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unusual facts about fin-de-siecle



1920s in comics

January 10: first publication of The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé, in the children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième in the newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, with the story Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter du Petit "Vingtième", au pays des Soviets.

Akaflieg Stuttgart FS-16

Flight characteristics with the rotating wing-tip panels were not as expected so a conventional vertical fin on an extended rear fuselage, and ailerons constructed from fabric-covered Duralumin on the outer wing traling edges, were added after initial flights.

Albatros C.II

The unusual tail structure used an open frame structure with a conventional fin and rudder and gave rise to the nickname Gitterschwanz (en: lattice tail).

Anton Dominik Fernkorn

Rheims, Maurice, La Sculpture au XIXe Siècle, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, 1972

Auster

All designs were evolved from the early Taylorcraft with a sprung skid or tailwheel beneath the fin (except for a low-wing aircraft called the "Agricola" designed for crop-spraying; only two of these were completed).

Belén Gache

In 1995, she created the group and website Fin del Mundo (End of the World), along with Gustavo Romano, Carlos Trilnick and Jorge Haro in Buenos Aires where she put online her first interactive poems.

Bensen B-5

The fourth arm of the cross provided a mounting for a large, plywood fin and rudder, reminiscent of that of the Raoul Hafner's Rotachute that had shaped Bensen's thinking about rotor kite design.

Blue Fin

Blue Fin is a 1978 family movie that stars Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe and Elspeth Ballantyne.

Bristol Bulldog

This had revised wing spars and a stronger fuselage and was powered by the uprated Jupiter VII F. One production aircraft was modified for use as an advanced trainer: after evaluation by the Central Flying School at Upavon this was ordered by the RAF, the production aircraft differing from the prototype in having slightly swept wings and an enlarged fin to improve spin recovery characteristics.

Candoco

Celeste Dandeker has commissioned work by many established choreographers including Rafeal Bonachela, Fin Walker, Siobhan Davies, Javier De Frutos, Stephen Petronio and Nigel Charnock amongst many others.

Claude Royet-Journoud

He was also co-founder & co-editor (with Anne-Marie Albiach and Michel Couturier) of the journal Siècle à mains (1963–1970).

Curtiss B-2 Condor

It had a twin set of rudders on a twin tail, a configuration which was becoming obsolete by that time.

Dušan Jelinčič

Jelinčič's writings are part of the tradition of Slovene mountaineer travelogues, which has been an important current within Slovene literature since the fin-de-siecle period.

El Fin

Based on the director's 2008 short film The End, El Fin tells the story about two friends; Nico and Carlos (Pablo and Kurt) who wake up one ordinary day to find out that the world is at its end, so they take on a journey to enjoy their last day on Earth.

Elacatinus horsti

Young Elacatinus chancei are very similar in appearance but in that species, the yellow line hardly reaches the pectoral fin.

Facility ID

The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international (shortwave) broadcast station in its Common Database System (CDBS).

Fin rot

Fin rot can be the result of a bacterial infection (Pseudomonas fluorescens, which causes a ragged rotting of the fin), or as a fungal infection (which rots the fin more evenly and is more likely to produce a white 'edge').

Fuchsia Dunlop

She was an East Asian analyst at the BBC World Service and has three books to her name, including the autobiography Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper.

Ganges shark

Leading shark expert Leonard Compagno emphasised the need to check the dentition and the dorsal fin proportions in order to confirm the specimen as G.

Giorgio Madia

From 1985 to 1988, Madia was engaged by Maurice Béjart to join his company Ballet du XXe siècle in Brussels, and since 1987 as soloist also with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, where the company had moved.

Gloster TSR.38

The fin was large and rounded with a generous rudder, a little like that of the later Gladiator, with the tailplane braced from above to the fin.

Grumman American AA-5

Changes were made to the engine cowling and baffling to reduce cooling drag, the exhaust system was redesigned, the main landing gear fairings were further improved, the ventral fin was deleted and the horizontal tail was enlarged to allow a larger center of gravity range.

Hartmann the Anarchist

Die Anarchisten, an 1891 novel by John Henry Mackay also set in the fin de siècle London anarchist milieu

Hastur

In Chambers' The King in Yellow (1895), a fin-de-siècle collection of horror stories, Hastur is the name of a potentially supernatural character (in "The Demoiselle D'Ys"), a place (in "The Repairer of Reputations"), and mentioned without explanation in "The Yellow Sign".

