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The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts from many disciplines to use their individual talents to present a verbal and musical encyclopedia entry each month. Though the show is accredited by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene, it is our ongoing mission to chafe against logic and proof, find meaning in obfuscation, and wrest truth from fact once and for all.
This is Natalie Clifford Barney, outspoken poet, lesbian, and women’s rights activist. She used to host salons at her Paris home, where she invited writers and artists from all over to talk about the issues of the day…
Is she the real founder of the Encyclopedia Show?!
Find out TONIGHT at the Belle Époque Encyclopedia Show! 7:30!
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Rad art from Gustav Klimt during the Belle Époque
Join us TOMORROW for the Belle Époque Encyclopedia Show! 7:30! 1012 Noble Street!
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The Paris Metro was established during the Belle Époque and looks more confusing than the CTA must look to tourists…
Join us THIS THURSDAY as we educate y’all on the Belle Époque!
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Did you know that the Titanic was carrying over 7 million pieces of mail to the United States? None of it has ever been recovered
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Did you know third class on the Titanic had only two bathtubs to split between 700 people?
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Oh so you can say baguette and ooh la la, CHILD PLEASE.
Learn some real French, I even went out and found this handy website with helpful phrases for you.
Does this image terrify you? Make you want to scream FIIIIIIRE and run in any direction? No? well in 1895, that’s exactly what happened as the Lumiere Brothers showed the first film- “The Train Coming into the Station.” People in the theatre thought there was ACTUALLY a train headed into the very place they were seated. It was black and white but semantics RUUUUNNNNN TRAAAAIIINNNNNN!!!!!!
watch the whole film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk
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The word “ritzy” was coined during the Belle Epoque, referring to the posh atmosphere and clientele of the Hôtel Ritz Paris!
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A couple recently named their baby “New Folder” until they could think of something better. YOU HAD NINE MONTHS.
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Did you know your brain actually has no pain receptors? That’s why people can be awake during brain surgery- you can’t feel it!
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Did you know squirrels forget the location of about 50% of the nuts they hide? Sometimes I feel like a squirrel.
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