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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Colorized by me: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His assassination is considered the most immediate cause of World War I.

"What is the good of your speeches? I come to Sarajevo on a visit, and I get bombs thrown at me. It is outrageous!"
"Sophie dear, Sophie dear, don't die! Stay alive for our children." - The Archduke's last words.
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Colorized by me: Grigori Rasputin was born #OnThisDay in 1869, in Pokrovskoye.

He was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia. ImageImage
In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a healer for the imperial couple's only son, Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia. "God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Do not grieve. The Little One will not die. Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much." Image
Rasputin was summoned by Alexandra to pray for Alexei when he had an internal hemorrhage in the spring of 1907. Alexei recovered the next morning. The tsarina's friend Anna Vyrubova became convinced that Rasputin had miraculous powers shortly thereafter.
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20 Jan
The Axeman of New Orleans was a serial killer active in New Orleans from 1918 to 1919.

In a letter, he wrote: "I am very fond of jazz music, and I swear by all the devils that every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in full swing at the time."

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"... Now, to be exact, at 12:15 (earthly time) on next Tuesday night, I am going to pass over New Orleans. In my infinite mercy, I am going to make a little proposition to you people. Here it is: I am very fond of jazz music, and I swear by all the devils...
... in the nether regions that every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in full swing at the time I have just mentioned.

If everyone has a jazz band going, well, then, so much the better for you people.
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19 Jan
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 15 January 1901: "Bessie Brown is married to a ghost. She and her spectral husband are living together in a five-roomed cottage. The wedding took place one week ago, and the bride and groom moved at once into their new house.
They are as happy any young married couple could be, and persons who pass the house can hear them talking and laughing just as if they were both in human form.

(...) She is not demented. Her mind has been tested, her brain has been examined by specialists.
This is what her father says about his daughter's queer actions: "Bessie had been brooding continually over the death of John Allen, to whom she was engaged to be married when he was killed. We tried to console her grief, but she wanted us to leave her alone.
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ANOTHER FISH STEALER SENT TO PRISON: "At the North Shields Police Court this morning … Frederick Mudd, 17 years of age, residing at 13 Reed Street, was charged with stealing a quantity of haddocks, valued at 3s, the property of the Tyne Steam Fishing Coy, on the 10th inst.
PC Spindler said that on Friday afternoon he met the accused coming from the direction of the steam trawler Tyne Belle, carrying a quantity of haddocks. A soon as the accused saw him he dropped the haddocks and ran away.
Afterwards he arrested the accused and charged him with stealing the fish, to which he replied, “I have nothing to say”. A clerk representing the Tyne Steam Fishing Company estimated the value of the fish, which the accused dropped at 3s.
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19 Jan
Just a random tweet/thread to let you know that in 1726, in England (Godalming, Surrey), there was a woman called Mary Toft who tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.
Mist's Weekly Journal, 19 November 1726: "From Guildford comes a strange, but well attested piece of news. That a poor woman who lives at Godalmin, near that town, was, about a month past, delivered by Mr John Howard, an eminent surgeon and man-midwife... .1
... of a creature resembling a rabbit; but whose heart and lungs grew without its belly. About 14 days since she was delivered by the same person of a perfect rabbit; and, in a few days after, of 4 more; and on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the 4th, 5th, and 6th instant... .2
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18 Jan
From the series "photos you didn't know you needed to see but you actually do", I present to you: Swedish house-gymnastics.

The photos, taken in 1913, are from a book by Theodor Bergquist, Director of the Swedish Gymnastics Institute.

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