1913 – A Prisoner in Fairyland
1913. One year before the Great War. The world is in a good place.
1913. One year before the Great War. The world is in a good place.
1912. British explorer, Robert Falcon Scott, and his men place second in a race to the South Pole.
1911. The world’s first scheduled airmail post is delivered in the UK, and the first public electric escalators are installed in a tube station in London.
1910. A year of portents and changes.
1909. The first television broadcast is carried out in Paris and instant coffee is mass-produced.
1908. Three years after violent revolution, the Russian Empire is slowly stabilizing.
1907. Oklahoma becomes a state, the United States limits immigration, and on December 31 at midnight, the first electric ball drops in Times Square.
1906. Sweden is in the middle of a national crisis.
1905. In Ireland, The Sinn Féin (“We Ourselves”) party is founded with the goal of uniting the various nationalist groups.
1904. Humanity is flexing its muscles.