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The *Futurist Manifesto* was written by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published in *Le Figaro* on February 20, 1909. It called for rejection of the past and celebration of speed, technology, youth, and violence as creative forces. The text launched the Futurist movement, which influence...

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule is a political pamphlet written by Mahatma Gandhi in 1909 during his sea voyage from South Africa to London. The text is structured as a dialogue between an editor and a reader, outlining Gandhi's critique of modern Western civilization, industrialization, and the leg...

Louis Blériot was a pioneering French aviator recognized for his historic achievement in 1909. He successfully piloted a monoplane across the English Channel, marking a significant early milestone in aviation history. This feat demonstrated the potential of heavier-than-air flight and captivated aud...

The SS Waratah was a passenger and cargo steamship built in 1908 for the Blue Anchor Line to operate between Europe and Australia. On July 27, 1909, the vessel departed Durban, South Africa, bound for Cape Town with 211 people on board, but never arrived. Despite numerous searches over the past cent...

How the Vote Was Won began as a 1909 suffrage story by Cicely Hamilton and was adapted into a one-act play with Christopher St. John. The satirical drama opens during a general women's strike: women who have supported themselves withdraw their labor and require male relatives to support them, prompt...

The Golden Cockerel is a four-act opera completed in 1907 and premiered in 1909 by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin, the work utilizes a fairy-tale narrative to deliver a satirical critique of Russian imperialism and the autocracy of Tsar Nicholas II. Th...

The SS Republic was a steamship built in 1903 for the White Star Line. On January 23, 1909, the liner sank after colliding with the Italian steamer SS Florida in dense fog off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The wreck is historically significant because the rescue of over 1,500 passengers and...

The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism is a foundational art and literary text written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. First published on the front page of the French newspaper Le Figaro in 1909, the document officially launched the Futurist avant-garde movement. In the manifesto, Mar...

The Futurist Manifesto is a 1909 document written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, originally published in the French newspaper Le Figaro. It served as the foundational text for the Futurist movement, rejecting historical tradition and museums in favor of modernity. The manifesto glori...

"Il segreto di Susanna" is a one-act comic intermezzo by Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, with a libretto by Enrico Golisciani. Premiering in Munich in 1909, the opera revolves around the humorous misunderstandings between Count Gil and his wife, Countess Susanna. The Count suspects Susanna of...

French comedy by Robert de Flers and Gaston de Caillavet (1909) that dramatizes the philosophical paradox of Buridan's ass as a satire of male romantic indecision.

A 1909 Austrian operetta by Leo Fall, notable for its comedic plot and highly successful premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

Polnische Wirtschaft is a German-language operetta or vaudeville farce associated with the composer Jean Gilbert, the professional name of Max Winterfeld. The work was composed in 1909 and received a Berlin production in 1910; its three-act plot uses comic situations involving Berlin society, a coun...

The Last Trail is a Western adventure novel by Zane Grey, first published in 1909. It is the concluding volume of Grey's Ohio River trilogy and follows frontier scouts Jonathan Zane and Wetzel as they travel through wilderness affected by expanding settlement. The novel combines exploration, pursuit...

French vaudeville comedy whose title means 'the jug,' using a recurring domestic prop as the pivot for a plot of misunderstandings and comic reversals.