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Baby penguin being tickled. That is all.

This week in history...

...marks the anniversary of some very important events!

On Tuesday, April 12 we started off with the 150th Commemoration of the start of the Civil War, remembering the day that the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Here in DC, the year is filled with events, including museum exhibitions and films. I've already seen Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray through the Washington DC JCC, and it was fantastic! After the film, there was a panel that included a self-professed "Civil War nut," a descendant of a Jewish Union soldier, the Director of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, and the Director of film programming at the DC JCC.

Later on this month, I plan to see the exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery that recounts the death of the first Union soldier killed in the Civil War, "The Death of Ellsworth."

Yesterday was also the 146th Anniversary of the day President Lincoln was shot. And a fact many may not be aware of - while Lincoln was shot on the 14th, he did not die until the morning of the 15th.

I also found a (weird) similarity in the history of the Titanic, which had its 99th Anniversary also yesterday, April 14th. It hit the infamous iceberg a little before midnight on the 14th, but did not sink into the Atlantic until 2:20 AM of the 15th.

Declaration 1776

Because history is cool, and marketing history is even better, these guys are now my heroes. They have combined the American Revolution and clothing to create Declaration 1776, a (men's) clothing line founded by two college roommates (they say they're from Boston - but not Harvard? We can only hope). My only hope is that someday they will create women's clothing, and then I will be in heaven.