On This Day
1555 – Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis plunders Paola in Italy.
1679 – In an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth, Europeans first visit Minnesota and see the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
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HistoryWow’s Quick Shot Videos
A short, sharp hit of history in video format. Acclaimed Irish playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde was the toast of London society in the 1890s until things came decidedly unstuck through an association with a young British aristocrat, Lord Alfred Douglas, known as ‘Bosie’.
The source for this HistoryWow video is: Oscar and Bosie - A Fatal Passion by Trevor Fisher; General Historical Texts.
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Who Am I?
- I was a 16th century English poet, dramatist and pamphleteer.
- My tracts on the Elizabethan underworld are valuable for their description of lower-class life and language.
- I also attacked the seemingly unassailable William Shakespeare.
- This was done in my 1592 Groats Worth of Wit.
- In this he warns his fellow university educated dramatists against the ‘upstart crow’, meaning Shakespeare.
- The publisher of this attack afterwards apologised for the remark.
Last week’s answer:
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
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HistoryWow’s Highlighted Historical Quotation
“History is philosophy, teaching by example.”
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, early Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric.Source: History’s Greatest Headlines by James Inglis and Barry Stone
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HistoryWow’s Featured Historical Figure of Note
Harold Clayton Lloyd (1893-1971)American film comedian. He made hundreds of short silent films, in which he played a bemused, bespectacled everyday young man getting into difficult situations, often involving scarifying stunts on high buildings. An example was the 1923 Safety Last which has the famous sequence of him dangling from a clock face.
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