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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

"Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige." 🪶 #OTD in #Film #History 17 October 2014, #AlejandroGonzálezIñárritu's Best Picture Oscar-winning "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)", starring #MichaelKeaton, #EmmaStone, and #EdwardNorton, opened in the 🇺🇸 on limited release.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

"Are you watching closely?" 🎩 #OTD in #Film #History 17 October 2006, #ChristopherNolan's tale of rival magicians "The Prestige," starring #ChristianBale, #HughJackman, #ScarlettJohansson, #DavidBowie, and Sir #MichaelCaine, premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in LA.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

🎸 #OTD in #Music #History 17 October 1988, supergroup the #TravelingWilburys released their debut studio album "Volume 1" on Wilbury Records. The legendary band members were #RoyOrbison, #BobDylan, #GeorgeHarrison, #JeffLynne, and #TomPetty. ▶️ youtu.be/1o4s1KVJaVA

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

🎨 #OTD in #Art #History (the evening of) 17 October 1969, two art thieves stole #Caravaggio's #painting "Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence" from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. Police believe the Sicilian Mafia was involved. It is still missing.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

"Look, you work your side of the street, and I'll work mine." 🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 17 October 1968, Peter Yates' crime-action classic BULLITT, starring #SteveMcQueen and #JacquelineBisset, was released in 🇺🇸

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

The warden threw a party in the county jail The prison band was there and they began to wail... 🎶🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 17 October 1957, the hit musical movie "Jailhouse Rock," starring #ElvisPresley, premiered in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

"Mr. President, I stand guilty as FRAMED!" ⚖️ #OTD in #Film #History 17 October 1939, #FrankCapra's classic political comedy-drama "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," starring #JamesStewart and #JeanArthur, premiered at Constitution Hall in Washington DC.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

🎨 #NataliaGoncharova, Russian and Soviet avant-garde artist, #DOTD 17 October 1962. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

🎨 #JanePoupelet, French sculptor and graphic artist, #DOTD 17 October 1932. #Art #Sculpture

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

"In the house of labour best Can I build the house of rest." Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/julia-... ✒️ #JuliaWardHowe, American social reformer, poet and author (The Battle Hymn of the Republic), #DOTD 17 October 1910. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 18h

🎹 Frédéric #Chopin, Polish pianist and composer, #DOTD 17 October 1849. #ClassicalMusic ▶️ youtu.be/B3r4EgwLqMM

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 19h

"Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part; Each comic heart must now be grieved to see The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee. Poems: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/robert-... ✒ #RobertFergusson, Scottish poet, #DOTD 17 Oct 1774, aged 24.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 19h

"Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write." Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/philip... ✒ Sir #PhilipSidney, English courtier, poet, and general, DOTD 17 October 1586. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 19h

"When you're in love you're living, you matter." 🌹🎭 Remembering Hollywood legend #RitaHayworth, who was #BOTD 17 October 1918. #Film #Filmmaking

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 19h

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.” 🎭 Remembering #ArthurMiller, American playwright and screenwriter, who was #BOTD 17 October 1915. #Theatre #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 19h

“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.” (The Day of the Locust) ✒️ #NathanaelWest, American novelist and screenwriter, was #BOTD 17 October 1903. #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 19h

"He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called It, and cats – as well as women – always knew when he came into the room." ✒ #ElinorGlyn, English Romantic Fiction author, screenwriter, and producer, was #BOTD 17 October 1864. #Film #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 19h

"The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say." ✒ #JacquesCazotte, French author and Monarchist who was guilĺotined in the French Revolution, was #BOTD 17 October 1719. #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 19h

🎨 #CristofanoAllori, Italian painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school, was #BOTD 17 October 1577. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

#LookBack #Film #Review – #Kore-eda’s ode to friendship, #manga and artistic success Two obsessive artists team up to achieve their dreams, but then their aspirations diverge #Art www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

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Look Back review – Kore-eda’s ode to friendship, manga and artistic success

Two obsessive artists team up to achieve their dreams, but then their aspirations diverge

