Dracula Daily: 11 August, 3 a. m.
11 August 2022 (TODAY)
the tumblr book club got a special surprise this year.. i'm actually screaming internally
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Nine new R.A.F.-blue ambulances with their female drivers line up in front of the Plaza Hotel, August 11, 1941. Units of the Canadian-American Cavalcade, they soon departed for Ottawa. The vehicles were presented to the Canadian Division of the British-American Ambulance corps for duty abroad. Click/tap to enlarge.
Photo: Associated Press
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Dracula Dictionary, August 11th
shawl: a piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, or shoulders
overmastering: overpowering
unclad: not wearing clothes (or in this case, wearing very few clothes, which at the time was almost the same as being naked)
daub: coat with a dirty substance
close: a narrow passage leading from a street to a court and the houses within
wynd: a very narow street
reflex: reflection
Spohr: Louis Spohr, a german composer
Mackenzie: Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, a scottish composer
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11 August 1963
On this day, Mal Evans formally becomes a Beatles employee, a position he will faithfully hold as long as the band exists.
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August 11: Happy Birthday Rhapsody (Beanie Babies)!!!!
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@Calum5SOS: With some guy
Fenway Park, 11 August 2014
(And they're back there tomorrow, 9 years later, playing MGM Music Hall at Fenway!)
🧢⚾️🎤🎸🥁
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#OTD in Irish History | 11 August:
In the Liturgical Calendar it is the Feast Day of Saint Attracta (also called Araght, and Naomh Adhracht in Irish), the patron saint of the parish of Tourlestrane, Co Sligo. Her legend states that she fled from home and took her vows as a nun under St Patrick at Coolavin. She then moved to Lough Gara, where she founded a hostel for travellers at a place now called Killaraght in her honour. The…
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Inductees Ceremony aired on tv January 1, 2024.
DJ Kool Herc
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i just realized that im not like most of people. i didn't expect to cry in the middle of a party, to just run out of that place, like a little child. i guess i just learn that that's not me, and that's completly fine.
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Jack Dempsey, left, with Al Jolson, who visited the Dempsey headquarters, August 11, 1920. The world champ was training for his upcoming bout with K.O. Brennan. After looking Al over, Jack decided there was no possibility of danger and took him on for a few rounds. Al survived.
Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America
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Good Deeds
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— August 11, 1912 / Franz Kafka diaries
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August 11: Happy Birthday Shinjiro Aragaki (Persona)!!!!
He was born in 1991, which would make him 32 years old today!
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@5SOS: THIS IS MY FRIEND MICHAEL
11 August 2015
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#OTD in Irish History | 11 August:
#OTD in Irish History | 11 August:
In the Liturgical Calendar it is the Feast Day of Saint Attracta (also called Araght, and Naomh Adhracht in Irish), the patron saint of the parish of Tourlestrane, Co Sligo. Her legend states that she fled from home and took her vows as a nun under St Patrick at Coolavin. She then moved to Lough Gara, where she founded a hostel for travellers at a place now called Killaraght in her honour. The…
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Do you realise that Aug 10th (book timeline) is the one with:
"History huh? Bet we could make some"
And the movie literally comes out at Aug 11th, so yeah, they definitely knew what they're doing and history shall be made
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