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Tag Archives: 18th Century
1773: An Extraordinary Animal
In his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, James Boswell famously recounts his travels with Samuel Johnson in the highlands and western islands of Scotland. The year was 1773; Johnson was in his mid-sixties. In an 1885 edition of … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Animals, Art, Australia, Books, George Stubbs, Great Britain, James Boswell, Kangaroos, Mammals, Painting, Samuel Johnson, Scotland
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2017: Walt Whitman’s House
Marsden Hartley: Walt Whitman’s House, 328 Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey (c. 1905) From 2017 Google Streetview: Whitman’s house today—now 328 Dr Martin Luther King Blvd—and the view from its windows, Camden County Jail: We two, how long we were … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 18th Century, 1900's, 2010's, 20th Century, 21st Century, LGBT, Marsden Hartley, Martin Luther King Jr., Photography, Poetry, Prisons, USA, Walt Whitman
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1795: Zozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading!
From Johann Matthäus Bechstein’s Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen: ein Handbuch zur deutlichern und vollständigern Selbstbelehrung besonders für Forstmänner, Jugendlehrer und Oekonomen, volume 4 (1795): Twenty-four different strains or couplets may be reckoned in the song of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Books, David Hindley, Germany, Great Britain, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Music
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1799: Nine Family Heads
In the late 18th century, a physician from northern Africa named Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim assembled this book of practices for dealing with physical, mental, and spiritual ailments. It also includes sections on secret alphabets, divination by sand, magic, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Africa, Art, Books, Demons, Magic, Medicine, Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim
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1792: The Chevalier d’Éon
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont—known more simply as the Chevalier d’Éon—was a French soldier, diplomat, and spy who settled in London, living from 1762-1777 as a man and from 1786-1810 as a woman. Born to a poor noble family in Burgundy … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Chevalier d'Éon, Diplomacy, France, Great Britain, LGBT, Russia, Seven Years' War, Women
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1661: Elizabeth Russell
[———–] Russell, always known under the guise or habit of a woman, and answered to the name of Elizabeth, as registered in Streatham parish, Nov. 21, 1661, but at death proved to be a man. He was buried April 14th, … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 18th Century, Art, Christian Seybold, ELizabeth Russell, Germany, Great Britain, LGBT, Painting, Portraits, Women
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