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...Spanish president said Franco's regime could not have produced such advances because it discouraged innovation. Seeing this, said Gonzalez, the Spanish people have come to realize that the Spanish nation-state of the nineteenth century was inept at confronting twentieth century international political problems and the future...
...Informal singing was a nineteenth century tradition already very popular among members of male social clubs at Harvard, like the Pudding Club. Binger simply had to formalize what already existed," Cloherty says...
...interesting thing was that before, nobody had known that the brain was always active. People couldn't figure out where dreams came from--were they angels or signs from the supernatural? No one knew. People in the nineteenth century thought they came from the outside or from something like your stomach. What we found out was that the brain itself was causing dreaming, sending signals to itself...
That dream of course is not a new one, it was the dream of a poor Georgia populist of the nineteenth century. Tom Watson told his followers, poor Southerners, Black and white, in 1892 that: "You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both. You are deceived and blinded that you may see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars both." It is time we understood this...
Sweeney Todd is, as the many reprises of the opening number tirelessly remind us, the infamous nineteenth century "demon barber of Fleet Street." Back in London after serving 15 years of a life sentence in Australia for a crime he did not commit, Sweeney (Jonathan Tolins) seeks revenge on corrupt Judge Turpin (Adam Wolman), who framed him in order to steal away Sweeney's wife. He starts up his barbershop again above the pie shop of his old landlady, Mrs. Lovett (Rhonda Edwards), who tells him that shortly after his exile, Sweeney's wife poisoned herself, and his infant daughter...