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The book version of Riis' work was published in January 1890 as How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York. [ 20 ] The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer François Rabelais , who wrote in Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait ...
August 24/25 – Libraries of the University of Strasbourg and the City of Strasbourg at Temple Neuf are destroyed by fire during the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War, resulting in the loss of 3,446 medieval manuscripts, including the original 12th-century Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg, the Apologist codex ...
Marcelo H. del Pilar's baptismal register (Book No. 15, Folio 355) A replica of Marcelo H. del Pilar's ancestral house and birthplace in Bulacán, Bulacan. [a] [12]Marcelo H. del Pilar was born at his family's ancestral home in sitio Cupang, barrio San Nicolás, Bulacán, Bulacan, on August 30, 1850.
Books published in the 1870s. 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; ... 1870 books (2 C, 13 P) 1871 books (5 C, ... The Library Illustrative of Social Progress; P.
A period of renovation in America and Europe was opened, which started from a common will of rejection towards the dogmas and principles of the society. The Modernist period or time begins and closes in dates that could be fixed towards 1880 and 1945, although precursory signs occurred before the first and they continued being observed after ...
Ricardo Baeza Durán (1890–1956) Rafael Balanzat y Baranda (1820–1854), writer and military man; Andrés Baquero (1853–1916), teacher, researcher, and writer; Bárbara de Santo Domingo (1842–1872), Catholic mystic writer; Elia Barceló (born 1957), writer; Juan Barcia Caballero (1852–1926), Spanish physician and writer
In part a revolt against aristocratic, social, and political norms of the Enlightenment period and a reaction against the rationalization of nature, in art and literature Romanticism stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting ...