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Dick Van Dyke, circa 1960
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“If someone from the UK sees me, they are on me like a pack of wolves,” joked Dick Van Dyke, who always accepted the mockery over his role in Mary Poppins with good grace, admitting he’d delivered “the most atrocious Cockney accent in the history of cinema”. Even so, the man who played Bert the chimney sweep remains indubitably popular.
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On this day in Black History.
Feb 22, 1841 Grafton Tyler Brown, lithographer and painter, born
The athlete and boxer Abe Attell , byname the Little Champ was born February 22, 1884, San Francisco, California
– On this day in 1888, legendary painter Horace Pippin was born
Feb 22, 1898
Black postmaster lynched and his wife and three daughters shot and maimed for life in Lake City, S.C.
– On this day in 1911, poet, activist, and social reformer Frances Ellis Watkins Harper died
Robert Smalls died in Beaufort, Texas on February 22, 1915 and is buried there with his family.
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and naval pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to
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