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Daily Pic 10/14/18 (Festival of Lights)

October 14, 2018 by GµårÐïåñ
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Gone ‘lightseeing’ in Berlin

The city is the canvas tonight in Berlin, where the Festival of Lights is wrapping up its 10-day run in the German capital. The festival invites artists to illuminate landmarks throughout the city, like the Bode Museum, shown here overlooking the Spree River. The annual event is one of the most famous light festivals in the world, with more than 2 million visitors. Artists use light, projection, and video art to create their displays, and video artists compete in the World Championship for Projection Mapping, in which they project their works on national landmarks like the Berlin TV Tower and Berlin Cathedral.

Daily Pic 10/14/17

© Steve Terrill/Danita Delimont

Fall-colored leaves of cotoneaster plant



Posted in: Photos Tagged: Berlin, Bode Museum, daily pic, Festival of Lights, Spree River

Today in History 08/31 (Jack the Ripper)

August 31, 2018 by GµårÐïåñ
Illustration showing police discovering the body of one of Jack the Ripper's victims in London in 1888 (© Hulton Archive/Getty Images)(1888) Murderer strikes in London’s Whitechapel district
Mary Ann Nichols, a servant and prostitute, is discovered dead on the street in Whitechapel, in London’s East End. The slum area is notoriously violent, but authorities will begin to suspect a serial killer is at large when another woman is similarly killed just a over a week later.
Jack the Ripper is the best-known name for an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. In both the criminal case files and contemporary journalistic accounts, the killer was called the Whitechapel Murderer and Leather Apron.
Nationality: British

Streetmap showing the locations of the first seven Whitechapel murders
The sites of the first seven Whitechapel murders – Osborn Street (centre right), George Yard (centre left), Hanbury Street (top), Buck’s Row (far right), Berner Street (bottom right), Mitre Square (bottom left), and Dorset Street (middle left)
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(1888) Murderer strikes in London’s Whitechapel district.
Also on this day,

1928 | Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny meet in a Berlin premiere of ‘Threepenny Opera’
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s adaptation of ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ opens in Berlin as a musical slyly critiquing capitalism and socialism. ‘The Threepenny Opera’ introduces the world to ‘Mack the Knife,’ and will become one of the most performed works of musical theater in history.
1972 | Soviet gymnast Korbut wows the world with Olympic gold
All 4′ 11″ and 84-pounds, the USSR’s Olga Korbut has the Olympic crowds cheering in Munich as she performs nearly flawless, and boldly athletic, gymnastics. Cold War tensions melt as the sweet-faced 17-year-old ‘Sparrow from Minsk’ wins three gold medals for her individual routines.
1997 | The world mourns for the ‘People’s Princess’ as Diana dies
Speeding through a Paris tunnel, the car carrying Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, crashes, killing her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver, injuring another passenger, and causing fatal injuries that claim the life of one of the most famous and beloved women in the world.

Today in History 08/31/17

Princess Diana (© Hulton Royals Collection/Getty Images)(1997) The world mourns for the 'People's Princess'
Speeding through a Paris tunnel, the car carrying Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, crashes, killing her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver, injuring another passenger, and causing fatal injuries that claim the life of one of the most famous and beloved women in the world.
On 31 August 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes-Benz S280, were pronounced dead at the scene; the bodyguard of Diana and Fayed, Trevor Rees-Jones, was the only survivor.
Date: Aug 31, 1997
Flowers for Princess Diana's Funeral
Flowers left outside Kensington Palace in tribute to Diana

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Posted in: History Tagged: 1888, 1928, 1972, 1997, Berlin, Bertolt Brecht, gymnastics, history, Jack the Ripper, Kurt Weill, London, Mark Bilitzstein, Mary Ann Nichols, Munich, Olga Korbut, Olympics, Paris, People's Princess, Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, Soviet Union, The Treepenny Opera, USSR

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