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Then in 1867 somebody discovered a diamond near the Orange River. "Gentlemen," said the British Colonial Secretary as he inspected one of the earliest of these discoveries, "this is the rock on which the future success of South Africa will be built." Indeed, a quarter of a billion carats were to be dug out in the next century. Since the diamonds lay in Afrikaner lands, the British simply declared that they were annexing those lands, and British miners came pouring in. Two decades later rich deposits of gold were discovered in the Transvaal. Still more Britons and other foreigners came...
...Fogg show surveys the abstract artist's painting from his earliest works to his death and includes sketches and photographs he used in composing a painting...
...Vienna there arose a second Viennese School that included Arnold Schoenberg, whose earliest music is the most listenable, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg. Their music is often contorted and bizarre, with very strong dissonances...
...regime with U.S. backing in 1956, and that his father, Anastasio Somoza (who ordered the assassination of Auigusto Cesar Sandino), was handed the dictatorship of Nicaragua by the U.S. Marines in 1937. In fact, if Mr. Graham laments the situation we find ourselves presently, perhaps he should explore the earliest episode of U.S. intervention in Nicaragua--the 1855 invasion led by William Walker--to find some answers...
...Normandy or Persian duck in pomegranate sauce. They subscribe to four gourmet magazines and have a collection of 150 cookbooks. Most recent vacation: three weeks in Tahiti and Bora Bora. "Part of me would like children, but, practically speaking, I don't see how," says Michele, who estimates the earliest date for childbearing is 1993. Their ranch-style house has three bedrooms: one for them, one for the computer and one for their Samoyed, Dillon...