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 Unveiled, the new Demelza, Princess of Poldark: Forty years after the original, BBC's bodice-ripper is back - and just look who's replacing...

Eleanor Tomlinson, 21, who has appeared in Hollywood blockbuster Jack The Giant Slayer and the BBC drama The White Queen will play the...

 Black Death was not spread by rat fleas say researches as analysis of 14th century remains discovered in London shows four in 10 victims...

Scientists examining skeletons of plague victims unearthed in Clerkenwell, London, believe that the disease was airborne and spread by...

The Lost Shul Mural

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In 1910 the interior of Chai Adam synagogue in Burlington, VT was gloriously painted from ceiling to floor by Ben Zion Black, who was brought from Lithuania by the congregation to paint the synagogue in the prevalent style of the wooden shuls of Eastern Europe. Decades later the synagogues in Burlington merged and the Chai Adam building was sold several times before ultimately being converted into apartment units. Much of the painting was destroyed during the renovation but the mural over the ark was covered by a wall and forgotten until 2012 when the Lost Shul Mural was uncovered for the first time in nearly thirty years.

The Lost Shul Mural is part of a widespread tradition of Eastern European synagogue wall paintings that was almost entirely obliterated during the Shoah (the Holocaust) by the Nazis. Few of these treasures survived in Europe and most of those were located in Jewish communities that simply no longer existed. Time and the elements have nearly wiped out this type of Jewish folk art, but the Lost Shul Mural is a remnant of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, transplanted to the US by a Jewish immigrant artist. It may be the only surviving example of its type which adorned an American synagogue sanctuary.

Now, a hundred years later, we have the once in a lifetime opportunity to preserve this priceless treasure before it too is lost to history. As we honor the lives of all those lost in the Shoah, we here in the Burlington, VT Jewish community, led by Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, have taken upon ourselves the role of preserving this art and protecting it for future generations. We hope that you can lend your support to this cause before the Lost Shul Mural is lost forever.

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Patrice Wymore

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Wymore with Flynn in "Rocky Mountain."

UPDATE: She met the actor when both had roles in the 1950 film "Rocky Mountain." She also appeared in such features as "Tea for Two" and "Ocean's Eleven."

Patrice Wymore, an actress and the third and final wife of the swashbuckling star Errol Flynn, died Saturday in Portland, Jamaica, after a long illness, theJ amaica Observer newspaper reported.

She was believed to be 84, though some sources list her age as 87.

Wymore made her film debut in a singing role in Tea for Two (1950) opposite Doris Day and Gordon MacRae and then met Flynn, 17 years her senior, during the filming of Rocky Mountain (1950) in New Mexico.

They wed in Monaco in October 1950, lived on his yacht for years and then bought a 2,000-acre cattle ranch and coconut plantation in the foothills of the Blue Mountains near Port Antonio, currently home to the exclusive Errol Flynn Marina.

Flynn, the star of such classic 1930s action films as The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood, was plagued by health problems and an addiction to alcohol and drugs and died in October 1959 at age 50. 

The couple's only child, daughter Arnella, died of an apparent drug overdose in 1998. 

Wymore, a native of Miltonvale, Kan., toured with her family in vaudeville. She appeared on Broadway in the late 1940s in the musicals Hold It! and All for Love, and Warner Bros. signed her to a studio contract.

Wymore also was seen in the films I'll See You in My Dreams (1951), She's Working Her Way Through College (1952), The Big Trees (1952), She's Back on Broadway (1953), King's Rhapsody(1955), The Sad Horse (1959), Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Chamber of Horrors (1966).

She starred in installments of the anthology series The Errol Flynn Theater and also appeared on television in Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, the daytime soap Never Too Young, The Monkees and F Troop.

Arch of Orange

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Triumphal Arch of Orange, likely built during the reign of Augustus, then rededicated under Tiberius. fBV1osSg53

1948 documentary

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The Quiet One: 1948 documentary about the rehab of an emotionally disturbed black child

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Watch "The Quiet One" below: About the film: The Quiet One is a 1948 American documentary film directed by Sidney Meyers. The documentary...

A day history

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A day history, 14th March...

1471 - Death of Sir Thomas Malory, known for his work "Le Morte d'Arthur", which he wrote in prison. He was laid to rest in St Francis's Chapel, Greyfriars, Newgate. Seehttp://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/englit/malory/ for more on Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur".
1540 - Death of Sir John Port, judge. He is known for mumbling in 1535 in Lord Dacre's case and being counted on the wrong side, giving the Crown a majority. He was taken ill at Worcester during the Lent assize and died at Bewdley.
1553 – Death of Arthur Bulkeley, Bishop of Bangor, at his home in Bangor. He was buried in the cathedral choir.
1555 - Death of Sir John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, courtier, envoy and landowner, at his home on the Strand in London. Russell served Henry VIII as Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal, following the fall of Thomas Cromwell. He was an executor of Henry VIII's will, and carried on as Lord Privy Seal in the reigns of Edward VI and Mary I.

Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte Darthur'

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This is the sole surviving manuscript copy of Thomas Malory's version of the legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table

1960 airline collision above New York City

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On December 16, 1960, two airliners collided above New York City, the United Airlines plane crashed in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. See more from this tragic day:
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a petroglyph

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Could this glyph of a Sailing Boat give a description of the copper trade between North America and Egypt during the Bronze Age? According to the Ancient Artifact Preservation Society, it just might.

Check out the analysis of the petroglyph here:
Article: http://goo.gl/EMbcA2

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by the sea 1930s

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Happy girls by the sea 1930s

White Day

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On Friday, Japan, South Korea and other East Asian countries celebrate White Day, a day when men return Valentine favors to women. Unlike in Western cultures where couples exchange their mutual love on Valentine's Day, in these countries the holiday is considered a day for women to show their love and appreciation for men by handing out chocolates and small gifts. In return, men are expected to return the favor a month later on March 14.

White Day has its origin in late 1970s Japan when a local confectionery company in Southern Japan started to market the idea with marshmallows, calling it Marshmallow Day. Now, the day is widely celebrated across East Asia, with gifts varying from candies and flowers, to more expensive fancy dinners and jewelry.

To view more photos and videos from White Day celebrations, check out the Instagram blog:
http://blog.instagram.com/post/79541827983/whiteday2014

Photo by @dedely
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Colin Powell's Vintage Selfie

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The former secretary of state and decorated general told Ellen DeGeneres to eat her heart out with a self portrait he took 60 years ago.

Colin Powell's Vintage Selfie Is A Must See

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Science Museum

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The Government-Surplus Machines That Power a Cutting-Edge Science Museum

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/government-surplus-machines-power-science-museum/

Jackie O: The Manhattan Years

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From jogging in Central Park to attending galas at The Met, Jackie O never failed to impress.

Jackie O: The Manhattan Years

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Following her husband’s assassination in 1964, the former First Lady moved to New York City to begin a new life. From walks in Central Park to concerts at Lincoln Center, a look at Jackie O’s always effortless style and grace.

acts of humanity in war

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Even in the midst of a horrible war, amazing things can happen.

Photo held by dying WWI soldier returned to wife by German who killed him

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Sergeant Percy Buck's dying wish was for a photo of his family to be returned to them. In a stunning act of humanity, Gefreiter Josef Wilczek honoured it

Doris Eaton

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Actress Doris Eaton (1904–2010) 

Doris was the longest living Ziegfeld Follies girl. She was 106 years old when she passed away in 2010.

Weird Historical Photos

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40 Weird Historical Photos that Actually Happened

40 Weird Historical Photos that Actually Happened. But I Still Can’t Believe that Baby in #12 -...

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40 Weird Historical Photos that Actually Happened. But I Still Can’t Believe that Baby in #12by Awareness · March 12, 2014 It’s almost impossible to believe...

Ossian Sweet

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Ossian Sweet: defended his family against a white mob attempting to force them out of the...

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Ossian Sweet Born October 30, 1895 Bartow, Florida,[1] USA Died March 20, 1960 (aged 64) Detroit, Michigan, USA Fields Internal medicine Institutions Dunbar Hospital Alma mater Howard University Wilberforce...

The Pity of War

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'Flashy, lopsided, inconsequentially contrarian'. Paul Lay is unimpressed by a recent BBC programme on the First World War.

The Sorrow of 'The Pity of War' | History Today

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Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers, the Australian-born Cambridge historian’s scholarly account of the origins of the First World War, is nearing sales of almost 200,000 copies in Germany. That is an 

1994 Loughinisland massacre

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A survivor’s tale: The 1994 Loughinisland massacre

Colm Smyth survived when six people were killed as gunmen opened fire on the Heights Bar.

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In the summer of 1998, I took my new baby girl home to my lovely, tragic Northern Ireland. It was my mother’s sixtieth birthday, and between my...

The Best Years of Our Lives

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In 1947, William Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives" won six Academy Awards including best film, director, actor for Fredric March and supporting actor for double amputee Harold Russell, who also received an honorary Oscar. Jack Benny hosted the ceremony from the Shrine Auditorium.

Oscar Legacy: 19th Academy Awards Winners

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Complete list of nominees and winners.

The Chinese in Singapore

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For more than a millennia, millions of Chinese have come to the region they called the Southern Ocean – modern Southeast Asia. They came to find refuge, to escape poverty, persecution and starvation. They came too as explorers and diplomats. Many were drawn to a little red dot close to the equator – the island of Singapore. Here in just two centuries they forged a new identity and helped build a new nation.

