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The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible. Another variation (depicted in many of the images featured here) involved tipping an egg from a bowl, and then trying to flip the bowl over on top of it, all with only using one's feet and staying within a chalk circle drawn on the ground. Although, as shown in many of its depictions in art, the pastime is associated with peasant villages of the 16th and 17th century, one of the earliest references to egg-dancing relates to the marriage of Margaret of Austria and Philibert of Savoy on Easter Monday in 1498. The event was described in an 1895 issue of American Magazine:

    Then the great egg dance, the special dance of the season, began. A hundred eggs were scattered over a level space covered with sand, and a young couple, taking hands, began the dance. If they finished without breaking an egg they were betrothed, and not even an obdurate parent could oppose the marriage.

    After three couples had failed, midst the laughter and shouts of derision of the on-lookers, Philibert of Savoy, bending on his knee before Marguerite, begged her consent to try the dance with him. The admiring crowd of retainers shouted in approval, "Savoy and Austria!" When the dance was ended and no eggs were broken the enthusiasm was unbounded.

The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature

The image above details the aesthetic requirements for achieving the "Ideal English Rabbit", the benchmark of perfect markings for a particular breed of rabbit first developed in the middle of the nineteenth century. The diagram reproduces one of a series of eight images created by the English artist Ernest George Wippell for Fur and Feather magazine in 1893, two years after the founding of the English Rabbit Club (though some sources give the date for Wippell's drawings as 1903). In 1927, Fur and Feather published the colour print pictured below in their "ideal breed" series.

In Search of the Impossible: The Perfect English Rabbit

Easter Parade was the highest-grossing musical film of 1948, and the second-highest grossing MGM musical of the 1940s, after Meet Me in St. Louis.




In the 1870s, Capitol Hill had become a popular spot for children to roll eggs - and themselves - down the hill on Easter Monday. As the event grew more popular, the toll on the grounds was noticeable. In 1876, Congress passed a law forbidding the Capitol grounds to be used as a children's playground. In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes issued an order that if any children should come to the White House to roll their Easter eggs, they would be allowed to do so. The tradition has been carried on since, and has grown into the major event.





Details on Mrs. Kennedy's dress


Magazine covers for April 15, 1933; March 31: 1951, 1961, 1969:




March 31, 1979: Three Mile Island – “nothing to see here . . .really”.


Continuous news reports – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection.


Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow (March 7, 1934 – November 6, 2001) was an American illustrator of comics, magazine covers and paperback books. He is co-creator of the Marvel Comics muck-monster the Man-Thing, DC Comics Old West vigilante El Diablo and dozens more Sci-fi digests. One of the fantastic "realistic" sci-fi/horror artists. Morrow contributed to "Batman," "Super Girl," "Flash Gordon," "Buck Rogers," "Spider-Man," "Big Ben Bolt" and "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" among dozens of Sci-fi digests.

He took over the 'Buck Rogers' strip in 1979 and illustrated the 'Tarzan' Sunday comic strip from 1983 to 2001.

Gray Morrow was suffering from Parkinson's disease when he died November 6, 2001, reportedly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.


The Art of Gray Morrow


25 years ago today, THE MATRIX released in theaters.




Secret photos of the hunting association by Petr Válek: