His most famous erotic illustrations concerned themes of history and mythology ; these include his illustrations for a privately printed edition of Aristophanes ' Lysistrata, and his drawings for Oscar Wilde's play Salome, which eventually premiered in Paris in 1896.

In 1896 he became, so far as some of his work was concerned, his own publisher.

Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer ( 16 July 1896, Wildeck, Hesse-Nassau – 8 August 1969 ) was a German human biologist and eugenicist concerned primarily with " racial hygiene " and twin research.

With a view to better protecting the authority of the local vicar apostolic or bishop, it was proposed in the First Vatican Council to abolish prefects apostolic having jurisdiction over districts within a vicariate or diocese of the Latin Rite, but the Council was interrupted and the practice continued until Pope Leo XIII abolished them within the Oriental Churches by a decree of Propaganda Fide on 12 September 1896, and established superiors with special dependence on the papal representatives of the areas concerned.

In 1896 it was bought by the Witwatersrand Council for Education, which was concerned with the education of English speakers in the Dutch-speaking South African Republic.

At Gaumont, pioneer Alice Guy Blaché ( M. Gaumont's former secretary ) was made head of production and oversaw about 400 films, from her first, La Fée aux Choux, in 1896, through 1906.

The first " pulp " was Frank Munsey's revamped Argosy Magazine of 1896, about 135, 000 words ( 192 pages ) per issue on pulp paper with untrimmed edges and no illustrations, not even on the cover.

Questions have also been raised about the veracity of Coubertin's account of his role in the planning of the 1896 Athens Games.

August Conrady called this group Indo-Chinese in his influential 1896 classification, though he had doubts about Karen.

* Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn ( 1936 ) – a novel about both smugglers and wreckers in CornwallPoster for an 1896 American production of Carmen

The craze ended by July 1880 and Sam Loyd's first article about the puzzle was not published until sixteen years later, January 1896.

An oft-repeated story about Grace is that, in 1896, the Australian pace bowler Ernie Jones bowled a short-pitched delivery so close to his face that it appeared to go through the famous beard which made him so instantly recognisable.

George Bernard Shaw, who criticised the play perhaps more harshly than he did any of Shakespeare's other works, took aim at what he saw as the defects of the final act in his 1937 Cymbeline Refinished ; as early as 1896, he had complained about the absurdities of the play to Ellen Terry, then preparing to act Imogen.

Later about 25 petrol powered outboards may have been produced in 1896 by American Motors Co — but neither of these two pioneering efforts appear to have had much impact.

It was not until about 170 years later, in 1896 that an Italian doctor discovered a less painful method which is still in use today.

He abandoned this idea after being criticised in Welsh newspapers for bringing about the defeat of the Liberal Party in the 1895 election and when, at a meeting in Newport on 16 January 1896, the South Wales Liberal Federation, led by David Alfred Thomas and Robert Bird moved that he be not heard.

* Paul Arène ( 1843 – 1896 ), born in Sisteron, wrote about life and the countryside around his home town.

He was born about 1815-16, signed together with his cousin, Mistāwasis in 1876 the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton, where he agreed that his group were settled into a reserve near the present-day Prince Albert, died 4 December 1896 at the age of 81 years )

Formal portrait of Stephen Crane taken in Washington, D. C., about March 1896

Other pamphlets proclaiming Dreyfus's innocence include Bernard Lazare's A Miscarriage of Justice: The Truth about the Dreyfus Affair ( November 1896 ).

A history of the area, written in 1896, records the following about Apache County.

The town ’ s population quickly grew from 808 in 1890 to about 6, 500 by 1896.

John Henry William Rasch purchased the house about 1896 from the Doerings.

In 1890, this ended with a series of drought years, lasting until about 1896.

Also during this time about 1896, the third Governor of Oklahoma and first Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Robert L. Williams, moved to Atoka ( then a part of the old Indian Territory ) from Troy, Alabama.

About the origin of the town, she says, "... the Kansas City railroad was built from Kansas City to Port Arthur-and came right through here about 1896.

Paul Verlaine died in Paris at the age of 51 on 8 January 1896 ; he was buried in the Cimetière des Batignolles ( he was first buried in the 20th division, but his grave was moved to the 11th division-on the round about, a much better location-when the Boulevard Périphérique was built ).

From less than 300 members in January 1896, it had about 30, 000 to 40, 000 by August.

Around 1928, Carter was president of the company when, he claimed, about 1896, the " Gem "- brand finger nail cutter made its first appearance.

Judge led the American group for about a year until his death in 1896, when Katherine Tingley became manager.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

The work contains a number of allusions and references to the work of French poet and playwright Antonin Artaud ( 1896 – 1948 ), who exerted a strong influence over Foucualt's thought at the time.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will, which she won in 1905.

In 1896, France and the British Empire signed an accord recognizing each other's sphere of influence over Indochina, especially over Siam.

After assassination, King Gojong and the crown prince ( later Emperor Sunjong ) fled for refuge to the Russian legation in 1896, this led to the general repeal of the Gabo Reforms, which were thought to be the result of Japanese influence.

His influence was so great that President Roosevelt, sent him a photograph in 1896 with the inscription " To Sir Dietrich Brandis, in high appreciation of his services to forestry in the United States.

His 1896 work on fiscal theory Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen called attention to the significance of the rules within choices are made by political agents, and he recognized that efforts at reform must be directed toward changes in the rules for making decisions rather than trying to influence the behaviour of the actors.

The movement -- and especially the Grange, for on most important points the latter movements only followed where it had led -- contributed the initial impulse and prepared the way for the establishment of traveling and local rural libraries, reading courses, lyceums, farmers institutes ( a steadily increasing influence ) and rural free mail delivery ( inaugurated experimentally in 1896 and adopted as part of the permanent postal system of the country in 1902 ); for agricultural exhibits and an improved agricultural press ; for encouragement to and increased profit from the work of agricultural colleges, the establishment ( 1885 ) and great services of the United States Department of Agriculture, -- in short, for an extraordinary lessening of rural isolation and the betterment of the farmers opportunities ; for the irrigation of the semi-arid West, adopted as a national policy in 1902, the pure-food laws of 1906, the interstate-commerce law of 1887, the railway-rate laws of 1903 and 1906, even the great Bureau of Commerce-and-Labor law of 1903, and the Anti-trust laws of 1903 and later.

In 1896 the Wandervogel was founded in Berlin, and soon they crystallized many vital concepts from the ideas of earlier social critics and Romantics that came to reach great and extensive influence on many fields at the onset of the 20th century.

In 1895 1896 he examined part of the African coast of the Red Sea, finding there the ruins of a very ancient gold-mine and traces of what he considered Sabean influence.

Since 1896 he represented Gödöllö in the Hungarian Parliament, a fact which is the more noteworthy because of the circumstance that this district is the favorite residence of Francis Joseph I, and is under the influence of court officials.

Some buildings in the village display a marked Arts and Crafts influence, probably as a result of the work of architect Detmar Blow who is known to have worked on the Old Post Office in Tintagel for four years from 1896.