# otd

German artist Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, the world's first hippie, brings his Himmelhof commune experiment to a rancorous close in Vienna in 1899.
https://t.co/JA8DVdzadw

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2020-01-07

Happy new year! in 1933, Erika Mann opens a cabaret in Munich behind the Hofbräuhaus, with acts lampooning the Nazis who would be in power before the month was out.
https://t.co/aHJCXYlDJZ

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2020-01-01

I wish you *at least* a better New Year’s Eve than the one painter Oscar Domínguez had in 1957, when he slashed his wrists and lavished his gushing vital fluid on a canvas to make one last artistic statement.
https://t.co/GbBzikBvIf

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2019-12-31

Photographed by Man Ray and Madame d’Ora, Barbette found his greatest champion in Jean Cocteau, who cast the dragrobatic marvel in his 1930 film "Blood of a Poet". https://t.co/7c9TLT2Qgv

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2019-12-20

Denny’s beaux included the Greek King, plus occultist aristo Evan Morgan; he had faux luggage labels painted by DalÍ (“Hotel Sordide”) and once tried to impress Paul & Jane Bowles by shooting flaming arrows the Champs-Elysées.
https://t.co/P6iLCvfKzw

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2019-12-17

Annie Horniman was a tea heiress, major figure in UK and Irish theatre, champion of Shaw and Yeats, cycled over the Alps – twice – but my favourite fact is that she managed to get expelled from an occult order for *insubordination* (#OTD in 1903).

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2019-12-04