Beck Jones
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November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The manuscript was retitled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when Dodgson self-published it the following year under the pen name Lewis Carroll, and his artwork was replaced with John Tenniel's illustrations, now as much Alice in Wonderland as the text.
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#booksky #childrensbooks #writers #onthisday
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The manuscript was retitled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when Dodgson self-published it the following year under the pen name Lewis Carroll, and his artwork was replaced with John Tenniel's illustrations, now as much Alice in Wonderland as the text.
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#booksky #childrensbooks #writers #onthisday
Most of us are Charlie Brown, including Charles Schulz, #bornonthisday in 1922 in Minneapolis. His drawings for the high school yearbook were rejected. After graduating, he took an art correspondence course and later became an instructor at the school.
#comics #tv #writers #art
#comics #tv #writers #art
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Most of us are Charlie Brown, including Charles Schulz, #bornonthisday in 1922 in Minneapolis. His drawings for the high school yearbook were rejected. After graduating, he took an art correspondence course and later became an instructor at the school.
#comics #tv #writers #art
#comics #tv #writers #art
Prohibition is regarded as a failure, but rates of alcoholism were indeed lowered. When only the man of the house can earn a living, and he's destroyed by alcoholism, the family is decimated, too. Nation started her campaign non-violently, btw. She was also a fierce suffragist.
#onthisday
#onthisday
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Prohibition is regarded as a failure, but rates of alcoholism were indeed lowered. When only the man of the house can earn a living, and he's destroyed by alcoholism, the family is decimated, too. Nation started her campaign non-violently, btw. She was also a fierce suffragist.
#onthisday
#onthisday
#onthisday in 1859, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species was published; it's been attacked ever since on religious grounds. Certainly Americans seem to be evolving into a stupider species, with a government no longer believes in basic science.
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#booksky #writers #science
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#onthisday in 1859, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species was published; it's been attacked ever since on religious grounds. Certainly Americans seem to be evolving into a stupider species, with a government no longer believes in basic science.
#booksky #writers #science
#booksky #writers #science
Kick up your heels--It's the birthday of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec #bornonthisday to the aristocracy in 1864. Broken legs that didn't heal properly stunted his height, making him feel more at home in brothels and the demimonde, which inspired his work; his output was prodigious. He died at 36.
#art
#art
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Kick up your heels--It's the birthday of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec #bornonthisday to the aristocracy in 1864. Broken legs that didn't heal properly stunted his height, making him feel more at home in brothels and the demimonde, which inspired his work; his output was prodigious. He died at 36.
#art
#art
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Geraldine Page, #botd in 1924. Sweet and vulnerable in films like A Christmas Memory, Summer and Smoke and Hondo, yet yikes-level scary in The Beguiled (below), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice. As mother in Interiors, pitiless and pitiable. She died of a heart attack at 62.
#moviesky #filmsky
#moviesky #filmsky
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
You don't have to have seen a Magritte to have seen a Magritte. He's everywhere. Renee Magritte, #bornonthisday in 1898.
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#art
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
You don't have to have seen a Magritte to have seen a Magritte. He's everywhere. Renee Magritte, #bornonthisday in 1898.
#art
#art
There's the RUSSIA HOAX!!! There's the DEMOCRATIC INFLATION HOAX!! And now the EPSTEIN HOAX!! But the Piltdown Man was the real deal--that is, a real fake. The controversial "missing link" evidence was controversial when it was "found," but not proven conclusively a fraud until 1953.
#onthisday
#onthisday
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
There's the RUSSIA HOAX!!! There's the DEMOCRATIC INFLATION HOAX!! And now the EPSTEIN HOAX!! But the Piltdown Man was the real deal--that is, a real fake. The controversial "missing link" evidence was controversial when it was "found," but not proven conclusively a fraud until 1953.
#onthisday
#onthisday
Voltaire, #bornonthisday in 1694, tended his garden--or at least his writing. An advocate of separation of church & state, and a defender of civil liberties, Francoise-Marie Arouet wrote thousands of books even as he was harassed by the Catholic Church. Candide was widely banned.
