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The Weimar Republic Shaped the 20th Century. Can Today’s Leaders Avoid Its Fate? – The New York Times
Weimar Dispatch A Failed State Shaped the 20th Century. Can Today’s Leaders Avoid Its Fate? A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning. Listen to this article · 6:36 min Learn more By Clay Risen, Clay Risen reported from…
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Queen Open Up on the Making of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ at 50! Brian May and Roger Taylor on Queen’s Masterpiece Making the most-streamed song from the 20th century took ambition, hard work, and a dash of opera September 24, 2025 Their real life was about to slip into fantasy, which was pretty much the plan. At the tail end of the 1960s, Roger Taylor…
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Trump’s Project 2025 agenda caps decades-long resistance to 20th century progressive reform
Trump’s Project 2025 agenda caps decades-long resistance to 20th century progressive reform Published: February 3, 2025 8:33am EST For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work for regular Americans, including the New Deal and the Great Society reforms. But they also met…
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The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time – Rolling Stone
A ranking of the most game-changing, side-splitting, tear-jerking, mind-blowing, world-building, genre-busting programs in television history, from the medium’s inception in the early 20th century through the ever-metastasizing era of Peak TV By Alan Sepinwall, September 26, 2022 How do you identify the very best series in a medium that’s been commercially available since the end…
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A Century of Air Travel in Pictures | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos
“It’s that time of year when many of us are getting ready to head to the airport and hop on a plane en route to family and friends for the holidays. Air travel, like many modern conveniences, is a perk easy to take for granted despite its relatively short history. A visual trip through the…
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How Libraries Became Public | Library Babel Fish
It was during an era much like ours when the public library became an American institution. Source: How Libraries Became Public | Library Babel Fish
