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1 day ago · Jacques Offenbach ( / ˈɒfənbɑːx /) [n 1] 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly ...
- Orpheus in The Underworld
Poster for Paris revival, 1878. Orpheus in the Underworld...
- The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann) is an...
- Orpheus in The Underworld
6 hours ago · Modernism is an early 20th-century movement in literature, the visual arts and music, emphasizing experimentation, abstraction and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics and social issues are also aspects of the movement which sought to change how 'human beings in a society interact and live together'. [2]
6 hours ago · t. e. Eugenics ( / juːˈdʒɛnɪks / yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well', and -γενής (genḗs) 'come into being, growing') [1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. [2] [3] [4] Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter human gene pools by excluding ...
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1 day ago · Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. He was inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty as a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.
6 hours ago · The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [a] History of technology By technological eras Premodern Prehistoric Stone Age (lithic) Neolithic Revolution Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Ancient Modern Proto-industrialization First Industrial Revolution Standardization Second ...
6 hours ago · American poetry arguably reached its peak in the early-to-mid-20th century, with such noted writers as Wallace Stevens and his Harmonium (1923) and The Auroras of Autumn (1950), T. S. Eliot and his The Waste Land (1922), Robert Frost and his North of Boston (1914) and New Hampshire (1923), Hart Crane and his White Buildings (1926) and the epic ...
6 hours ago · Receiving a 5 or higher star rating is considered by many to be a great achievement. [1] The first match rated more than five stars by Meltzer was Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat in 1989. The highest-ever rating is seven stars, awarded to Kazuchika Okada vs Kenny Omega at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall in June 2018.
