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We all know that the 1880s produced a pretty appalling aberation but what is the best thing the 1880s can boast of? Other suggestions than these limited options very welcome.
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16Thomas Hardy6.25%1Edison and his light-bulbs6.25%1Ragtime6.25%1Pasteur's rabies vaccine6.25%1Gilbert and Sullivan12.50%2Statue of Liberty12.50%2Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes37.50%6Newlyn movement in art0%0Koch's discovery of TB micro-organism6.25%1The Football League6.25%1 -
Hi Carrotty Nell,
Just quick thoughts...
Good writers. Stevenson, Huysmans, Conan Doyle...
In Ethiopia, the rise of Menelik II, who was to save his country from colonization.
Just some of my own interests, I concede.
Amitiés,
David -
The Lee-Metford & the Maxim gun...........
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Sherlock Holmes is a fantastic creation,and captures Victorian England perfectly..Comment
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...and gives it to the whole world.
Amitiés,
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The Rubik's Cube, Home Video, the CD, Live Aid....
Oh, the 1880s, sorry.
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The murder of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. 30 years too late, IMO.
JMComment
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Has to be the Football League. It influenced and brought pleasure to so much of the worlds population since.Comment
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Ah, I'm with the majority on this. Definitely Mr Conan Doyle, and his trusty Sherlock Holmes. Shamefully, with the exception of Hound of The Baskervilles, I can't remember the names of any Sherlock Holmes books, but I remember having to study them in English Literature at school. Unfortunately, I think I suppressed the memories of the books with the rest of my school memories...
Will have to invest in the complete works one day.Comment
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If we're just talking Britain I would thrown in George Bernard Shaw (lived in England) and Oscar Wilde. If you add other countries in I would add Emily Dickinson, Yeats, Mark Twain, Dostoievsky, and Van Gough.
The 1880's to me always seemed like the decade that was the transition into "modernity"--both artistically and technologically.JeffComment
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There were many great artists in the 19th century, as well as literary giants....there was the Industrial Revolution, the formation of United States in America, the introduction of sterilization in surgeries, the connecting of the globe was begun with telegrams and cables, creating and harnessing electricity, medical research advances, mass produced goods, transportation advances....
The 19th century was amazing and exciting...the area and period we study here was grim.
Best regards all.Comment
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Ned Kelly was hung!
The invention of Sky Scrapers, keeping large monkeys happy since the 1880's.
The Natural History Museum opens.Regards Mike
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I'm sure he was - lucky Mrs Kelly - but what has that to do with the 1880s?Originally posted by Mike Covell View Post
Kind regards, Sam Flynn
"Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)Comment
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Q What's good about the 1880s?
A They're gone.
Seriously : Good - Friedrich Nietzsche
Bad - Hitler and Mussolini born
Q What's good about Hitler and Mussolini?
A They're gone
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oh dear. the other half's looking at me like I'm mad now.
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