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...1920s Rhodesia, leopards and snakes roamed the bush. Yet for 6-year-old Doris Lessing, this inhospitable environment offered a welcome refuge from her parents: Alfred, a soldier whose leg had been shattered by shrapnel in World War I, and Emily, a wartime nurse who helped to amputate it. Crouched in a patch of brush, Lessing would cover her ears and shout, "I won't listen," in an effort to drown out her parents' incessant talk of tanks, howitzers and death. "The trenches were as present to me as anything I actually saw around me," Lessing recalls in her riveting...
...magazine editor who launched it in 1903 with 60 riders in a bid to boost circulation. It worked: Tour coverage helped Desgrange's magazine boom, and the race soon became more popular than he could have dreamed. With fans lining the roads to see riders up close, by the 1920s the Tour included more than 100 cyclists from throughout Europe. But as the competition grew fiercer and the race more commercialized, champagne and nicotine gave way to more effective--and insidious--performance boosters. In 1967, British rider Tom Simpson died midrace after taking amphetamines, prompting the event to adopt drug...
...family-owned firm once supplied the Weimar government of 1920s Germany with paper for its currency at a time of hyperinflation, and also printed the tickets for the 1936 Olympics during the Third Reich. Its current business also includes smart-card technology, integrated chips to store biometric data and border-control systems...
Fuller was the descendant of a distinguished and nonconformist New England family. (His great aunt was the early feminist Margaret Fuller.) He never finished college--he was expelled from Harvard twice--and by the 1920s, he was a failed businessman and, perhaps, a would-be suicide. (On the basis of his journals, some scholars doubt it.) That was when he claims a voice came to him saying he had no right to take his own life, because he had important work to do. "You do not belong to you," said the voice. "You belong to Universe." That's Universe...
...Sandino's name was first invoked by the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the 1960s, when it was a clandestine guerrilla movement. Its purpose was to establish a continuity with the popular nationalist revolutionary movement of the 1920s. While President Ortega may still imagine himself to be Sandino's heir, many of his former comrades say today's FSLN is nothing more than a vehicle for Ortega's personal ambitions, and has little claim to the ideals of its revolutionary past...