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 16 October 1847, #CharlotteBrontë's classic novel "Jane Eyre" was published by Smith, Elder & Co. of London using the nom de plume 'Currer Bell'.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 16 October 2012, #HilaryMantel won the #BookerPrize for BRING UP THE BODIES, the sequel to WOLF HALL. Mantel became the first woman and the first British author to win the prize twice. It is also the first sequel to ever win the award.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Candy--- " 🐝 #OTD in #Film #History 16 October 1992, #BernardRose's brilliant #horror "Candyman," starring #VirginiaMadsen and #TonyTodd, scared audiences across the 🇺🇸 during #Halloween season.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"This one who's blind. She's the one that can see." 🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 16 October 1973, #NicolasRoeg's spellbinding #horror classic DON'T LOOK NOW, starring #DonaldSutherland and #JulieChristie, was released in London.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

🇺🇸 #OTD in #History 16 October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis begins when #JFK is shown reconnaissance photos confirming the presence of Soviet nuclear missile sites in #Cuba.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.” 🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 16 October 1913, #GeorgeBernardShaw's play "Pygmalion" premiered in the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna, Austria, spoken in German, translated by Siegfried Trebitsch.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much." 🌹🎭 #DeborahKerr, Scottish actress (From Here to Eternity; The King and I; An Affair To Remember), #DOTD 16 October 2007. #Film #Filmmaking

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.” ✒️ #GastonBachelard, French philosopher, #DOTD 16 October 1962. #Philosophy

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known." 🇺🇸 #GeorgeCMarshall, American general, WWII Chief of Staff, and US Secretary of State (1947-49), who authored the Marshall Plan (Nobel Peace Prize 1953), #DOTD 16 October 1959

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"Never ask me what I have said or what I have written; but if you will ask what my present opinions are, I will tell you." ✒ #JohnHunter, Scottish-born surgeon and anatomist, #DOTD 16 October 1793. #Philosophy

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?" 👑 #MarieAntoinette, Austrian-born Queen of France, wife of Louis XVI, was guillotined #OTD 16 October 1793. #History

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised. " ✒ #FrançoisDeMalherbe, French poet, translator, and critic, #DOTD 16 October 1628. #Poetry #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

🎨 #LucasCranach the Elder, German Renaissance painter and printmaker, #DOTD 16 October 1553. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

🎨 #LucaSignorelli, Italian Renaissance painter of the Tuscan school, #DOTD 16 October 1523. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself." 🎬 #TimRobbins, American filmmaker and actor, is 68 today. #Film #Filmmaking

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world." ▶️ youtu.be/52ZdwZ7Ig-8?is… 🌹🎤 Remembering #Nico, who was #BOTD 16 Oct 1938.

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

“Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.” ✒ #LouisAlthusser, Algerian-French Marxist philosopher and academic, was #BOTD 16 October 1918. #Philosophy

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

🎨 #EdwardArdizzone, British artist, author, and illustrator, official British WWII war artist, was #BOTD 16 October 1900. #Art #Illustration #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

🎨 #PrimoConti, Italian Futurist painter, author, and composer, was #BOTD 16 October 1900. #Art #Painting

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"Give us the future… We’ve had enough of your past… Give us back our country… to live in, – to grow in, – to Love." 🇮🇪 #MichaelCollins, Irish revolutionary general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance, was #BOTD 16 October 1890. #Politics

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue." ✒ #EugeneONeill, American playwright and Nobel Laureate 1936, was #BOTD 16 October 1888. #Theatre #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government." ✒ #KarlKautsky, Austrian-born Marxist theorist, was #BOTD 16 October 1854. #Philosophy

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." ✒🎭 #OscarWilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet, was #BOTD 16 October 1853. #Theatre #Literature

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

🎨 #DanielChodowiecki, German painter and printmaker of Polish and French Huguenot descent, was #BOTD 16 October 1726. #Art #Painting #Illustration

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Plot Twist Daily @plot-twist-daily.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A famous physical case: on the Severan family tondo in Berlin, Geta's face was scrubbed out and the panel smeared with paint after his murder in AD 211, while his parents and brother were left intact.

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