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Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway is an 1844 oil painting by British artist J. M. W. Turner. It depicts a steam locomotive crossing the Maidenhead Railway Bridge over the River Thames through rain and atmospheric haze. Turner's energetic brushwork partially dissolves the landscape an...
The Ego and His Own (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum) is a philosophical treatise by Max Stirner, the pen name of Johann Kaspar Schmidt, first published in 1844. The work argues that all social, religious, and ideological institutions are illusory constraints on the individual, whom Stirner te...
Ernani is a four-act opera by Giuseppe Verdi, first performed in 1844, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on Victor Hugo's play Hernani. Its plot follows the outlaw Ernani, his beloved Elvira, and the two powerful men who also seek her, including the future Holy Roman Emperor Ch...
I due Foscari is a three-act Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on Lord Byron's historical drama The Two Foscari. First performed in Rome in 1844, it depicts the conflict between Venetian doge Francesco Foscari's public duties and his love for his accused...
Martin Delany's 1853 pamphlet explores the historical roots of Freemasonry and argues for the full inclusion of Black men in the institution.
