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(via During the Hundred Years' War, 17-year-old peasant Joan of Arc led a French military force in relieving the city of Orleans, beleaguered by the English since October of the previous year. April 29, 1429.)

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During the Hundred Years' War, 17-year-old peasant Joan of Arc led a French military force in relieving the city of Orleans, beleaguered by the English since October of the previous year. April 29, 1429.

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: Joan of Arc enters Orléans by Jean-Jacques Scherrer (1887, Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans) On this day in history, April 29, 1429, during the Hundred Years’ War, 17-year-old peasant Joan of Arc led a French military force in relieving the city of Orleans, beleaguered by the English since October…

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(via Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were murdered by Italian partisans who had apprehended the couple as they tried to flee to Switzerland. April 28, 1945.)

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Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were murdered by Italian partisans who had apprehended the couple as they tried to flee to Switzerland. April 28, 1945.

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: The dead body of Benito Mussolini next to his mistress Claretta Petacci and those of other executed fascists, on display in Milan on 29 April 1945, in Piazzale Loreto, the same place that the fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese civilians a year earlier after executing them in…

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(via Photograph of Buffalo Bill and Wild West Cast Members in a Gondola in Venice, ca. 1890s)

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(via The steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, killing 1,800 passengers, including newly released Union POWs from the hellholes of Andersonville, Georgia, and Cahaba, Alabama. April 27, 1865.)

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The steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, killing 1,800 passengers, including newly released Union POWs from the hellholes of Andersonville, Georgia, and Cahaba, Alabama. April 27, 1865.

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: Helena, Arkansas. April 27, 1865. Ill-fated Sultana. The overloaded steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River the day before her boilers exploded and she sank on April 27th. The passengers included ca. 1,880 Union soldiers heading home at the end of the Civil War; more than 1,100 of these men…

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(via On this day in history, jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia. April 25, 1917)

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On this day in history, jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia. April 25, 1917

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: Ella Fitzgerald with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson, and Timme Rosenkrantz in New York City, 1947 On this day in history, April 25, 1917, jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia. Selling over 40 million albums during her lifetime, she gained a devout audience…

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(via On Easter Monday, in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a clandestine group of Irish separatists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed insurrection against British rule. April 24, 1916,)

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On Easter Monday, in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a clandestine group of Irish separatists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed insurrection against British rule. April 24, 1916,

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: British Regulars sniping from behind a barricade of empty beer casks near the quays in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising. On this day in history, on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a clandestine group of Irish separatists led by Patrick Pearse,…

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(via Vikki Dougan in Black Backless Dress on the Streets of Hollywood in 1957, the Series Photo That Changed Fashion Forever)

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