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...Reagan v. Brissey, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2005 that a park at the center of a mid-19th century housing development cannot be built upon because the way in which the development was marketed implied that the space would never be sold...
...condition of Israel’s founding in the late 1940s? As a nation we seem unconscious of the hypocrisy. The convention that persecuted Europeans had the right to safe havens on lands stolen from non-Europeans was, by the mid-20th century, as outmoded as the Confederacy’s defense of slavery in the mid-19th...
...Boston Ballet’s presentation of “Giselle,” produced and staged by Maina Gielgud and running through May 20, offers audiences an enchanting evening of classical mid-19th century ballet. As a conservative adaptation that stays true to the piece’s original choreography and tonality, “Giselle” shines as a stellar example of interpreting narrative through dance...
...Annexed by Paris in 1860 and located in today's 18th Arrondissement, Montmartre became a base for economic migrants from the French countryside during the mid-19th century as well as a refuge for poor Parisians forced to the periphery. Its cheap lodgings also attracted plenty of writers and artists such as Renoir, Van Gogh and Picasso, and the easels scattered around Place des Tertre serve as a reminder that art still plays an important part in the life of "the hill...
...Annexed by Paris in 1860 and located in today's 18th Arrondissement, Montmartre became a base for economic migrants from the French countryside during the mid-19th century as well as a refuge for poor Parisians forced to the periphery. Its cheap lodgings also attracted plenty of writers and artists such as Renoir, Van Gogh and Picasso, and the easels scattered around Place des Tertres serve as a reminder that art still plays an important part in the life of "the hill...