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1914: Honour Has Come Back, as a King, to Earth

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

Harry Clarke: “Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,” illustration for Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Dead” in The Year’s at the Spring; an Anthology of Recent Poetry (1920). The poem was first published in 1914, in the autumn … Continue reading →

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1857: Bodrum

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George Frederic Watts: Bodrum, Asia Minor (1857)

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1918: Mysterious Island

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N. C. Wyeth: Endpapers for a 1918 edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). The book, a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, recounts the adventures of five Union soldiers who escape their Confederate captors in a hot … Continue reading →

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1726: Definition

Posted on August 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

THUNDER: a Noise known by Persons not Deaf. —Nathan Bailey: An universal etymological English dictionary, comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue (1726)

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1933: The Very Ideology to which it Owes its Origin

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Wilhelm Reich on the connections among repression, sexual guilt (indoctrinated into children and adolescents through the family), patriarchy, capitalism, fascism, violent religious fanaticism, the construction of the other, and imperialism: The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order…becomes the primary basis of authoritarian … Continue reading →

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1920: Nazi Assholes

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Hitler’s doodles for the Nazi symbol. Readers of Kurt Vonnegut will recognize the one on the bottom left as just a picture of an asshole: Sources: “Sketch of Hitler’s from 1920 with the remark: ‘The holy signs of the Germans. … Continue reading →

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2.2 mya: Matsya and the Asura Hayagriva

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In Hindu mythology, there are four historical eras, yugas,  that repeat in a cycle; the first of these is the Satya Yuga, followed by the Treta Yuga, the Dvapara Yuga, and, finally, the Kali Yuga. We are presently in a … Continue reading →

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1883: Educate! Agitate! Organize!

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“Educate! Agitate! Organize!” This slogan apparently first appeared in print in 1883—in a pamphlet produced by a British organization called the Democratic Federation. The artist and writer William Morris was the treasurer of the group and included the phrase on … Continue reading →

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1937: Black Flag

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Rene Magritte: Le Drapeau Noir [The Black Flag] (1937)

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1864: Bird and Weeds

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Léon Bonvin: Landscape with Bird and Weeds (1864)

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