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Birth, 1911/12

Many artists of the so-called School of Paris were of Eastern European and Jewish heritage, and many lived for a time in the ramshackle studio complex called La Ruche (The Hive). Marc Chagall, in fact, moved there in 1911 and lived near Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger.
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Mao

Chairman Mao once said that “revolution is not a dinner party,” and he wasn’t kidding. Mao destroyed China. Quite apart from the staggering number

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