temple kaleidoscopes

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A kaleidoscope of colours! Incredibly rare photographs reveal the intricate and beautiful design inside Iran's magnificent temples

Mohammad Domiri creates his mesmerising works using a variety of techniques such as panoramic shots and fisheye lenses. The 23-year-old, from Mazandaran, Iran, spends hours researching the famous architecture - all of which are in his home country.

Mystery First World War Officer's Portrait

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Mystery of First World War officer's portrait solved as researchers discover he was a teenager killed by a shell at the very beginning of the conflict

For years the painting of the unknown soldier hung in Carmarthen County Museum in Wales but no one knew his name or if he survived the horror of the First World War.

George V's Letter

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'Find a reason to go to war with Germany': Letter found among fishing tackle reveals how King George V urged his foreign secretary to justify conflict two days before outbreak of First World War

The incredible note, sent during one of the most difficult times in British history has been made public by Adrian Graves. The letter revealed a meeting between King George V, and his Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, left, where the King urged him to go to war with Germany two days before the outbreak of the First World War.

the Queen's best friend

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The doctor's daughter who became the Queen's best friend: How 'Lilibet', 4, found a lifelong kindred spirit during a chance encounter playing in her London garden

It all began in 1930 when, aged just four, Princess Elizabeth of York (far left) bumped into Sonia Graham-Hodgson (right, then and now) while out playing in Hamilton Gardens, behind the Yorks' London home, 145 Piccadilly, a stone's throw from Hyde Park. The meeting was significant because, as Elizabeth's governess Marion Crawford recorded, 'Sonia was the one friend whom the Queen chose for herself.'

The Krays

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'The Kray twins were BOTH gay and Reggie never consummated his marriage': Ex-enforcer for The Firm makes sensational claims about private lives of criminal duo

Freddie ‘Brown Bread’ Foreman, 83, has been sharing tales of the east London violent gangsters with A-Lister Tom Hardy – who is set to star as both twins (pictured) in a new film. He claims that while Ronnie admitted his homosexuality, his brother's marriage to Frances Shea was a sham. He has also revealed the gang member's plans to execute the pair just weeks before they were banged up for a string of crimes in the sixties.

Dominica 1780

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Repository title: Linen Market, Dominica
ca. 1780

Agostino Brunias, 1728-1796
Oil on canvas
19 5/8 x 27 inches (49.8 x 68.6 cm)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
B1981.25.76

Own Pieces of Sports History

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Team colours are worn. The crowds chant their names. Spectators go wild whenever they dribble the ball. Pelé, Maradona, Zidane! The legends of the game. From club victories to winning for their countries – these talented footballers can never be forgotten. They have changed football. From sprinting across the pitch and scoring winning goals to causing unforgettable controversy. Celebrate the champions of this world cup and discover the worthy champions.

Sporting Heroics

Team colours are worn. The crowds chant their names. Spectators go wild whenever they dribble the ball. Pelé, Maradona, Zidane! The legends of the game. From club victories to winning for their countries

How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience

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It has been alleged that the president of Argentina from 1868 to 1874, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, sought to wipe out blacks from the country in a policy of covert genocide through extremely repressive policies (including possibly the forced recruitment of Africans into the army and by forcing blacks to remain in neighborhoods where disease would decimate them in the absence of adequate health care).

But blacks did not really vanish from Argentina – despite attempts by the government to eliminate them (partially by encouraging large-scale immigration in the late 19th and 20th century from Europe and the Near East). Rather, they remain a hidden and forgotten part of Argentine society.

Ironically, Argentina’s most famous cultural gift to the world – the tango – came from the African influence. The first paintings of people dancing the tango are of people of African descent.
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How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience

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200 Years Of American History

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This Is Roughly 200 Years Of American History In One Mesmerizing GIF

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Elizabeth Eckford

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At age 15, Elizabeth Eckford joined the others of the “Little Rock Nine,” and attempted to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The iconic photos of Eckford being chased by an angry mob on the first morning captured the attention of national and international audiences alike.

The Cicero Riot

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On the evening of July 11, 1951, one of the biggest riots in U.S. history began after a young black couple moved into an apartment in all-white Cicero, IL, west of Chicago.The husband, Harvey Clark, was a World War II veteran who migrated to Chicago from Mississippi and was working as a bus driver. He and his wife Johnetta had been crammed with their two children in a two-room tenement with a family of five on the city's overcrowded South Side.

The couple found more space and cheaper rents in Cicero, closer to his work, but the sheriff turned them away when they first tried to move in. With a court order in hand, the couple finally moved their belongings into the apartment on July 11, as a mob formed around them, heckling and throwing rocks. The mob, many of them eastern European immigrants, grew to as many as 4,000 by nightfall. The couple fled, unable to stay overnight in their new apartment. 

That night, the mob stormed the apartment and hurled the family's belongings out of a third floor window: the sofa, the chairs, the clothes, the baby pictures. The mob tore out the fixtures: the stove, the radiators, the sinks. They smashed the piano, overturned the refrigerator, bashed in the toilet. They set the family's belongings on fire and then firebombed the building, leaving even the white tenants homeless. The rioters overturned police cars and threw stones at firefighters who tried to put out the fire. 

