Centenaries

This a.m. I received an e-mail signed "Happy Titanic Centenary." Whereupon I replied that 2012 is also the centenary of the 1912 Basle congress of the Second International that declared "war on war." Whereupon someone else chimed in "don't forget the birth of cubist collage." Then it also occurred to me that 2012 is the centenary of the Japanese gift of cherry trees to the U.S. government. (See here for an exhibit connected with that anniversary.) Plus the Balkan war of 1912.

The dubious pleasures of pedantry...