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It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wrote ‘The Rise of Spring’ and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the yer the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented.
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It was icy cold that February, but the sun was shining, which was and is rare for the Viennese winter, but it made the new Ringstrasse gleam all the more in its snow white splendour. Vienna was building over with vitality; it had become a world city, and this could be seen and felt all over the world -- everywhere except in Vienna itself, where, through sheer joy in self-destruction, people hadn’t realised that they had unexpectedly moved to the apex of the movement which called itself Modernism. Because self-doubt and self-destruction had become a central component of the new way of thinking, and what Kafka called the “Nervous Era’ had dawned. And in Vienna nerves -- virtually, metaphorically, artistically and psychologically -- were laid bare like nowhere else. ~ Page 31

Non 16 February 1913 Joseph Stalin boards a train to Vienna’s Nordbahnhof and travels back to Russia. ~ Page 45

In the Spring of 1913 Charles Fabry successfully concludes a series of experiments culminating in the discovery of ozone layer. It is still fully in tact. ~ Page 53 www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/charles-fabry

In the same February of 1913, as Stalin and Trotsky see each other for the first time, a man is born in faraway Barcelona who will later murder Trotsky, on Stalin’s orders. His name is Jaime Reon Mercader del Rio Hrnandez. ~ Page 54 murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mercader-ramon.htm

On 23 February, Josef Stalin is arrested on the street of St. Petersburg. Dressed s woman’s clothes and a wig, he is running for his life. . . . They apprehend the limping fugitive and rip the gaudy summer dress and wig from his person, revealing Stalin. He was recognised and exiled to Turukhansk in Siberia. ~ Page 55

In New York the Federal Reserve, the “Fed’, is founded. The most important shareholders are the banking houses Rothschild, Lazard, Werburg, Lehmann, Rockefellers Chase Manhattan and Goldman Sachs. The introduction of the Fed ensures that American government are no longer able to print new money. In 1913, on the other hand, income tax is introduced. ~ Page 62

On 16th August a moving assembly line is installed at the Ford automobile factory in Detroit for the first time. In the 1913 business year Ford produced 264,972 cars. ~ Page 167

On 2 November, Burt Lancaster is born. ~ Page 231 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Lancaster
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. . . .Bocklin and Klinger wee de Chirico’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico artist forefathers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche his intellectual ancestors -- and de Chirico no longer needs them for his studies in the loneliness of the lonely individual. Because that is the viewer himself, who is irrevocably drawn into the meaninglessness of the new century. Or, as de Chirico himself says: “art was liberated by the modern philosophers and poets. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer were the first to teach the deep significance of the non-meaning of life, and how that meaninglessness could be transformed into art. The good new artists are philosophers who have overcome philosophy.” So de Chirico reduces perspective to a state of absurdity. And soon becomes a revered authority in Paris, Berlin and Milan, on increasingly shaky foundation. ~ Page 148

It’s a beautiful August day in 1913. Or, to be more precise:

THERE was a depression over the Atlantic. It was travelling eastwards, towards an area of high pressure over Russia, and still showed no tendency to move northwards around it. The isotherms and isotheres were fulfilling their functions. The atmospheric temperature was in proper relation to the average annual temperature, the temperature of the coldest as well as of the hottest month, and the a-periodic monthly variation in temperature. The rising and setting of the sun and of the moon, the phases of the moon, Venus and Saturn’s rings, and many other important phenomena, were in accordance with the forecasts in the astronomical yearbooks. The vapour in the air was at its highest tension, and the moisture in the air was at its lowest. In short, to use an expression that describes the facts pretty satisfactorily, even though it is somewhat old-fashioned: it was a fine August day in the year 1913.

These are the opening lines of Robert Musil’s “Man without Qualities.” uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/musil-1.pdf Alongside Proust's “In search of the Lost Time” and James Joyce’s ‘Ulyses,’ this was the third classic of the modern era, saturated with the explosive power of the year 1913. - 166
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