See web exclusives at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/footprints/?cid=FBFP

Yevgeny Khaldei’s WWII perspective

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A slide show of Yevgeny Khaldei’s photographs, which embody a crucial perspective on the Second World War: http://nyr.kr/1i86k13

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woman searched for her MIA husband for 68 years

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Woman finds her husband after 68 years and learns he is being celebrated in France [Alex]

This woman searched for her MIA husband for 68 years - you'll never believe what she found

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I couldn't imagine what it would be like to lose my husband overseas in combat. But what would be even worse is not knowing for sure what...

Egypt’s old king unveiled

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Egypt’s old king rises again

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unveiled two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Egypt’s famed temple city of Luxor.

the perfect heist?

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Was this the perfect heist?

AS a fresh police taskforce probes one of Melbourne's biggest crime riddles 10 years on, we examine how a group of bandits pulled off a dramatic heist that netted $4 million in cash.

1st century Roman Theatre

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The formidable scenae frons of the 1st century Roman Theatre, Orange reB3Ms3nou

While slavery was outlawed in most countries by the 1960s, indentured servitude was steadily rising

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Though slavery has been largely gone from the civilized world for quite some time, the dark, seedy underbelly of indentured servitude was always lurking. In Switzerland, some children were taken from their parents and sent to become Verdingkinder, or "indentured child laborers," all the way into the 1960s.

The children were taken because their mother was either unmarried, extremely poor, or of gypsy origin. Their new families mostly consisted of poor farmers who could not afford proper labor and required the help of cheap child labor. It's also estimated that about 20% of all the agricultural labor in the Canton of Bern (a Swiss province) was done by children below the age of 15.

Investigations showed that in 1930 there were about 35,000 indentured children, but the real number is expected to be about double that. The benefit to everyone but the children and their family was two-fold: the farmer got cheap labor and the authorities didn't have the financial burden of looking after the children.

As of April 11, 2013, the Swiss government made an official apology, but compensation for the children's hardships, many who are still relatively young and alive now, isn't expected.

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Band of TEN brothers

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 Band of TEN brothers: When the call came to serve King and Country, all the sons in one family went off to war. Amazingly, every one came...

As Britain prepares to honour all those who served in the First World War, few have ever heard of the Calpin brothers, including youngest...

6 THINGS ABOUT COCO CHANEL YOU DIDN'T KNOW

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On Adored Vintage, I don't know much about Coco Chanel. There I said it. Actually, maybe not a lot of people do. The real Coco Chanel anyway.

Sure there was that movie with the ever so lovely Audrey Tautou (whom I adore!) but even that isn't the whole truth, or even a fraction of it. And I suppose we won't ever know the whole truth as Coco Chanel was extremely keen on shaping her past and her life the way she saw fit.

Frankly, the more I read about Coco Chanel the more I battle with my love/hate relationship with her. Did she make beautiful clothes that changed the shape of women's fashion? Yes. Was she nice? Not so much... in fact, not really at all.

Coco Chanel was meticulous about her work and a perfectionist | source

6 Things About Coco Chanel You Didn't Know

1.] Diana Vreeland said of Coco Chanel that she wasn't particularly a nice person but they were friends. But was she pleasant, not at all. I read this in Diana Vreeland's autobiography "DV" when she talks about her life in Paris.

Coco Chanel photographed in 1937 by Boris Lipnitzki | source

2.] Her last major love affair was with a German spy, right at the dawn of World War II. His name was Hans Gunther von Dincklage and he arranged for Coco to reside in the Hotel Ritz during the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. {source}

3.] At the age of 20 she found work as a seamstress having honed her sewing skills at the Aubazine convent. BTW, side note, if you've never seen photos of Aubazine, you should. {source}

4.] Coco Chanel is depicted naked in a political cartoon drawn by her antisemitic lover Paul Iribe in which she represents France and is being cradled by Adolf Hitler and protected from Jews. {source}

5.] At her funeral, Coco Chanel's fashion models occupied the first seats and her coffin was covered with camellias, gardenias, orchids, and azaleas. A few red roses were also present as accent flowers. from Wikipedia

6.] She made suntans cool. Prior to Coco Chanel's time, being tanned usually meant you were a laborer. But she changed the outlook of being sun kissed with the idea that if you were bronzed it meant you lived a life of leisure. From the book Chanel and Her World (1981)

Coco Chanel as a young lady c.1910 | source

Coco Chanel photographed for Vogue c.1954 by Henry Clarke | source

Coco Chanel on the balcony of the Ritz hotel where she lived during the war years | source

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