They included Mattia Battistini ( known as the " King of Baritones "), Giuseppe Kaschmann ( born Josip Kašman ) who, atypically, sang Wagner's Telramund and Amfortas not in Italian but in German, at the Bayreuth Festival in the 1890s ; Giuseppe Campanari ; Antonio Magini-Coletti ; Mario Ancona ( chosen to be the first Silvio in Pagliacci ); and Antonio Scotti, who came to the Met from Europe in 1899 and remained on the roster of singers until 1933.

Porro prism binoculars are named after Italian optician Ignazio Porro who patented this image erecting system in 1854 and later refined by makers like the Carl Zeiss company in the 1890s.

By the 1890s Italian Americans in New York City were mobilizing as a political force.

Founded in the 1890s, the Morellos were the first Sicilian ( or Italian ) criminal gang in New York.

By the 1890s the surrounding neighborhood was well-populated with working-class Irish and Italian immigrants.

In the 1890s they suffered the competition with the Italian Socialist Party for the single-seat constituencies of Emilia-Romagna, where both parties had their heartlands.

Other operas on this scale continued to be composed by Italian composers during the 1880s and even 1890s, but with less frequency ; examples being Marchetti's Don Giovanni d ' Austria ( 1880 ) and Ponchielli's Il Figluol Prodigo ( also 1880 ).

The festival celebrates Ingham's cultural background, dating from the 1890s when the first Italian immigrants came to the region.

An Italian neighbourhood developed around Dufferin and Davenport in the 1890s and soon became known as " little Little Italy ".

If those were the demographics as early as the 1890s, the flight of other ethnic groups, which began after the turn of the century, suggests that virtually the entire community from the Chicago River on the east end out to the western ends of what came to be known as " Little Italy " and from Roosevelt Road on the south to the Harrison Street delta on the north — the inner core of the Hull House Neighborhood, was wall-to-wall Italian from the 1930s through the ' 50s.

The Mallory-Neely House ( 1852 ) was built in Italian villa style with a central tower for banker Isaac Kirtland and extensively renovated and expanded during the 1880s and 1890s.

In the 1890s Ettore Tolomei founded a nationalist magazine " The Italian Nation ", and in 1906 the " Archivio per l ' Alto Adige ".

An elaborate passage describes how the Italian Gulielmis were transformed into English Wilsons " during a wave of anti-Italian feeling occasioned by alleged ice-cream poisoning in the 1890s in the Lancashire coastal resorts of Blackpool, Cleveleys, Bispham and Fleetwood ".

Additional milieu were provided by Chaosium with the release of Dreamlands, a boxed supplement containing additional rules needed for playing within the Lovecraft Dreamlands, a large map and a scenario booklet, and Cthulhu By Gaslight, another boxed set which moved the action from the 1920s to the 1890s.

The next mill was Luck's Mill, about which very little is known, but it was shown on Kirby's map of 1736, and was demolished in the 1880s or 1890s.

This 1905 map shows Recording District # 24, one of several established in the Indian Territory during the 1890s by the Federal Government to provide a justice system for white residents.

1890s Ordnance Survey map

Oklahoma and Indian Territory map, circa 1890s, created using Census Bureau Data.

* 1890s map of Preston on Lancashire County Council's MARIO map system

In the adjacent 1890s map of the area, Bagshot is a notable town while Lightwater is noted as just a farm.

In the 1890s George Patterson, regarded as the best batsmen in America, put Philadelphia Cricket Club on the map with his consistently high batting scores.

Writing in the 1890s, Augustus B. Wylde described the Adwa market, held on Saturdays, as a large one with cattle of all sorts available for purchase.

In fact, in its modern form, the rivalry appears to date from the late 1890s, when the chant or song known as a " Gordouli " began to be sung from the Balliol side.

In fact, in its modern form, the rivalry appears to date from the late 1890s, when the chant or song known as a " Gordouli " began to be sung from the Balliol side.

In a lengthy review of information available to him in the 1890s, Elliott Coues states: " Undoubtedly Jefferson wrote in the light of all the evidence that had reached him in 1813 ; but it appears that his view of the case was far from being that of persons who lived in the vicinity of the scene at the time.

