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By the 1890s her scientific interests centred on mycology.
As a way to earn a bit of money in the 1890s, Beatrix and her brother began to print Christmas cards of their own design, as well as cards for special occasions.
A group of radical socialist Australians in the 1890s voluntarily went to create a failed master-planned community, known as Nueva ( New ) Australia ; and Elisabeth Nietzsche, a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, Nueva Germania ( Neues Deutschland ) devoted to a hypothetical pure white " Nordic " society in the 1890s.
In the 19th century, another Carmelite nun, Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was instrumental in spreading this devotion throughout France in the 1890s with her many poems and prayers.
In this environment, an act in the 1890s featured a woman slowly removed her clothes in a vain search for a flea crawling on her body.
Performers sporting this style include 1890s performer Major Zamora " The Triple-Jointed Wonder ," Dorothy Dietrich, with her catching of a bullet in her mouth, and modern escapologist Steve M ( Mollett ) " The Escape Guru.
Although Oscar's death and an economic depression disrupted the business in the 1890s, Pauline Jacobus continued making pottery in Edgerton until the early 1900s ' fire that destroyed her rural Edgerton home, " The Bogart ".
Through the 1880s and 1890s, her only rivals in popularity in children's book illustration were Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott.
In the early 1890s she befriended Edgar Degas who, impressed with her bold line drawings and fine paintings, purchased her work and encouraged her efforts.
Her illustration projects in the late 1890s included The Illustrated Verses of William Butler Yeats, a book on the actress Ellen Terry by Bram Stoker, and two of her own books, Widdicombe Fair and Fair Vanity.
After her early Life appearances in the 1890s, the Gibson Girl became the nation ’ s feminine ideal.
Indeed her works of the 1890s and the early 20th century are fine novels and good fun to read.
In the 1890s, Terry had struck up a friendship, and conducted a famous correspondence, with Shaw, who wished to begin a theatrical venture with her.
Typically, her recital programs during the 1890s featured an array of familiar, often sentimental, not-too-demanding popular tunes of the day, which were sure to appeal to her adoring fans.
In the late 1890s Campbell first became aware of George Bernard Shaw-the famous and feared dramatic critic for " The Saturday Review "-who lavishly praised her better performances and thoroughly criticised her lesser efforts.
That being the case, no Prime Minister has died in office or resigned suddenly ( except following his or her party's electoral defeat ) since the 1890s, many decades before the office of Deputy Prime Minister was created.
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.

1890s and illustrations
It was a leading journal of the British 1890s ; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings.
Through the 1890s, Remington took frequent trips around the U. S., Mexico, and abroad to gather ideas for articles and illustrations, but his military and cowboy subjects always sold the best, even as the Old West was playing out.
During the 1890s, photographs reproduced by this second " Ives process " largely replaced the use of hand-engraved wood block and steel plate illustrations, and it remained the standard process for photographically illustrating books, magazines and newspapers during the next eighty years.
This is exemplified in the illustrations to The Strand Magazine during the 1890s.
In the early 1890s several illustrations were published in Sadhana magazine, and in Chitrangada, and other works by Rabindranath Tagore.

1890s and research
The importance of Mendel's work did not gain wide understanding until the 1890s, after his death, when other scientists working on similar problems re-discovered his research.
With very few works published on memory in the previous two millennia, Ebbinghaus ’ s works spurred memory research in the United States in the 1890s, with 32 papers published in 1894 alone.
In the 1890s, Lawrence Hargrave conducted research on wing structures and developed a box kite that lifted the weight of a man.
Also in Britain Percy Pilcher, who had worked for Maxim and had built and successfully flown several gliders during the mid to late 1890s, constructed a prototype powered aircraft in 1899 which, recent research has shown, would have been capable of flight.
Another famous — and somewhat related — Methodenstreit in the 1890s pitted the German social and economic historian Karl Lamprecht against several prominent political historians, particularly Friedrich Meinecke, over Lamprecht's use of social scientific and psychological methods in his research.
In the 1890s, Émile Durkheim established formal academic sociology with a firm emphasis on practical social research.
By the end of the 1890s Bukreev began to undertake research into differential geometry.
Beginning in the early 1890s he conducted experiments along the lines of Heinrich Hertz's research.
In the 1890s, Purdue became a leader in the research of railway technology.
According to the research of his relative James Johnston in the 1890s, Macmillan was the first to invent the pedal-driven bicycle.
Skinner based most of his work on the research done by Edward Lee Thorndike at Harvard University in the 1890s.
When his jaw was wired shut after his teeth were inadvertently shattered during a tooth extraction, he found himself temporarily unable to play that instrument and instead focused on writing a research paper on Arthur Pryor, an 1890s trombonist, conductor and music director.

1890s and on
In the 1880s and 1890s, he took part in debates on anti-semitism and on assimilation.
Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s through the end of his life in 1926, Monet worked on " series " paintings, in which a subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions.
The exaggerated walk, with one hand on the small of his back and his torso bent almost 90 degrees at the waist was a parody of a fad from the 1880s and 1890s.
By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U. S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets.
From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Commedia dell ' arte performers improvised based on a broad outline in the streets of Italy and in the 1890s theatrical theorists and directors such as Russian, Konstantin Stanislavski and the French, Jacques Copeau, founders of two major streams of acting theory, both heavily utilised improvisation in acting training and rehearsal.
Margaret Murray accompanied the renowned Egyptologist Sir William Flinders Petrie, on several archaeological excavations in Egypt and Palestine during the late 1890s.
A Shetland " guddick " ( riddle ) in Norn, which Jakob Jakobsen heard told on Unst, the northernmost island in Shetland, in the 1890s.
In the late 1880s and early 1890s, Heaviside worked on the concept of electromagnetic mass.
In his book The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, written and published in the 1890s, William S. Jevons observed that there are many situations where the " direct " operation is relatively easy, but the " inverse " operation is significantly more difficult.
Late in the 1890s this measure failed to keep up with the increasing number of lines, and Milo G. Kellogg devised the Divided Multiple Switchboard for operators to work together, with a team on the " A board " and another on the " B.
By the 1890s, support for the introduction of direct election for the Senate had substantially increased, and reformers worked on two fronts.
Brands on The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s, February 25, 1996.
In the 1890s non-native European rabbits, an exotic invasive species, began to infest the islands as the result of the release of domestic rabbits on Smith Island.
Knut Hamsun's 1903 play Dronning Tamara (" Queen Tamara ") was less successful ; the theatre critics saw in it " a modern woman dressed in a medieval costume " and read the play as " a commentary on the new woman of the 1890s.
Later on, gold and silver were found in the Okupu / Whangaparapara area in the 1890s, with the remains of a stamping battery on the Whangaparapara Road forming one of the remainders of this time.
From the 1890s, the economy had been based almost entirely on the export of frozen meat and dairy products to Britain, and in 1961, the share of New Zealand exports going to the United Kingdom was still at slightly over 51 %, with approximately 15 % more going to other European countries.
Robert Irwin summarises their findings: " In the 1880s and 1890s a lot of work was done on the Nights by scholar Zotenberg and others, in the course of which a consensus view of the history of the text emerged.
Elected a fellow of Trinity in 1884, Whitehead would teach and write mathematics at the college until 1910, spending the 1890s writing his Treatise on Universal Algebra ( 1898 ), and the 1900s collaborating with his former pupil, Russell, on the first edition of Principia Mathematica.

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