The Illinois Governor, Adlai Stevenson, had to call in the National Guard for the first time since the 1919 race riots in Chicago. It took more than 600 guardsmen, police officers and sheriff's deputies to beat back the mob that night and three more days for the rioting over the Clarks to subside. 

The Clarks were prevented from spending a single night in Cicero. A total of 118 men were arrested in the rioting but none were indicted. Instead, the rental agent and the owner of the apartment building were indicted for inciting a riot by renting to the Clarks in the first place. The Cicero riot attracted worldwide attention and became a symbol of northern hostility to the arrival of millions of African-Americans during the Great Migration. 

-- From the book, The Warmth of Other Suns
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Coltrane

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"I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do." - John Coltrane

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Bahamas 1973

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After 300 years of British colonial rule, the Bahamas became an independent nation today in 1973!

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Daniel Hale Williams

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Today in 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams -- who founded the first black-owned hospital in America, Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses -- performed his most famous, revolutionary open heart surgery.

Frida Kahlo

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Today in Mighty Girl history, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, a painter whose life history has taken almost as much prominence as her talent, was born in 1907. Widely known for her striking appearance, dramatic health issues, and tumultuous relationship with spouse and artist Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo incorporated each of these subjects into her artwork.

Born in Coyoacán, Mexico, young Frida's life was punctuated by prominent events: polio, the Mexican Revolution, and a horrific bus accident among them. Recovery from the bus trauma left her isolated and in extreme pain; painting became her distraction and solace. Self-portraits were her frequent focus, as she explained, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

Long celebrated as a folk icon in her homeland, it was not until the 1980s, well after her 1954 death, that Kahlo became widely recognized for her artistic skill. Now, her brightly-colored, often surreal artwork is in high demand. She has also been memorialized in movies and songs, on currency, and in countless books. Her birthplace and adult residence, The Blue House, is maintained today as a museum in her honor.

There are several excellent biographies to introduce Kahlo to young readers, including "Frida" (http://www.amightygirl.com/frida) and "Me, Frida" (http://www.amightygirl.com/me-frida), both for ages 4 to 8; "Frida Kahlo: The Artist who Painted Herself" for ages 6 to 11 (http://www.amightygirl.com/frida-kahlo-the-artist-who-painted-herself); and the recently released "Who Was Frida Kahlo?" for ages 8 to 12 (http://www.amightygirl.com/who-was-frida-kahlo).

For Frida Kahlo dolls, a puppet, coloring book, paper doll set, and t-shirt, visit A Mighty Girl's "Frida Kahlo Collection" at http://www.amightygirl.com/character-collection/historical-characters-1?cat=559

For more stories about girls and women in the arts, visit A Mighty Girl’s “Creative Arts” section at http://www.amightygirl.com/books/general-interest/creative-arts

For dual language Mighty Girl books in English and Spanish visithttp://www.amightygirl.com/books?language=10

A MODERN BRIDGE DESIGNED BY DA VINCI

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Called the “Mona Lisa of Bridges,” the Golden Horn bridge is one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s fascinating architectural and engineering  designs. It was designed in 1501 to be built over Golden Horn, a natural inlet of the Bosphorus Strait dividing the city of Constantinople, present-day Istanbul, Turkey. However due to the complexity of the design, the Sultan Bajazet II doubted its integrity and rejected the proposal. As it appears, Da Vinci’s design was too advanced even for the builders of his time. 

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Frederick Douglas

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Frederick Douglas puts the 4th of July into perspective ... 

Read this important piece today: http://on.thegrio.com/fred-doug-4th

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Norman Washington Manley

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“Many of us dare to believe that this country, so blended in origins, so fashioned in time, so wrought by our own history may go out into the world to make a contribution larger than our size alone would lead one to expect.

I believe that as an independent nation we can so manage ourselves as to demonstrate one day how by making our great motto ‘Out of many, one people’ come to speak the truth about ourselves, we can become a worthwhile and shining example of the sort of world men sometimes dream to live in.”

(From his address at the opening of Independence Parliament, 6 August 1962)

- Norman Washington Manley, born 4 July 1893.

National Hero of Jamaica

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history of wedding costs since 1930s

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The amount of money we spend on bridal dresses ($1,281) has remained remarkably unchanged since the 1930s, when the average cost was $1,092 in today's dollars.

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Expensive event: Paying an arm and a leg for the perfect wedding may seem like a modern phenomenon, but even Depression-era couples shelled out a huge amount of money for their big day

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2679539/How-did-spend-bridal-dress-Probably-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER-The-surprising-history-wedding-costs-1930s.html#ixzz36SQCsCcc

LBJ & MLK

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Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.

Convention of Former Slaves

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Taken in Washington, D.C. in 1916 at the “Convention of Former Slaves."

Pictured left to right: Annie Parram, age 104; Anna Angales, age 105; Elizabeth Berkeley, 125; Sadie Thompson, 110.