Best 1920
Amapola is a popular Spanish song composed by José María Lacalle García in 1920, frequently adapted into an instrumental waltz. The song's title translates to "poppy," and its sheet music became an international success, leading to numerous recorded versions with both Spanish and English lyrics. It...
Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt (1920) is a German opera exploring profound loss through evocative music. Notable for its rich orchestration characteristic of the late Romantic period, it depicts a woman's increasingly intense and disorienting memories following her husband’s death at sea....
The Treaty of Trianon was signed on June 4, 1920, as part of the post-World War I settlements. It established the borders of Hungary after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, reducing Hungary's territory by approximately 71 percent and its population by roughly 64 percent. Significant territories we...
The Realistic Manifesto is Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner's 1920 Russian Constructivist text advocating space, time, and kinetic rhythms in art.
Margaret Sanger's 1920 book argues that birth control is essential for women's liberation and societal progress, cementing her contraceptive activism.
Constructed for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Belgium, the Antwerp Olympic Velodrome was a significant wooden cycling track that hosted the Games' track cycling events.
Terrorism and Communism is Leon Trotsky's 1920 reply to Karl Kautsky, defending Bolshevik rule and coercive measures during the Russian Civil War.
The Battle of Warsaw was fought in August 1920 during the Polish-Soviet War, as Red Army forces advanced toward the Polish capital. Polish forces commanded by Józef Piłsudski stopped the assault and launched a counteroffensive from the Wieprz River that struck the Soviet flank and forced a major ret...
The Man of the Forest is a 1920 Western novel by Zane Grey that explores themes of isolation and frontier justice in the rugged wilderness of the West.
Published in 1922 by prolific pulp author Max Brand, this western novel combines elements of mystery and frontier adventure as a young man tracks down his father's killer.
The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres divided the Ottoman Empire among the Allied powers, stripping Turkey of its Arab provinces but was later superseded by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.
This 1920 western novel by pulp author Max Brand blends dark mystery with frontier life, centering on a brilliant physician and eerie events surrounding a remote ranch.
