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Tag Archives: 20th Century
1922: Landscape
Konstantin Bogaevsky: Landscape with Lake (1922)
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Drawing, Konstantin Bogaevsky, Landscapes, Russia, Soviet Union
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1994: You Bomb You!
Allen Ginsberg throwing out the first pitch at a San Francisco Giants game on June 1, 1994. The team had invited him to be the first in a “City of Poets” series in which writers read their work before games. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Allen Ginsberg, LGBT, Poetry, Sports, USA, War
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1974: Author Awarded Avocado
The opening of Walter Abish’s 1974 novel, Alphabetical Africa: Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex’s admonition, against Allen’s angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, 20th Century, Africa, Ants, Archaeology, Austria, Books, Novels, USA, Walter Abish
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1926: Moon
Frederick Judd Waugh: The Risen Moon (1926)
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Frederick Judd Waugh, Painting, Seascapes, The Moon, USA
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1927: A Dawn Flight
Frederick Judd Waugh: A Dawn Flight; I guessed at the date.
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Aviation, Frederick Judd Waugh, Painting, Seascapes, USA
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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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1927: Work in Progress
On May 20, 1927, James Joyce wrote to Harriet Shaw Weaver about what should happen if he were unable to complete Finnegans Wake. Another writer, Joyce said, should take it up and finish it; he had the person in mind: … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Food and Drink, Goats, Ireland, James Joyce, James Stephens, Novels, Poetry, Writing
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