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José Toribio Medina
José Toribio Medina Zavala (; October 21, 1852 - December 11, 1930) was a Chilean bibliographer, prolific writer, and historian. He is renowned for his study of colonial literature in Chile, printing in Spanish America and large bibliographies such as the ''Biblioteca Hispano-Americana.'' (7 Vol., 1898-1907.) Biography Jose Toribio Medina was born in Santiago, Chile. He was the eldest son of José del Pilar Medina y Valderrama and Mariana Zavala y Almeida, a woman of Basque descent."Jose Toribio Medina." ''Encyclopedia of World Biography''. Vol. 24. Detroit: Gale, 2005. ''Biography in Context''. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. His father was a lawyer, and he was constantly traveling due to his position as a magistrate. For this reason, Medina spent his childhood in different cities like Santiago, Talca, and Valparaiso. At the age of thirteen, he returned to Santiago to support his father who had lost the use of his legs. Later on, Medina joined the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republika sang Filipinas * ibg, Republika nat Filipinas * ilo, Republika ti Filipinas * ivv, Republika nu Filipinas * pam, Republika ning Filipinas * krj, Republika kang Pilipinas * mdh, Republika nu Pilipinas * mrw, Republika a Pilipinas * pag, Republika na Filipinas * xsb, Republika nin Pilipinas * sgd, Republika nan Pilipinas * tgl, Republika ng Pilipinas * tsg, Republika sin Pilipinas * war, Republika han Pilipinas * yka, Republika si Pilipinas In the recognized optional languages of the Philippines: * es, República de las Filipinas * ar, جمهورية الفلبين, Jumhūriyyat al-Filibbīn is an archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927. Events *January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo. * February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the ''Académie des femmes'', an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris '' salon''. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and posthumously, Renée Vivien. * February 24 – The new John Golden Theatre ''(Theatre Masque)'' opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan. *May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel ''To the Lighthouse'' is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism, * June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1923. For works published in the United States, this year is also significant because from January 1, 2019, these were the first in 20 years to enter the public domain. They were originally to do so in 1999, but the U.S. Congress extended the length of copyright by twenty years. Events *January **A copy of James Joyce's 1922 novel '' Ulysses'' posted to a London bookseller by the proprietor of Davy Byrne's pub in Dublin, which features in the book, is detained as obscene by the U.K. authorities. ** T. E. Lawrence is forced to leave the British Royal Air Force, his alias as 352087 Aircraftman John Hume Ross having been exposed. He joins the Royal Tank Corps as 7875698 Private T. E. Shaw. *February 5 – Poet and super-tramp W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior, at East Grinstead in England. *March – The first issue of the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1913. Events *January – Acmeist poetry, with roots back to 1909, is officially born as a reaction to Russian Futurism. Manifestos are printed in the journal ''Apollon'' by Nikolay Gumilyov and Sergey Gorodetsky, with illustrative works by both, and by Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Narbut, and Osip Mandelstam — the last with "Hagia Sophia". * January 1 – The German National Library is founded in Leipzig. *January 8 – Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London, which becomes a noted literary meeting-place. * January 24 – Franz Kafka stops working on his novel ''Amerika'', which he never finishes. * March 24 – New Broadway theatre Palace Theatre opens at 1564 Broadway (at West 47th Street) in midtown Manhattan, New York City. *April 5 – Serialization of the adventures of Gaston Leroux's character Chéri-Bibi begins in ''Le Matin'' (France). *April – Bernhard Kellermann's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1910. Events * January 8 – Serialisation of Gaston Leroux's novel ''The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra)'' concludes in the Paris newspaper ''Le Gaulois''. *April 20 – Halley's comet reappears after 76 years, and Mark Twain dies the day after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, Twain wrote, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It's coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" *March – Lesotho author Thomas Mofolo completes his novel '' Chaka''; he leaves Morija suddenly and it is not published. *March 18 – The first movie version of Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'' (1818) is released in the U.S. by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features unbilled the actor Charles Ogle as the monster. *March 30 – Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Restos Indígenas De Pichilemu
''Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu'' (''The Indigenous Remains of Pichilemu'') was a 1908 book published by Chilean historian José Toribio Medina. Medina presents a report of his examination to indigenous rests found in a Pichilemu grotto (currently named ''Virgin's Grotto''— es, Gruta de la Virgen) by Agustín Ross Agustín Ross Edwards (February 5, 1844 – October 20, 1926) was a Chilean politician, diplomat, and banker. He was son of David Ross and Carmen Edwards Ossandon; both were of British ancestry. He was married to Susana De Ferari. Biography Ros ... and Evaristo Merino in 1908. The book contains two sheets, that show some tools that Promoucaes indigenous used. File:Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu (1908)-lámina 1.jpg, One of Medina's sheet, published originally in the book. References External links * Spanish Wikisource has original text related to this article: Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu. External links 1908 non-fiction books 20t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1908 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1908. Events *February 15 – The weekly boys' story paper ''The Magnet'' is first published in London, containing "The Making of Harry Wharton", the first serial story of the fictional Greyfriars School written by Charles Hamilton as Frank Richards and introducing the character of Billy Bunter. *March – Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to Venice, where in July he publishes himself his first collection of poems, ''A Lume Spento'' (dedicated to his friend Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith, who has just died of tuberculosis). In August he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920 and in December publish ''A Quinzaine for this Yule''. *June 18 – Mark Twain buys a house in Redding, Connecticut. *Summer – The Marlowe Society stages a production at the New Theatre, Cambridge (England), of Milton's masque ''Comus'', directed by Rupert Brooke. *July – Katherin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1906. Events * February 8 – The writer Hilaire Belloc becomes a Liberal Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom. *February 15 – J. M. Dent and Co. initiates the U.K. Everyman's Library series, edited by Ernest Rhys. The first title is Boswell's '' Life of Johnson''. * March 13 – The Romanian nationalist historian Nicolae Iorga instigates a boycott of the National Theater Bucharest over its staging of French-language plays. A riot ensues. * April 10– October 13 – Maxim Gorky visits the United States with his mistress, the actress Maria Andreyeva, to raise funds for the Bolsheviks. In the Adirondack Mountains he writes his novel of revolutionary conversion and struggle, '' The Mother'' (, ''Mat). The couple then move to Capri. *April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys the unfinished premises of Stanford University Library. Many of the city's leading poets and write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1904. Events *January **Mark Twain begins dictating his ''Autobiography''. **The first issue of '' Süddeutsche Monatshefte'' is published in Munich by Paul Nikolaus Cossmann. *January 17 – Anton Chekhov's last play, ''The Cherry Orchard'' («Вишнëвый сад», ''Vishnevyi sad''), opens at the Moscow Art Theatre directed by Constantin Stanislavski. *February 25 – J. M. Synge's tragedy ''Riders to the Sea'' is first performed at Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theatre Society. *March 1 – Sophie Radford de Meissner's translation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's 1863 historical drama ''Ivan the Terrible'' is first played at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, New York City, by Richard Mansfield. *April 24 – A Lithuanian press ban in the Russian Empire is lifted. Petras Vileišis installs a printing press in his Vileišis Palace in Vilnius. *May 10 – Virginia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1887. Events *February – Oscar Wilde publishes " The Canterville Ghost", his first short story, in ''The Court and Society Review''. * March 30 – Théâtre Libre, established by André Antoine to promote naturalism in theatre, gives its first performances in Paris, originally as an amateur ensemble. * April 22 – Syracuse University in New York State purchases the Ranke Library from the estate of historian Leopold von Ranke, outbidding the Prussian government. *November – Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel, '' A Study in Scarlet'', is published in '' Beeton's Christmas Annual'' by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson (illustrated by D. H. Friston). * December 5 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886) comes into effect. * December 15 – The Romanian lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1882 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1882. Events * January 2 – Oscar Wilde arrives in the United States for an extended lecture tour sponsored by Richard D'Oyly Carte. He poses for iconic photographs in Napoleon Sarony's Manhattan studio. *April 9 – English poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti dies aged 53 of Bright's disease at Birchington-on-Sea in the care of his brother, the critic William Michael Rossetti. *April 29 – May 6 ( O. S.: April 17–24) – The Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu reads out his '' Luceafărul'' at two successive meetings of ''Junimea'' club in Iași. The poem, on which he had been working since 1873, is his last major work before his mental health collapses, requiring hospital care in Oberdöbling; it will be published in April 1883. *May 8 – World première of David Belasco's ''La Belle Russe'' in New York City *May 20 – World première of Henrik Ibsen's controversial play '' Ghosts'' (''Gengangere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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