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EngProf

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The thing I remember hearing about this picture is that it's the first photograph ever with a human being in it. The fellow in the sidewalk at lower left was tying his shoe or something, and stayed in the same place long enough to be immortalized by the leisurely, 19th century exposure times.
Close... He was getting a shoe-shine, so he stood mostly) still for a while.
 

GHT

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On this day in 1964, Capital Records grudgingly released the first Beatles record, ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’, in the US to, as they said 'see how it goes’. It became their fastest selling single ever. Within only three weeks, a million copies had been sold.
 

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Today in 1942, FDR issued Presidential Proclamation No. 2537 which mandated that people born in Italy, Germany, or Japan register with the United States Department of Justice. Registered persons were then issued a Certificate of Identification. Proclamation No. 2537 facilitated the beginning of full-scale internment of Japanese Americans the following month.
 
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I'm a day late, Ayn Rand was born February 2nd, 1905.

From Wikipedia:

Ayn Rand (/aɪn/;[1] born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;[a] February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher.[2] She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.

Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism and rejected altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral[3] and opposed collectivism and statism as well as anarchism, instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she defined as the system based on recognizing individual rights, including property rights.[4] In art, Rand promoted romantic realism. She was sharply critical of most philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her, except for Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and classical liberals.[5]...

link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
 

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On this day in 1936, Shirley Temple, first child star of the Era, was given a contract for the unheard of sum of $50,000 per film. By 1938 she was the #1 box office draw in the country. She made over 40 films for 20th Century Fox and retired from motion pictures in 1950.

In 1968 Richard Nixon appointed her as Ambassador to the United Nations, thus beginning a 20 career with the State Department. She was the first woman to serve as Chief of Protocol for the State Department, having been appointed by President Ford in 1976.
 

AbbaDatDeHat

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On this day in 1936, Shirley Temple, first child star of the Era, was given a contract for the unheard of sum of $50,000 per film. By 1938 she was the #1 box office draw in the country. She made over 40 films for 20th Century Fox and retired from motion pictures in 1950.

In 1968 Richard Nixon appointed her as Ambassador to the United Nations, thus beginning a 20 career with the State Department. She was the first woman to serve as Chief of Protocol for the State Department, having been appointed by President Ford in 1976.
All true. She was quite a Lady.
I don’t recall ever hearing any scandal concerning her either in Hollywood or Washington. Unheard of.
Another first.
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Today in 1839 at the French Academy of Science, the Daguerreotype process was announced, ushering in the age of the visual image keepsake most of us now use our mobile phones for, the photograph.

On this day in 1947, Elizabeth Short was last seen alive. She became known for eternity as the Black Dahlia.

At the risk of being named Captain Pedantic, the first ever photograph was made by the sadly almost unknown collaborator of Daguerre, Nicephore Niepce, in 1826 or 1827. The process took hours to photograph, and it was Daguerre's process that revolutionized photography as it was so much quicker.

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Bushman

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At the risk of being named Captain Pedantic, the first ever photograph was made by the sadly almost unknown collaborator of Daguerre, Nicephore Niepce, in 1826 or 1827. The process took hours to photograph, and it was Daguerre's process that revolutionized photography as it was so much quicker.

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Heh, interestingly I was just wondering what the very first photo ever taken looked like.
 

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I love history, especially history from the Golden Era.

Today in 1933: The motion picture “King Kong” had its world premiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy. Went on to be a classic allegorical film from that era
 
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I love history, especially history from the Golden Era.

Today in 1933: The motion picture “King Kong” had its world premiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy. Went on to be a classic allegorical film from that era

And has held up really well. It is still a full-on entertaining movie today with, as you note, its allegorical elements being timeless.
 

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