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The World Yesterday'
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March 2017 |
| "…the US entry ino the Great War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the issuing of the Balfour Declaration brought about political, cultural, and social changes that dramatically reshaped the US's role in the world and directly affected everyday Americans…" |
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November 2016 |
| "…There are few veterans who had a better overall view of the devastation than 92-year-old Jack Evans. He was a 17-year-old lookout [on the foretop of the battleship USS Tennessee] on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese struck [Pearl Harbor]." |
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July 2006 |
| ". . . The moral truth, based in the jury's intuition . . . is that mysterious mix of reason and emotion that combines to determine whether a person really, not merely rationally, desrves to die." |
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March 2019 |
| "…It was now that [Pres. Lyndon Johnson] grabbed the telephone and made his wishes known. 'I don't give a damn if the ship sinks,' Johnson declared. 'I will not embarrass my [Israeli] allies." |
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July 2010 |
| The world's largest-ever traveling exhibition of mummies--including a child 3,000 years older than King Tut--comes to America's shores. |
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September 2007 |
| In the 16th century, Portugal was the first European nation to build an extensive commercial global network of trading partners. Contact with so many far-flung regions led to the creation of highly original works of art. |
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May 2016 |
| "Jimmy…has hit a booby trap and quickly brought me to my first glimpse of what heroes look like. It was like someone has pounded and hammered on hisfoot, crushing the bone, splintering it, tearing the flesh and ripping it from his leg." |
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May 2019 |
| "I could not stop the bleeding. Big Mike's mouth was open. He tried to speak--nothing. Red sticky blood covered his body. He had no chance. The bleeding stopped. His eyes glazed over. He was gone." |
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January 2007 |
| "These personages populate a place on the margins of reason, where no clear boundaries distinguish reality from fantasy." |
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March 2007 |
| ". . . The horrific consequences of the A-Bombs did not end when Japan surrendered. The events continue to reverberate, touching people born many years after the tragedy." |
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March 2009 |
| The United Kingdom's former Prime Minister "was the most consistent, outspoken, determined, and reliable friend to [Pres. Ronald] Reagan and the U.S. in the final climactic struggle with totalitarian communism." |
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March 2006 |
| "A memorial site exists to document a specific period of history, but it also uses the power of authenticity and location to help its visitors form an emotional connection to that history." |
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May 2005 |
| "You had the same fears as the Gis, but you had to think about the picture. My camera was my shield, and I didn't even think about the idea that a bullet might hit me." |
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September 2006 |
| "If the Egyptian campaign ended as a military failure for France, it proved beyond doubt to be a cultural triumph for the world." |
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January 2008 |
| "Prints and drawings sought to capture the experience of place or, in turn, to propagate a vision of what such a delightful spot on Earth could look like, with devotion to geographical and even botanical specificity." |
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March 2018 |
| "Soldiers were malnourished and freezing, and even trucks and tanks were stopped dead in their tracks from fuel starvation. Everything was going wrong for both sides." |
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March 2008 |
| Sixty years after India's independence, this exhibition highlights the ideals of the visionaries who succeeded in its achievement. |
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November 2010 |
| ". . . The survival of the Pope, the President, and the Prime Minister were happy accidents that perhaps acted as modest catalysts in the process that ended the Cold War on Western terms." |
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May 2019 |
| "It was only because I was on Schindler's list that I stayed alive. That was a man who made a difference." |
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November 2004 |
| From Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel to Noah and the Flood to Abraham and Sodom to Moses and the Ten Commandments, Biblical passages trace the roots for how modern society deals with the execution of killers. |
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September 2004 |
| "Endowed with extraordinary observational powers and heroic determination, August Sander has left us with a compelling collective portrait of the German people during one of their most turbulent periods in history." |
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May 2008 |
| The Mahatma secured India's independence some 60 years ago with the assistance of Nandalal Bose and Rabindranath Tagore. |
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March 2018 |
| In war and peace, British PM Winston Churchill had a strategy for freedom. They were related. They both required an utter commitment to freedom--recognition of the limits of politics and the limits of war. . . . |
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September 2010 |
| "Unlike dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, mammoths and mastodons lived side by side with humans for thousands of years." |
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May 2007 |
| This is the first major exhibition to explore one of the most important and distinctive facets of Venetian art history: the exchange of objects and interchange of ideas between the great Italian maritime city & Islamic neighbors in the Eastern Mediterr… |
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November 2020 |
| "A 100-yard arc of trench from the south gate to the western point of the fence is a long narrow tomb of grotesquely maimed men--arms and legs sheared off, necks without heads, open abdomens revealing coiled intestines." |
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July 2015 |
| "… From the heroes of the past we learn … and what they teach, by the example of their lives and words, has the quality of truth by personal example. Thus, the good hero lives on, in our minds, if we are imaginative, and in our actions, if we are wise." |
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July 2005 |
| A new exhibition "tells the story of how the planet changed while dinosaurs ruled the Earth--and how this affected the evolution of dinosaurs and other life." |
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May 2019 |
| "…It was neither Normandy, not the Battle of the Bulge, not the months of combat through Germany that would bring tears to [my father's] eyes decades later. It was the memory of what he had witnessed when he entered the gates of Dachau." |
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