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...Hamas aims to thwart the Zionists' "aspir[ation] to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates." The charter cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forgery originating in the early 1900s that purports to set out the secret plans of Jewish leaders to take over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To Bloodshed: How Hamas Views The World | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

Frederick Ikels joked that his father had also lived a lot of history—he was the only person who remembered the Cambridge Fire Department’s horse-drawn fire apparatus from the early 1900s, he said...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former HUPD Officer Dies at 93 | 5/7/2003 | See Source »

...douse the home team’s bench with pepper spray and delay the ending to a terribly played game. Instead, my mouth dropped open at the history crammed into the arena, making it the perfect microcosm of a Bostonian’s sports memories starting from the early 1900s...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FleetCenter Is A Living Testament To Boston Sports History | 3/11/2003 | See Source »

...genetic destiny or a person's behavior that makes for a long life? Deiana--who turns 60 in February--has a personal interest in his research. His team is combing through church records in central Sardinia to try to confirm reports that a man who died in the early 1900s had reached the all-time-record age of 124. His name? Voche Deiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something in the Air | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...Grand Hotel Villa Igiea was built in the early 1900s as one of Sicily's aristocratic estates. It's a 15-minute taxi ride to central Palermo, but worth the ride - especially if you pay a bit extra to get a room with a terrace overlooking the sea. Salita Belmonte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Modern Italian Renaissance | 11/3/2002 | See Source »

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