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The origins of the kotatsu can be traced to the 14th century Japanese irori, or cooking hearth. By the 17th century, irori dug into the ground, called hori-gotatsu, resembled a fixed kotatsu.
The kotatsu consists of a blanket placed between a low table-frame and table-top, with a heat source placed underneath the blanket. With your legs placed under…
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A wooden chair gifted to a photographer by Abraham Lincoln and used to snap five U.S. presidents is on sale for $250,000 (£160,000). Presidents Andrew Johnson, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield and Ulysses S. Grant all were photographed seated on the carved oak chair in Mathew Brady's studio.
Lincoln was relatively unknown when he commissioned Mr Brady, a distinguished Civil War photographer, to take his portrait ahead of the race to become the 16th President of the United States in 1860.
A wooden chair gifted to a photographer by Abraham Lincoln and used to snap five U.S. presidents is on sale for £160,000
During the shoot Mr Brady suggested Lincoln pop his collar to disguise his long neck. The future president was so pleased with the results, he used the photograph during his campaign. After Lincoln was elected he declared Mr Brady's photograph one of the key factors that won him the presidency. continue
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Henry McCarty, known in Wild West lore as Billy the Kid, lived a brief and violent life, stealing and killing before his death in a gunfight aged 21. He lived with a gun in his hand – and sometimes, it seems, a croquet mallet. In a surprising historical twist, the second photo of McCarty ever to be authenticated shows him and his posse, the Regulators, playing the sport in New Mexico in 1878. continue ...
Tonight, in celebration of the Halloween season, TCM will show several Disney classics, most of which (kind of) have a spooky angle. Disney never allows itself to get TOO dark, but there are defini...
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Photo of the carving on the Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia.
The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP officially called for the removal of Stone Mountain’s iconic Confederate Memorial carving on Monday. The carving features confederate Generals “Stonewall” Jackson and Robert E. Lee, as well as Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. read on
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Musical icon: Marvin Gaye wrote Got To Give It Up, released in 1977 that became a worldwide hit. He died in 1984 at age 44 after being shot by his father in Los Angeles
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked public and historical uproar on Tuesday when he claimed that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was the one who planted the idea of the extermination of European Jewry in Adolf Hitler’s mind. The Nazi ruler, Netanyahu said, had no intention of killing the Jews,...read on
This year China celebrated “Victory Day,” the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Japanese invaders in World War II.
For decades China has downplayed the war because most of the troops who fought were Nationalists, led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, whom the Communists defeated in a civil war a few years later. China’s Cold War rivals, the US and Britain also had no reason to highlight its role in the war. And as China built economic ties with Japan, it ignored past conflicts. continue
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"Not this man,' said Simple. 'I would have stayed in that garden making grape wine, singing like Crosby, and feeling fine! I would not be scuffling out in this rough world, neither would I be in Harlem. If I was Adam I would just stay in Eden in that garden with no rent to pay, no landladies to dodge, no time clock to punch -- and my picture on a Sunday school card. I'd be a real gone guy even if I didn't have but one name -- Adam -- and no initials." --from "Simple Speaks His Mind"
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Prince Vittorio Amedeo was born at the Royal Palace of Turin, he was a son of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and his first wife Anne Christine of Sulzbach. He was styled as the Duke of Aosta from birth until he succeeded to his father's throne.
He was the eldest son of his parents and the heir apparent at birth, which was greeted with much celebration. He died the 11 August 1725, at the age of 2.
The Duke of Aosta (1723-1725) by Maria Giovanna Clementi, c 1725
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"It is a sad day in history when the leader of the Israeli government hates his neighbor so much that he is willing to absolve the most notorious war criminal in history."
