Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf at Garsington Manor in 1923

Photograph taken from an album of images collected by English motorist, motor car manufacturer and aviator, Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910), showing a Rolls-Royce motor car parked near the summit of Hay Tor on Dartmoor, Devon. Rolls founded Rolls-Royce Ltd with Sir Frederick Henry Royce (1863-1933) in 1906, creating one of the world's most famous motoring companies. Prior to forming the company, Rolls had a successful business assembling and selling imported French cars from showrooms in London. From December 1904 Rolls’ showrooms sold cars made by Royce Ltd bearing the Rolls-Royce name.

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Pierre Brassau, Monkey Artist, 1964










A Brassau original

In February 1964, four paintings by a previously unknown avant-garde French artist named Pierre Brassau were exhibited at an art show in Göteborg, Sweden. Also at the show were works by artists from England, Denmark, Austria, Italy, and Sweden, but it was the works of the French artist that attracted all the attention.

Art critics, journalists, and students, glasses of wine in hand, silently contemplated Brassau's creations. Their praise was almost unanimous. Rolf Anderberg of the morning Posten later wrote that most of the works at the show were "ponderous," but not those of Brassau:


One lone critic panned Brassau's work, declaring, "Only an ape could have done this." As it turned out, this critic was correct. Pierre Brassau was, in fact, an ape. Specifically, he was a four-year-old West African chimpanzee named Peter from Sweden's Boras zoo.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/pierre_brassau_monkey_artist/

16th Century: Portrait of the Burgfraulein von Strechau



“The legend tells that in the late Middle Ages a damsel waited for her lover who left to the Holy Land to fight the infidels. The lady promised that if he did not return she would enter a monastery. Despite her promise, she married another man and when the bride came to the festival her face changed to a skull and devilish figures appeared and pulled her down to hell in front of all the guests.”

- 1910 Again
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1830s: Punch goes to the Moon

1919: “A chart showing the percentage of excellence in the physical properties of books published since 1910"

1925: Houdini exposes spirit trickery to New York clergymen

“Westinghouse physicists designed the 5-million volt Van de Graaff generator, then the largest of its type in the world, to create nuclear reactions by bombarding target atoms with a beam of high-energy particles. The 5 million volts served as a voltage source to accelerate these particles down a vacuum tube extending from the top of the pear-shaped pressure vessel to a target 47 feet below. The steady voltage of the generator, its chief advantage over other types of accelerators, allowed the reactions to be measured precisely, thus contributing to basic knowledge of nuclear physics. Research with the Atom Smasher in 1940 led to the discovery of the photo-fission of uranium, part of the process involved in the generation of nuclear power.

“The remarkable aspect of the Atom Smasher’s history is that Westinghouse made the decision to build the generator in 1936, three years before the discovery of nuclear fission opened up the possibilities of nuclear power. Internal records of the early years of the project indicate that Company officials embarked on this ambitious program in pure research with the faith that practical applications would follow. The decision proved to be a sound one when, in 1947, Westinghouse formed the Department of Electronicsand Nuclear Physics. The Atom Smasher continued in operation until 1958, when it was replaced by a more modern Van de Graaff generator, which is still in use.”

- IEEE Global History Network