#OneHitHistory A day to remember Grateful Dead bassist & co-founding member, Phil Lesh, who #DOTD in 2024… The American pioneering rock legends had 1 US #Billboard #Top40 hit, "Touch Of Grey," during their long & illustrious career... earning the band US #OneHitWonder honors. #OneHitWondered
Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey (Official Music Video) [HD]
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October 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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#OneHitHistory A day to remember English musician Kim Gardner, who #DOTD in 2001. The London-born bassist came up through mid-’60s mod/beat circles, logging early stints with The (British) Birds (with Ronnie Wood) and The Creation… Of course, he did earn US #OneHitWonder honors, too! #OneHitWondered
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OneHitHistory A day to remember Aussie musician/songwriter & producer George Young, who #DOTD in 2017. In 1967, as a member of The Easybeats, George earned US #OneHitWonder honors when “Friday On My Mind” spent 8 weeks on the #Billboard #Top40, peaking at #16. #TheEasybeats #OneHitWondered
1967 HITS ARCHIVE: Friday On My Mind - Easybeats (mono)
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October 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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#OneHitHistory A day to remember Shannon Hoon, frontman for LA alt-rockers Blind Melon, who #DOTD in 1995. Hoon earned US #OneHitWonder honors in 1993 when the #1 Modern Rock Tracks crossover “No Rain” spent 11 weeks on the #Billboard #Top40, peaking at #20. #BlindMelon #OneHitWondered
Blind Melon - No Rain
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October 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
(The Parliament of Birds)
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✒️Geoffrey #Chaucer, English poet and author of "The Canterbury Tales," #DOTD 25 October 1400. #Poetry #Literature
(The Parliament of Birds)
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✒️Geoffrey #Chaucer, English poet and author of "The Canterbury Tales," #DOTD 25 October 1400. #Poetry #Literature
October 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Very fortunate to visit Aix and Paul Cézanne’s world in July. #DOTD
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
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✒️ #ThéophileGautier, French writer, dramatist, poet, and #art critic, #DOTD 23 October 1872. #Poetry #History
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✒️ #ThéophileGautier, French writer, dramatist, poet, and #art critic, #DOTD 23 October 1872. #Poetry #History
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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The legendary Vincent Price, #DOTD in 1993 💖
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October 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The stunning Maureen O'Hara, #DOTD in 2015 💖💚
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October 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Remembering Halyna Hutchins * Cinematographer💖
“I like stories that are rooted in reality or real characters, but my favorite part is actually creating the world where the story will exist.”
Halyna’s career was cut short on October 21, 2021.
#BoycottBaldwin #DOTD
#filmsky #cinematographer
“I like stories that are rooted in reality or real characters, but my favorite part is actually creating the world where the story will exist.”
Halyna’s career was cut short on October 21, 2021.
#BoycottBaldwin #DOTD
#filmsky #cinematographer
October 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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#DOTD: Fu Jian 苻堅 (337/8–385), Heavenly King 天王 (r. 354–385) of the Former Qin 前秦 (351–394), one of the 'Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Barbarians' #五胡十六國. The 383 Battle at Fei River #淝水之戰 between Qin and Eastern Jin 東晉 prevented the unification of North and South.
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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"In the house of labour best
Can I build the house of rest."
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✒️ #JuliaWardHowe, American poet and author (The Battle Hymn of the Republic), #DOTD 17 October 1910. #Poetry #Literature
Can I build the house of rest."
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✒️ #JuliaWardHowe, American poet and author (The Battle Hymn of the Republic), #DOTD 17 October 1910. #Poetry #Literature
October 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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"Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;
Relive my languish, and restore the light."
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✒ #SamuelDaniel, English poet, dramatist, and historian, #DOTD 14 October 1619. #Poetry #Literature
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;
Relive my languish, and restore the light."
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✒ #SamuelDaniel, English poet, dramatist, and historian, #DOTD 14 October 1619. #Poetry #Literature
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
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✒ #RandallJarrell, American poet and author, #DOTD 14 October 1965. #Poetry #Literature
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✒ #RandallJarrell, American poet and author, #DOTD 14 October 1965. #Poetry #Literature
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Let music make less terrible
The silence of the dead;
I care not, so my spirit last
Long after life has fled.
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✒️ #LetitiaElizabethLandon, English poet, #DOTD 15 October 1838. #Poetry #Literature
The silence of the dead;
I care not, so my spirit last
Long after life has fled.
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✒️ #LetitiaElizabethLandon, English poet, #DOTD 15 October 1838. #Poetry #Literature
October 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
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✒ #RobertHerrick, English poet, #DOTD 15 October 1674. #Poetry #Literature
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
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✒ #RobertHerrick, English poet, #DOTD 15 October 1674. #Poetry #Literature
October 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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The splendid Joan Leslie, #DOTD in 2015 💖
October 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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#DOTD (11 Oct): Sima Guang 司馬光 (1019–1086), Song 宋 (960–1279) historian and scholar-official, compiler-in-chief of the Mirror to Aid in Governance 資治通鑑, nemesis of Wang Anshi's 王安石 (1021–1086) New Policies 新法 and second-greatest historian named Sima. #ChineseHistory #Historiography #HistoryOfHistory
October 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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