Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India between November...

Just saw Wilhelm Eber and his idea about latent fingerprints in 1888 mentioned in an episode of the German Tatort crimes series.


The history of forensic fingerprint identification began with the Albany, New York, detective John Malloy, who performed the earliest known forensic fingerprint...

My pleasure.



Afloat (French: Sur l'eau) is an 1888 story by Guy De Maupassant. Ostensibly it is a logbook of a nine-day cruise along the côte d’Azur. The French original was given illustrations by Édouard Riou who the previous year had illustrated Alexandre Dumas'...

Of the ten works [Charles Conder] showed at the September exhibition [with the Art Society in Sydney], only Circular Quay - Departure of the Orient (5001x4489 file) pointed forward. Painted largely in front of the subject from a hotel balcony overlooking the scene, it shows an edited version of the...

In Belgium, as elsewhere in Europe, critiques of Capitalism often invoked anti-Semitism. Perhaps nowhere in Belgium did this take a more antagonistic form than in the writings of Edmond Picard, the lawyer and Socialist politician who helped to lead Les XX. In 1887-88, he published a series of increasingly...

Jean Sibelius - Three Pieces (1888/89)

Jean Sibelius - Three Pieces (1888/89); Allegro in E minor, js 28 Allegretto in A major, js 17 and Piü lento in F major, js 149.

Guillaume Lekeu - Sonata for Cello and Piano in F (1888)

"Bien plus, ce sera bizarre, détraqué, horrible, tout ce qu'on voudra; mais, du moins, ce sera original" ("Even more, it will be weird, mad, horrible, anything you like, but at least it will be original")...

And my thanks to you, Howard. A pleasure to be here.

King Leopold's Congo, 1886-1908.

By means of bribes and lobbying, Belgium's King Leopold II gained recognition for the Congo in 1884 by the United States, followed by a similar deal with France. Owing to the upsetting of Bismark's carefully laid balance of power in European politics...

I never did dismiss the possibility that Smith and Tabram could be Ripper victims as some other murders prior to the clearly recognizable series would be expected. And, if there were such prior murders these two might fit the case quite well, in my view. They could in a sense be representing, respectively,...

1886-1888.

Associated with the very clear duality of Stevenson's 'Strange Case', they may have reinforced a rationalization of a murderers acts, as his need would be. That would be my guess. I suppose it's possible, also, that the story as such may have played some part in building the...

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The exhibitionism mentioned in my post refers to the fact that "the schizoid individual is able to express quite a lot of feeling and to make what appear to be impressive social contacts but in reality giving nothing and losing nothing, because since he is only playing a par...

Schizoid

Guntrip defined regression as "Representing the fact that the schizoid person at bottom feels overwhelmed by their external world and is in flight from it both inwards and as it were backwards to the safety of the metaphoricall womb." Such a process of regression encompasses...

The golden age of hypnosis (1880-1890) coincides with the great period of influence of French medical science. During this period hypnosis was a subject receiving official acknowledgment from the medical faculties. A considerable number of great medical doctors were at that time studying the subject....

Series of other early 1887 murders.

The fact that the prosecution did consider, or feel, that these murders were perpetrated by someone else may, as it may seem, perhaps relate to a series of other murders of prostitutes, or "loose women", committed during the weeks leading...