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  19 Significant Buildings Worth Seeing in Denmark Denmark spreads over a peninsula and an archipelago of more than 400 islands. Its architectural landscape is just as varied as the land it occupies. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die, edited by Mark Irving (2016)....
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  2 Vermeers, 1 Krasner, and 11 Other Paintings That Washington, D.C., Has To Offer Washington, D.C., is home to many art institutions that offer great collections of art. This list highlights just 14 of the paintings found in collections housed there. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, edited by...
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  20 Buildings Not to Miss in Australia From the Rose Seidler House and Mooloomba House to the Sydney Opera House, these 20 buildings are examples of some of Australia’s most architecturally and historically important structures. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before...
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  20 Must-See Buildings in Austria In the early 1990s, an intact mummy was discovered in the Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, that proved to be more than 5,000 years old. What is known today as Austria has been populated for a very long time; the buildings here are just a blip on the region’s history, but they’re all...
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  20 Paintings You Have to Visit at the Museo del Prado in Madrid The origins of the Museo del Prado, or Prado Museum, can be traced back to 1785, when the building in Madrid that the Prado now occupies was commissioned by King Charles III. The museum contains the most complete collections in the world of the works of El Greco, Velázquez, and Francisco de Goya,...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Business and Entrepreneurship) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Education) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Film and Visual Arts) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Science and Technology) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner. And if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Academia and Ideas) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Architecture, Urban Studies, and Engineering) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Health and Medicine) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Literature) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Music and Dance) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Social Activism and Politics) The future is unwritten. It is also right around the corner, and, if, as science fiction author William Gibson noted, it is not evenly distributed, more and more young people around the world are reaching toward it to shape it, improve it, and make it more equitable. These “shapers of the future”...
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  200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo Napoleon’s military prowess is legendary, and his victories made him the virtual master of continental Europe for more than a decade. His abdication in 1814 led to almost a year in exile on the island of Elba, but he returned triumphantly to France in March 1815. So began the Hundred Days, which...
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  2015 Cricket World Cup The final of the world’s premier one-day international (ODI) cricket contest, the Cricket World Cup, took place on March 29. Australia defeated New Zealand by seven wickets. Australia captured its fifth World Cup title while New Zealand made its first appearance in the final. The two countries...
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  2016 World Series Preview The 2016 World Series begins on October 25, and it promises to be one of the most-watched (and most-anxiety-inducing) Major League Baseball championships in baseball history. That’s because this series pits the teams with the longest title droughts in both the American League and the National...
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  20th Anniversary of the O.J. Simpson Verdict October 3, 2015, marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most controversial jury decisions in American legal history. Former pro-football (gridiron) player O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The trial received...
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  20th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing On April 19, 1995, 168 people were killed and more than 500 were injured when a bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It was the deadliest terrorist incident on U.S. soil prior to the September 11, 2001, attacks. spotlight, oklahoma city bombing, timothy...