The first devotional book written for women by a woman…and a singlewoman! *gasp*
Anne Wheathill, 1584
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April 25, 1917: Ella Fitzgerald is Born
On this day in 1917, Ella Fitzgerald, the “First Lady of Song,” was born in Newport News, Virginia. Fitzgerald dedicated her life to jazz and she won 13 Grammy Awards and sold over 40 million albums throughout her career.
Fitzgerald kicked off her jazz career after meeting musician Chick Webb and joining his band as his singer. She soon starting performing frequently at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. She soon became famous began as people came from all over to see her perform alongside Chick Webb.
She later gained the title as the “Queen of Jazz” due to signature skill in imitating instrumental sounds as she performed.
Learn more about Fitzgerald’s path to success with American Experience’s brief overview and timeline.
Image Caption: Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald by Carl Van Vechten 1940 (Library of Congress).
Well, crap.
Prehistoric shoes found in The Netherlands. +/- 500 BC.
Source: Leiden Museum of Antiquities
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2“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
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Know were you stand: Modern Day Locations blended with Major Historical Events by Seth Taras
1. The Hindenberg Disaster of May 6, 1937
2. Allied soldiers rushing the beach at Normandy in June 1944
3. The Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989
4. Adolf Hitler touring Paris and standing in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940
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Today is David Tennant’s birthday so we’re reblogging birthday wishes from off of the David Tennant tag on Tumblr.
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Do you know what this is? This is the opening page of the Book of Kells that is Free to view online thanks to Dublin’s Trinity College.
As part of the general celebration of St Patrick’s Day at Trinity, we would like to announce that the Book of Kells in its entirety is now viewable in the Library’s new Digital Collections online repository, provided by the Library’s Digital Resources and Imaging Services.
How cool is that?
“like a river flows surely to the sea,
darling so it goes, some things are meant to be.
take my hand, take my whole life too.”
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