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Henry Ossawa Tanner, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1859, became the first African-American artist to achieve international recognition.
Where did the painter’s unusual middle name come from?
His parents, Benjamin and Sarah Tanner, coined it to commemorate the 1856 Battle of Osawatomie, during which white abolitionist John Brown tried to defend the Kansas town of Osawatomie from pro-slavery “border ruffians.”
John Brown’s heroic struggle symbolized for black people their quest for freedom. Thus, for Benjamin and Sarah, Ossawa embodied the hope for emancipation.
The town’s name is a portmanteau of the names of two nearby streams: the Osage River and Pottawatomie Creek. The streams, in turn, were named after two local Native American tribes: the Osage and the Potawatomi.
Henry Ossawa Tanner later passed the name down to his son, Jesse Ossawa Tanner, who was born in 1903.
Sources:
Mosby, Dewey F., Rae Alexander-Minter, and Darrel Sewell. Henry Ossawa Tanner [Exhibition catalogue]. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991.
Xolotl refers to the “divine force of lightning and death” (among other things) in Nahuatl.
Zantedechia is one letter away from Zantedeschia, the name of a genus of flowering plants. (The calla lily is a member of this genus.) The genus was named after Italian physician/botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773-1846).
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In 1894, the winner of Melbourne Cup — a horse race that’s been held in Australia every year since the early 1860s — was a horse named Patron (ridden by a jockey named Henry Dawes).
The day of the race, a baby girl “was born in one of the dressing rooms at Flemington [Racecourse].”
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