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<p>Italian dancer, choreographer and dance theoretician Carlo Blasis died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1878.</p><p>He published an analysis of the ballet techniques in 1820, in a work named Traité élémentaire, théorique, et pratique de l'art de la danse. He is most known for the pose "Attitude" derived from the famous statue Mercury by Giovanni da Bologna.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Blasis" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Blasis"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Bl</span><span class="invisible">asis</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/dance/" rel="tag">#dance</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a></p>

Notes upon Dancing, historical and practical ... Followed by a history of the Royal and Imperial Academy of Dancing, at Milan. To which are added, Biographical Notices of the Blasis family, interspersed with various passages on theatrical art. Edited and translated ... by R. Barton. With engravings 1847.

https://books.google.pt/books?id=ICZhAAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y

Carlo Blassis

First Master at the Imperial Academy of Dancing, Milan.

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<p>Norwegian folklorist, writer, and zoologist Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1812.</p><p>He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. The most famous collection, "Norske Folkeeventyr" ("Norwegian Folktales"), was co-published with Moe starting in 1841. He worked as a zoologist and forestry expert, publishing writings on nature and the environment.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christen_Asbj%C3%B8rnsen" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christen_Asbj%C3%B8rnsen"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ch</span><span class="invisible">risten_Asbj%C3%B8rnsen</span></a></p><p>Books by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34177" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/34177"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/34177</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait of norwegian author Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885). Belongs to Kunstnerforeningen.

Asbjørnsen is portrayed in a formal, seated pose, exuding a sense of dignity and intellectual depth.

He is dressed in formal 19th-century attire, depicted in a dark suit or coat with a waistcoat, befitting his status as a respected author and intellectual.

The portrait captures Asbjørnsen’s distinctive features, such as his broad forehead, thick, wavy hair, and full beard, emphasizing his mature and wise demeanor.

Norwegian Folktales, a collection of Norwegian folktales and legends by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, published in Copenhagen 1896.

This second illustrated edition is known as the "Huldrebindet", after the picture of the Huldra on the front page.

The first illustrated edition (from 1879) is known as the "nissebindet", after the Nisse pictured on it.

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<p>Swedish painter and photographer Oscar Gustave Rejlander died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1875.</p><p>His most famous work, "The Two Ways of Life" (1857), was a large-scale composite image made from over 30 negatives, depicting a moral allegory between vice and virtue. He worked closely with other pioneers like Henry Peach Robinson and was admired by Charles Darwin, who commissioned him to create photographs for The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872).</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Gustave_Rejlander" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Gustave_Rejlander"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Gu</span><span class="invisible">stave_Rejlander</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a></p>

The Two Ways of Life, a moralistic photo montage of Rejlanders own work, 1857.

In 1857 he made his best-known allegorical work, The Two Ways of Life. This was a seamlessly montaged combination print made of thirty-two images in about six weeks.

First exhibited at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857, the work shows two youths being offered guidance by a patriarch.

Each youth looks toward a section of a stage-like tableaux vivant - one youth is shown the virtuous pleasures and the other the sinful pleasures.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1904.</p><p>J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London with Nina Boucicault in the title rôle and Gerald du Maurier as Captain Hook and Mr Darling; du Maurier is the uncle of the Llewellyn Davies boys, who inspired the story.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pa</span><span class="invisible">n</span></a></p><p>Peter Pan at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/16" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/16</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Playbill for opening run in London

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1853.</p><p>Charles Dickens gives the first of his public readings of his own works, in Birmingham Town Hall (England) to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people and including an adaptation of A Christmas Carol; these are very successful and Dickens continues public readings until the year of his death.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_A_Christmas_Carol"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptati</span><span class="invisible">ons_of_A_Christmas_Carol</span></a></p><p>Christmas Carol at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition. Title page.

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<p>"Nothing can come of nothing: speak again."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1838.</p><p>William Macready opens a performance of King Lear at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, restoring most of Shakespeare's original text, including the character of the Fool.</p><p>The restored character of the Fool was played by Priscilla Horton. And Helen Faucit's final appearance as Cordelia, dead in her father's arms, became one of the most iconic of Victorian images.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lea</span><span class="invisible">r</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1532" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1532</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/theatre/" rel="tag">#theatre</a></p>

Lear and Cordelia in Prison c1779 N 05189 B 53 Pen and watercolour 123×175 by William Blake.

It depicts a poignant scene from William Shakespeare’s King Lear, where the aging King Lear and his devoted daughter, Cordelia, are imprisoned together.

In this work, Blake captures the deep sorrow and tenderness between Lear and Cordelia. Lear, frail and distressed, appears to lean toward his daughter, who remains calm and resolute.

