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Fortean Events On This Day

Dinobot

Dinobot

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Years ago there used to be a "On This Day" section which contained amusing/baffling/interesting Fortean tidbits, but the section was lost when the website underwent a revamp. Is it possible to get this back at all?
I rather enjoyed it!
 
Dinobot said:
Years ago there used to be a "On This Day" section which contained amusing/baffling/interesting Fortean tidbits, but the section was lost when the website underwent a revamp. Is it possible to get this back at all?
I rather enjoyed it!
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You have just recreated it!

Maybe a mod would move it to General Forteana?
 
The Economist ‏@TheEconomist 5h5 hours ago
A painter of our greatest fears: Hieronymus Bosch died #onthisday 1516 http://econ.st/2aWFOvf

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JamesWhitehead said:
Wounded only, they tell you! His life until this day in 1956 was as one of the undead! Against the odds, he did all this!:huh:
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I've read that his friends found his open-casket funeral suprisingly unaffecting. He looked capable of sitting up and greeting them, as they'd seen him do on set.
 
escargot1 said:
I've read that his friends found his open-casket funeral suprisingly unaffecting. He looked capable of sitting up and greeting them, as they'd seen him do on set.
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Apparently he was buried in one of his Dracula capes which was a nice touch.
 
Against his wishes! (Or so I heard!) But don't worry, he's as harmless as a kitchen!
 
Swifty said:
Apparently he was buried in one of his Dracula capes which was a nice touch.
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Oh yes, I'd forgotten that detail! I may have read about it in David Niven's The Moon's A Balloon. That's where most of my Hollywood knowledge comes from.
 
ramonmercado said:
The Economist ‏@TheEconomist 5h5 hours ago
A painter of our greatest fears: Hieronymus Bosch died #onthisday 1516 http://econ.st/2aWFOvf

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Oooh, I love Bosch sooo much. Saw some of his works in the Doge's Palace in Venice years ago and nearly swooned with surprise and delight. :)
I actually stood gazing in front of one with my hands clasped together like a lovestruck cartoon character.

Just over a year later we had a terrible family tragedy. The memory of Bosch's wonderful art helped me through it. Art can do that.
 
escargot1 said:
Oh yes, I'd forgotten that detail! I may have read about it in David Niven's The Moon's A Balloon. That's where most of my Hollywood knowledge comes from.
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Apparently Forrest J Ackerman had one of Lugosi's capes at his horror/sci fi home and museum :cool:.
 
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