Word: 1800s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glamor about Tripoli. It was ancient Oea under Phoenician traders 1,000 years before Christ was born. It was a Roman colony after the fall of Carthage. It was the seat of Barbary coast pirates who waged a losing war against the U.S. Navy in the early 1800s. Since 1912, when the Italians wrested it from Turkish rule, it had bolstered the Italian ego. Since 1933, when Mussolini began exploiting its riches, it had inflated Italian pride. Losing it was a shock...
...show at Cincinnati's Taft Museum last week were 52 photomurals of stately old Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky houses. They reflected the architectural influence of Connecticut and the old South, the wave of classic, pillared Greek Revival that swept all U.S. architecture in the middle 1800s. But Cincinnati's show contained one style of architecture that was as indigenous to the Ohio River Valley as the river itself: Steamboat Gothic. Best example was a fine old mansion, "Hill-Forest," which stands on the muddy Ohio's banks near Aurora, Ind. (see cut). With circular tower and porches...
...censor-ridden Spain of the early 1800s, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes could say in paint what few dared say in words. But, for all his bitter satire and savage realism, Goya was no reforming idealist. When Napoleon kicked out Goya's Bourbon patrons and set his own brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne, Goya quickly came to terms with the new regime, and took to painting Bonapartist officials, as he had previously painted Bourbon courtiers. When, a few years later, the Bourbons were restored. Goya changed his coat again. Roared Bourbon Ferdinand VII: "You deserve...