The Monica Bird

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I was shocked when I realized John Hancock hadn’t been submitted yet! He was the richest man in Boston during the Revolution and ran one of the most successful shipping companies in the colonies. There are even rumors that he was a smuggler and he was considered one of the most wanted men in New England by George III himself. He lived in a baller mansion and just threw huge parties for all of the Bostonians because he could. Hancock also married one of the foxiest ladies, Dorothy Quincy, and was madly and passionately in love with her. He was the President of the Continental Congress and hung out with all our favorites like the Adams cousins, G. Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other notable Fathers. He continued to give tear jerking speeches until gout killed him far before his time was ready.

OH! And did I mention he was GORGEOUS?! He was one of the most wooed about gentlemen in Boston. Even his Founding buddies frequently commented on Hancock’s dashing good looks. He should be every woman’s colonial fantasy.

On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, the eleventh and final state needed for articles three through twelve to be officially added to the Constitution. But before that happened, the amendments had gone through several round of amendments themselves! Here is the first page of edits from the Senate, which reduced the number of amendments to twelve.

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Here are a few articles about war correspondent Lee Miller:

NYTimes: at’s A Girl To Do When A Battle Lands In Her Lap?

I had come to trawl through Miller’s letters, her notebooks from World War II; her negatives, her prints; and finally, in the room that was her bedroom, slip on her wool war-correspondent’s uniform.

Telegraph: On The Front Line

When you think that she came from the art world, with the background of being one of May Ray’s beautiful nude models, to the ugly world of death and destruction, the transition was extraordinary. One has to admire that more than other things about her.

Telegraph: Lee Miller and Man Ray, Crazy In Love

She was the unrivalled beauty, he the fearsome artist who made even Picasso seem reserved. They loved each other with a fury that was to tear them apart. Yet, as a new exhibition reveals, they would eventually, against all odds, find their happy ending.

Daily Beast: Model Photographer

The editor of British Vogue sent Miller to do stories on a field hospital in Normandy, the liberation of Paris and the siege of St-Malo; she wrote the text as well as taking the pictures. She rode into Germany with the U.S. Army, starkly documenting the corpses and the ovens of Buchenwald and Dachau—and zooming in, almost poetically, on a dead SS guard floating in a canal. 

The Independent: Why did MI5 spy on glamorous Vogue photographer Lee Miller?

One the most candid portraits taken of the model turned war photographer Lee Miller shows a beautiful but exhausted woman washing herself in Adolf Hitler’s bathtub. The famous frame, taken by fellow war photographer David E Scherman, captures the remarkable life of a woman who went from starring on the cover of Vogue to the front line. Today a new and no less remarkable chapter in Miller’s life will be uncovered.

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Nicole Hora, age 4, displaced child in WWII era Europe.  She is associated with the city of Marseille and today would be around 70 years old.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is trying to identify 1,100 displaced children from photos collected by relief agencies after the war.  So far, only a few dozen have been identified.  

The complete collection of photos can be viewed here.  Stories of identified children can be found here.  Previous unidentified photos I’ve posted from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Museum of Prague can be found here.

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Frédéric Chopin was a Polish virtuoso, teacher and composer during the Romantic period. He was never able to marry the woman he fell in love with, Marie, and wrote many songs for her. When he lived in Paris, he carried on a relationship with the french woman George Sand. His friend, Franz Liszt, called him (correctly) a genius. Chopin is best known for his piano works; his music is technically demanding and yet focuses on depth and expression as well. Later in life, when he was dying of TB, he wasn’t looking so good, but in his younger days? Oh baby. And have you heard his nocturnes? Swoon.

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Julia Margaret Cameron
No, she’s not really the traditional ‘looker,’ but this lady could really look, if you’ll excuse the pun. She took up photography at the ripe age of 48, given a camera as a present, and became something of a master of the close-cut portrait. She did all the dirty work of the art herself - developing, working with the black silver nitrate that stained everything - and though her work didn’t win wide recognition in her own time (the Royal Photographic Society refused to take her seriously), it experienced something of a rediscovery in the late 1940s.

Some of the great geniuses of the Victorian age recognized her skill, however, and her willing subjects included Lord Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle and the astronomer Sir John Herschel. Given that Victorian England was a time when women were mostly expected to shut up and wear corsets, this lady deserves some admiration and a bit of love.

Here’s some of her work:

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Anton Chekhov

A Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: “Medicine is my lawful wife”, he once said, “and literature is my mistress.”

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Unknown Japanese man, 19th century. 

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Empress Elisabeth Of Austria.

Over the past year or so, I’ve developed a huge girl crush on this lovely lady. It’s such a shame that her life was so tragic.

I might own the entire DVD collection about her, yes. Maybe.

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Lise Meitner  (7 or 17 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-born Physicist. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of women’s scientific achievement overlooked by the Nobel committee.