Polio with the Jonas Salk vaccine takes place at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh
Nationality: American
Why Famous: Discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine.
When the Salk vaccine was introduced, polio was considered the most frightening public health problem of the post-war United States.
He was uninterested in personal profit and when asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
Born: October 28, 1914
Birthplace: NYC, New York, USA
Generation: Greatest Generation
RadishRose
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I didn't know he never got a patent and why. A great man!
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1963-02-23 Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at the Vienna State Opera in "La traviata"
Birthplace: Modena, Italy
Died: September 6, 2007 (aged 71)
Luciano Pavarotti
Born: October 12, 1935Birthplace: Modena, Italy
Died: September 6, 2007 (aged 71)
mellowyellow
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I absolutely adore this man, I have most of his clips of songs with famous people, including 'My Way' with Frank Sinatra.1963-02-23 Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at the Vienna State Opera in "La traviata"
Luciano Pavarotti
Born: October 12, 1935
Birthplace: Modena, Italy
Died: September 6, 2007 (aged 71)
Lewkat
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San Francisco, CA earthquake, early 1900s.
RadishRose
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I would love to hear that! If you think of it sometime would you PM that clip to me? I'd be most grateful.
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An amazing achievement. Hope the new COVID-19 vaccines are just as successful.
The most famous victim of a 1921 outbreak in America was future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then a young politician. The disease spread quickly, leaving his legs permanently paralysed. In the late 1940s, the March of Dimes, a grassroots organisation founded with President Roosevelt’s help to find a way to defend against polio, enlisted Dr. Jonas Salk, head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. Salk found that polio had as many as 125 strains of three basic types, and that an effective vaccine needed to combat all three. By growing samples of the polio virus and then deactivating, or “killing” them by adding a chemical called formalin, Salk developed his vaccine, which was able to immunise without infecting the patient.
“Polio Pioneer No. 1” receives an injection in a Salk polio vaccine field trial, 1954.
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532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the rebuilding of the Hagia Sophia, the famous Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey).
Hagia Sophia was a Greek Orthodox Christian church, later an imperial mosque and more recently a museum in Istanbul. From the date of its construction in 537 AD, and until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was later converted into an Ottoman mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularised and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.
Hagia Sophia was a Greek Orthodox Christian church, later an imperial mosque and more recently a museum in Istanbul. From the date of its construction in 537 AD, and until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was later converted into an Ottoman mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularised and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.
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23 February 1886 – 22-year-old Charles Martin Hall produced his first samples of man-made aluminum, using a relatively inexpensive method. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
After failing to find financial backing at home in Ohio, Hall went to Pittsburgh where he made contact with the noted metallurgist Alfred E. Hunt. They formed the Reduction Company of Pittsburgh which opened the first large-scale aluminum production plants. The Reduction Company later became the Aluminum Company of America, then Alcoa. Hall was a major stockholder, and became very wealthy.
Today, Alcoa is the world’s eighth largest producer of aluminum, with its corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries.
After failing to find financial backing at home in Ohio, Hall went to Pittsburgh where he made contact with the noted metallurgist Alfred E. Hunt. They formed the Reduction Company of Pittsburgh which opened the first large-scale aluminum production plants. The Reduction Company later became the Aluminum Company of America, then Alcoa. Hall was a major stockholder, and became very wealthy.
Today, Alcoa is the world’s eighth largest producer of aluminum, with its corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries.
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23 February 1994 – Jimmy Tambo, an indigenous Australian exploited by PT Barnum’s travelling circus, is finally laid to rest, 110 years after he died.
Jimmy Tambo was an Australian Aborigine who was lured, some say kidnapped, along with 17 Indigenous men, and performed in the Barnum & Bailey Circus under the name Tambo Tambo who died of pneumonia at the age of 23. 109 years later, his mummified body was found by staff in the basement of J.C. Smith’s funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio.
Tambo, likely the man sitting second from right, was one of an Aboriginal group who were Barnum & Bailey Circus performers in the 1800s.
It is unclear for how long Tambo remained as a mummified exhibit. What is known is that in October 1993, his remains were discovered and identified. Three representatives from Palm Island travelled to the United States to bring Tambo home. On 23 February 1994, 110 years after his death, Tambo was finally laid to rest in a traditional ceremony on the island.
Jimmy Tambo was an Australian Aborigine who was lured, some say kidnapped, along with 17 Indigenous men, and performed in the Barnum & Bailey Circus under the name Tambo Tambo who died of pneumonia at the age of 23. 109 years later, his mummified body was found by staff in the basement of J.C. Smith’s funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio.
Tambo, likely the man sitting second from right, was one of an Aboriginal group who were Barnum & Bailey Circus performers in the 1800s.
