Nathan Francis

Wake Up, Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving’s story isn’t just about a very long nap. It’s about the making of America.

#America at 250

Wake Up, #RipVanWinkle

#WashingtonIrving’s story isn’t just about a very long nap. It’s about the making of America.

By John Swansburg

#Folklore #Literature #History

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"You think I'm not serious just because I carry a rabbit?"

🐇 #OTD in #Film #History 12 Oct 2012, #MartinMcDonagh's black comedy "Seven Psychopaths," starring #ColinFarrell, #SamRockwell, #ChristopherWalken, #WoodyHarrelson, and #TomWaits, was released in 🇺🇸

“Do not drink too much. Do you hear me? I don't want you passing out or going to the dark side. No going to the dark side!”

🍷 #OTD in #Film #History 12 Oct 2004, #AlexanderPayne's wine-soaked "Sideways," starring #ThomasHadenChurch and #PaulGiamatti, premiered in Beverly Hills

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“It'll be just like in the movies. Pretending to be somebody else.”

🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 12 October 2001, #DavidLynch's mind-bending surreal neo-noir MULHOLLAND DRIVE, starring #NaomiWatts, #LauraHarring, and #JustinTheroux, was released in 🇺🇸

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"You kids shouldn't play so rough. Somebody's gonna start cryin'."

💎 #OTD in #Film #History 12 Oct 1992, #QuentinTarantino's ultra-stylish feature debut "Reservoir Dogs," starring a great ensemble of colour-coded character actors, hit hard at its New York premiere.

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 12 Oct 1979, #DouglasAdams' classic #scifi novel THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY was first published in 🇬🇧

✒️ #OTD in the #History of #Poetry 12 October 1962, American poet #SylviaPlath wrote the poem "Daddy." It was published posthumously in the collection "Ariel" in 1965, after Plath took her own life on 11 February 1963, aged 30.

Poem: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48999/...

🎤🎶 #OTD in #Music #History 12 Oct 1944, the #ColumbusDayRiot took place when 30,000 fans swarmed on #NewYork's #TimesSquare for #FrankSinatra's performance at Paramount Theatre, which only had 3,500 capacity!

www.theguardian.com/music/2011/j...

"He was disappointed in the world, so he built one of his own."

🛷 #OTD in #Film #History 12 October 1941, #OrsonWelles' dazzling debut CITIZEN KANE, co-starring #JosephCotten and #DorothyComingore, had its London premiere.

🇧🇷 #OTD in #Art #History 12 October 1931, artist-engineer Heitor da Silva Costa's 30-metres-high (98 ft) #ChristTheRedeemer statue was inaugurated on top of Mount Corcovado, overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

Happy anniversary, #Oktoberfest...

215th Anniversary 🍻 #OTD in #History 12 October 1810, the first ever OKTOBERFEST was held in #Munich in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. 🍻

"One should keep in mind that an idea for a film comes by chance."

🎬 #GilloPontecorvo, Italian film director, #DOTD 12 October 2006. #Film #Filmmaking

🎨 #JanZrzavý, Czech painter, #DOTD 12 October 1977. #Art #Painting

🎨 #EdwinBlashfield, American painter who painted the murals on the dome of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in Washington, DC, #DOTD 12 October 1936. #Art #Painting

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

✒ #AnatoleFrance, French journalist, novelist, poet and Nobel Laureate 1921, #DOTD 12 October 1924. #Poetry #Literature

"Ask Father Gahan to tell my loved ones later on that my soul, as I believe, is safe and that I am glad to die for my country."

🩺 #EdithCavell, English nurse, was executed by German firing squad #OTD 12 October 1915. #Nursing #History

"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert...

✒ #RobertFitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator, was #BOTD 12 October 1910. #Poetry #Literature

⚒️ #JeanBaptisteCarpeaux, French artist, #DOTD 12 October 1875. #Art #Sculpture

🎨 #Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e painter, #DOTD 12 October 1858. #Art #Painting

"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."

⛓️ #ElizabethFry, English prison reformer, social reformer, and Quaker Minister, #DOTD 12 October 1845. #HumanRights

🎨 #CarelFabritius, Dutch painter, passed away #OTD 12 October 1654, from injuries sustained in the Delft Explosion, caused by a gunpowder magazine igniting. He was 32. #Art #Painting

🎨 #PieroDellaFrancesca, Italian Renaissance painter, #DOTD 12 October 1492. #Art #Painting

"No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

✒️ #Demosthenes, Greek statesman and orator of Ancient Athens, #DOTD by his own hand to escape a Macedonian hit squad 12 Oct 322 BC. #Politics #Literature

"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."

🎶 Remembering #LucianoPavarotti, Italian operatic tenor, who was #BOTD 12 October 1935. #Opera

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🎨 #AlHeld, American Abstract Expressionist,was #BOTD 12 October 1928. #Art #Painting

“Why should a woman be confined to home and denied her rightful place in society?”

Poem: poets.org/poet/kamini-...

✒ #KaminiRoy, British India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist, and feminist writer, was #BOTD 12 October 1864. #Poetry #Literature

Poems: allpoetry.com/Theodore_Wat...

✒️ #TheodoreWattsDunton, English lawyer, poet, critic, and writer, a great friend to Algernon Charles Swinburne, was #BOTD 12 October 1832. #Poetry #Literature

I should have credited! It's Annie Leibovitz for Vogue. :))

🕊🎭 RIP #DianeKeaton

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

#ThomasPynchon Has Been Warning Us About American #Fascism the Whole Time

For Devin Thomas O’Shea, This is #Pynchon’s USA and We’re Just Living In It

#Literature #History #Politics

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