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A Mime’s Silent Resistance Against Nazi Forces

(via Great Big Story) Marcel Marceau has become legendary as one of the greatest mimes of all time. But, before

(via Amusing Planet) Two thousand years ago, when the Roman emperors ruled over a significant part of the world, they

(via Neatorama) A great paradox, isn’t it? Those movie scenes from future films they always show before the actual film

(via biography) Live Aid was staged on Saturday, July 13, 1985. About 75 different acts performed live for about 170,000

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(via Listverse) Behind every historical artifact at a museum, there’s a perfectly normal and rational explanation as to how and

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(via Mental Floss) On July 6, 1994, Forrest Gump arrived in theaters and became a box office behemoth. The Oscar-winning

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(via Listverse) Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good. Other times, if it weren’t for bad luck, we’d have no

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(via Atlas Obscura) Breadlines, where miserable hundreds waited hours for free food, were an all-too-common sight during the Depression. Penny

(via jakubmarian.com ) Roger that or simply Roger (nowadays also often spelled in lower case) is a phrase used in

(via Great Big Story) America’s movie and film archive is located in an underground bunker in Culpepper, Virginia. The bunker

(via All That Is Interesting) As a clerk at Ellis Island from 1892-1925, Augustus Sherman was in a unique position

(via Smithsonian) 97 percent of Americans have a ketchup bottle in the fridge, usually Heinz, and we buy some 10