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LECTURE 2 – THE WORLD THAT GAVE US THE BEATLES: Newsreel scenes of Indian Independence from 1947. The film features “footage from India where celebrations took place on the Day of Independence from Britain.” The film is yet more evidence of the twilight of the British Empire in the postwar years. The empire would continue to recede in the decades that followed at Great Britain – still a world power – found itself in a weakened position against the larger backdrop of the intensifying Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Black Dahlia: Purported Movie of Elizabeth Short on V-J Day in Hollywood – FALSE!
Black Dahlia: Purported Movie of Elizabeth Short on V-J Day in Hollywood – FALSE!
Every so often, this clip shows up on social media, purporting to be Elizabeth Short on Hollywood Boulevard during V-J Day celebrations in August 1945.
False. Elizabeth Short was in Medford, Mass., on V-J Day and didn’t arrive in Los Angeles until the summer of 1946.
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1947 Bristol 400 Coupe
Issued by Brooklin Models in their Lansdowne Series. It is 1:43 scale and crafted in white metal.
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Black Dahlia: Trim Your Roses on Jan. 15 to Remember Elizabeth Short
Black Dahlia: Trim Your Roses on Jan. 15 to Remember Elizabeth Short
Today is Jan. 15, the anniversary of Elizabeth Short’s death. As is the custom, the Daily Mirror will be dark.
Trim your roses in her memory.1
Auditorium, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana
Postmark date: April 2, 1947
M. E. Bogarte Book Co.
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