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...case, it was not until 1816 that the German baron, Karl von Drais, devised a recognizable model of the contemporary machine. That bike had everything a rider would want-except pedals. The cyclist walked perched on a saddle and propelled himself by running and gliding. In the mid-19th century rubber tires replaced the old boneshaking metal rims and high-wheelers elevated the rider far above the crowd -making crashes all the more resounding...
Almost every grandiose historical painting, up until the mid-19th century, had in it at least one charging horse--in what was supposed to be the height of its movement: flying in midair with its legs splayed out in front and behind. Then, with the invention of photography and a series of action photographs made by a man named Edward Muybridge, artists and everyone else learned that a horse's legs never did that. Photography ever since has been a major influence on how people and animals are depicted as moving in art, and a new exhibit at the Musuem...
...Coast in 1860, they named it "Ruler of the East," partly to taunt the Chinese. The magnificent harbor was the choicest item in a territorial package that Alexander II had wrested from the politically declining and militarily impotent Manchu rulers of China in one-sided frontier adjustments in the mid-19th century...
...city, then, was a must stop on the mid-19th century thinking man's tour. Charles Dickens, himself marked by his celebrated childhood stint in a blacking factory, put his observations of Manchester misery into Hard Times. Alexis de Tocqueville took a look and with a philosophical shrug scooped Norman O. Brown with what may be the first excremental view of modern capitalism. "From this foul drain," he said, "the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world...
Since the mid-19th Century, the guiding principle has been that parties to an armed conflict can only attack military targets. In a guerilla war there is little difference between military and political targets. International regulations are of minimal use in protecting civilians and their property. In Vietnam, both sides consistently committed violations: the North Vietnamese did not dress their guerillas in distinguishing uniforms--to do so would have been a contradiction in terms; the Americans created anti-personnel weapons which caused extensive and unnecessary harm to civilians and soldiers--their rationale was that such weapons were necessary to combat...