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#booksky #writers
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Voltaire, #bornonthisday in 1694, tended his garden--or at least his writing. An advocate of separation of church & state, and a defender of civil liberties, Francoise-Marie Arouet wrote thousands of books even as he was harassed by the Catholic Church. Candide was widely banned.
#booksky #writers
#booksky #writers
The ultimate #noirvember entry: Kiss Me Deadly, starring Ralph Meeker, #bornonthisday in 1920, as Mike Hammer. He was the ultimate Hammer and played "heavies" with ease but he could have played Hal in in the film version of Picnic (he was a hit on Broadway) but declined.
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#moviesky #filmsky
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The ultimate #noirvember entry: Kiss Me Deadly, starring Ralph Meeker, #bornonthisday in 1920, as Mike Hammer. He was the ultimate Hammer and played "heavies" with ease but he could have played Hal in in the film version of Picnic (he was a hit on Broadway) but declined.
#moviesky #filmsky
#moviesky #filmsky
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George Orwell, Animal Farm
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George Orwell, Animal Farm
The famously uncompromising judge, #bornonthisday in 1866, restored confidence in baseball with his rigorous rule as Commissioner, resolving the "Black Sox Scandal." Yesterday our prez blessed the assassination of a journalist because he wants to make money with the killers.
#baseball #trump
#baseball #trump
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The famously uncompromising judge, #bornonthisday in 1866, restored confidence in baseball with his rigorous rule as Commissioner, resolving the "Black Sox Scandal." Yesterday our prez blessed the assassination of a journalist because he wants to make money with the killers.
#baseball #trump
#baseball #trump
#onthisday in 1820, the Essex whaling ship was sunk by a sperm whale 2,000 miles from land. The story inspired Melville; Nathaniel Philbrick's prize winning non-fiction account, In the Heart of the Sea, was adapted by Ron Howard 10 years ago. Below, a news account.
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#booksky #writers #moviesky
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
#onthisday in 1820, the Essex whaling ship was sunk by a sperm whale 2,000 miles from land. The story inspired Melville; Nathaniel Philbrick's prize winning non-fiction account, In the Heart of the Sea, was adapted by Ron Howard 10 years ago. Below, a news account.
#booksky #writers #moviesky
#booksky #writers #moviesky
Delivered after the Battle of Gettysburg, as part of the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery.
#history #trump #resistance
#history #trump #resistance
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Delivered after the Battle of Gettysburg, as part of the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery.
#history #trump #resistance
#history #trump #resistance
Beauty, iconic roles like Laura, glamorous affairs, but Tierney's life was tragic. Infected by German measles probably by a fan, she gave birth to a baby with severe congenital anomalies. Agatha Christie exploited it for The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side.
#moviesky #filmsky #onthisday
#moviesky #filmsky #onthisday
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Beauty, iconic roles like Laura, glamorous affairs, but Tierney's life was tragic. Infected by German measles probably by a fan, she gave birth to a baby with severe congenital anomalies. Agatha Christie exploited it for The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side.
#moviesky #filmsky #onthisday
#moviesky #filmsky #onthisday
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November 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Below, a photograph of a Parisian street, Boulevard du Temple, from an early surviving daguerrotype plate from the late 1838s. Photographer and painter Louis Daguerre, born #onthisday in 1787, also developed dioramic theatre. His daguerrotypes opened the world.
#photography
#photography
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Below, a photograph of a Parisian street, Boulevard du Temple, from an early surviving daguerrotype plate from the late 1838s. Photographer and painter Louis Daguerre, born #onthisday in 1787, also developed dioramic theatre. His daguerrotypes opened the world.
#photography
#photography
Truly a near-death experience. Instead, he was sent to Siberia for 4 years. But great work lay ahead after exile, including Crime and Punishment.
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#booksky #writers #onthisday
November 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Truly a near-death experience. Instead, he was sent to Siberia for 4 years. But great work lay ahead after exile, including Crime and Punishment.
#booksky #writers #onthisday
#booksky #writers #onthisday