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February 13th

 

 

 

 

February 13, 1883

Wilhelm Richard Wagner dies. He was a German composer and famous for his operas.Perhaps  his most well-known works is  the magnificent Die Walkure” (The  Ride of Valkyries).

 

 

February 13, 1894

The Lumiere brothers patent the cinematographe, a machine that combines movie camera  and projector.

 

 

February 13, 1931

New Delhi becomes the capital of India.

 

 

February 13, 1950

Peter Gabriel is born.  He is an English musician, former member of the Genesis band.

 

 

 

 

February 13, 1970

Black Sabbath release one of their most successful album Black Sabbath.

 

 

February 13, 2000

The last “Peanuts ” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

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inception

 

 

 

Time has come for me to watch inception starring Leo Dicaprio. And i did. Did I?I remember watching the film but was i dreaming instead?Did i have a dream of watching inception or i watched the film? Maybe it was a dreamy film. No. Did i have a dream where i was dreamimg of watching the film? Was it a dream within a dream with severeal dreamy layers. God . I ‘m confused.


 

 

 

 

February 12th

 

 

 

February 12, 1804

Immanuel Kant dies. Kant was a German philosopher with an interest in the theory of knowledge. He  was into the structure of reason and one of his most known work is the Critique of Pure Reason.

 

 

 

February 12, 1809

Abraham Lincoln is born. He served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

 

 

February 12, 1809

Charles Darwin is born. Darwin was an English naturalist claiming that all species of life come  from a common ancestry. In his most famous work in 1859 On the Origin of Species Darwin  developes his theory of natural selection.

 

February 12, 1934

The Austrian Civil War begins.

 

 

February 12, 1947

A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote- Alin, Soviet Union.

 

 

 

 

February 12, 1956

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins records the song I put a spell on you.

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February 10th

 

 

February 10, 1634

Galileo says the famous statement ” and yet it moves” after facing the Roman Inquisition.

 

 

 

February 10. 1755

Charles de Montesquieu dies.He was a French political thinker at the Enlightenment period.

 

 

 

 

February 10, 1898

Bertolt Brecht is born. One of the most important and influential play writers of the 20th c.

 

 

 

February 10, 1975

Nikos Kavvadias dies. He was one of the most famous and important poets of Greece.

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eurythmics – seX cRime 1984

 

Eurythmics (Annie Lenox and David Stewart) were formed in 1980.They were quite successful  in the 80s and perhaps their biggest hit is sweet dreams (are made of this).Nice song but i like sex crime better. SexCrime 1984 is found at the 1984(for the love of Big Brother) album. 

 

Sexcrime(1984) was used as a soundtrack to the film Nineteen eighty-four.

The film was an adaptation of George Orwell’s novel 1984.

The film, let alone the novel, describes a collectivist society whose         members are under mind-control, continuously observed and                 manipulated. The novel is one of the best political writings of  the           20th c.

 


you don’t know what love is


 

 

 

 

February 9th

 

 

 

February 9,1895

William Morgan presents a new game, volley-ball.

 

 

 

February 9, 1934

The Balkan Entente is formed.

 

 

February 9, 1975

Soyuz 17, the Russian spacecraft, returns to Earth.

 

 

February 9, 2009

Robert Plant wins five Grammys for his album Raising Sand, for which he worked together with the country singer Alison Krauss.

 

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February 8th

 

 

 

February 8, 1692

A doctor from Salem, Massachusetts, claims that satan has dominated three girls. This statement will later lead to the Witch Hunting in Salem.

 

 

February 8, 1855

The Devil’s Footprints appear in Devon. After a snowfall, trails of hoof-like marks appear in the  snow, following a straight line for over 100 miles. There is no explanation for the incident so far.

 

 

February 8, 1915

The Birth of a Nation by D.W.Griffith premieres in Los Angeles.

 

 

February 8, 1916

DaDa begins in Zürich. A cultural movement that involved art, painting, poetry, theatre and  so on.  Through gatherings and publication of their manifestos, Dadaists managed to influence later art styles.

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don’t worry , be HAPPY!!