September 2017

1894 in Art

StanisÅ‚aw WyspiaÅ„ski – Planty o swicie Georges Lemmen – The Two Sisters Theodoor Verstraete – Spring in Schoore (Zeeland) William Merritt Chase – Idle Hours John William Godward – A Priestess Henri Matisse – Woman Reading George Hendrik Breitner – Meisje in witte kimono (Geesje Kwak) Gustave Caillebotte — The garden of the Petit Gennevilliers …

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George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man

“Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward’s art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm’s way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.” His first great success, Arms and …

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Rudyard Kipling and The Jungle Book

I’m sorry to say that I’ve previously only been familiar with the Disney version of The Jungle Book, and while I was aware that the original was different, I didn’t realise that the almost entirely different story of Mowgli was only one of five included. Among the others we have the also-fairly-well-known story of Riki-Tikki-Tavi, …

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Elsewhere in 1894

  Beginnings The first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. Blackpool Tower The Manchester Ship Canal Tower Bridge in London Paris—Rouen Competition for Horseless Carriages, the first automobile competition. New Zealand enacts the world’s first minimum wage law. The National College of Music, London. Sir William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh discover the first noble gas, …

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1894

The classic minstrel show is refracted through just about every aspect of American entertainment since. As a ritual, the minstrel show was as formalized as an exorcism. Each of its set parts has its own afterlife, appears peeking through a different window in American culture like a leering, priapic idiot glimpsed through a heavily barred …

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