Beginnings The London School of Economics, The Swarovski Company, The internal combustion bus, The portable handheld electric drill, The National Trust, volleyball, The Northern Rugby Football Union (the modern-day Rugby Football League), The first professional American football game, The Proms. Auguste and Louis Lumière display their first moving picture film in Paris. Jail French officer …
“Music is so helpful to the human mind that it is naturally a source of satisfaction to me that I have helped in some way to make the very finest music available to millions who could not afford to pay the price and take the time necessary to hear the greatest artists sing and play.” …
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 …
Annabelle – Serpentine Dance Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph Carmencita Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894 Annie Oakley Shooting
“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 …
At the end of August I paid a visit to Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire – mainly as a fun and educational day out for the family, of course, but also because I’ve been watching it as the setting of the BBC historical recreation programme Victorian Pharmacy, the sequel to Victorian Farm. You might …
My metal pictures of the nighttime world of 1894 mainly involve darkness – with, of course, the occasional gas lamp or candle peering gingerly out of the gloom. In fact, many towns were investing in shockingly bright arc lighting, so bright in fact that it had to be lifted up onto a platform 150ft in …
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 …
