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Our Fancy – The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station – 1896

Posted on January 24, 2016 by hystoria.ca

  One short film had a particularly lasting impact; yes, it caused fear, terror, even panic. It was the film L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de la Ciotat (Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat Station). Although the cinematographic train … Continue reading →

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Charles Dickens’ Visit To Niagara Falls, Canada

Posted on December 24, 2015 by hystoria.ca

He saw this “beautiful girl of twenty who had been in jail for several years.” She had, he wrote, “quite a lovely face though there was a lurking devil in her bright eyes which looked out pretty sharply from between her prison bars.” Continue reading →

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