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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

The Wolf:
You guys look like... What do they look like, Jimmie?

Jimmie:
Dorks. They look like a couple of dorks.

Jules:
Ha-ha-ha. They're your clothes, motherf***er.

🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 14 October 1994, #QuentinTarantino's #PULPFICTION got cineastes buzzing across the 🇺🇸

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

🇺🇸 #OTD in #History 14 October 1962, the origin of what became the #CubanMissileCrisis (16-28 October 1962) began when an American reconnaissance aircraft snapped photographs of Soviet ballistic nuclear missiles being installed in Cuba.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling
For you but not for he
Oh Death where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling?
Or grave thy victory?

🎭#OTD in #Theatre #History 14 October 1958, #BrendanBehan's play "The Hostage" premiered at Littlewood's Theatre Royal in Stratford, London.

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"A house is a machine for living in."

🏛️ #OTD in the #History of #Art and #Architecture 14 October 1952, highly influential Modernist building the Unité d’Habitation, designed by #LeCorbusier, was officially inaugurated in Marseille, France.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

🇺🇸 #OTD in #Aviation #History 14 October 1947, ace pilot and war hero #ChuckYeager was the first man to break the sound barrier, flying the Bell X-1.

airandspace.si.edu/stories/edit...

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

🐻 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 14 October 1926, #AAMilne's children's classic #WinnieThePooh was first published by Methuen & Co, London. The stories were illustrated by #EHShepard.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

🦅🇺🇸 #OTD in #History 14 October 1912, former US President #TheodoreRoosevelt was shot and wounded by John Flammang Schrank. Unshakeable Roosevelt took to the lectern and delivered his scheduled speech.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

🔎📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 14 October 1892, #ArthurConanDoyle's collection of 12 stories THE ADVENTURES OF #SHERLOCKHOLMES was published by George Newnes. The stories had first been serialised in The Strand Magazine.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

🇫🇷⚔️ #OTD in #History 14 October 1806, during the War of the Fourth Coalition, the French army of #Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeated the Prussian army at the famous Battles of Jena-Auerstedt.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

👑 #OTD in #History 14 October 1586, #MaryQueenOfScots went on trial for conspiracy against Queen #ElizabethI of England at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire.

www.tudorsociety.com/14-october-1...

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #OTD in #History 14 October 1322, #ScottishIndependence came a step closer at the #BattleofOldByland in Yorkshire, England, as the Scottish army of #RobertTheBruce defeated the English army of #EdwardII.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

👑⚔️ #OTD in #History 14 October 1066, at the #BattleOfHastings the invading #Norman forces of #WilliamTheConqueror defeated the #AngloSaxon forces of #HaroldII, who was killed in battle. England underwent a seismic political and cultural seachange as its new King seized power.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”

📚 #HaroldBloom, American literary critic, passed away #OTD 14 October 2019. #Literature

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."

🎶 Maestro #LeonardBernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor, #DOTD 14 October 1990.

▶️ youtu.be/Bj6KLv7kv2Q?si…

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other."

🎙️The great #BingCrosby passed away #OTD 14 October 1977. #Music #Film

▶️ youtu.be/gt7NdiFeYJA?si…

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon, it has such a sturdy constitution, that it is readily regarded as something natural even by its victims."

✒ #MarcelAymé, French author and playwright, #DOTD 14 October 1967. #Theatre #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."

Poems: mypoeticside.com/poets/randal...

✒ #RandallJarrell, American poet and author, #DOTD 14 October 1965. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"I remember Miss Weaver, in wool gloves, bringing Ulysses in type script to our tea table at Hogarth House."

📖 Political activist, editor, and patron to #JamesJoyce, #HarrietShawWeaver passed away #OTD 14 October 1961. #Literature #Politics

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

🎨 #AlbertDeVriendt, Flemish historical painter, #DOTD 14 October 1900. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;
Relive my languish, and restore the light."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/samuel...

✒ #SamuelDaniel, English poet, dramatist, and historian, #DOTD 14 October 1619. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"Elegy on the Death of Lady Jane Grey": somegreymatter.com/thomas-chalo...

✒️ Sir #ThomasChaloner, English statesman and poet, #DOTD 14 October 1565. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"They won't be able to take away my painful feeling, if they don't completely take away my sense first."

✒️⚔️ #GarcilasoDeLaVega, Spanish poet and diplomat, #DOTD 14 October 1536, from wounds sustained in battle in France. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

✒️ Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar, jurist, political philosopher, and Vizier of the Seljuk Empire, one of the great statesman in Islamic history, was assassinated #OTD 14 October 1092. #Politics #Philosophy

Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of #art is something that is really good for a person's soul."

🎭 Superb actor #BenWhishaw is 45 today. #Acting #Film #Theatre #Filmmaking

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 3h

"Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents."

🎭The late actor #RogerMoore, best known as #JamesBond, was #BOTD 14 October 1927. #TV #Film

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