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When he was setting the Parisian music world abuzz with his precocious piano playing in the 1840s, the young Camille Saint-Saens was taken to play for the great Hector Berlioz. Saint-Saens, with an aplomb beyond his years, dashed off a dazzling keyboard display. "All he lacks," announced Berlioz, "is inexperience...
Golden is presently immersed in writing his second novel, which tells the story of a man in Amsterdam in the 1840s who comes to the U.S. in the 1860s and becomes a successful meat packer in Chicago...
...doesn’t possess all the Hasty Pudding stuff that was really kind of wonderful,” said Scott Dahill, speaking fondly of the Theatricals programs and memorabilia dating from the 1840s on the walls of the old restaurant location...
Mass tourism dates from the 1840s, when Thomas Cook began chartering trains to take Britain's working class at reduced fares to temperance meetings within the country. By the 1860s Cook was selling tours to continental Europe, and by the start of the 20th century even the grandest hotels on the newly named Côte d'Azur were doing deals with the English entrepreneur. A century later 2 million travelers - half from outside France - descend on the Riviera as August begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately...
Strawberry Hill traces its roots back to the 1840s, when expanded transportation service opened up the area to suburban residents, according to the Cambridge Historical Commission's 1977 Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge...