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unusual facts about The Hum


Michael Healy-Rae

Healy-Rae has raised The Hum in Dáil Éireann after witnessing it himself while meeting some of his constituents who were "nearly gone out of their minds" with it.



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Fan-Tan

Jacob Riis, in his famous book about the underbelly of New York, How the Other Half Lives (1890), wrote of entering a Chinatown fan-tan parlor: "At the first foot-fall of leather soles on the steps the hum of talk ceases, and the group of celestials, crouching over their game of fan tan, stop playing and watch the comer with ugly looks. Fan tan is their ruling passion."

Lunch Poems

“A Step Away From Them” begins, “It’s my lunch hour, so I go/for a walk among the hum-colored/cabs.” He references Edwin Denby, Federico Fellini, the Armory Show, and Pierre Reverdy, and New York locations like Juliet’s Corner and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse.

Radoslav of Zahumlje

Following an earthquake in the Hum capital of Ston, the Orthodox bishop of Hum relocated to the church of St Peter and St Paul built on the Lim River near the Serbian border in the 1250s.

Richard Dadd

The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe includes references to a lost version of the painting.