Icaro Relax

The RX2 has an optional vertical tail fin that improves stability and prevents Dutch roll when the glider is being towed.

Im Soo-jung

Im and Lee Jung-jae played two artists in a post-apocalyptic environment in the short film El Fin del Mundo ("The End of the World"), which screened at the prestigious contemporary art exhibition dOCUMENTA.

Indian whiting

The interspinous membrane of the first dorsal fin, the individual soft rays and the caudal fin are also spotted, with the caudal fin heavily spotted.

Jane Grigson Award

The 2009 winner was Fuchsia Dunlop for Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper:A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China.

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai

Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller's clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787; English translation illustrated by etchings by Louis Monzies in 1898); it was followed in 1788 by Six semaines de la vie du chevalier de Faublas and in 1790 by La Fin des amours du chevalier de Faublas.

Maurice Scève

Scève was also responsible for a translation of a sentimental novel (Grimalte y Gradissa) by Juan de Flores as La Déplourable fin de Flamète (1535), which was inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Mauthner cell

These neurons are electrically coupled with motoneurons which innervate extraocular, jaw and opercular muscles and mediate pectoral fin adduction in hatchetfish.

Mercedes-Benz 220SE

Mercedes-Benz W111 (1959-1965) as Mercedes-Benz 220SEb "fin-body"

Neuroheuristics

The neuroheuristic paradigm was presented for the first time at the conference Entrer dans le XXIe siècle : de l'apoptose à la métamorphose, held in 1994 at the Centro Stefano Franscini Monte Verità, under the auspice of the XV Videart Festival Locarno.

NME Radio

Broadcast from studios in the Blue Fin Building in South Bank, London, also home to IPC Media, NME Radio was launched on 24 June 2008 with its first track being "Knights of Cydonia" by British rock band Muse.

No. 213 Squadron RAF

It was the only squadron to fly the Canberra B(I).6 variant, still with the "Crabro" insignia adorning the tail fin, first from RAF Ahlhorn and later form RAF Bruggen, while a detachment was for a short time in 1956 stationed at Valkenburg Naval Air Base in the Netherlands.

Parnall

The observer was equipped with a Scarff ring and had an uninterrupted field of fire as the fin and rudder were mounted beneath the fuselage.

Pierre Gros

Among his best known works are his collaborative volume, with Mario Torelli, Storia dell'urbanistica: il mondo romano (Laterza, 1988) and his two-volume treatise on Roman architecture, L'architectue Romaine Du début du IIIème siècle avant J.-C. à la fin du Haut-Empire vol. 1 Les monuments publics; vol. 2 2. maisons, palais, villas et tombeaux (Picard, 1996–2001).

Ragout fin

After the late-1980s BSE epidemic, the use of calf brain has become unusual even in high-quality Ragout fin.

Rebellatrix

Rebellatrix ("rebel coelacanth", after the unique tail fin) is a genus of large prehistoric coelacanth from the Lower Triassic Sulphur Mountain formation and Wapiti Lake Provincial Park of British Columbia.

Robin Aiglon

It was based on the early HR100 but had a lighter airframe and new fin and rudder.

Slender whiting

A row of indistinct spots or blotches runs along the base of the first, spinous dorsal fin, whose anterior most interspinous membranes are dusted with black spots.

Tailless aircraft

However, NASA has recently adopted the 'tailless' description for the novel X-36 research aircraft which has a canard foreplane but no vertical fin.

The Night Walkers

The group debuted in San Juan on the television program, "Kaleidoscopio", and frequently appeared on shows such as "El Club De Las 5", "Fin De Semana Musical", "El Show De Iris Chacon", and with Chucho Avellanet.

Tragicomedy

Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio, in the mid-sixteenth century, both argued that the tragedy-with-comic-ending (tragedia de lieto fin) was most appropriate to modern times and produced his own examples of such plays.

Verde Island Passage

It was particularly noted the rare red fin wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubripinnis) thrives in Verde Island.

Vickers hardness test

The fin attachment pins and sleeves in the Convair 580 airliner were specified by the aircraft manufacturer to be hardened to a Vickers Hardness specification of 390HV5, the '5' meaning five kiloponds.

Vienna Secession

Schorske, Carl E. "Gustav Klimt: Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego" in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture.


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Laurence Grivot

Taken ill during a performance of Paris fin de siècle by Ernest Blum and Raoul Toché at the Gymnase in 1890 she was forced to retire and died later that year.