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Pity the fate of the prolific German composer Georg Philipp Telemann. Never heard of him? Here's why. During his heyday in the 1700s he was quite the pop star on the church-music scene, but according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, "his reputation later declined because he was not an innovator." He has fans today who think he got a bad rap, but it shows how history judges people. The reference work gives far more respect to anyone who really innovated, ranging from fashion guru Elsa Schiaparelli (for the use of shocking pink) to bridge engineer Robert Maillart...
...parodists like Oscar Wilde. More than a simple genre of theater, however, the drawing room comedy created a revolution in the history of dramatic presentation. Born out of the witty, language-heavy Restoration comedies like those of William Congreve, the drawing room comedy grew in the early 1700s into exactly what its title implies-a comedy presented in a private drawing room...
...Shepards live for hunting. Karolyn's family has been here in this valley since the 1700s. Her father was born in the farmhouse in 1908 and worked the land and enjoyed its venison steaks, sausages, chilis, stews, until he died in the house 88 years later. Now Glenn and his older brother, Daryl, off at college at the moment, are being reared as hunters. When Karolyn says, "This is our heritage," she speaks literally...
Older endowed professorships which have become difficult to fill over the years include the Hollis Chair of Mathematick and Natural Philosophy and the Fisher Professorship of Natural History, charged with studying "animal, mineral and vegetable" in the 1700s...
According to an article in The New York Times, in the early 1700s, an Italian doctor named Bernadino Ramazinni described cumulative microtrauma as a main cause of occupational disease...