April 2020

1923 in Film

  CÅ“ur fidèle Der Schatz / The Treasure Safety Last! Schatten — Eine nächtliche Halluzination The Ten Commandments The Extra Girl Le Retour à la Raison Die Straße / The Street Souls for Sale Salomé The Covered Wagon La Roue The Love Nest The Pilgrim Our Hospitality Scaramouche The Hunchback of Notre Dame I.N.R.I. Merry-Go-Round …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 22 (1914)

Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 25th April 2020 Place: Cambridge 105 Radio James Errington takes you on another trip into the ancient history of recorded sound, this time joined by Cambridge native Liam Higgins to review the music scene on both sides of the Atlantic in 1914, the year the lights famously went out all over …

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Elsewhere in 1923

January 1—7 — In a violent, racially motivated attack, at least 8 people are killed, and the town of Rosewood, Florida is abandoned and destroyed. January 9 — Lithuania begins the KlaipÄ—da Revolt, to annex the KlaipÄ—da Region (Memel Territory). January 11 — Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr …

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James Joyce – Ulysses

It’s been a quiet couple of weeks of mainly doing stuff in the garden, and I’ve taken the opportunity to finally tackle James Joyce’s second-most-daunting book, Ulysses. I’ve owned a copy for roughly half of my life now, and hadn’t even opened it, not exactly through feeling intimidated, more that it seemed like a huge …

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1923

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1922 in art

Georgia O’Keeffe – A Storm Joan Miró — The Farm L. S. Lowry — A Manufacturing Town Max Beckmann — The Iron Footbridge Paul Klee — Twittering Machine Sophie Taeuber-Arp — Oval Composition with Abstract Motifs Ángel Zárraga – Girl With Cherry Tart Max Liebermann — Albert Einstein Alvar Cawén — Sokea soittoniekka (Blind Musician) …

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