Word: 1900s
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...good reason. Though his parents emigrated from the area in the early 1900s, Pittsburgh-born Warhol never visited Slovakia, much less Medzilaborce, a remote town of 6,500. But that has not stopped the locals, few of whom had ever heard of Warhol or Pop art before 1989, from adopting him as one of their own. "If you want to know Andy Warhol the superstar, go to Pittsburgh," says Michal Bycko, the museum's curator. "But if you want to know him as a person and what he was like before he became famous, you need to come to Medzilaborce...
Despite the preeminence of the University of Chicago in economics and John Hopkins University in sociology in the early 1900s, major changes to perpetuate an environment of academic excellence were underway...
...first laws were enacted in response to Mexican migration during the early 1900s, despite opposition from the American Medical Association. White Americans did not even begin to smoke marijuana until a soon-to-be entrenched government bureaucracy began funding reefer madness propaganda...
...honor, which was earned by just over a quarter of the Class of 2001, dates back to the 1900s when students did not have to choose a particular concentration...
...Early in the 1900s, Japan began sponsoring excavations in Korea for two purposes: to bring back valuable objects and to use these artifacts to justify its eventual annexation. Says Waseda University's Sungsi: "What the Japanese wanted to stress was that Japanese and Korean roots are the same and that Korea became less prosperous only after it parted ways with Japan." The University of Tokyo's Saotome says, "They did this to justify Japanese colonization." By the time Japan declared Korea a protectorate in 1905, hordes of Japanese treasure hunters were making a living excavating tombs and selling the loot...