"Think not of their passing. Remember the glory of their spirit." Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. 34 of these men are from Bedford, Virginia. 19 Bedford Boys in gray here now have less than 24 hours of life left. #TheBedfordBoys. See more: https://t.co/kdNsJD04vx
Today in 1940, as British forces are withdrawn from France, Churchill defiantly vows to continue the war. "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender"
Goodbye to England. Many of the 73,000 US troops who will see action on D-Day, just 48 hours away, are now being ferried to troopships. Photo by the great Robert Capa. @WWIIMemorial
On this date in 1925, a headache became history.
When Wally Pipp asked to sit out the game, @Yankees manager Miller Huggins turned to his bench and penciled in Lou Gehrig at first base.
The Iron Horse held the job for 14 consecutive seasons. https://t.co/IXB1NnMb6o
"Marilyn Monroe was anything but ditzy or naïve. She had over 430 books when she passed away; many of them bore her personal notes in the margins. Her favorite book was Ulysses by James Joyce and one of her dreams was to get The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky made on screen with herself playing Grushenka." - Lives Behind the Legends' Arancha @ClassicHC shares thoughts on Marilyn Monroe, the Intellectual. #botd https://t.co/olTW7TJcOC
A rare chance to see history up close. 📜
July 1–7, The New York Public Library is displaying one of the jewels of its collections: a copy of the Declaration of Independence, handwritten by Thomas Jefferson.
This copy contains significant differences from the text that was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776—including a lengthy condemnation of the slave trade that was omitted from the final version—and invites us to reflect on the ongoing work to realize the Declaration’s promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Free timed tickets will be released every Monday. Tap the link to get yours: https://t.co/4VbGRNYH6S
Finally got to see the Raphael: Sublime Poetry exhibit at @metmuseum today. The exhibit has an impressive body of work including 175 works from Raphael himself including paintings, tapestries, sketches.
Absolutely amazing, a once-in-a-lifetime experience! 👏👏👏
Hopper's Two Puritans (1945) shows a pair of gabled Cape Cod houses. Their stark white forms evoke New England austerity amid modernizing consumerist America. Hopper gives them human presence—the taller looks stern and watchful, the smaller timid and reserved. #artbots#hopper