Green's extreme respect for her own privacy aside, she entered the lexicon of turn-of-the-century America with the popular phrase, " I'm not Hetty if I do look green ;" this phrase is quoted in O. Henry's 1890s story " The Skylight Room " when a young woman, negotiating the rent on a room in a rooming house owned by an imperious old lady, wishes to make it clear she is neither as rich as she appears nor as naive.

In the late 1890s he appears to have painted little, and his contributions to the first few exhibitions of The Ten were disappointing.

Although this name appears to be unofficial, it was in common use until the early 1890s.

However, by 1913, and more explicitly by 1920, Kraepelin admitted that although there seemed to be a residual cognitive defect in most cases, the prognosis was not as uniformly dire as he had stated in the 1890s.

The Wizard of Oz, in particular, is considered to be an allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.

* Edward Watkin, responsible for the building of the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway's " London Extension " during the 1890s, which was the last main line to be constructed into London.

In the 1890s, Planck was able to derive the blackbody spectrum which was later used to avoid the classical ultraviolet catastrophe by making the unorthodox assumption that, in the interaction of radiation with matter, energy could only be exchanged in discrete units which he called quanta.

Early alpine skis, developed in Switzerland and Austria during the 1890s, were wider, shorter versions of the standard Huitfeldt Telemark model, meant to be more agile in steep terrain and in deeper snow.

In the late 1890s, this classification began to be superseded by the Harvard classification, which is discussed in the remainder of this article.

A late ( 1890s ) reference to the urban legend of the murdering barber can be found in the poem by the Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson — The Man from Ironbark.

For example, in the 1890s the American Unitarian Association began to allow non-Christian and non-theistic churches and individuals to be part of their fellowship.

In Britain, the democratic socialist tradition was represented in particular by the William Morris ' Socialist League, and in the 1880s by the Fabian Society, and later the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) founded by Keir Hardie in the 1890s, of which George Orwell would later be a prominent member.

Hence his interest in overseas sales, for by the 1880s and 1890s there was money to be made in India, while the European book market was in the doldrums.

In the 1880s and 1890s he had earned a handsome income as a barrister, but in later years had found it increasingly difficult to sustain his lavish lifestyle, and his mansion at 20 Cavendish Square had had to be sold in the 1920s.

In the 1890s, The Atlanta & Knoxville Railroad ( later renamed the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad when it could not be completed to Knoxville ) built a branch line up through the middle of the county.

The interest in Japanese verse forms can be placed in a context of the late Victorian and Edwardian revival of interest in Chinoiserie and Japonism as witnessed in the 1890s vogue for William Anderson's Japanese prints donated to the British Museum, performances of Noh plays in London, and the success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado ( 1885 ).

In the 1890s, the Oxford County Courthouse moved from Paris Hill to be near the Grand Trunk Railway station.

Throughout the late 1890s, the city's borders extended from Scranton to Wilkes-Barre, but due to financial and civil differences, the city would soon be divided into the many townships and boroughs that exist throughout the central Wyoming Valley today.

After the initial settlers cleared the shrubbery and planted wheat, the land was found to be quite fertile and the price of the land rose dramatically to $ 5. 00 per acre and by the 1890s the land was selling for as much as $ 100. 00 an acre.

Financier and Smethport benefactor Henry Hamlin was reported to be the wealthiest private banker in the United States during the 1890s.

Based at the Knights Park campus, the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture can be traced back to the original School of Art in Kingston which was founded in the 1890s.

The Australian Labor Party was established in the 1890s and the Liberal Party of Australia in 1944, both rising to be the dominant political parties and rivals of Australian politics, though various other parties have been and remain influential.

Britain's adoption of New Imperialism in the 1890s followed by its quick emergence as the front-runner in the scramble for African territories may be seen as a quest for captive markets or fields for investment of surplus capital, or ( somewhat more cynically ) as a primarily strategic or preemptive attempt to protect existing trade links and to prevent the absorption of its overseas markets into the imperial trading blocs of rival powers.

In the late 1890s, the retronym " ordinary " began to be used, to distinguish them from the emerging safety bicycles, and this term or Hi-wheel ( and variants ) is preferred by many modern enthusiasts.