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The Chameleon (magazine)
''The Chameleon'' was a literary magazine edited by Oxford undergraduate John Francis Bloxam. Its first and only issue was published in December 1894. It featured several literary works from the Uranian tradition, concerning the love of adolescent boys. The magazine gained notoriety when it was invoked repeatedly in the 1895 trials of Oscar Wilde as evidence of Wilde's deviant tendencies. Wilde had contributed "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" to the magazine, a set of humorous aphorisms. While the content of "Phrases" was fairly benign, Wilde faced cross-examination about some of the other, more controversial works that appeared in the magazine, particularly the story "The Priest and the Acolyte", which was falsely rumoured to be written by Wilde. The magazine's subtitle, ''A Bazaar of Dangerous and Smiling Chances'', is a quote from writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Publication history ''The Chameleon'' was conceived by John Bloxam, an undergraduate at Oxfo ...
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John Francis Bloxam
John Francis Bloxam (also known as Jack Bloxam) (1873–1928) was an English Uranian author and churchman. Bloxam was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford when his story, "The Priest and the Acolyte", appeared in the sole issue of '' The Chameleon: a Bazaar of Dangerous and Smiling Chances'', a periodical which he also served as editor. The story details the love affair of a young Anglican priest and his lover, a 14-year-old boy. The affair, when discovered, triggers a suicide pact of both priest and boy. A poem, ''A Summer Hour'', also with pederastic themes, appeared in '' The Artist''. The contents of ''The Chameleon'', which also included Lord Alfred Douglas's notorious poem ''Two Loves'', would be used against Oscar Wilde in his trial. Bloxam was a convert to Anglo-Catholicism, and became a priest.Hanson, Ellis: ''Decadence and Catholicism'', page 13. Harvard University Press, 1997. Selected publications *"The Priest and the Acolyte", ''The Chameleon: a Bazaar of Dange ...
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Murder–suicide
A murder-suicide is an act in which an individual murder, kills one or more persons either before or while suicide, killing themselves. The combination of murder and suicide can take various forms: * Murder linked with suicide of a person with a homicidal ideation * Murder which entails suicide, such as Suicide attack, suicide bombing or the deliberate crash of a vehicle carrying the perpetrator and others * Murder of an officer or bystander during the act of suicide by cop * Suicide after murder to escape criminal punishment(s) * Suicide after murder as a form of self-punishment due to guilt * Suicide before or after Proxy murder, murder by proxy * Suicide after or during murder inflicted by others * Murder to receive a Capital punishment, death sentence willfully * Suicide pact, Joint suicide in the form of murder, killing the other with consent, and then suicide, killing oneself Suicide-lawful killing has three conceivable forms: * To kill one's assailant through Right_of_self ...
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Magazines Established In 1894
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus ''Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic , th ...
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In Praise Of Shame
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Two Loves (1894 Poem)
''Two Loves'' is a 1961 American drama film directed by Charles Walters and starring Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins, and Nobu McCarthy. It is based on the book ''Spinster'' by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot American Anna Vorontosov (Shirley MacLaine) teaches the younger children, mostly Maori, at a rural school on New Zealand's North Island. She has made teaching the focus of her life. Her classroom is disorganized and chaotic, which she believes gives these children the freedom to learn. She arrives at her class one morning to learn from her students that a new superintendent of schools stopped by earlier. Worried, Anna talks to the school's headmaster, Mr. Reardon (Ronald Long), about how she can best present her class as she wants to the new superintendent without he firing her. They decide that getting one of the older girls in the school to help her for a few weeks is the appropriate solution. That ...
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Phrases And Philosophies For The Use Of The Young
In syntax and grammar, a phrase is a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit. For instance, the English expression "the very happy squirrel" is a noun phrase which contains the adjective phrase "very happy". Phrases can consist of a single word or a complete sentence. In theoretical linguistics, phrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure such as a constituent. Common and technical use There is a difference between the common use of the term ''phrase'' and its technical use in linguistics. In common usage, a phrase is usually a group of words with some special idiomatic meaning or other significance, such as " all rights reserved", " economical with the truth", " kick the bucket", and the like. It may be a euphemism, a saying or proverb, a fixed expression, a figure of speech, etc.. In linguistics, these are known as phrasemes. In theories of syntax, a phrase is any group of words, or sometimes a single word, which plays a particular role w ...
