Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weddings, duels and state councils, Radziwills and Potockis, two of Poland's oldest, richest families, have faced each other for centuries. When, in the 18th Century, Charles Radziwill owned scores of towns and 600 villages. Felix Potocki had 130,000 peasants and 600,000 acres. Krystyna Radziwill had a play written in honor of her marriage, and Joseph Potocki's funeral was attended by ten bishops and 1,275 priests; 20 pieces of cannon used up 65,000 pounds of gunpowder in a wake that lasted six days...
...eikons" (images) into Russia, and set the stage for Russia's golden age (the 15th Century) of religious painting. Peter the Great hired Europeans to teach portraiture and allegorical landscape to Russian serfs (who were sometimes flogged for failure to produce a flattering likeness in good taste), turned 18th and 19th Century Russian art into a brackish backwater of the West...
...core of Manhattan's sprawling 18th Congressional District is a verminous, crime-ridden slum called East Harlem. Its hordes of Italians, Puerto Ricans, Jews and Negroes have traditionally voted Republican. But in the last decade a new force came into power: the patchwork patronage machine of shrill, stooped, angry-eyed, pro-Communist Representative Vito...
Marcantonio. The little padrone was the passionate 18th's new-style ward boss and idol...
There was nothing simple about William Hogarth, the earliest of the three, who made 18th Century London look like a highly dramatic hell. Nor was there anything earthy about Joseph M. W. Turner's blazey skies, and seascapes...