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Arthur Wynne's is the inventor of the crossword puzzle. His first puzzle was initially called word-cross and was diamond-shaped. The...
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Evening: The Red Tree - Mondriaan
One of Mondrian’s earliest paintings, this was the first in which he implemented his color palette of red, blue and yellow, the thre...
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1910
El Lissitzky Poster
El Lissitzky was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Ru...
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1913
Spanish Flu
The Spanish flu was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic . It infected 500 million people across the world.
Toastmaster
In 1919, Charles Strite patented the pop-up toaster, called the Toastmaster. What a great idea! Imagine the people holding their brea...
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1919
The first conference at the Hotel Metropole
Seated (L-R): W. Nernst, M. Brillouin, E. Solvay, H. Lorentz, E. Warburg, J. Perrin, W. Wien, M. Skłodowska-Curie, and H. Poincaré. Sta...
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1911
Titanic
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg durin...
Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the Ger...
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian, and later French and American composer, pianist and conductor. He is widely considered to ...
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1910-1911
Chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
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1918
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