The Cycle That Outran Its Maker
On 13 August 1876, Das Rheingold opened the first complete Ring cycle at the first Bayreuth Festival. Wagner's politics have aged badly. The fifteen-hour work he built a theatre to house has not.
1876
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The Best Day They Ever Had
On 25 June 1876, 5,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors destroyed Custer's column at the Little Bighorn - the greatest Native American military victory against the U.S. Army. Within a year, it had cost them the Black Hills and their freedom.