Rain's Thursday Art Date: Historical Events

First, I want to apologize for not visiting many of you last week.  I got sick and had trouble getting out of bed.  Second, I'm still quite ill (chills, sore throat, trouble catching my breath, sneezing, and aches I feel all over my body), but had this post nearly finished before I got sick, so wanted to share it so I could stop by and apologize to those of you who visited me last Thursday.  Finally, for those of you looking for my second Thursday tutorial, I forgot all about it, so I will post something next Thursday.  Today however, I give you the following:

It's Thursday and time for Rain's Thursday Art Date.  Although I love history, I somehow doubt I'll be able to come up with too many historical events this week.  However, while looking for inspiration from Rain, this is what I came up with.

I suppose a good place to start is the Cherry Blossom Festival held every year in March and April around the Tidal Basin in Washington D.C. (USA).

Here I show that I copied the information regarding the cherry blossom festival.

I wrote an entire history of St. Valentine's Day.

Tip-ins I made in 2019 where I talked about the history of greeting cards made just for Valentine's Day.

Cinco de Mayo is a holiday, but it also has a great history behind it.  The two Mexican flags open and have hidden messages behind them.

I created this for Memorial Day and explained the meaning behind this day, which is not to be confused with Labor Day or Veterans Day. The tombstones started as manila colored tags.

This is a tip-in made for a swap, and later added to my Mexico altered book (Sorry, but the photo was taken with my old worthless camera).  It shows the various shelves and table families lay out to honor their dead on Dia de Muertos or Day of the Dead.  There are polymer clay skulls and bones and at least one transparency.

It's fairly obvious, this went in my Mexico altered book and is tied to Dia de Muertos.

This was for a Halloween spread in my Seasons altered book.

I created this quiltlet for Veterans Day using some of my rusted fabric, hand dyed organza, and what I hoped looked like a poppy.  I explained the day is also known in some parts of the world as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day.

I created this page for my large art journal.  This is from the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

It is now known as a war crime.  I detailed the events leading up to the attack started back in July, 1853 when Commander Matthew C. Perry was sent by the U.S. to forcibly establish trade with Japan.

The Japanese totally misread the American spirit.

Once Americans were no longer at war, they took to the Drive-In.  Many Drive-Ins were more popular in the summer months than indoor theaters.  They etched their place in history, not just in the U.S.A. but in many countries across the world.  Now they are all but gone because the land is so valuable where they were once located.

And we can NEVER FORGET what the twin towers looked like just prior to being struck by the first plane on 9/11/2001.

Shifting gears,

here's a photo from our history museum.

This is from the same musuem.

From a different history museum this shows a black cloud on Wichita's (Kansas, USA) history.

All art created by me.  All photos taken by me.  Bleubeard got bored and left after a few minutes. 

Thank you beyond belief for visiting today.  I am truly grateful to you, my friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  I am actually more than grateful, because I was unable due to my illness to visit most of you last week.  Please join me at Rain's Thursday Art Date.