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15 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Publishing a book was a desire I had in my heart since I was very young. I can't believe how much life has exceeded my expectations...

Ps: several publishers rejected my idea of a history book illustrated with colorized photos because, apparently, people wouldn't buy it.

Ha
Ha
Of course, the project wasn't so refined and incredible as Dan and Head of Zeus (much love for them) made it be when we decided to work together. But still.... I have an evil satisfaction when I think about it.

Links to every published edition coming soon!
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Ps: @dgjones is a genius and one of my favorite people on the planet. This wouldn't have happened without him - and I wouldn't do this with anybody else.

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17 May
I finally have links to almost every published edition of The Colour of Time and The World Aflame! When it comes to UK and US editions, the covers are different, but the content is the same.
@dgjones @GeorginaCapel

🇬🇧 The Colour of Time (UK): amzn.to/3hwTPD1 Image
🇺🇸 The Color of Time (US): amzn.to/3hrkJMC Image
🇬🇧 The World Aflame (UK): bit.ly/3hv2iqa Image
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16 May
Colorized by me:

Battle of the Ancre, 13 - 18 November 1916: Wounded British troops at a Dressing Station in Aveluy Wood. One man shows damage to his steel helmet from which he suffered a head wound.

More WWI in color in my book, The World Aflame. Image
Photo by John Warwick Brooke. Image
English poet Edmund Blunden called the battle "a feat of arms vieing (sic) with any recorded. The enemy was surprised and beaten". Four German divisions had to be relieved due to the number of casualties they suffered and over 7,000 German troops were taken prisoner. Image
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14 May
Colorized by me: 🇺🇸 Guardsmen and troops, heading for war, attend services of worship on the after-deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport.

World War II.
Grouped about a gun battery, they hear the sermon of Coast Guard Chaplain William E. Brooks, Jr. (left foreground).

📸 From the service of John J. Scanlan Jr.
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11 May
#OnThisDay in 1960, Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, is captured in Argentina.

"I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5 million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
Eichmann headed the Gestapo Department IV B4 for Jewish Affairs, serving as a self-proclaimed 'Jewish specialist'. He was the man responsible for keeping the trains rolling from all over Europe to death camps during the Final Solution. bit.ly/3y4TDAE
He drew up the idea of deportation of Jews into ghettos, and went about concentrating Jews in isolated areas with murderous efficiency. bit.ly/3y1F68N

Photo: Eichmann and members of the Gestapo, before a raid on the Jewish Community Center, Vienna, 1938.
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8 May
#OnThisDay in 1886, pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
In April 1865, Dr. Pemberton sustained a saber wound to the chest during the Battle of Columbus. He soon became addicted to the morphine used to ease his pain. In 1866, seeking a cure for his addiction, he began to experiment with painkillers...
... that would serve as morphine-free alternatives to morphine.

After a few attempts, he began experimenting with coca and coca wines, eventually creating a recipe that contained extracts of kola nut and damiana, which he called Pemberton's French Wine Coca.
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4 May
Mary Kenner was an inventor most noted for her development of the sanitary belt, also known as a menstrual pad. Racial discrimination caused her patent to be prevented for thirty years.

Kenner never made any money from the sanitary belt, because her patent expired and...
... became public domain, allowing it to be manufactured freely.

In an interview, she said, "one day I was contacted by a company that expressed an interest in marketing my idea. I was so jubilant ... I saw houses, cars, and everything about to come to my way."
"Sorry to say, when they found out I was black, their interest dropped. The representative went back to New York and informed me the company was no longer interested."

Between 1956 and 1987 Kenner received five total patents for her household and personal item creations.
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