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Rich challenged the language of the past in poetry and prose while not quite embracing a fully inclusive future.

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was no more dangerous place for a young white woman than the ice cream parlor.

Jewish immigrants and British authorities tried to sell electrification as a matter of business while Palestinian Arabs viewed it as a Zionist nation-building project.

William Henry Fox Talbot’s obsession with protecting his pioneering photographic process doomed his reputation and reduced his legacy to historical footnote.

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