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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is a large oil painting created by Paul Gauguin in Tahiti in 1897-1898. Its arrangement of human figures, animals, vegetation, and an idol-like form presents successive stages of life across a symbolic tropical setting rather than a single narr...

*Agua, azucarillos y aguardiente* is a one-act Spanish zarzuela by composer Federico Chueca with a libretto by Miguel Ramos Carrión, premiered in 1897 at the Teatro Apolo in Madrid. The work is a comedic sainete depicting scenes of everyday life among Madrid's working class, centered on the traditio...

"The Conservation of Races" is an 1897 philosophical address delivered by W.E.B. Du Bois to the American Negro Academy. In this text, Du Bois explores the concept of race as a sociological and historical construct rather than strictly a biological one. He argues that African Americans must actively...

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building is a late 19th-century civic landmark facing Merdeka Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Completed in 1897, it was designed for the British colonial administration and combines exposed brickwork, arches, domes, and a prominent central clock tower. The building later hou...

Faidherbe Bridge is a metal road bridge crossing the Senegal River between the historic island of Saint-Louis and the mainland in Senegal. Opened in 1897 during French colonial rule, it consists of multiple truss spans, including a movable section originally intended to permit river traffic. The bri...

Monsieur Badin is a one-act theatrical sketch written in 1897 by French author Georges Courteline. The play satirizes the culture of the French civil service through its titular character, an apparently lazy but highly indispensable bureaucrat who manipulates his superiors. It employs sharp, comedic...

The Belle of New York is an American musical comedy that premiered on Broadway in 1897, featuring music by Gustave Kerker. The production follows the romantic entanglements of a Salvation Army worker and a wealthy young man in New York City. Although it initially had a modest reception in the United...

One-act vaudeville by Georges Feydeau (1897), a comic farce in which a lazy young master hypnotizes his manservant to avoid chores, with uncontrollable and absurd consequences.

A 1896 one-act farce by Georges Courteline depicting the comic consequences of a difficult customer's unreasonable demands, showcasing his satirical eye for bourgeois manners.

At the Cafe is a political dialogue written by Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta. Written as a series of accessible conversations between individuals in a public setting, the text addresses common objections to anarchism. Through these exchanges, Malatesta explains anti-state and anti-capitalist ar...

Le Fardeau de la liberté is a French satirical comedy by Tristan Bernard, identified with the vaudeville tradition of the Belle Époque. The 1902 play examines the tension between the desire for personal freedom and the obligations imposed by family, reputation, and bourgeois social life. Its subject...

The Century Atlas of the World was a late nineteenth-century American world atlas published by the Century Company of New York. The 1897 edition combined physical and political maps with geographic reference material, including place-name information and explanatory text. It belongs to the period wh...