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A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590

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Berlin, 1936 - Jesse Owens of the USA in action in the mens 200m at the Summer Olympic Games. Owens won a total of four gold medals.

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The Card Party

work by Léger

Also known as: “La Partie de Cartes”

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discussed in biography

In Fernand Léger
That year he completed The Card Party, which was based on sketches of his fellow soldiers. He regarded this work as “the first picture in which I deliberately took my subject from our own epoch.”
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