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Der Eigene
''Der Eigene'' was one of the first gay journals in the world, published from 1896 to 1932 by Adolf Brand in Berlin. Brand contributed many poems and articles; other contributors included writers Benedict Friedlaender, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Erich Mühsam, Kurt Hiller, Ernst Burchard, John Henry Mackay, Theodor Lessing, Klaus Mann, and Thomas Mann, as well as artists Wilhelm von Gloeden, Fidus, and Sascha Schneider. The journal may have had an average of around 1500 subscribers per issue during its run, but the exact numbers are uncertain. __NOTOC__ History of the journal The title of the journal, ''Der Eigene'' ''(The Unique)'', refers to the classic anarchist work '' Der Einzige und sein Eigentum'' (1844) by Max Stirner. Early issues reflected the philosophy of Stirner, as well as other views on the politics of anarchism. In the 1920s the journal shifted to support the liberal democracy of the Weimar Republic and more specifically the Social Democratic Party. ''Der Eigene'' interwo ...
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The Quorum (magazine)
''The Quorum. A Magazine of Friendship'' was one of the first British homosexual magazines, published in London in 1920 by "The Editorial Committee" of the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology and the Order of Chaeronea. Arthur Lee Gardner probably acted as editor-in-chief. Only one issue of the journal appeared because George Cecil Ives, an influential member of both organizations, feared the publicity that would accompany a journal and urged Gardner to cease publication. The majority of the contributors were from the British homosexual movement; the best-known author was Dorothy L. Sayers, later famous for her detective novels, who contributed two poems, including a love poem called ''Veronica''. The magazine was distributed among members of the BSSSP only. Three copies of the edition are known to exist, one at the British Library, one at Cornell University, and one in the private collection of Raimondo Biffi. The latter copy served as source for an annotated facs ...
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The Artist And Journal Of Home Culture
''The Artist and Journal of Home Culture'', also ''The Artist'', was a monthly art and design journal published in London by Archibald Constable & Co. from 1880 to 1902. From 1881 to 1894 the full title was ''The Artist and Journal of Home Culture''. From 1896 the full title became ''The Artist: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Arts, Crafts and Industries''. An American edition was published in New York by Truslove, Hanson & Comba. Under the editorship of Charles Kains Jackson, 1888–94, ''The Artist and Journal of Home Culture'' contained a notable undercurrent of homoeroticism and had some importance in the homosexual subculture without being so overt as to alienate its mainstream readership.Laurel Brake, "'Gay Discourse' and ''The Artist and Journal of Home Culture''", in ''Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities'', edited by Laurel Brake, Bill Bell and David Finkelstein ( Palgrave, 2000), pp. 271–94. Described by scholar Thomas Waugh as a "close ...
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The Spirit Lamp (magazine)
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ...
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Edward Clarke (barrister)
Sir Edward George Clarke, KC (15 February 1841 – 26 April 1931) was a British barrister and politician, considered one of the leading advocates of the late Victorian era and serving as Solicitor-General in the Conservative government of 1886–1892. His legal career included representing Oscar Wilde in his disastrous prosecution of the Marquess of Queensberry for libel, and representing the plaintiff in the " baccarat case", during which Sir Edward cross-examined the Prince of Wales. He was a member of the anti-women's suffrage movement. Background and early life Clarke was the son of J. G. Clarke of Moorgate Street, London. He was educated at King's College London. In 1859 he became a writer in India Office, but resigned in the next year, and became a law reporter. He obtained a Tancred Scholarship in 1861, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1864, joining the Home Circuit. Legal career Clarke quickly gained a high reputation at the junior bar, and made his ...
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Edward Carson
Edward Henry Carson, 1st Baron Carson, PC, PC (Ire) (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935), from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, who served as the Attorney General and Solicitor General for England, Wales and Ireland as well as the First Lord of the Admiralty for the British Royal Navy. From 1905 Carson was both the Irish Unionist Alliance MP for the Dublin University constituency and leader of the Ulster Unionist Council in Belfast. In 1915, he entered the war cabinet of H. H. Asquith as Attorney-General. Carson was defeated in his ambition to maintain Ireland as a whole in union with Great Britain. His leadership, however, was celebrated by some for securing a continued place in the United Kingdom for the six north-eastern counties, albeit under a devolved Parliament of Northern Ireland that neither he nor his fellow unionists had sought. He is also remembered for his open ended cross examination of Oscar Wild ...
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