Vlad the Impaler

November 26, 1476 – Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.

Vlad the Impaler and the Turkish Envoys. Artist: Theodor Aman (1831–1891) Medium oil on canvas. Current location: Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României, Bucureşti

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Two Cats

Description: English: Two cats. Deutsch: Zwei Katzen. Artist: Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) Completion Date: 1909

Deutsch: Franz Marc (* 8. Februar 1880 in München, † 4. März 1916 im Krieg vor Verdun, Frankreich) war einer der bedeutendsten Maler des Expressionismus in Deutschland. English: Franz Marc (b. February 8, 1880, Munich - d. March 4, 1916, Verdun) was one of the principal painters of the German expressionist movement.

Franz Marc was born in 1880 Munich, then the capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria. His father, Wilhelm, was a professional landscape painter, his mother, Sophie, was a strict Calvinist. In 1900, Marc began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his teachers would include Gabriel von Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez. In 1903 and 1907 he spent time in France, particularly in Paris, visiting the city's museums and copying many paintings, a traditional way that artists studied and developed technique.

Title: Deutsch: Zwei Katzen, blau und gelb. English: Two Cats, blue and yellow
Date 1912. Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 74 x 98 cm. Current location: Kunstmuseum Basel.

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Merry Old Santa Claus

Thomas Nast's most famous drawing, "Merry Old Santa Claus", from the January 1, 1881 edition of Harper's Weekly.

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Thomas Nast immortalized Santa Claus' current look with an initial illustration in an 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly, as part of a large illustration titled "A Christmas Furlough" in which Nast set aside his regular news and political coverage to do a Santa Claus drawing. The popularity of that image prompted him to create another illustration in 1881.

Title: Santa Claus in camp. Date Created / Published: 1863. Medium: 1 print : wood engraving. Summary: Santa Claus giving gifts to soldiers in camp. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-122770 (b and w film copy neg.)

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Call Number: Illus. in AP2.H32 1863 (Case Y) [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes: Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, (1863 Jan. 3), p. 1.

Happy Thanksgiving Dinner Menu

USS Iowa Thanksgiving Dinner Menu 1943 Holiday Menus from Ship to Shore. USS Iowa, 1943. Commanding Officer - Captain John L. McCrea, U.S.N., Executive Officer - Commander T.J. Casey, U.S.N.

Thanksgiving Day, 25 November 1943, Dinner: citrus fruit cocktail - marashino, hearts of kalamazoo celery, pimiento stuffed olives, california ripe olives, essence of tomato bouillon, lemon, saltines, jellied fruit molds, french dressing, roast young vermont turkey, cranberry jelly, piquant dressing, giblet gravy, snowflake potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, new peas in butter, hot cheese biscuits, old fashioned mince pie, coffee.

Source: Iowa, USS file, ZC files, Navy Department Library. Related Source: USS Iowa BB-61 history, Dictionary of American Fighting Ships.

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Turkeys' morning exercise

Title: Turkeys' morning exercise. Date Created / Published: c1909 Aug. 9. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Girl in cart harnessed to two turkeys. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-66339 (b and w film copy neg.)

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Call Number: SSF - Wagons [item] [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: J130452 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Birds Turkeys; Children At play; Carts; Pets.

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Nuremberg Trials Defendants

November 20, 1945 – Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.

Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in their dock, circa 1945-1946. The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring (at the left edge on the first row of benches), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich after Hitler's death. (in front row, from left to right): Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. (in second row, from left to right): Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel.

Creator(s): Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality. (05/02/1945 - 10/24/1946). Type(s) of Archival Materials: Photographs and other Graphic Materials

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Coverage Dates: ca. 1945 - ca. 1946. Part Of: Series: Photographs relating to Major Nuremberg Trials, compiled 1945 - 1946. Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted. Use Restriction(s): Unrestricted. General Note(s): Use War and Conflict Number 1297 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image. Variant Control Number(s): NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-238-NT-612

Three Cats

Three cats. Artist: Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) Date: 1913. Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 72 × 102 cm (28.3 × 40.2 in) Current location: Current location: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.

Franz Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.

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Francisco Pizarro Funeral of Atahualpa Inca Empire

November 14, 1533 – Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Empire.

