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Created: 1874, sculpture completed; between 1875 and 1890, photograph Medium: Stereograph on card mount Monument to Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Capitol Square This stereograph by a local photography studio in Richmond depicts the statue of Confederate general Thomas Stonewall Jackson in Capitol Square. The statue, created by the well-known English sculptor John Henry Foley, was unveiled on October 26, 1875, in front of a crowd of about 40,000 people. A committee of Englishmen sympathetic to the Confederacy funded the statue, and the Virginia government over the objections of some members of the General Assembly appropriated funds for a pedestal and the erection of the statue. A controversy arose when it was announced that Black militia companies would be part of the procession during the unveiling ceremonies. Former Confederate general Jubal Early wrote in protest to the governor that their participation would be “an indignity to the memory of Jackson and an ....
The main stories include: Belfast, 9 May 1921 Ulster will make no further concessions to find a solution to the Irish question, James Craig has stated during a speech at a Unionist Party meeting. National Portrait Gallery UK and Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA James Craig (left) and Éamon de Valera (right). Cork, 16 May 1921 The British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, has indicated that he is willing to meet with Sinn Féin president, Éamon de Valera, without any preconditions, adding that it is the only way that a settlement can be reached. Illustrated London News, 16 April 1921 ....
THE ANTI-PASTA MOVEMENT OF 1930 Advertisement When Italian futurists tried to ban Pasta in Italy. The outrageous crusade against the country’s most beloved carbohydrate. Flavors and Knowledge Advertisement A pasta vendor in Naples during the late 19th or early 20th century. Carlo Brogi, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain By Ellen Gutoskey While speaking at a multi-course banquet in Milan on November 15, 1930, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti presented his fellow Italians with an incendiary call to action. Pasta, he said, was a “passéist food” that “[deluded people] into thinking it [was] nutritious” and made them “heavy, brutish,” “skeptical, slow, [and] pessimistic.” As such, pasta should be abolished and replaced with rice. ....
Goodwin & Company - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Benjamin K. Edwards Baseball Card Collection. Larry Corcoran is a name a lot of fans may be unfamiliar with, but for a brief time in the 1880s as a member of the Chicago White Stockings, he was quite a force on the mound. The right-hander tossed three no-hitters in the early 1880s, but he then had a hard and fast fall from grace. By 85 Corcoran had a dead arm and two years later he was completely out of baseball. Unrelated to his no-hitters, he is amusingly credited with coming up with the first method of communicating pitches with his catcher something he accomplished by shifting his wad of tobacco to different places in his mouth. ....