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, …
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, …
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 …
Albert Edelfelt – Larin Paraske Édouard Vuillard – The Seamstress Eero Järnefelt – Raatajat Rahanalaiset (Under The Yoke) Henri-Edmond Cross – The Evening Air Lawrence Alma-Tadema — Unconscious Rivals Olga BoznaÅ„ska — Self-portrait Paul Gauguin – The Ancestors of Tehamana (Merahi metua no Tehamana) Peder Severin Krøyer — Summer Evening on Skagen’s Southern Beach Ramon …
First exhibited in 1893 in Berlin, The Scream was the culmination of Munch’s magnum opus, a series of paintings called The Frieze of Life. This depicted the course of human existence through burgeoning love and sexual passion to suffering, despair and death, in Munch’s highly original, proto-expressionist style. His titles, from Death in the Sickroom, …
Salomé is a rare instance in British theatrical history of an authentically ‘Symbolist’ drama. This means that it belongs with an innovative group of plays produced in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Conceived as an alternative to naturalism and the kind of plays that purported to represent life by reproducing everyday …
Grover Cleveland seems like a very suitable president for the tail-end of the Gilded Age, with the demeanor of a wealthy industrialist, a magnificent walrus moustache, a wife half his age and an obsession with the incomprehensible issue of the gold standard while the reconstruction of the South was being rolled back. A year into …
Produced by William Dickson at Edison’s Black Maria studio in New Jersey, Blacksmith Scene is the earliest example of a staged scene with actors playing roles.
Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. On June 20th 1893 Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murder of her parents, but her reputation hasn’t really recovered in the years since. Stuff You Missed In History Class have …
Worlds Fairs range from the spectacular (The Great Exhibition in London in 1851, The Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889) to the middling (did you know Expo 2017 is taking place right now in Kazakhstan right now?) but surely none can have changed the world as much as the World’s Columbian Exposition which took place …
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