There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

In 1887, the National League and American Association agreed to abide by some uniform rule changes and decreased the number of balls required for a walk to five.

However, the variance between methods results in differing recognition for the 1887 National League batting champion.

In 1887, the stolen base was given its own individual statistical column in the box score, and was defined for purposes of scoring: "... every base made after first base has been reached by a base runner, except for those made by reason of or with the aid of a battery error ( wild pitch or passed ball ), or by batting, balks or by being forced off.

Cleveland went without major league baseball for two seasons until gaining a team in the American Association ( AA ) in 1887.

The university's colours of gold and black were officially adopted in 1887, after the rugby team led the debate about the college colours for the football jerseys.

There under Stumpf's supervision he wrote Über den Begriff der Zahl ( On the concept of Number ) in 1887, which would serve later as the base for his first important work, Philosophie der Arithmetik ( 1891 ).

" Munch's nude paintings from this period survive only in sketches, except for Standing Nude ( 1887 ), perhaps confiscated by his father.

During July, 1887, he conducted successful tests on the Atlantic telegraph cable between Weston-super-Mare and Waterville, Nova Scotia operated by the Commercial Company, with a double Baudot installed in duplex, the Baudot transmitters and receivers substituted for the recorder.

Other draftsmen who worked for Silsbee in 1887 included future architects Cecil Corwin, George W. Maher, and George G. Elmslie.

After a large deposit of natural gas was found in 1887, Fairmount became part of the Indiana Gas Boom and a center of the glass industry for the rest of the 19th century.

After some debate about the exact site for the tower, a contract was signed on 8 January 1887.

In 1887, Peano married Carola Crosio, the daughter of the Turin-based painter Luigi Crosio, known for painting the Refugium Peccatorum Madonna.

The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese ( 香港華人西醫書院 ) was founded in 1887 by the London Missionary Society, with its first graduate ( in 1892 ) being Sun Yat-sen ( 孫中山 ).

Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with " d-o-l-l " for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present.

Volapük was popular for some time and apparently had a few thousand users, but was later eclipsed by the popularity of Esperanto, which arose in 1887.

* 2 concertos for piano and orchestra: Concerto Fantastico, 1st, 1885 – 1887 ; 2nd concerto ( 1892 ), unfinished.

* Rapsodia española ( Spanish Rhapsody ), for piano and orchestra ( 1887 ).

* 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent # 395, 791 for the ' Art of Applying Statistics ' – his punched card calculator.

Takamine continued to work for the department of agriculture and commerce until 1887.

The Knights were also responsible for race riots that resulted in the deaths of about 28 Chinese Americans in the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming, and an estimated 50 African-American sugar-cane laborers in the 1887 Thibodaux massacre in Louisiana.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965 ), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

In 1887, for example, ten thousand workers at sugar plantations in Louisiana, organized by the Knights of Labor, went on strike for an increase in their pay to $ 1. 25 a day.

Laura, under her married name, also won a high reputation as an artist, and appears in numerous of Alma-Tadema's canvases after their marriage ( The Women of Amphissa ( 1887 ) being a notable example ).

An example of this would be for someone to travel back to observe life in Austria in 1887 and while there shoot five people, one of which was one of Hitler's parents.

For example, Alpha of Pennsylvania refers to the chapter at Dickinson College, founded in 1887 ; Beta of Pennsylvania, the chapter at Lehigh University ( founded later that same year ); Gamma of Pennsylvania, the chapter at Lafayette College ( 1890 ); and Delta of Pennsylvania, the chapter at the University of Pennsylvania ( 1892 ).

For example, one year before their famous experiment of 1887, Michelson and Morley ( 1886 ) performed a repeat of the Fizeau experiment of 1851, replacing Fizeau's setup with an even-reflection Sagnac interferometer of such high stability, that even placing a lighted match in the light path did not cause artifactual fringe displacement.

One such example was seen in 1887, when Case physicist Albert Michelson and Reserve chemist Edward Morley collaborated on the famous Michelson – Morley experiment.

For example, Boris III of Bulgaria and his son Simeon II were given their regnal numbers because the medieval rulers of the First and Second Bulgarian Empire were counted as well even if the Saxe-Coburg dynasty dated only back to 1887 and were only distantly related to the previous monarchies.

The first example of an electrical resonance curve was published in 1887 by German physicist Heinrich Hertz in his pioneering paper on the discovery of radio waves, showing the length of spark obtainable from his spark-gap LC resonator detectors as a function of frequency.

The Mordialloc Railway Station precinct has a number of heritage buildings and elements including the cottage style historic Mordialloc Railway Station Buildings ( 1882 & 1887 ); and the last remaining example of Edwardian Railway Water Tower ( 1910 ) in Victoria.

It is an intact example of a Victorian Tudor style suburban railway station and is one of eleven that were originally built in the period 1887 – 1889.

While the novel is held up as a fine example of writing, it is not especially true to Zola's touted naturalist philosophy ; instead, it is one of the most symbolically complex of his novels, setting it apart from the earthy " realism " of L ' Assommoir or the more brutal " realism " of La Terre ( 1887 ).

Dr. Jaeger claimed that the wool had curing capabilities and that it had helped cure him of his chronic ill-health, excess of weight and indigestion Another example of a health corset was created in 1887 ; it was a Dermathistic corset with leather facing.

An example of this would be for someone to travel back to observe life in Austria in 1887 and while there shoot five people, one of whom was Hitler's parent.

Preserved within the park is an excellent example of an early Pratt truss design steel bridge being built in 1887.

A fine example of the fighting French seaman of his time, Jaureguiberry died at Paris in October 1887.

After the missionary descendents took power in 1887 Hawaiian culture was once again under repression, for example the Hawaiian Language was outlawed in 1896.

With construction beginning in 1887, Sacramento ’ s Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is an example of the strength and history in Sacramento ’ s architecture.

File: Van Gogh-Portrait of Pere Tanguy 1887-8. JPG | Vincent Van Gogh-Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1887, example of Ukiyo-e influence in Western art

For example, the Eighth Symphony existed in three versions: Bruckner's original manuscript of 1887, a revised manuscript of 1890 which incorporated suggestions from Schalk, Arthur Nikisch and others, and the first published edition of 1892 which went even further in the direction of the changes suggested by Bruckner's friends.

Because of her tall muscular frame, Lucia was several times cast as a " travesty dancer " ( a woman dressed as a man ) -- for example as a male pirate chief in the ballet " Algeria " in 1887, and as a sorcerer in " Enchantment.

He was at his best in his portrait busts of women, the best example being the study, completed in 1887, of Miss Adeline Pond, whom he later married.