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20.1.2021
The first confirmed outbreak of sweating disease arrived in England in 1485, towards the end of the Wars of the Roses (1455–87). This led to speculation that it may have been brought over from France by the French mercenaries used by Henry Tudor to win the English throne. Major epidemic waves followed in 1508, then 1517,…
17.1.2021
Thank you to History and Will. When the United States Industrial Alcohol Company/USIA decided to build a huge molasses tank, they put it smack in the middle of Boston’s North End, a community made up largely of Italian immigrants in a densely populated neighbourhood.Pulling victims outSmithsonian21 people were killed on Commercial St in the North…
New York’s prosperity before the Civil War was closely tied to slavery and the Cotton South. But it was only in the southern states, where the economy was based on the plantation agriculture, that slavery was legal. Slavery had been ended in the northern states where industrialisation did not require cheap labour. Thus the northern…
Uuden etsijät -hankkeen tuoreen näyttelyn avajaistapahtuma on torstaina 14.1.2021 Helsingissä Päivälehden museossa. Itse näyttely avautuu yleisölle rajoitusten vuoksi 1.2.2021. Näyttelyä on valmisteltu pitkään ja kiihkein suunnittelutyö ajoittui syksyyn 2020. ”Uuden ja salaperäisen edessä – kirjailijat ja esoteria modernisoituvassa Suomessa” avaa hankkeemme yhtä keskeistä juonnetta,...
29.12.2020
Portrait of Singer by Edward Harrison May, 1869Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75) was the youngest child born in NY to German migrants. The parents divorced & abandoned the 8 children when Isaac was only 12, so he left home with minimal education, took odd jobs at carnivals and formed a travelling troupe of repertory actors. After 9…
25.12.2020
By the early C19th, London had become the world’s largest city. To deal with concerns re preventing crime, Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel introduced the Metropolitan Police Act to Parliament 1829. But people were afraid that the new police force would be used by the government to spy on them. So under the Act, the…
22.12.2020
President Donald TrumpUnited States Capitol (above) and J. Edgar Hoover Building (below) GettyEarly Draft, Executive Order, Feb 2020Trump people were writing the Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture executive order for months. A White House official said polling showed a vast majority of Americans prefer traditional designs. New construction should command respect by the general public who they…
18.12.2020
Red Cross medical dispatcher, 1914Red Cross Museum and ArchivesIn 1859, businessman Henry Dunant from Switzerland was travelling in northern Italy when he witnessed the aftermath of a bloody battle between Franco-Sardinian and Austrian forces near the village of Solferino. The fighting had left c40,000 troops dead or injured, and neither the armies nor the locals were equipped to deal with the…
City Square There were 3 main cities in the Trans Carpathian region. The Trans-Carpathian town of Uzhorod is now located in Western Ukraine. This beautiful city was the central hub for the regional railways system which departed for local provinces and to neighbouring Hungary and Slovenia. Khust is now located in Western Ukraine, 3rd largest city in the county and…
Eräänä harmaana joulukuun iltapäivänä istuin työpöytäni ääressä selaillen Kansallisgallerian kokoelmatietokantaa. Olin aloittelemassa uutta projektia, enkä oikein tiennyt, mitä edes etsin. Vieritin teoskuvia hajamielisesti ylös ja alas, kun yhtäkkiä jotain osui silmääni. Yhdestä maalauksesta minua kohti katsoi merkillinen androogyynihahmo. Kullanvaaleat hiukset reunustivat kalpeita, ovaalin muotoisia...
11.12.2020
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was the granddaughter of a British baronet and the daughter of an influential iron-and-steel dynasty. She was only 3 when her mother died, but she was lucky having an affectionate and imaginative father. But this headstrong, clever child lacked challenge. As a teen she seemed to be facing a life of cocktail…