It is unclear for how long Tambo remained as a mummified exhibit. What is known is that in October 1993, his remains were discovered and identified. Three representatives from Palm Island travelled to the United States to bring Tambo home. On 23 February 1994, 110 years after his death, Tambo was finally laid to rest in a traditional ceremony on the island.
mellowyellow
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No problem Radish
Luciano Pavarotti Frank Sinatra My Way
and you can find other popular people he sang with here.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Duets-LUCIANO-PAVAROTTI/dp/B001DCQIBE
mellowyellow
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Magnificent.532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the rebuilding of the Hagia Sophia, the famous Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey).
Hagia Sophia was a Greek Orthodox Christian church, later an imperial mosque and more recently a museum in Istanbul. From the date of its construction in 537 AD, and until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was later converted into an Ottoman mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularised and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.
mellowyellow
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The historic handing back of Hong Kong to China by Britain has ultimately lead to an exodus to the West
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February 24
1868 US House of Representatives vote 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson
Political Party: Democratic
Political Titles: Vice President, Governor of Tennessee
Why Famous: Johnson became President after Lincoln's assassination in 1865. Johnson's presidency began the period of Reconstruction in the South, after the Confederacy was defeated and restored to the Union.
His opposition to rights for African Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War is widely criticized and he is generally regarded as one of the worst presidents in American history.
1868 US House of Representatives vote 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson
Political Party: Democratic
Political Titles: Vice President, Governor of Tennessee
Why Famous: Johnson became President after Lincoln's assassination in 1865. Johnson's presidency began the period of Reconstruction in the South, after the Confederacy was defeated and restored to the Union.
His opposition to rights for African Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War is widely criticized and he is generally regarded as one of the worst presidents in American history.
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"His opposition to rights for African Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War is widely criticized and he is generally regarded as one of the worst presidents in American history."
Wonder how Donald Trump will rate in years to come.
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24 February 1743 – Joseph Banks, English botanist and explorer is born.
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. It was Banks’s time in Australia that led to his interest in the British colonisation of the continent. He was to be the greatest proponent of settlement in New South Wales.
Banks made his name on the 1766 natural history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook’s first great voyage 1768–1771, visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and, after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. He held the position of President of the Royal Society for over 41 years. He advised King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and by sending botanists around the world to collect plants, he made Kew the world’s leading botanical gardens.
Banks is credited with introducing the eucalyptus, acacia, and the genus named after him, Banksia, to the Western world. Approximately 80 species of plants bear his name.
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. It was Banks’s time in Australia that led to his interest in the British colonisation of the continent. He was to be the greatest proponent of settlement in New South Wales.
Banks made his name on the 1766 natural history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James Cook’s first great voyage 1768–1771, visiting Brazil, Tahiti, and, after 6 months in New Zealand, Australia, returning to immediate fame. He held the position of President of the Royal Society for over 41 years. He advised King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and by sending botanists around the world to collect plants, he made Kew the world’s leading botanical gardens.
Banks is credited with introducing the eucalyptus, acacia, and the genus named after him, Banksia, to the Western world. Approximately 80 species of plants bear his name.
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24 February 1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany founded on 24 February 1920. The party was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism.
Emblem of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Adolf Hitler became party leader in 1921 and was appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. He then rapidly set about establishing a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich. Following the defeat of the Third Reich at the conclusion of World War II in Europe, the party was “declared to be illegal” by the Allied powers, who carried out denazification in the years after the war.
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany founded on 24 February 1920. The party was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism.
Emblem of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Adolf Hitler became party leader in 1921 and was appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. He then rapidly set about establishing a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich. Following the defeat of the Third Reich at the conclusion of World War II in Europe, the party was “declared to be illegal” by the Allied powers, who carried out denazification in the years after the war.
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24 February 1955 – Steve Jobs, American businessman, who co-founded Apple and Pixar is born.
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world.
Steven Paul Jobs (24 February 1955 – 5 October 2011) was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the chairman, chief executive officer, and a co-founder of Apple Inc., CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognised as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world.
Steven Paul Jobs (24 February 1955 – 5 October 2011) was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the chairman, chief executive officer, and a co-founder of Apple Inc., CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognised as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
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It took them 19 years of plotting and trying to figure how they would rule the world before they made their move on Poland.24 February 1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany founded on 24 February 1920. The party was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism.
Emblem of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Adolf Hitler became party leader in 1921 and was appointed Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. He then rapidly set about establishing a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich. Following the defeat of the Third Reich at the conclusion of World War II in Europe, the party was “declared to be illegal” by the Allied powers, who carried out denazification in the years after the war.