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...India, observed that while a "member of the Civil Service in England is a clerk, a member of the Civil Service in India may be a proconsul." After passing an entrance exam in England when they were no older than 19 (the age limit, introduced in the late 1870s, was eventually raised to 23), ICS officers were soon shipped off to India's far-flung provinces to be part of what Prime Minister David Lloyd George called "the steel frame" that held the Raj together. The ICS officer was one part taxman, responsible for collecting the tolls and revenues...
...Neapolitan baker named Raffaele Esposito—and some would say perfected at a Cantabrigian restaurant on Winthrop St.—pizza is an unassuming peacemaker with a storied past. There have been other attempts at formulating an unbeatable weapon for peace. Samuel Colt tried in the 1870s with his Colt 45 “Peacemaker” revolver. U.S. scientists tried during the Cold War, with their LGM-188A “Peacekeeper” intercontinental ballistic missile. And George Clooney and Nicole Kidman tried, and failed miserably, in 1997 with their movie “The Peacemaker...
...central American trauma of the 19th century, the Civil War, from painting. Its fratricidal miseries were left to writers (Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane) to explore, and to photographers. But painting served as a way of oblivion--of reconstructing an idealized innocence. Thus, as Dr. Cooper points out, Homer's 1870s watercolors of farm children and bucolic courtships try to memorialize the halcyon days of the 1850s; the children gazing raptly at the blue horizon in Three Boys On The Shore, their backs forming a shallow arch, in a sense are this lost America. None of this prevented Homer's contemporaries...
Since its inception in the mid 1870s, the MFA has been in a constant state of change and expansion. Quickly outgrowing its original Copley Square location, the museum has been adding wings intermittently ever since relocating to its current Huntington Avenue location at the turn of the century. Constantly expanding to keep up with the times, the museum features exhibitions and concerts in all forms...all, that is, except indie-rock. Until...
...happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." LEO TOLSTOY, in the opening lines of Anna Karenina, his 1870s novel that is No. 1 on the best-seller list after being picked for Oprah's Book Club...