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Há 2 dias · Beginning in 1898, the newspapers that had encouraged so many to travel to the Klondike lost interest in it. In the summer of 1899, gold was discovered around Nome in west Alaska, and many prospectors left the Klondike for the new goldfields, marking the end of the Klondike Rush.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Eve Grady. This timeline will display the changes in fashion during the 1890s, and the way that these changes reflect cultural patterns of the time. Using illustrations from Punch and The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions, as well as information from original Victorian art journals and illustrations, the ...
15 de mai. de 2024 · Fashionable women’s clothing in the 1890s moved away from the exaggerated styles of previous decades. Skirts were no longer as wide as in the 1850s or as bustled as in the late 1860s and mid-1880s. They were also not as tight as in the late 1870s. However, corsets remained a prominent feature, becoming even tighter in some cases.
Há 6 dias · Life in early skyscrapers. Criticism and reform in Chicago. The "First Great Age": 1900–1919. Pre-war boom. Improvements in construction. Life in the skyscrapers. Criticism. Reform in New York. Interwar period, boom and depression: 1920–1939. Post-war boom. Art Deco skyscrapers and New York's set-back style. Chicago's towers. Great Depression.
Há 4 dias · The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community, from the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through the seven years of his exile, to his return, and it addresses a particular problem of emergent Africa—the intrusion in the 1890s of white missionaries and colonial...
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10 de mai. de 2024 · Besides numerous short-story collections and poetry collections such as The Seven Seas (1896), Kipling published his best-known novels in the 1890s and immediately thereafter. His novel The Light That Failed (1890) is the story of a painter going blind and spurned by the woman he loves.
Há 2 dias · After 1900 and the assassination of President William McKinley, the Progressive Era brought political, business, and social reforms (e.g., new roles for and government expansion of education, higher status for women, a curtailment of corporate excesses, and modernization of many areas of government and society).
