The Closing Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured in Uncommon Footage from 1910

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114 years in the past immediately (Novem­ber 20, 1910), Leo Tol­stoy—the creator who gave us two main Russ­ian clas­sics Anna Karen­i­na and Struggle & Peace—died at Astapo­vo, a small, distant prepare sta­tion within the coronary heart of Rus­sia. Pneu­mo­nia was the offi­cial trigger. His loss of life got here simply weeks after Tol­stoy, then 82 years…

The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Personal: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s Solar (1972)

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Hayao Miyaza­ki started his profession as an ani­ma­tor in 1963, get­ting within the door at Toei Ani­ma­tion not lengthy earlier than the com­pa­ny ceased to rent reg­u­lar­ly. Miyaza­okay­i’s equal­ly retire­ment-resis­tant con­tem­po­rary Tet­suya Chi­ba, already effectively on his solution to fame as a man­ga­ka, or com­ic artist, pub­lished the sequence Yuki no Taiy­ou, or Yuk­i’s Solar,…