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Gina Wilhelm
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Actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist.
I try to post happy fun things, but don't be surprised if I post/repost a lot of political stuff these days
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#OnThisDayInHistory, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" airs for the first time in 1965. CBS execs almost refuse to air it, but now it's a staple. What, CBS execs make a dumb decision? That's unpossible!
A still from "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Charlie Brown and Linus lean on a snow-covered stone wall. Charlie's mouth is open as he speaks, and he wears a red coat and brown hat. He leans his cheek on his left hand. Linus is sucking his right thumb and leans his cheek on his left hand, which is also holding his blue blanket. Linus wears an orange coat and green hat. There are round snowflakes falling around them.
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, Mary, Queen of Scots is born in 1542. It does not end well for her. But she does get a nursery rhyme out of it.
A painting of Mary, Queen of Scots. She is very pale and has a high lace collar. She wears a blue brocade top with yellow flowers. Her large sleeves have stripes of the blue-with-flowers material alternating with red. She has light red hair and wears a cap made of the same blue-with-flowers material. She also has a string of pearls knotted around her neck.
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, the US Patent Office grants Leo Baekeland a patent for the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite, in 1909. I bet ol' Leo didn't know we'd be making everything out of plastic!
A photo of a hand holding a yellow Bakelite bracelet. The yellow has gradations in color, so it almost looks like wood. There are two places where the bracelet flares to a greater width on opposite sides. The hand holds onto the upper left part of the bracelet.
December 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, two months after the launch of Sputnik, the Americans attempt to launch Vanguard 3, which rises four feet off the launchpad and blows up, in 1957. The press dub it "Kaputnik" and "Flopnik." They're so FUNNY.
A photo of the Vanguard 3 rocket exploding. The rocket leans towards the gantry, and the bottom is engulfed in yellow and orange flames and black smoke.
December 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, Flight 19, made up of 5 bombers on a training mission, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945. Spooky!
A black-and-white photo of 5 bombers. They are in a formation, going diagonally across the photo from lower left and closest to the viewer to upper right and furthest from the viewer. Each plane has a single propeller and a large glass canopy. On the body of the plane, between the wings and the tail, is an insignia with a white star inside a black circle flanked by white rectangles on either side.
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, a jam session breaks out between Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins at Sun Records in Memphis, dubbed the "Million Dollar Quartet," in 1967. Hey, let's write a play about it!
A black-and-white photo of, left to right, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Elvis is seated at a piano, and is looking up at Johnny Cash. Perkins, Cash, and Lewis are all standing and looking at something on the piano. Cash is wearing all black and holds a guitar. There is acoustic tile on the wall behind them.
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, "A Streetcar Named Desire" opens on Broadway in 1947. Stella! Stella!!!!!!
A picture of Marge Simpson in "O, Streetcar!" She stands in the doorway of a cutout of a streetcar, smiling and waving. She wears a light blue dress with a white lace collar and a cap with a veil on top of her trademark tall blue hair. Several different hands wave to her in the foreground.
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, the Environmental Protection Agency opens in 1970. Back when we thought rivers catching fire was a bad thing.
The logo of the Environmental Protection Agency. A blue circle with a scalloped green stripe. The scalloping makes the bottom blue portion of the circle look like water. There is a white circle above the straight top line of the green stripe. Below the blue circle is a stem and four leaves, one white and one green on either side of the stem. There are words in a circle around this plant logo. "United States" is written across the top. "Environmental Protection Agency" is written on the bottom.
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, police responding to reports of a gunman come face-to-face with a cardboard cutout of Denzel Washington inside a video store in Lilly, PA, in 1991. They use the experience as a training day. But the cutout wasn't from "Training Day." That would have been too confusing.
A photo of Denzel Washington. He has an Edwardian beard/mustache and short hair. He is wearing a black sweater and a gold chain. He looks to the left of the camera and appears to be lit by the sun. The distorted reflection of power lines is seen behind him.
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, Galileo begins observing the moon in 1609. I hope he cleaned all the man-shaped blurs off his telescope lens!
A still of Mr. Lunas from "Rick and Morty." He is a cartoon man with a black unibrow and receding hairline. He has a mustache, light gray shirt, and dark gray jacket and pants. He is caught in mid-step, and his expression is startled. He stands on the moon's surface.
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, Godzilla gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his 50th birthday in 2004. He looks amazing, what's his skin routine?!
A picture of Godzilla with his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The large lizard stands on a red carpet. In a hole in the carpet, the Walk of Fame star can be seen. Godzilla's feet are on either side of the star. He holds a plaque in his "hands" recognizing his achievement. There is a star at the top of the plaque. Godzilla's mouth is open as if he's roaring or smiling.
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway in 1582. She looks amazing, what's her skin routine?!
A photo of actress Anne Hathaway. She has big brown eyes and brown hair framing her face. It disappears down her back. She has a big smile and silver jeweled earrings on her earlobes and up where the top of her ear meets her face. The straps of her blue-and-purple dress are visible on her shoulders. The background is blurred behind her.
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, Pope Francis releases a prog rock album featuring his words over guitar riffs and synths, in 2015. To think, you can find His Holiness in the record bin right next to Genesis!
