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1 day ago · The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist ( Werner Krauss) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist ( Conrad ...
- $4,713
- 26 February 1920 (Germany)
- $12,371
- Decla-Film (later known as Decla-Bioscop AG)
1 day ago · The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that ...
- 690 acres (280 hectares)
- Historical Expo
- Universal exposition
- World's Columbian Exposition
1 day ago · Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, [note 1] is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning.
