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...Hasty Pudding Theatricals is the oldest theatre company in North America, and has been producing student-written shows since the 1860s...
...poets are Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), a 19th century literary light with a famously serene marriage, and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle), a less renowned word magician. Imagine an affair between Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti and the scandal that would have rocked the 1860s--or the literary furor it might stoke today if the news were finally to come to light. That's the notion that drives two modern scholars, the American Roland (Aaron Eckhart) and the British Maud (Gwyneth Paltrow), deep into a long-submerged cache of love letters and finally into their own furtive embrace...
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...
...early 1860s, Bostonians were painting the town magenta and the city was stricken with a shortage of all things crimson. “Owing to the prevalence of the fashion for magenta between the years 1860 and 1864 and the inability of the members of the various athletic teams to procure crimson for their insignia, magenta was, of necessity, accepted as a poor substitute,” wrote John Blanchard, Class of 1891, in The H Book of Harvard Athletics. Frederic C. Crowninshield, Class of 1866, who was a cousin of the rower who bought the original kerchiefs with Eliot...
...traditional prototypes, but taken to a more innovative level,” says Alexandra A. Lawrence ’93, Research Fellow in the Art of Europe Department at the MFA, and part of the curatorial team behind Impressionist Still Life. As Impressionism took root in Paris in the 1860s, artists became less concerned with faithfully representing their subject and more concerned with individual composition...