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<p>"Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?"</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1605.</p><p>The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain. It was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quix</span><span class="invisible">ote</span></a></p><p>Don Quixote at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/996" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/996</a><br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2000" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2000</a><br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/42524" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/42524</a><br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/35181" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/35181</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Cover image of Don Quixote de la Mancha (first edition, 1605).

Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, 1863, by Gustave Doré.

Don Quixote, the idealistic and gaunt knight, is depicted riding his thin, weary horse, Rocinante. He appears tall, with a determined yet distant expression, embodying his chivalric delusions.

Sancho Panza, his loyal and pragmatic squire, follows beside him on his stout donkey, Dapple. His figure contrasts Quixote’s—shorter, rounder, and more grounded in reality.

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<p>I saw the dead upon St Laurence Wake<br>Sailing in beautiful Brimvald. They were young,<br>Younger than death and life, with a sweet tongue<br>I have heard in my blood before…</p><p>—“The Vikings”, by Olive Fraser (1909–1977) – born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a>, 20 Jan, & a poet whose work was sadly neglected in her lifetime. A 🎂 🧵</p><p>1/6</p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/20thcentury/" rel="tag">#20thcentury</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a> <a href="/tags/olivefraser/" rel="tag">#OliveFraser</a> <a href="/tags/vikings/" rel="tag">#Vikings</a></p>

Olive Fraser
1909-77

THE VIKINGS

King Haro's navy met on St Laurence Wake in 1263 at Ronaldsvo under the leadership of his great ship Brimvald

I saw the dead upon St Laurence Wake
Sailing in beautiful Brimvald. They were young,
Younger than death and life, with a sweet tongue
I have heard in my blood before,
Dreaming it was the wild gannets that make
Their comment upon Sulna-stapa shore.
I creid upon the dead, 'Why is your face
So beautiful in the regretless place?

'Surely among the dead there is no will
For dragon-necks of gold and for straight sails,
And Brimvald with the silver bitterns' tails
Is quiet under dark skerries now.'
'O we are loved among the living still,
We are forgiven among the dead. We plough
In the old narrows of the spirit. We
Have woven our wealth into your mystery.'

And I remembered words that I had heard
And never heard. And vessels that I knew
And thought were visions. The mute swans that flew
Over grey islands were like these
And yet were nothing. Once at Herlesferd
I saw a ship whose path on the green seas
Made joy to brindled sea-birds, and my breath
Was dangerous and scant, bitter like death.

'O if you died upon St Laurence Wake
Why are you beautiful and young,' I cried
'Like dreams of you I saw on a great tide
Lovelier and more young than I?
Even when I heard the wild white eagles take
Over the earth with their cruel minstrelsy
You were more light than I have ever been.'
They said, 'We are your Soul that you have seen.'

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1817.</p><p>English painter Benjamin Haydon introduces John Keats to William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb at a dinner in London to celebrate progress on his painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, in which all feature.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Haydon" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Haydon"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin</span><span class="invisible">_Haydon</span></a></p><p>Book about Benjamin Hydon at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6756" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6756</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/painting/" rel="tag">#painting</a></p>

Ppainting titled "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem" by Benjamin Robert Haydon. The artwork depicts the biblical event of Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey, celebrated as Palm Sunday in Christian tradition.

Jesus at the center, highlighted with a serene and divine presence, seated on a donkey, symbolizing humility and peace.
A crowd surrounding Jesus, expressing a range of emotions, from reverence and awe to excitement and devotion. Some individuals are laying down cloaks and branches, an act of homage.

Dynamic composition, with figures in various poses and expressive gestures, adding drama and movement to the scene.

Rich colors and dramatic lighting, which emphasize the spiritual significance and emotional intensity of the event.

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<p>Swedish mathematician Niels Fabian Helge von Koch was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1870.</p><p>He gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Fabian_Helge_von_Koch" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Fabian_Helge_von_Koch"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Fa</span><span class="invisible">bian_Helge_von_Koch</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a></p>

Portrait of Nils Fabian Helge von Koch.

In the image, he is shown as an older gentleman, with neatly combed hair, a mustache, and a composed, intellectual expression.