The cover of Pope Francis' prog rock album, "Wake Up!" The pope is smiling and waving with his right hand. He is wearing his white vestments and skullcap, and the words "Pope Francis 'Wake Up!'" are printed above his outstretched arm.
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, the first instant Land camera, now known as Polaroid, goes on sale in 1948. I feel an Outkast song coming on....
A photo of a Polaroid Land camera. The lens sits in a metal plate, which is connected to a large rectangular brown body by a long bellows. The camera sits on a blue surface, and a green lawn and landscaping are out of focus in the far distance.
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens on London's West End in 1952. It's still running, making it the world's longest-running play. It just keeps going and going and going and going....
The front of a building with classical columns in between windows. In front of the columns is a neon sign reading "The Mousetrap." Above this is the words "Agatha Christie's," and below it is "70th Year." All words are in red neon except for "70th," which is in larger letters than the word "Year." All the neon words are surrounded by a red neon rectangle. Down the right-hand side of the building are the words "St. Martin's."
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, Eisenhower's plane, Columbine III, is officially christened as Air Force One in 1954. But Gary Oldman was never thrown off it.
The Columbine III, a Lockheed VC-121E. It is a silver propeller plane shown in profile. There are two propellers on the visible wing. The nose of the plane is black. The plane is in front of a hangar with the Air Force insignia on the front of it.
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, John Herrington becomes the first Native American in space when he embarks on a mission to the International Space Station in 2002. He brings an eagle feather and traditional wooden flute with him. I'm not clear on if he played the flute in space or not. #ItsAboutDamnTime
A photo of John Herrington in his astronaut uniform. He is smiling at the camera and has close-cropped dark hair. His uniform is white and has an American flag patch on the left upper arm and a blue, white, and gold patch on the right upper arm. There is a big square component to the uniform behind his head. There is also a small white hose coming out of the open neck of the suit.
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, 20-year-old Mike Tyson knocks out Trevor Berbick to become the youngest heavyweight boxing champion ever, in 1986. This was pre-tattoo, of course.
Mike Tyson punches Trevor Berbick's left cheek with his right hand. Both men are wearing red boxing gloves, and Berbick has black trunks. Berbick's right hand is up near his chin, and his left arm is extended to his side.
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, George Washington orders General Lee to New Jersey in 1776. Vroom!
A photo of the General Lee car jumping across the screen. The orange 1969 Dodge Charger is at an angle in the air with the sun behind it. It has the number "01" painted on the door. There is dirt streaming out behind the car where it jumped off a ramp. Tree branches are in the background behind the car.
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, "The Day After," a made-for-TV movie about a nuclear bomb being dropped on Kansas, airs on ABC in 1983. I think I made it about 10 minutes before getting too freaked out to finish.
The poster for "The Day After." A giant mushroom cloud looms over a road that stretches into the distance over some hills. A child is running down the road. The poster is in reds and yellows. It is, as Reagan put it, depressing.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, CBS bans a Calvin Klein jeans ad featuring a 15-year-old Brooke Shields for being too suggestive in 1980. I feel like they might have had a point.
A photo of Brooke Shields She is wearing form-fitting blue jeans and stands with her right leg bent and her left leg straight. She is bent over at the waist and wears a brown blouse that she holds closed at the center, exposing her belly. She has long brown hair and looks into the camera. Across the bottom of the photo are the words "Calvin Klein Jeans" in white letters.
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, Abraham Lincoln travels to Gettysburg to give his famous address in 1863. Contrary to popular belief, he did not write the address on an envelope while on the train. Sorry.
A black-and-white photo. A steam train is on the left-hand side of the picture, with tracks coming towards the viewer. Two people stand on top of one of the train cars. There is a building in the background in the center of the picture, and people gathered around the front of the building and at the side of the train.
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, the Elizabethan Age begins in 1558. "We're called Elizabethans, they're all a bunch of heathens!"
A crowd of people in Elizabethan dress. In the center of the page, some men are carrying a litter with Queen Elizabeth in it. It has a white lacy canopy. Most of the people in the picture are men, but there is one woman in a light-colored dress at the far right side of the picture. There are hills and buildings in the background
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, "The Sound of Music" premieres on Broadway in 1959. In real life, the oldest von Trapp was a boy, and you don't just walk to Switzerland, but it makes for a good story. BTW, my production of "The Sound of Music" opens November 28. @redcurtainwa.bsky.social
A publicity photo from the original production of "The Sound of Music." Mary Martin is smiling on the left side of the photo. She has short strawberry blonde hair and holds a sunburst guitar. She wears a light gray dress with dark embellishments down the front. Seven children of different ages are wearing sailor suits and smiling at her.
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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#OnThisDayInHistory, a grilled cheese sandwich with what appears to be an image of the Virgin Mary sells on eBay for $28,000 in 2004. It is said to be 10 years old (at the time) and had never sprouted mold. Incorruptible sandwich!
A triangle of grilled bread with a bite missing from the bottom. The dark parts of the bread are in a shape that resembles a feminine human face. It sort of looks like Madeline Kahn.
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM