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Featured article: July 26, 2005

A White to "black" minstrel's poster, circa 1900

Blackface is a style of theatrical makeup that originated in the United States, used to affect the countenance of an iconic, racist, American archetype, that of the "darky." Blackface also refers to a genre of musical and comedic theatrical presentation in which blackface makeup is worn. White blackface performers in the past used burnt cork, then later greasepaint, to affect jet-black skin and exaggerated lips, often wearing woolly wigs, gloves, tails or ragged clothes to complete the transformation. Later, black artists also performed in blackface. Blackface was an important performance tradition in the American theater for over 100 years and was extremely popular overseas, as well. The negative archetypes that comprised the stock characters of blackface minstrelsy played a seminal role in cementing and proliferating racist images and perceptions of, and attitudes about, blacks worldwide. By the mid-20th century, changing attitudes about race and racism effectively ended the prominence of blackface performance in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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Hacha Grande, Lanzarote, Canary Islands

Hacha Grande (562m), in the south of the Canary Island of Lanzarote, viewed from the road to the Monumento Natural de los Ajaches (Punta de Papagayo). Lanzarote is a volcanic island with very low rainfall; much of the south of the island is desert and a barren expanse of lava flows.

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Featured list: List of cultural references in The Cantos
This is a list of people, places, events, etc. that feature in Ezra Pound's The Cantos, a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto.
  • Abd al Melik - The first Caliph to strike Islamic coinage - Canto XCVII
  • John Adams - Second President of the United States; "the man who at certain points/made us/at certain points/saved us" (Canto LXII), and one of Pound's great political heroes. - Cantos XXXI - XXXIV, L - "the revolution was in the minds of the people" , LXII - LXXI
    • Novanglus - Pen-name Adams used for essays written in 1775 to argue against the British Parliament's right to tax or legislate for the American colonies. Canto LXII
  • John Quincy Adams - Son of John Adams - Canto XLVIII
  • Charles Francis Adams - Son of John Quincy Adams - Canto XLVIII
  • Samuel Adams – Cousin of John Adams – Adams Cantos
  • Adonis - Canto XVIIL
  • Aegisthus - Canto XC
  • Aeschylus – Cantos II, VII: Puns on the name of Helen of Troy as "destroyer of men" ("Eliandros") and "destroyer of cities" ("Elanpolis") from his play Agamemnon used by Pound. In his 1920 essay Translators of Greek: Early Translators of Homer, Pound criticises Robert Browning's translation of the passage containing these puns. – Canto LXXXII: Swinburn on.

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