His attire would be formal, typical of late 19th- and early 20th-century European academics—a suit with a high-collared shirt.

von Koch, Helge (1904). "Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire" [On a continuous curve without tangent, obtained by an elementary geometric construction]. Arkiv för Matematik (in French). 1: 681–704. JFM 35.0387.02.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000100114564&view=1up&seq=691

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<p>Irish astronomer Agnes Mary Clerke died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1907.</p><p>During her career she wrote reviews of many books, including some written in French, German, Greek, or Italian. In 1885, she published her best known work, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. This book became commonly used for its discussion of the spectroscope.<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Mary_Clerke" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Mary_Clerke"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Ma</span><span class="invisible">ry_Clerke</span></a></p><p>Books about or by Agnes Mary Clerke at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Agnes+Mary+Clerke&submit_search=Search" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Agnes+Mary+Clerke&submit_search=Search"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc</span><span class="invisible">h/?query=Agnes+Mary+Clerke&submit_search=Search</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninStem</a></p>

Portrait photograph of astronomy writer Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907) by Hayman Selig Mendelssohn (1847–1908).

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Clerke is depicted in a composed and serious manner, reflecting her scholarly nature and contributions to astronomy.

Her attire is modest and typical of the Victorian era, likely consisting of a high-collared dress with lace, emphasizing both her refinement and intellectual standing.

Her expression is calm and introspective.

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<p>"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1916.</p><p>James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is first published complete in book form, in New York by B. W. Huebsch.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portra</span><span class="invisible">it_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man</span></a></p><p>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Front cover of the first edition, published by B. W. Huebsch in 1916

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1959.</p><p>American physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the field of nanotechnology. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms as a more robust form of synthetic chemistry than those used at the time.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27</span><span class="invisible">s_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/physics/" rel="tag">#physics</a></p>

Richard Phillips Feynman (1918–1988)

The Nobel Foundation - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html

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<p>Austrian-born American actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 2000.</p><p>Lamarr wanted to aid the Allied forces during World War II. She shared her concept for using “frequency hopping” with the U.S. Navy and codeveloped a patent with Antheil 1941. Today, her innovation helped make possible a wide range of wireless communications technologies, including Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.</p><p>Below, U.S. patent 2,292,387 granted on August 11, 1942, under her legal name Hedy Kiesler Markey.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninstem/" rel="tag">#womeninStem</a></p>

Hedy Lamarr publicity photo for the film The Heavenly Body, 1944

This is a publicity photo taken to promote an actress. As stated by film production expert Eve Light Honthaner in The Complete Film Production Handbook, (Focal Press, 2001 p. 211.)

U.S. patent 2,292,387 granted on August 11, 1942, under her legal name Hedy Kiesler Markey.

H04L9/38 - Encryption being effected by mechanical apparatus, e.g. rotating cams, switches, keytape punchers

Subject-matter directed to cryptographic mechanisms involving encryption effected by mechanical apparatus, as rotating cams, switches or key-tape punchers.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US2292387

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1789.</p><p>William Hill Brown's anonymous sentimental epistolary novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature, usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston.</p><p>The novel was first published anonymously, but was popularly attributed to poet Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton because of the resemblance between the plot and a scandal in her family; Brown was not correctly identified as the author until 1894.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Sympathy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powe</span><span class="invisible">r_of_Sympathy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69250</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown (1789), title page.

The title page of the original edition is formal and typical of 18th-century publications, with a long, descriptive subtitle. It reads:

The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature. Founded in Truth.

It is followed by the publication details, which state that it was printed in Boston by Isaiah Thomas and Company in 1789.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OtD</a> 26 Jan 1944 Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, AL. Revolutionary, civil rights organiser and third woman to make the FBI's most wanted list, Davis was also associated with the Black Panthers. Works available here: <a href="https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/if-they-come-in-the-morning-angela-davis" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/if-they-come-in-the-morning-angela-davis"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shop.workingclasshistory.com/c</span><span class="invisible">ollections/books/products/if-they-come-in-the-morning-angela-davis</span></a></p>

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<p>German poet and novelist Achim von Arnim was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1781.</p><p>He is best known as one of the key figures of German Romanticism. His works were collected, with an introduction by Wilhelm Grimm, in twenty volumes (1839–48). He influenced late Romantics and Realists such as Eduard Mörike, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Uhland and Theodor Storm, particularly through the Wunderhorn.</p><p>Books by Achim von Arnim at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/848" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/848"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/848</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait of Achim von Arnim by Peter Edward Stroehling, 1803.

Stroehling, known for his detailed and refined portrait style, presents Arnim as a young man, with a confident and intellectual demeanor befitting his literary status.

The portrait showcases Arnim in early 19th-century attire.

Stroehling's technique emphasizes realism, using soft lighting and delicate brushwork to bring out the subject's facial features and character.

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<p>"Poet, never chase the dream.<br>Laugh yourself and turn away.<br>Mask your hunger, let it seem<br>Small matter if he come or stay;..."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1918.</p><p>The English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. The wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, whose first nationally published poem appears three days later ("Miners" in The Nation). He will die by the end of the year.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G</span><span class="invisible">raves</span></a></p><p>Robert Graves at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/628" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/628"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/628</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

Portrait of Robert Graves in 1919.

