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Allan Ramsay, * 13.10.1713 in Edinburgh; † 10.8.1784 in Dover, war ein schottischer Porträtmaler 🎨 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Janet Carmichael, geborene Grant, spätere Countess of Hyndford, 1750 🖼️
Tate Gallery 🏛️
#OTD #ArtHistory #PortraitPainting #Rococo #BskyArt #History #Museum

The well is the source in the depths, where the water of life rises, and a way down into another world. The Well (The spring), in Symbols of the Psyche.

thethinkingpress.org/symbolarium/psyche/well
#folklore #history 💡📚

Now playing on Green Valley Radio: 1943 'High Fashion Highway: Episode 01 - The Trouble With Zoot Suits' by Green Valley Radio!
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#VintageRadio #OTR #1940s #History

719 years ago, on the 13th of October 1307, King Philip IV of France had hundreds of Knights Templar arrested on charges of heresy, to which most later confessed under torture. Philips IV was deeply in debt to the Templars after his war against England. #otd #history 🗃️

Now playing on Green Valley Radio: 1942 'January News' by Green Valley Radio!
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#VintageRadio #OTR #1940s #History

A visit to the Terezín Ghetto in Czechia

Theresienstadt was stablished as a camp on the way to Auschwitz, but was presented in 1944 as a "model" ghetto as way to fool the international Red Cross and discredit reports of the alleged ongoing genocide.

#history #travel #memory #photography

🕯 #OTD in the #History of #Architecture 13 October 1269, the beautiful present church of #WestminsterAbbey had its consecration ceremony in the presence of King #HenryIII.

We are obsessed with getting the recognition and the result before the work is even done.
When King Croesus demanded to be called the happiest man alive, the philosopher Solon refused. You cannot declare victory while you're still on the battlefield. 👑🔥
#Philosophy #History

"Since I am dead I can take off my head to recite Shakespearean quotations."

🎃 #OTD in #Film #History 13 October 1993, #TimBurton's gleefully ghoulish #animation THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, directed by Henry Selick, had a limited 🇺🇸 release.

Trooper: You're quite an individual, Kit.

Kit: Think they'll take that into consideration?

🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 13 October 1973, #TerrenceMalick's brilliant debut BADLANDS, starring #MartinSheen and #SissySpacek premiered at the #NYFF.

“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”

🥃📚 #OTD in #Theatre #History 13 October 1962, #EdwardAlbee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opened at the Billy Rose Theatre on Broadway, directed by Alan Schneider.

Now playing on Green Valley Radio: 1942 'If I Didn't Care' by The Ink Spots!
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#VintageRadio #OTR #1940s #History

"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!"

🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 13 October 1950, #JosephLMankiewicz's Best Picture Oscar-winning "All About Eve," starring #BetteDavis, #AnneBaxter, #GeorgeSanders, and a young #MarilynMonroe, premiered in New York.

🎶 #OTD in #Music #History 13 October 1870, a local wunderkind with grand things ahead for him, #GustavMahler, gave his first public piano concert at the Jihlava (Iglau) town theatre, aged just ten years old.