Articles with keyword "twentieth century"
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Why Paris?
Two neighborhoods—Montmartre and Montparnasse—helped shape Picasso and a generation of innovators.
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Mark Twain's Latest Autobiography
One hundred years after his death on April 21, 1910, Mark Twain is having one of the busiest years of his afterlife.
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Newton, The Last Magician
The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.
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Digging Across Panama
The Americans triumphed over yellow fever, landslides, and worker strikes to change the earth's landscape.
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A Sculptured Landscape
Fifty-five outdoor sculptures define a modern sensibility at tiny Ursinus College.
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Mo Yan 101
Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular that he could afford to eat jiaozi—“those tasty little pork dumplings