Funeral of Atahualpa. Artist: Luis Montero (1828-1869). Date: 1868. Medium: oil on canvas. Current location: Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI)

One of the main events in the conquest of the Incan Empire was the death of Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca on 29 August 1533

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Thanksgiving taking home turkeys from raffle

Title: Thanksgiving - taking home (turkeys) turkies from raffle. Date Created / Published: 1912 Nov. 22. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Rear view of 3 men, each carrying a turkey over his shoulder, on road. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-70874 (b and w film copy neg.) Call Number: LOT 10932 [item] [P and P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

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The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up

Title: The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up.  Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner April 23, 1775 – December 19, 1851. Date: 1839. Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 90.7 × 121.6 cm (35.7 × 47.9 in) Current location: National Gallery, Room 34. Accession number: NG524. Credit line: Turner Bequest, 1856

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up is an oil painting executed in 1839 by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. It depicts one of the last second-rate ships of the line which played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the 98-gun ship HMS Temeraire, being towed towards its final berth in Rotherhithe south east London in 1838 to be broken up for scrap. The painting hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the artist in 1851.

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Vietnam Women's Memorial

The Vietnam Women's Memorial is probably the most popular tribute to women's contributions to the defense of the nation. It was designed by Glenna Goodacre and dedicated on November 11, 1993. It is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and is located on National Mall in Washington DC, a short distance south of The Wall, north of the Reflecting Pool. Photo by Rudi Williams (American Forces Press Service).

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Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay

Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, reading his speech to open the surrender ceremonies, on board USS Missouri (BB-63).

The representatives of the Allied Powers are behind him, including (from left to right): Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, RN, United Kingdom; Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko, Soviet Union; General Sir Thomas Blamey, Australia; Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canada; General Jacques LeClerc, France; Admiral Conrad E.L. Helfrich, The Netherlands and Air Vice Marshall Leonard M. Isitt, New Zealand. Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, is just to the right of Air Vice Marshall Isitt. Off camera, to left, are the representative of China, General Hsu Yung-chang, and the U.S. representative, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN. Framed flag in upper left is that flown by Commodore Matthew C. Perry's flagship when she entered Tokyo Bay in 1853.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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Maine Coon Cat

The Maine Coon Cat, or American Longhair, is a breed of domestic cat with distinctive physical appearance and valued hunting skills. It is one of the oldest natural breeds in North America, native to Maine, it is the official State Cat.

Cirrus Minor, called Lara, Maine Coon Cat, female, blue silver tabby mackerel, 11 days before her 8th birthday. I, (Harald Wehner) the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: I (Harald Wehner) grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania

November 9, 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.

From the Codex Vigilano Albeldense, detail of folio 428 of the same.
976 Date c 976 AD Author: Unknown

The king opened the synod by claiming he had heard news of Jews overthrowing their Christian rulers and that Iberian Jews were conspiring to end the Christian religion. The council decreed in its eight canon that all Jews, except those in Narbonensis, were to be deprived of their property, which was to be given to their Christian slaves, and enslaved themselves. Their slavekeepers were chosen by the king and were to be contractually obligated to never allow the practice of the Jewish religion again.

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Castle Dracula

Abraham "Bram" Stoker November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912, was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

From Dracula: "In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns.

This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it. I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., I must ask the Count all about them.)"

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Image and Text Credit: Title: Dracula: A Mystery Story. International adventure library. Author: Bram Stoker. Publisher: W. R. Caldwell, 1897. Length: 378 pages. Subjects: Fiction › Horror Fiction / Horror

New York City After Hurricane Sandy

11/02/12 last Friday morning, five days post Sandy, New York City. Looking toward the south from 59th street along a eerily deserted and barricaded 7th avenue..  This Monday morning (11/05/12) i still have friends with no electricity or heat in Manhattan and gas is hard to find. #NYC #architecture #HurricaneSandy #Sandy #NewYorkCity

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Time Warner Center Blue Sky

Time Warner Center. General information. Status: Complete. Location: 10 Columbus Circle, New York City, New York, U.S. Coordinates: 40.768735°N 73.982938°W. Construction started: November 2, 2000. Completed: 2003. Opening: October 4, 2003. Height. Roof: 750 ft (230 m). Technical details: Floor count 55. Elevators: 7.

Design and construction: Architect: David Childs of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Structural engineer: WSP Cantor Seinuk.

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Puss in Boots Caturday

Puss in Boots, illustration c1890 by Carl Offterdinger, January 8, 1829 - January 12, 1889.

Master Cat or, The Booted Cat, commonly known as "Puss in Boots", is a French literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.

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