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"The interpretation of dreams"
Sigmund Freud wrote "The interpretation of dreams", in which he expressed the theory of psychoanalysis. -
Ferdinand von Zeppelin invented the dirigible balloon
It is a type of rigid airship: it influenced the birth of the world's first airline in revenue service, the Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG. -
"La pioggia nel pineto" by Gabriele D'Annunzio
Taci.
Su le soglie
del bosco non odo
parole che dici umane;
ma odo parole più nuove
che parlano gocciole e foglie lontane.
(...) E piove
su i nostri volti silvani,
piove su le nostre mani
ignude,
su i nostri vestimenti leggeri,
su i freschi pensieri
che l’anima schiude novella,
su la favola bella
che ieri m’illuse,
che oggi t’illude,
o Ermione. -
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Pogrom of Kishinev
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"Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
It is an antisemitic text written by the Ochrana (Russian secret police) to describe a Jewish plan for global domination.
Henry Ford funded printing of 500,000 copies that were distributed throughout the United States in the 1920s.
Nazis used this text for them propaganda and today some antisemitic theories are based on it. -
Trans-Siberian Railway
with a lenght of 9289 kilometres, it is the longest railway line of the world; it connect Moscow with the Russian far est, until Vladivostok. -
Special theory of relativity
This theory was published by Albert Einstein on a paper titled "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies". It is the most accurate model of motion at any speed when gravitational effects are negligible. -
Bloody Sunday in Russia
The bloody sunday took place on 22 january 1905, when unarmed demonstrators led by Father Georgy Gapon were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.It was one of the cause of the Russian revolution of 1917. -
Japanese-Russian War
It was an important event, because for the first time, an oriental army defeated an historical great army, like Russian army was. -
"Les demoiselles d'Avignon" by Pablo Picasso
Picasso painted "Les demoiselles d'Avignon" (today located at MOMA of NY), a painting that introduced the experience of Cubism.
This movement, inspired by the three-dimensional forms of Cezanne, revolutionazed the way to represent the reality. -
"The kiss" by Klimt
It is an oil painting, with added silver and gold leaf, located in Vienna at Osterreichische Galerie. -
Fauves
Henri Matisse painted "The red room"
In this emblematic work of the Fauves period, Matisse visualizes the scene in an interior, a room with a window, in a corner at the top left, through which a landscape can be seen. -
"Ornament and Crime" by Adolf Loos
It is an essay and lecture that criticizes ornament in useful objects.
The essay was written when Art Nouveau (known as Secession in Austria) was showing a new way forward for modern art. -
Ford Model T
It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting. -
Young Turks Revolution
The Young Turks were a political movement born in the Ottoman Empire with the purpose of transform the Empire in a constitutional monarchy, with a modern and equipped army. -
"VI improvvisation" by Kandinskij
It is an oil on canvas also called "African". It is located in Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus di Monaco. -
Manifesto del Futurismo
Marinetti published "Manifesto del Futurismo" on "Le Figaro" -
"The principle of scientific management" by Taylor
It's a monograph written by Taylor. It concerned the theory of industrial organization that regulated the way of doing the work. -
Agadir Crisis
The Agadir Crisis was a brief international crisis led to the deployment of a rilevant force of French troops in Morocco in April 1911. -
Libia war
The Libia war was fought by the Kingdom of Italy, animated by colonial ambitions, against the Ottoman Empire, between 1911 and 1912. The target was to conquer the Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. -
The Titanic sank
The Titanic sank caused the deaths of more than 1,500 people, making it one of history's deadliest marine disasters during peacetime. -
"Man with a guitar" by Braque
"Man with a guitar" is the most famous paint of Braque. Here Braque proposes a new conception of the space. -
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gravrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb member of the Black Hand secret society -
"Dubliners" by James Joyce
"Dubliners" by James Joyce is a collection of 15 stories published in 1914, after being refused 18 times by different publishing houses. In this book Joyce wants to show the fall of the moral values of the Dublin's society. -
"Black square" by Malevich
"Black Square" it's an emblematic paint exposed in Moscow. It was showed for the first time in "The Last Futurist Exhibition" in 1915. The paint was definited the "zero point of painting", because of its important storic value.
