February 2012
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patlc asked: I love history. When I saw this on the front page thing I immediately started following. That was a few days ago. This is already one of my favorite pages. I've learned a lot already. Thank you. Keep posting.
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hushicho asked: I love your latest posts about Josephine Baker! I love her too! I am a lover of the 1920s and I have a lust and passion for Weimar Berlin and also the various European thrills of the time. I really love Josephine Baker, and I was enchanted to find out about all the things I didn't know about her. What an amazing and formidable woman. A true heroine of all time. Thanks so much again for...
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“We’ve got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army....”
– Josephine Baker
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“The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.”
– Marlene Dietrich
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“The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.”
– Marlene Dietrich
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“America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the...”
– Marlene Dietrich
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laughsandepitaphs asked: Lovely blog, great artwork, pictures, etcetra. I must argue, however, that the Napoleonic wars were the true 'seed of europe'
lord-kitschener asked: Congrats on being on the Tumblr Radar! I can't think of a blog that's earned it more!
smangitgirl asked: Uh where have you been all my life?
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fehou asked: Oh my gosh! I didn't even realize that I sent it off as fan mail! I'm sorry! For your convenience, I've just put my suggestions in ask format, that way you don't have to screen cap it or anything. For films, I recommend La Chambres Des Officiers (The Officers' Ward), A Very Long Engagement, and Passchendaele. For books, I'd say: Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo,...
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