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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is a large oil painting created by Paul Gauguin in Tahiti in 1897-1898. Its arrangement of human figures, animals, vegetation, and an idol-like form presents successive stages of life across a symbolic tropical setting rather than a single narr...

*Agua, azucarillos y aguardiente* is a one-act Spanish zarzuela by composer Federico Chueca with a libretto by Miguel Ramos Carrión, premiered in 1897 at the Teatro Apolo in Madrid. The work is a comedic sainete depicting scenes of everyday life among Madrid's working class, centered on the traditio...

W.E.B. Du Bois delivered this 1897 address, arguing that African Americans should preserve their distinct cultural identity while seeking equality.

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building is a late 19th-century civic landmark facing Merdeka Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Completed in 1897, it was designed for the British colonial administration and combines exposed brickwork, arches, domes, and a prominent central clock tower. The building later hou...

Faidherbe Bridge is a metal road bridge crossing the Senegal River between the historic island of Saint-Louis and the mainland in Senegal. Opened in 1897 during French colonial rule, it consists of multiple truss spans, including a movable section originally intended to permit river traffic. The bri...

Monsieur Badin is a one-act theatrical sketch written in 1897 by French author Georges Courteline. The play satirizes the culture of the French civil service through its titular character, an apparently lazy but highly indispensable bureaucrat who manipulates his superiors. It employs sharp, comedic...

An 1897 American musical comedy by Gustave Kerker, famous for its international success and its unprecedented two-year run in London's West End.

One-act vaudeville by Georges Feydeau (1897), a comic farce in which a lazy young master hypnotizes his manservant to avoid chores, with uncontrollable and absurd consequences.

A 1896 one-act farce by Georges Courteline depicting the comic consequences of a difficult customer's unreasonable demands, showcasing his satirical eye for bourgeois manners.

At the Cafe is Errico Malatesta's 1922 dialogue on anarchism, using cafe conversations to explain anti-state and anti-capitalist arguments.

A 1902 satirical comedy by Tristan Bernard exploring the paradoxes of personal freedom and social constraint in bourgeois French life.

Published by the Century Company of New York in 1897, this atlas combined detailed physical and political maps with gazetteer information in a single comprehensive volume.