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Frank Baum, as well as his own novel The Hidden City (1891) and story books such as Comic Animals (1890) and The Rambillicus Book (1903). His comic strips included Fatty Felix, Hank the Hermit, Absent-Mined Abner, and Peck's Bad Boy.[5] Another noted political cartoon appeared in Philadelphia's The North American in 1903: when Pennsylvania Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker—long mocked by cartoonists as a parrot—championed a libel bill banning the portrayal of politicians as animals…

Midnight in Chinatown In SFMOMA, the work that attracted me the most is “Midnight in Chinatown” taken by Williard E. Worden in 1903. As the name suggests, the photography depicts the Chinatown at midnight by using a long shot. There are Chinese traditional buildings along on the sides with dim lantern lights reflecting on the surface of ground. The photograph has a grey tone overall, which enhances a sense of quietness. The photographer uses the technique of perspective to suggest the endless…

includes allegorical elements and themes and symbols to show real world significance and importance. Orwell’s life story and novel will cultivate many strong opinions in the minds of his readers. Eric Arthur Blair, also known as George Orwell, was born 1903 in Montihari, India. ("George Orwell | Biography - British Author"). His fist published work is the poem "Awake Young Men of England."…

Paul Laurence Dunbar is a poet that was an African-American poet who was born in 1872. His parents were both freed slaves from Kentucky, he wrote stories about their plantation life. At the young age of fourteen he had one of his first poems published in the Dayton Herald. Dunbar did not attend college and took a job as an elevator operator. He self published his first book of poetry, Oak and Ivy in 1893. He sold copies to people riding in his elevator to help pay for publishing costs. In 1895…

James Connolly was an Irish Republican and Socialist leader who was born in the slums of Edinburgh, Scotland in the tenements of Cowgate in the year 1868. Connolly is perhaps most fondly remembered for his role as the military commander of the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin . Connolly was born into an Irish Catholic immigrant family, his father, John was born in some part of Ireland and it is believed his mother, Mary, originally came from County Monaghan . Connolly had five other siblings and…

demolished for a new structure. The Carnegie Foundation and local money made the money available. The new library was called the Carnage Library. It was opened in 1903. May Hanford Macnider was an active subscriber in the first library and was an important part of the library’s history. She became a trustee in 1988 and by 1903 she became the president of the board of trustees of the Mason City Public Library. In the era of depression, she made the Elizabeth Hanford Collection. She made…

Later, the U.S. sat down and discussed the context of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903 with Philippe Bunau-Varilla who was the new Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Panama. The treaty stated that the United States was to be granted a strip of land to build the canal that stretched ten miles and the provided the United…

actually worked. After him, people like Otto Lilienthal, Gustave Whitehead, Samuel Langley, and Wilbur and Orville Wright started studying aviation. The first successful 'heavier than air ' vehicle was created by the Wright Brothers on December 17th, 1903. But, before being able to do this, they had to study what was already known about flight, collaborate with people, and explore different ways of building the machine. Their exploration were really inspired by two events from around 1896. The…

asked for $100 million, but accepted $40 million in the face of the Nicaraguan option. In June 1902, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of pursuing the Panamanian option, provided the necessary rights could be obtained, in the Spooner Act. On January 22, 1903, United States Secretary of State, John…

drawbacks. For example, airplanes release harmful substances into the atmosphere. The airplane was invented by brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903. Additionally, two pioneers in aviation are Otto Lilienthal and Sir George Cayley. Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first successful flight in history of a heavier than air aircraft on December 17, 1903. The Wright brothers chose an area near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They chose this…