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Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her. Parks ...
February 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of the Armed Struggle ( Angola ) [ 89 ] Earliest day on which Ash Wednesday can fall, while March 10 is the latest; celebrated on the first day of Lent (Western Christianity)
The oldest pleated Christmas heart (from 1873) is preserved at the National Museum of Norway, in Oslo. [2] But it was still some 40 years before the pleated Christmas hearts became more widespread. The oldest depiction of a Christmas tree decorated with pleated hearts dates from 1901 from the Danish manor house Søllestedgaard . [ 2 ]
Art Nouveau line art. Line art emphasizes form and drawings, of several (few) constant widths (as in technical illustrations), or of freely varying widths (as in brush work or engraving). Line art may tend towards realism (as in much of Gustave Doré's work), or it may be a caricature, cartoon, ideograph, or glyph.
February 12: Lantern Festival in China (2025); Lincoln's Birthday in some parts of the United States; Red Hand Day Edvard Munch's The Scream 1691 – A papal conclave convened to select a new pope after the death of Pope Alexander VIII .
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The Fourth of July isn't just America's birthday. It's also the birthday of figures including actors and musicians and some well-known scoundrels. Star-Spangled Birthdays: 31 Famous Americans Born ...
4th-century sarcophagus, Milan; one of the earliest Nativity images. The earliest representations of the Nativity itself are very simple, just showing the infant, tightly wrapped, lying near the ground in a trough or wicker basket. The ox and ass are always present, even when Mary or any other human is not.