rose wilder lane, give me liberty (1936)

 The Russians came into them on foot, goading the oxen that pulled the slow wagons over roadless prairies.  Industrious, thrifty, good-natured eminently sensible people, Russians moved in groups, settled in villages, cultivated the good land common, and prospered.. ..

a russian revolutionary in the bronx

New York’s foreign-born comprised a full 30 percent of the white population.3 The largest group was the Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe. New York had no less than six Yiddish daily newspapers at the time, the largest and most influential being the Jewish Daily Forward..

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María Irene Fornés, Cuban-born American playwright whose spare, poetic emotionally forceful works were hallmarks of theater for four decades, died on Tuesday Manhatta.. ..

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Bauhaus Conflicts, 1919 2009 Controversies and Counterparts edited by Philipp Oswalt. exhibition at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich, October 25, 2008 March 8, 2009 Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, April August 10, 2009 and Solomon R. ..

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