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22 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Colorized by me: Queen Victoria's funeral carriage.

With a reign of 63 years, 7 months and 2 days, she was the longest-reigning British monarch and the longest-reigning queen regnant in world history until Elizabeth II surpassed her.

She died #OnThisDay in 1901.
Her son and successor, King Edward VII, and her eldest grandson, Emperor Wilhelm II, were at her deathbed. Her favorite pet Pomeranian, Turi, was laid upon her deathbed as a last request.
Colorized for: amazon.co.uk/Colour-Time-Hi…
Original by Science & Society Picture Library.
The last ever film footage of Queen Victoria, from 1900, recently found in the MoMA archives.

She's wearing sunglasses. This blew my mind.
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/wat…

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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.
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."
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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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
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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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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19 Jan
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.
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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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