Michael Prince 🔄🎩 (mikkyyaw)

Mary Shelley was not just the mother of science fiction–she was also a loving wife, and later, a grieving widow. The author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s life was shaken when her husband Percy Shelley drowned at sea. During his cremation, rumor has it that Mary snatched what she believed was Percy’s heart…

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Every age has its celebrities. In early modern England, they were actors on the stages of London’s theatres. In Belle Époque France, it was the dancers of the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergére. Forty years after that, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Greta Garbo became the first stars of Hollywood. But bef…

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On this day in 1924, Novelist, playwright, poet and social critic, the late James Baldwin was born. “To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin

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Two Benin artifacts out of Thousands have been returned to the Benin Kingdom in Nigeria by the University of Cambridge, UK. They were stolen by British troops during the 1897 invasion of the Benin Empire.

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