1933 Community

"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better" - Mae West, movie "I'm No Angel" (1933).

Daily Piece of Art

🎨 Biserka Baretic 🇭🇷 (b. 1933) 🖼️ Orfej (1979) - oil on canvas

On This Day in History - June 9, 1941

June 9, 1941 OTD The funeral of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II was held in Doorn. Although AH had wanted a state funeral in Berlin with himself in a prominent role, Wilhelm's family insisted on respecting instructions he'd given in 1933 that he was to be buried in Doorn if Germany was not a monarchy at the... read more

A rainy day vampire movie marathon part 2 - The Vampire Bat (1933)

The Vampire Bat, unlike "Vampyr", was clearly made to cash in on the Dracula craze. It does have a pretty good premise - are the mysterious deaths in a generic European village the result of a vampire infestation, or the work of a clever killer? It's a question left unresovled until close to the... read more

Felt cute, might delete

#sumerian statue discovered in 1933 at Abu Temple, Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar in Iraq), dated to 2700 BCE

New haul from the same place as last week

There are some beautifully old books in here. Very impressed with the selection!! The 1933 one has a cool inscription about the birth and death year of the person who owned it.