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1902.</p><p>The first example of a Sherlockian game – a study of inconsistencies of dates in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (the serialisation of which in The Strand Magazine concludes in April) by publisher Frank Sidgwick – appears in The Cambridge Review.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of</span><span class="invisible">_Sherlock_Holmes</span></a></p><p>Arthur Conan Doyle at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/69</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Empty House" (1903), Illustration by Sidney Paget, in The Strand Magazine.

Orginal caption: "Sherlock Holmes was standing and smiling at me across my study table."

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<p>American journalist Nellie Bly died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1922.</p><p>She was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, & for an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. Bly was also an inventor, receiving U.S. patent 697,553 for a novel milk can & U.S. patent 703,711 for a stacking garbage can.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_B</span><span class="invisible">ly</span></a></p><p>Nellie Bly at PG<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/9648</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

A woodcut image of Nellie Bly's homecoming reception in Jersey City printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated News on February 8, 1890.

Caption reads: "Around the world in seventy-two days and six hours - reception of Nellie Bly at Jersey City on the completion of her journey." Includes two vignettes (inset) titled: "Presenting the Globe-Girdler a Golden Globe" and "The Arrival in Philadelphia."

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1925.</p><p>Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges (written from 1917 to 1925), to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. </p><p>After being offered the opportunity to write a musical work, Colette wrote the text in eight days. Several composers had proposed to Colette that she write to music, but she was only excited by the prospect of Ravel.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27enfant_et_les_sortil%C3%A8ges" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27enfant_et_les_sortil%C3%A8ges"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27enfa</span><span class="invisible">nt_et_les_sortil%C3%A8ges</span></a></p><p>L'enfant et les sortilèges at the IMSLP:<br><a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/L%27enfant_et_les_sortil%C3%A8ges_(Ravel,_Maurice)" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="imslp.org/wiki/L%27enfant_et_les_sortil%C3%A8ges_(Ravel,_Maurice)"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">imslp.org/wiki/L%27enfant_et_l</span><span class="invisible">es_sortil%C3%A8ges_(Ravel,_Maurice)</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/opera/" rel="tag">#opera</a></p>

Cover of the piano reduction, illustrated by André Hellé, 1925.

André Hellé - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris - département Musique

Hellé’s playful and expressive artwork reflects the opera’s imaginative spirit, drawing viewers into a surreal realm where furniture dances, teacups sing, and a garden comes alive. The charming visual design is both a reflection of the child’s imagination and an artistic complement to Ravel’s rich, colorful music.

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<p>Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren died <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 2002.</p><p>She is best known for several children's book series, featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US), and for the children's fantasy novels Mio, My Son; Ronia the Robber's Daughter; and The Brothers Lionheart.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_L</span><span class="invisible">indgren</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Astrid Lindgren around 1960.

She is typically seen with short, slightly wavy hair, characteristic of her later years, and a kind yet intelligent expression that reflects her deep connection with storytelling and children’s literature.

Lindgren is dressed in modest yet elegant attire, wearing a collared blouse or a cardigan.

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<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom. </p><p>She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.</p><p><a href="/tags/regnantwomen/" rel="tag">#RegnantWomen</a> <a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

Liliʻuokalani in London in 1888 where she was an official envoy of the Hawaiian king at Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. She is a Hawaiian woman with dark hair, wearing a fashionably ornate day dress.

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<p>"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor<br>Shall be lifted — nevermore!"</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1845.</p><p>Edgar Allan Poe first publishes the narrative poem "The Raven", under his own name in The Evening Mirror of New York, of which he is a staff critic until February. It is rapidly reprinted across the United States and appears in book form by the end of the year.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rave</span><span class="invisible">n</span></a></p><p>The Raven at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/14082</a><br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/17192</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

The raven perches on a bust of Pallas Athena, a symbol of wisdom meant to imply the narrator is a scholar.

Illustration by Édouard Manet for Stéphane Mallarmé's translation, Le Corbeau (1875).

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<p>"The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided."<br>Opening lines</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1920.</p><p>Agatha Christie’s first novel is published in the U.K. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by Dame Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916.</p><p>The Mysterious Affair at Syles at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/863" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/863</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The publication “The Mysterious Affairt at Styles,” published by John Lane in 1920.

Dustjacket illustration of the first edition in both the UK and the US.

The atmospheric painting shows figures in a dimly lit interior. The figures appear to be examining something, setting the tone for a mystery investigation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Affair_at_Styles#/media/File:American_cover_of_%C2%ABThe_Mysterious_Affair_at_Styles%C2%BB.png

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