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1890s neologisms

  • Shakespearean problem playF. S. Boas published Shakespeare and His Predecessors in 1896, introducing a new label for three specific plays by William Shakespeare.
  • DatingThe word date first appeared in English print in 1896 within the columns of George Ade for the Chicago Record. Ade used the term to describe a form of public…
  • MultiverseIn the sixth century BCE, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Anaximander first suggested that infinite worlds might exist.
  • ZionismTheodor Herzl published Der Judenstaat in 1896, a pamphlet that envisioned the founding of an independent Jewish state during the twentieth century.