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Christmas Light Timeline
A listing and description of many of the major events in the history and development of electric Christmas lighting. Information about how the electric Christmas lighting... |
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James Joyce
James Joyce is at once Dublin's most local and most international writer. In his novels the city gains a universal identity like Homer's Mediterranean or Biblical Jerusal... |
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf, British novelist, also distinguished feminist essayist, critic, and a central figure of the Bloomsbury group.
During the inter-war period Woolf was at... |
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Hendrik Willem van Loon
Hendrik Willem van Loon, a Dutch-American author and illustrator, was the first winner of the Newbery Medal for The Story of Mankind. He was beloved by the public during... |
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Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd US President
Thirty-Second President USA, 1933-1945. Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in the... |
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Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper was an American painter whose highly individualistic works are landmarks of American realism. His paintings embody in art a... |
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. The son of a famous bass singer at the Imperial Opera, Stravinsky showed little inclinat... |
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Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche
A 19th-century literary masterpiece, tremendously influential in the arts and in philosophy, uses the Persian religious leader Zarathustra to voice the author’s views, in... |
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Krakatoa Eruption, Indonesia
Krakatoa is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It has erupted repeatedly, massively and with disastrous consequences throughout... |
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, b. Prague, Bohemia (then belonging to Austria), has come to be one of the most influential writers of this century. Virtually unknown during his lifetime, th... |
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Theo van Doesburg
In 1917, collaborating with the architects J. J. P. Oud and Jan Wils, van Doesburg founded the group De Stijl and the periodical of the same name; other original members... |
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini ruled Italy as a dictator from 1922 to 1943. He created a fascist state through the use of state terror and propaganda. Using his charism... |
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Anton Webern, Austrian Composer
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the so called Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg,... |
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John Maynard Keynes, Economist
John Maynard Keynes is doubtlessly one the most important figures in the entire history of economics. He revolutionized economics with his classic book, The General Theor... |
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Walter Gropius, Founder of Bauhaus, 1919
Walter Adolph Gropius was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. He studied architecture in Munich and worked in the office of Peter Behrens in Berlin. In 1910 he for... |
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