twentieth century

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  4/20/2020
  

  Policing The Automobile: “Private” Transit In “Public” Spaces?

  by Sarah A. Seo

  "As much as courts throughout the twentieth century sought to differentiate cars from houses, the automobile straddled the public/private divide in American life." argues professor Sarah A. Seo.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  September 27, 2019
  

  She's Rising from the Depths of Soviet Music History

  by Gabrielle Cornish

  Interest is building in Galina Ustvolskaya, the reclusive Russian composer born 100 years ago whose nickname was “the lady with the hammer.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  September 30, 2019
  

  The Forgotten History of America’s Worst Racial Massacre

  by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

  Hundreds of black citizens were killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a century ago this week.

• SOURCE: The Scotsman (UK)
  8-13-13
  

  Titan crane receives international heritage honour

  THE Titan crane in Clydebank, the world’s first giant electrically-powered cantilever crane, will today receive the same international heritage honour as held by the Eiffel Tower in Paris.The 106-year-old former shipyard crane on the River Clyde will be designated as an international historic civil engineering landmark by four leading civil and mechanical engineering institutions.The crane, which became a visitor attraction in 2007, helped to fit out some of the world’s biggest battleships and liners, such as the Queen Mary, QE2 at the John Brown’s shipyard....