#MildredNatwick was born #OnThisDay in 1905; a star of stage & screen, she played roles in more than 30 #films, including "The Court Jester" (1955), in which she declared: "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle":
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fresh #pineapple that I bought earlier today; it has amazing health benefits & there's something extraordinarily refreshing about this fruit... #ananas #piña #rafraîchissant #rinfrescante #erfrischend 🍍
www.livescience.com/45487-pineap...
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"Il Viaggio a Reims" premiered at the Théâtre des Italiens in Paris #OnThisDay in 1825; Giaochino Rossini wrote the #opera for the coronation of Charles X; here's the gran pezzo concertato a 14 voci, "Ah! A tal colpo inaspettato":
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#Taiwan was never part of the #PRC & was only part of the #China of the #ROC for four years; #XiJinping's claim to the island is an imperialist claim based on the conquest of the island by the #Qing who weren't even Chinese~!
I visited Soedaemun Prison Museum #서대문형무소 in Seoul #서울 11 years ago today (6.19.15); Koreans were tortured & murdered there during the Japanese occupation as were pro-democracy activists under the military dictatorship #한국 #조선 #남한 #남조선
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Maximilian von Habsburg was executed by a firing squad #OnThisDay in 1867, depicted by #ÉdouardManet; he'd made the fatal error of accepting #NapoléonIII's offer to become emperor of #Mexico; well meaning but inept, #Maximiliano was unable to create a stable régime:
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James VI of #Scotland was born #OnThisDay in 1566; the son of Mary Queen of Scots would succeed Elizabeth Tudor as James I of #England; he was a distinctly mixed bag as king but commissioned the King James Bible, the greatest single work in the English language:
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I just steamed organic black rice & organic spinach & tossed some smoked wild mackerel into the bowl for a high-protein dinner that didn't involve factory farming or fish farming (6.19.26) #BanFactoryFarming #BanFactoryFarms #BanFishFarming #BanFishFarms
I visited Sodaemun History Prison Museum 서대문형무소역사관 in Seoul 서울 11 years ago today; this is one of the instruments of #torture used on Koreans imprisoned for their involvement in the resistance to Japanese occupation (6.19.15) #한국 #조선 #대한민국 #남한 #남조선
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I took this shot of the sun setting over JFK five years ago today as I was getting ready to board my flight to Arlanda to begin the longest & greatest adventure of my life (6.19.17)
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