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Featured article Frame from Gertie the Dinosaur Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. He first used the film before audiences as an interactive part of his vaudeville act: the frisky, childlike dinosaur Gertie did tricks at his command. His employer, magnate William Randolph Hearst, later curtailed McCay's vaudeville activities, so McCay added a live-action introductory sequence to the film for its theatrical release. Gertie was the first film to use animation techniques such as keyframes, registration marks, tracing paper, the Mutoscope action viewer, and animation loops, and the first to feature a dinosaur. Gertie influenced the next generation of animators, including the Fleischer brothers, Otto Messmer, Paul Terry, and Walt Disney. McCay abandoned a sequel, Gertie on Tour, around 1921 after producing about a minute of footage. Gertie is the best preserved of his films—others are lost or in fragments—and has been preserved in the US National Film Registry. (Full article...) Recently featured: Michael Tritter The True Record "All-American Bitch" Zimmerman Telegram Zimmerman Telegram On February 24, .. 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. 1803 - Marbury v. Madison established judicial review in the U.S. 1917 - The Zimmermann Telegram was delivered, complicating World War I. 1999 - Arizona executed German national Karl LaGrand. Recent days: February 23 - February 22 More events in history... Did you know ...? Willie Williams ... that retired United States Marine Corps three-star general Willie Williams (pictured) originally planned to enlist in the Air Force after high school instead of going to college? ... that an Israeli diplomat was assassinated in Ankara just two days after diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey were fully established? ... that Celeste Bedford Walker said that both her plays on the Houston riot of 1917 and Tulsa race massacre were "quintessential racial confrontation stories"? ... that actor Kōta Nomura had no experience in cooking before being cast in the live-action drama adaptation of Perfect Propose? ... that Gerry Snyder brought the Summer Olympics and Major League Baseball to Montreal? ... that an attempt to use automated dialogue replacement in the Reservation Dogs episode "Deer Lady" failed because the voice sounded too much like Yoda? ... that a former police whistleblower is developing six islands in The World? ... that the 2012 Southern Indiana tornado ripped chunks of asphalt concrete off of a road and threw the pieces 30 yards (27 m) away? ... that the proprietor of the company Samurai Shokai promoted the foreign practice of shaking hands in Japan?	In the news Ekrem İmamoğlu Anti-government protests break out across Turkey following the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu (pictured) by the national police. Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud survives an attack on his convoy by al-Shabaab that kills at least 10 people. Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip kill more than 500 people, ending the Gaza war ceasefire. A nightclub fire in Kočani, North Macedonia, kills at least 59 people and injures more than 155 others. In Yemen, 53 people are killed after the United States launches air and naval strikes. Ongoing: M23 campaign Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Eddie James Munir Shakir Dik Wolfson Eddie Jordan Aaron Gunches Malcolm F. Marsh Holidays {{Holidays}} Obituaries Italian cyclist Marco Pantani died suddenly at a hotel in Rimini, Italy on February 14. Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed in an apparent car bomb explosion on February 13. Former leader of the Canadian liberal party, Claude Ryan, died from stomach cancer on February 9 at age 79. More recent deaths...
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