Nathan Francis
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Passionate about #Art and #Culture. UK Interested in #Arts #Comedy #Film #History #Literature #Philosophy #Tech
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#America at 250

Wake Up, #RipVanWinkle

#WashingtonIrving’s story isn’t just about a very long nap. It’s about the making of America.

By John Swansburg

#Folklore #Literature #History

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Wake Up, Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving’s story isn’t just about a very long nap. It’s about the making of America.
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"You think I'm not serious just because I carry a rabbit?"

🐇 #OTD in #Film #History 12 Oct 2012, #MartinMcDonagh's black comedy "Seven Psychopaths," starring #ColinFarrell, #SamRockwell, #ChristopherWalken, #WoodyHarrelson, and #TomWaits, was released in 🇺🇸
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“Do not drink too much. Do you hear me? I don't want you passing out or going to the dark side. No going to the dark side!”

🍷 #OTD in #Film #History 12 Oct 2004, #AlexanderPayne's wine-soaked "Sideways," starring #ThomasHadenChurch and #PaulGiamatti, premiered in Beverly Hills
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“It'll be just like in the movies. Pretending to be somebody else.”

🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 12 October 2001, #DavidLynch's mind-bending surreal neo-noir MULHOLLAND DRIVE, starring #NaomiWatts, #LauraHarring, and #JustinTheroux, was released in 🇺🇸
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"You kids shouldn't play so rough. Somebody's gonna start cryin'."

💎 #OTD in #Film #History 12 Oct 1992, #QuentinTarantino's ultra-stylish feature debut "Reservoir Dogs," starring a great ensemble of colour-coded character actors, hit hard at its New York premiere.
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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 12 Oct 1979, #DouglasAdams' classic #scifi novel THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY was first published in 🇬🇧
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✒️ #OTD in the #History of #Poetry 12 October 1962, American poet #SylviaPlath wrote the poem "Daddy." It was published posthumously in the collection "Ariel" in 1965, after Plath took her own life on 11 February 1963, aged 30.

Poem: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48999/...
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🎤🎶 #OTD in #Music #History 12 Oct 1944, the #ColumbusDayRiot took place when 30,000 fans swarmed on #NewYork's #TimesSquare for #FrankSinatra's performance at Paramount Theatre, which only had 3,500 capacity!

www.theguardian.com/music/2011/j...
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"He was disappointed in the world, so he built one of his own."

🛷 #OTD in #Film #History 12 October 1941, #OrsonWelles' dazzling debut CITIZEN KANE, co-starring #JosephCotten and #DorothyComingore, had its London premiere.
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🇧🇷 #OTD in #Art #History 12 October 1931, artist-engineer Heitor da Silva Costa's 30-metres-high (98 ft) #ChristTheRedeemer statue was inaugurated on top of Mount Corcovado, overlooking Rio de Janeiro.
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Happy anniversary, #Oktoberfest...

215th Anniversary 🍻 #OTD in #History 12 October 1810, the first ever OKTOBERFEST was held in #Munich in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. 🍻
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"One should keep in mind that an idea for a film comes by chance."

🎬 #GilloPontecorvo, Italian film director, #DOTD 12 October 2006. #Film #Filmmaking
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🎨 #JanZrzavý, Czech painter, #DOTD 12 October 1977. #Art #Painting
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🎨 #EdwinBlashfield, American painter who painted the murals on the dome of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in Washington, DC, #DOTD 12 October 1936. #Art #Painting
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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

#AnatoleFrance, French journalist, novelist, poet and Nobel Laureate 1921, #DOTD 12 October 1924. #Poetry #Literature
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"Ask Father Gahan to tell my loved ones later on that my soul, as I believe, is safe and that I am glad to die for my country."

🩺 #EdithCavell, English nurse, was executed by German firing squad #OTD 12 October 1915. #Nursing #History
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"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."

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

#RobertFitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator, was #BOTD 12 October 1910. #Poetry #Literature
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⚒️ #JeanBaptisteCarpeaux, French artist, #DOTD 12 October 1875. #Art #Sculpture
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🎨 #Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e painter, #DOTD 12 October 1858. #Art #Painting
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"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."

⛓️ #ElizabethFry, English prison reformer, social reformer, and Quaker Minister, #DOTD 12 October 1845. #HumanRights
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🎨 #CarelFabritius, Dutch painter, passed away #OTD 12 October 1654, from injuries sustained in the Delft Explosion, caused by a gunpowder magazine igniting. He was 32. #Art #Painting
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🎨 #PieroDellaFrancesca, Italian Renaissance painter, #DOTD 12 October 1492. #Art #Painting
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"No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

✒️ #Demosthenes, Greek statesman and orator of Ancient Athens, #DOTD by his own hand to escape a Macedonian hit squad 12 Oct 322 BC. #Politics #Literature
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"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."

🎶 Remembering #LucianoPavarotti, Italian operatic tenor, who was #BOTD 12 October 1935. #Opera

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🎨 #AlHeld, American Abstract Expressionist,was #BOTD 12 October 1928. #Art #Painting