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Radio Podcast #3 — 1890 to 1891

MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS “Another journey into the history of recorded sound with James and Sean. This time we delve into the vaults for 1890 and 1891, explore the pop music of the gilded age, and hear the voices of P.T. Barnum, Florence Nightingale, Pyotr …

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1891 in Art

  George Frederic Watts — After the Deluge Giovanni Segantini – Midday in the Alps Henri Rousseau — Tiger in a Tropical Storm Emily Maria Eardley (‘Milly’) Childers – Hugh Culling Eardley Childers Paul Gauguin — Tahitian Women on the Beach Philip Hermogenes Calderon — St. Elizabeth of Hungary Pierre Puvis de Chavannes — The …

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Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

Thirty-five years after witnessing the last public hanging of a woman in Dorset, Thomas Hardy set out to show how an innocent soul can be so let down by the cruelties and hypocrisies of our society as to end up on the gallows. Tess herself may well be more a representation of an ideal than …

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Elsewhere in 1891

Firsts: Basketball, The London—Paris telephone system, the removable pneumatic bicycle tire, New Scotland Yard, the Tesla coil, the Swiss Army Knife and Stanford University. Carnegie Hall has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor. Disasters: The Springhill Mining Disaster. The SS Utopia, carrying Italian migrants to New York, sinks in …

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