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 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition by The Ovi Team
23 August 2023
23 August: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and of its Abolition. The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising... (1 comment) |  Valentino dies by The Ovi Team
23 August 2023
August 23rd 1926; the death of silent-screen idol Rudolph Valentino at the age of 31 sends his fans into a hysterical state of mass mourning. In his brief film career, the Italian-born actor... (Add a comment) |  International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition by The Ovi Team
23 August 2023
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is celebrated on 23 August of every year. The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of... (1 comment) |  Iran Repression Continues: NGO Action Needed by Rene Wadlow
22 August 2023
Repression of protests in Iran continues. A wave of protests swept across Iran in the wake of the September 2022 death in custody of 22 year-old Mahsa Jina Animi, an ethnic Kurd. (Add a comment) |  Snow Globe by Nikos Laios
22 August 2023
I gaze at the snow globe
And remember those
Ragged roads through
Rugged mountain ranges,
Grazing sheep on steep slopes (Add a comment) |  Ant-Biotics #22 by Thanos Kalamidas
22 August 2023
Ant-biotics is a type of antimicrobial cartoon strip active against boredom's bacteria. (Add a comment) |  In The Year 2525 by The Ovi Team
22 August 2023
"In The Year 2525 (Exordium (1 comment) |  E. Annie Proulx by The Ovi Team
22 August 2023
August 22nd; Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News, is born on this day in 1935 in Norwich, Connecticut. Her mother was a painter and her father a self-made executive in a textile company. (Add a comment) |  The Armed Forces of Nigeria As The Guardian of Democracy by Kola King
21 August 2023
In short, a military coup may be the knife that will cut the threads of national unity, leading the nation into separate parts or into pieces. (Add a comment) |  After leaving her by Amir Khatib
21 August 2023
Believe when you wake up and don't find yourself,
Yourself, who tired you last night,
and I weary you in vain,
I grew to hate her and everything... (Add a comment) |  Worming #72 by Thanos Kalamidas
21 August 2023
A family of worms and all their worm friends worming in new adventures. (Add a comment) |  Theft of Mona Lisa by The Ovi Team
21 August 2023
August 21st 1911; an amateur painter sets up his easel near Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, only to discover that the masterpiece is missing. The day before, in perhaps the most brazen art theft of all time (Add a comment) |  The Swing Era begins by The Ovi Team
21 August 2023
The sound of swing, which utterly dominated the American popular-music scene in the late 1930s and early 1940s, instantly evokes images of tuxedo-clad Big Bands and dance floors crowded with exuberant jitterbugs... (Add a comment) |  The Mona Lisa Stolen by The Ovi Team
21 August 2023
21st Aug. 1911: The Mona Lisa, the famous portrait by Leonardo da Vinci also called (La Gioconda) (painted between 1503 - 1506), was stolen today from the Louvre in Paris. The Painting was stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia (Add a comment) | | newer 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 older |
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