The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Based on Werner Stein's KulturfahrplanThe Timetables of History spans millennia of human history. Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by mapping out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day. |
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... Academy Award ( Kazan ) ; " Rear Window " ( Hitchcock ) ; " The Seven Samurai " ( Jap . ) Reginald Marsh d . ( b . 1898 ) " Herblock " wins second Pulitzer Prize for cartoons ( also 1942 ) Leonard Bernstein : " Wonderful Town ...
... Academy Award ( Kazan ) ; " Rear Window " ( Hitchcock ) ; " The Seven Samurai " ( Jap . ) Reginald Marsh d . ( b . 1898 ) " Herblock " wins second Pulitzer Prize for cartoons ( also 1942 ) Leonard Bernstein : " Wonderful Town ...
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... Academy Award ( Mike Todd ) ; " The King and I " ; " The Ten Commandments " ; " Lust for Life " Emil Nolde d . ( b . 1867 ) Constantin Brancusi , Rum . sculptor , d . ( b . 1876 ) Chagall : " Self - portrait " Carlo Levi : " Anna ...
... Academy Award ( Mike Todd ) ; " The King and I " ; " The Ten Commandments " ; " Lust for Life " Emil Nolde d . ( b . 1867 ) Constantin Brancusi , Rum . sculptor , d . ( b . 1876 ) Chagall : " Self - portrait " Carlo Levi : " Anna ...
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... Academy Award ; " Topkapi " ( Peter Ustinov ) Elizabeth Taylor divorces Eddie Fisher and , 10 days later , weds ... Academy Award Charles Chaplin and Ingmar Bergman awarded the Dutch Erasmus Prize Williamson : " Julius Caesar Jones ...
... Academy Award ; " Topkapi " ( Peter Ustinov ) Elizabeth Taylor divorces Eddie Fisher and , 10 days later , weds ... Academy Award Charles Chaplin and Ingmar Bergman awarded the Dutch Erasmus Prize Williamson : " Julius Caesar Jones ...
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