* Happening: Allan Kaprow

Notable creators of happenings included Allan Kaprow — who first used the term in 1958, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Robert Whitman.

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In 1960, he started teaching at Rutgers University where he was heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow, who was also a teacher at the university.

The most commonly cited include the series of Chamber's Street loft concerts, New York, curated by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young in 1961 featuring pieces by Jackson Mac Low and Henry Flynt, the month-long Yam festival held in upstate New York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May, 1963 with Ray Johnson and Allan Kaprow that was the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces, and a series of concerts held in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Cologne, 1960-61 featuring Nam June Paik and John Cage amongst many others.

Writer Douglas Kahn, in his work Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts ( 1999 ), discusses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

One definition comes from Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort in The New Media Reader, " The term " Happening " has been used to describe many performances and events, organized by Allan Kaprow and others during the 1950s and 1960s, including a number of theatrical productions that were traditionally scripted and invited only limited audience interaction.

Early non-Western installation art includes events staged by the Gutai group in Japan starting in 1954, which influenced American installation pioneers like Allan Kaprow.

Allan Kaprow used the term “ Environment ” in 1958 ( Kaprow 6 ) to describe his transformed indoor spaces ; this later joined such terms as “ project art ” and “ temporary art .”

Prototypic for the artform later explicitly labeled " performance art ", were works of artists like Yoko Ono with her Wall piece for orchestra ( 1962 ); Carolee Schneemann with pieces like Meat Joy ( 1964 ); Wolf Vostell with his Happening YOU ( 1964 in New York ); Joseph Beuys with How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare ( 1965 ); Yayoi Kusama, with actions such as a naked flag-burning on the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1968 ) and Allan Kaprow in his many Happenings.

Notably in the Happenings of Allan Kaprow, the audience members become performers.

Schneemann and Jonas along with Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow, Vito Acconci, and Chris Burden pioneered the relationship between Body art and performance art.

Subsequently, Blau was instrumental in hiring a number of professionals like Mel Powell ( dean of the School of Music ), Paul Brach ( dean of the School of Art ), Alexander Mackendrick ( dean of the School of Film / Video ), sociologist Maurice Stein ( dean of Critical Studies ), and Richard Farson ( dean of the School of Design ; now incorporated in the Art school ) as well other influential program heads and teachers such as Allan Kaprow, Bella Lewitzky, Michael Asher, Jules Engel, John Baldessari, Judy Chicago, James Hurtak, Ravi Shankar, Max Kozloff, Miriam Shapiro and Douglas Huebler, most of whom largely came from a counterculture and avant-garde side of the art world.

Allan Kaprow, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Robert Whitman among others were notable creators of Happenings.

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From 1961 on, Johnson periodically staged events he called " Nothings ", described to his friend William Wilson as “ an attitude as opposed to a happening ”, which would parallel the “ Happenings ” of Allan Kaprow and later Fluxus events.

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In addition, the program developed a substantial visiting artist tradition, bringing artists such as Dick Higgins, Vito Acconci, Allan Kaprow, Karen Finley, Robert Wilson and others to work directly with Intermedia students.

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* 2006 in art-Death of Mimmo Rotella, Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Isaac Witkin, Larry Zox, Ruth Bernhard, Karel Appel, Jason Rhoades, Marcia Tucker, Robert Rosenblum

Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, in conjunction with musician John Cage, the " Happenings " were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world.

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Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".

The collection includes many items Poe used during his time with the Allan family and also features several rare first printings of Poe works.

The students — Peter Unold, Claus Leth Gregersen and Allan Ove Kjeldbjerg — started development in November 1995 ; the first playable version was released in January, 1996, with bugfixing and small enhancements until April.

They quickly made friends with Hollywood insider ( and fellow Ivy Leaguer ) Allan Dwan, but Hawks landed his first important job when he used his family's wealth to loan money to studio head Jack Warner.

Allan Greenberg had scorned the design when it was first unveiled, but wrote later to J. Carter Brown: " I am forced to admit that you are right and I was wrong!

* 1845 – " The Raven " is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe

The band soon met their first manager, Allan Coffman, " the thirty-eight-year-old brother-in-law of Mick ’ s driver friend Stick ".

In 1953, Murray was appointed to the presidency of the Folklore Society, the first time that she had served on the council, taking over from the former president, Allan Gomme.

On April 6, 1969, Wally Herbert and companions Allan Gill, Roy Koerner and Kenneth Hedges of the British Trans-Arctic Expedition became the first men to reach the North Pole on foot ( albeit with the aid of dog teams and airdrops ).

Harrison argues that the first to set out a satisfactory resolution of the paradox was Lord Kelvin, in a little known 1901 paper, and that Edgar Allan Poe's essay Eureka ( 1848 ) curiously anticipated some qualitative aspects of Kelvin's argument:

* 2011: Blind Ossian's Fingal: fragments and controversy a reprint of the first edition and abridgement of the follow-up with new material by Allan and Linda Burnett ( Edinburgh: Luath Press Ltd )

" The Balloon-Hoax " is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.

Allan Aynesworth, who played Mr Algernon Moncrieff, recalled to Hesketh Pearson that " In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater triumph than first night ".

** The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging ( the first legal hanging in America since 1965 ).

* January 19 – The Poe Toaster first appears at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.

* Lester Allan Pelton produces the first operational Pelton wheel.

* Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart is first published.

* January 29 – " The Raven " by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time ( New York Evening Mirror ).

In one of Max Allan Collins ' first stories as the strip's writer, the gangster known as " Big Boy ," whose gang members had killed Tess Trueheart's father years ago, learned that he was dying and had less than a year to live.

All current editions typically represent an Allan & Thurber Pepper-box revolver first depicted in the 1972 Clue edition )

* In 1991, Allan Legere was the first Canadian to be convicted as a result of DNA evidence, for four murders he had committed while an escaped prisoner in 1989.