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* The poppies which surround the Emerald City are likely a reference to the opium poppies and the Boxer Rebellion in China of 1899.<ref> See the fascinating analysis by Martin Blythe, "Oz is China" (2006) [http://www.sexualfables.com/OzisChina.php online edition]</ref>

* The poppies which surround the Emerald City are likely a reference to the opium poppies and the Boxer Rebellion in China of 1899.<ref> See the fascinating analysis by Martin Blythe, "Oz is China" (2006) [http://www.sexualfables.com/OzisChina.php online edition]</ref>

[[Image:Cleveland as Lion 1885.JPG|thumb|right|300px|1885 ''Puck'' cartoon shows President Cleveland as a powerful lion, and shows other politicians as (flying?) monkeys.]]

[[Image:Cleveland-Lion 1885.JPG|thumb|right|300px|1885 ''Puck'' cartoon shows President Cleveland as a powerful lion, and shows other politicians as (flying?) monkeys.]]

*Politicians of the era often talked about wizards. For example, one senator debating the gold and silver issue in early 1900 said, “We all know of the performances of the world’s magicians, but it has remained for the Wizard of Missouri [Senator Cockrell] to wave his magic wand or his magic head and double the price of the silver of the world.”<ref> ''New York Times'' February 16, 1900 p 1</ref> Baum may have turned the Wizard of Missouri into the Wizard of Oz, who frightened people with his giant magic head.

*Politicians of the era often talked about wizards. For example, one senator debating the gold and silver issue in early 1900 said, “We all know of the performances of the world’s magicians, but it has remained for the Wizard of Missouri [Senator Cockrell] to wave his magic wand or his magic head and double the price of the silver of the world.”<ref> ''New York Times'' February 16, 1900 p 1</ref> Baum may have turned the Wizard of Missouri into the Wizard of Oz, who frightened people with his giant magic head.

*Ziaukas, Tim. "100 Years of Oz: Baum's 'Wizard of Oz' as Gilded Age Public Relations" in ''Public Relations Quarterly,'' (Fall 1998) [http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/books8-Ziaukas.htm online version]

*Ziaukas, Tim. "100 Years of Oz: Baum's 'Wizard of Oz' as Gilded Age Public Relations" in ''Public Relations Quarterly,'' (Fall 1998) [http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/books8-Ziaukas.htm online version]

==External links==

==External links==

* [http://books.google.com/books?as_q=&num=30&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_libcat=0&as_brr=1&as_vt=oz&as_auth=Frank+Baum&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb=c&as_miny=&as_maxy=&as_isbn= full text of 6 Oz books by Baum]

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