1910+-+1919+(These+paragraph+topics+are+not+available.)

1. Literature, Philosophy, & Art


 * 1911 - //Mona Lisa// stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris! Took over two years to find - thief was former Louvre guard who tried to sell it to someone who then tried to get it authenticated
 * 1911 - novel //The Phantom of the Opera//by published Gaston Leroux
 * 1915 - film //The Birth of a Nation//by D.W.Griffith came out - did extremely well at box office - hugely controversial due to racist content
 * 1916 - Dadaist movement - antiart art that obeyed no rules - anarchy in art!
 * 1917 - Pullitzer Prize created by Columbia University

2. Music & Dance


 * 1912 - Tango invented - "Tangomania" led to shorter skirts, lipstick, etc. - banned in some American cities as too risque!

3. Fashion & Interior Design


 * 1913 - first brassiere (bra) invented

4. Sports & Leisure Activities


 * 1907 - Boy Scouts founded in London and subsequently brought to the United States and other countries - leadership and survival skills taught, public service
 * 1910 - US President Taft threw out the ceremonial First Pitch to start a new tradition- first US President to do this
 * 1913 - Crossword puzzles invented
 * 1914 - Jack La Lanne born - major pioneer in fitness, health food, work out equipment, exercise programs, juicers, etc.
 * 1918 - entire World Series of Baseball played in month of September due to WWI "Work or Fight" order; only World Series to be played entirely in September
 * 1919 - Team (Decatur Staleys) created which would eventually become the Chicago Bears
 * 1919 - Chicago White Sox threw the World Series, deliberately losing for pay - first Commissioner of Baseball was appointed in the aftermath, and several of these players ended up banned for life from the game

5. Science & Technology


 * 1913 - Germans created ecstasy as diet pill!!! Can only be tested on volunteers due to its schedule one drug status.
 * 1914 - Fire fighters breathing apparatus invented so they can rescue people without succumbing to smoke inhalation
 * 1914 - Dr. Robert Goddard received patents for liquid fueled rocket and multi-stage solid fueled rocket
 * 1916 - Coolidge tube x-ray developed

6. Architecture & Transportation


 * 1917 - Cadillac standardized car layout which became template for the entire industry by the 1930's

7. Cinema, Theater, & Mass Media 8. Regional/National/International Events of Historic Importance


 * 1910 - 1918 Spanish flu pandemic started in the US and perhaps spread globally via US servicemen - one of world's largest natural disasters
 * 1911 - Machu Pichu (15th century Incan site) discovered by American historian Hiram Bingham
 * 1912 - Oreo cookie invented, the "best-selling cookie of the 20th century" - blues song and a parody song written about Oreos
 * 1912 - On April 14th, the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg
 * 1912 - fall of the final Chinese Empire, leading to the formation of the Republic of China after 2000 years of Imperial rule
 * 1913 - zipper invented
 * 1917 - Dutch dancer/courtesan Mata Hari captured,court martialed, and executed by French for allegedly being spy for Germany
 * 1918 - Daylight Savings Time started, very unpopular, resurrected in 1973 by Nixon
 * 1919 - 18th Ammendment (Prohibition against the production and sale of alcohol; medicinal alcohol ok) passed - went into effect in 1920
 * 1919 - Grand Canyon became National Park
 * 1917 - US enters WW1

**Details about important films from this decade**
The Birth of a Nation - D.W. Griffith - 1915

Tarzan of the Apes - Scott Sidney - 1918

Keystone Kops

L. Frank Baum (Oz series)

Original Titanic footage before she set sail - 1912 - 4:32 minutes
Movie Legends: Mary Pickford (reprise) - 6:34 minutes

Buster Keaton & Fatty Arbuckle in Oh Doctor - 1917 - 5:46 minutes

Charlie Chaplin in The New Janitor - 1914 - 10:59 minutes

**Frankenstein - 1910 - 12:42 minutes**

 * The Flirt (Harold Lloyd) - 1917 - 2:30 minutes**


 * Bangville Police (Keystone Kops farce) - 1913 - 8:36 minutes**

Videos about Important Events, People, Things from this Decade
[|Dances of the Ragtime Era 1910-1920 (2008) - 7:23 minutes]

Trafalgar Square Riot/Sufragette Sylvia Pankhurst - 1913 - 1:10 minutes

Detroit Electric Car - 1914 - 2:52 minutes

Ludlow Miners Strike & Massacre - 1914 - 3:31 minutes

Short Intro to beginning of WWI - 1914 - 3:00 minutes

The Sinking of the RMS Lusitania - 1915 - 3:13 minutes

Easter Rising, Dublin, Ireland - 1916 - 6:55 minutes

Brief Intro to the Russian Revolution - 1917 - 1:40 minutes

The Wonders of Oz, Part 2 (L. Frank Baum 1900-1919) - 7:42 minutes

**Useful Links for finding paragraph topics**
Decade: 1910-1919 - Links

American Cultural History: 1910-1919

Media History Project: 1910-1919