Heading to Rossnowlagh in a few hours for the Ó Cléirigh Summer School 2024. There won't be an #otd posts for a few days. There may be some more scenery like this though.
Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker Hokusai died #OTD in 1849.
The Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji are noteworthy not only for their beauty and technical prowess but also for the cultural significance of Mount Fuji in Japan. Hokusai's innovative use of the then-new Prussian blue pigment helped to popularize his prints during his lifetime and influenced not only Japanese art but also Western artists like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet.
British astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born #OTD in 1900.
In 1925 she proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected, because it contradicted the science of the time, which held that no significant elemental differences distinguished the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved that she was correct.
Books by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin are coming soon at PG.
The first stage performance in England of Oscar Wilde's tragedy Salome (the original version having been banned in 1892) takes place privately at the New Stage Club of the Bijou Theatre, London, with Millicent Murby in the title role, directed by Florence Farr.
The first production was in Paris in 1896. Because the play depicted biblical characters it was banned in Britain and was not performed publicly there until 1931.
#otd 1480 died Philip I (the elder) of Hanau-Lichtenberg. He was buried in the town church of St. Nicholas in Babenhausen, where his epitaphs made of red sandstone is preserved. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
9 May 1641: Charles I consults a small group of bishops about signing the attainder of the Earl of Strafford #otd former viceroy of #Ireland . He went ahead the next day.
American author Samuel Griswold Goodrich (aka Peter Parley) died #OTD in 1860.
In 1828, Goodrich created the character of Peter Parley, a gentle old man who narrated tales of history, geography, and science for children. Some of his most notable works include titles such as "Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia" (1827) and "Peter Parley's Universal History" (1837).
Polish Physicist Albert A. Michelson died #OTD in 1931
His most famous experiment - Michelson-Morley experiment, was conducted in 1887 in collaboration with Edward Morley. Their experiment for the expected motion of the Earth relative to the æther, the hypothetical medium in which light was supposed to travel, resulted in a null result. Their results leaded H. Lorentz to devise his Lorentz contraction equations as a means of explaining the null result.
The première of Luigi Pirandello's Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience.
An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" and "Incommensurabile!", a reaction to the play's illogical progression.
The première of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte) at the Residenz Theatre in Munich is disrupted by Nazi demonstrators, hooting, whistling and throwing stink bombs at the actors on the stage.
This production was directed by Erich Engel, with set design by Caspar Neher. The cast included Otto Wernicke as Shlink the lumber dealer, Erwin Faber as George Garga, and Maria Koppenhöfer as his sister Mary.
American author Augusta Jane Evans Wilson was born #OTD in 1835.
Her literary career began early; she published her first novel, "Inez: A Tale of the Alamo," in 1855 when she was only 20 years old. Wilson's most famous novel, "St. Elmo," published in 1866. Her other significant works include "Beulah", and "Macaria", a novel that was banned in the North during the Civil War for its Confederate sympathies.
Scottish Playwright & Novelist J.M. Barrie was born #OTD in 1860.
His early works were modestly successful, including novels such as "Auld Licht Idylls" & "A Window in Thrums". His famous Peter Pan character first appeared in a section of "The Little White Bird", a novel for adults. This was expanded into the stage play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up," which premiered in London in 1904 & was an immediate hit.
German Poet, Playwright, Historian Friedrich Schiller died #OTD in 1805.
Initially intended for the priesthood, in 1773 he entered a military academy in Stuttgart and ended up studying medicine. His first play, The Robbers, was written at this time and proved very successful. His major plays include "Don Carlos", and the Wallenstein trilogy, which delves into the tumultuous period of the Thirty Years' War.
9 May 1234: Edmund des Roches, Archbishop of #Canterbury threatens to excommunicate Henry III #otd unless he changed his manner of governance (McGlinchey)