Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know who Rosa Luxembourg is? If you do, a friend of mine will buy you an ice cream cone. If not, Elzbieta Ettinger-Chodakouska will enlighten you about this early 20th century orthodox marxist. Luxembourg wrote critiques of imperialism and revisionism and should be an interesting topic. The talk is scheduled for 8:00 at 10 Garden St but you have to call 495-8600 in advance for tickets...
...Oxford. In 1898 he showed up in China with faked references; 15 years later he shipped the Bodleian some 17,000 volumes of chinoiserie; later he contributed 18 manuscripts that were blatant forgeries and promised other treasures that did not exist. During World War I, as a sub rosa operative, he embroiled high British officials and even the King in a plot to procure from neutral China at least 200,000 rifles. They never materialized. A few years later, he flimflammed an American firm that sought to print banknotes for the Chinese...
...fight Angolan liberation groups. Following Lisbon's 1974 revolution, which led to the dismantling of Portugal's African empire, the Katangese were virtually forced to side with Agos-tinho Neto's Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan civil war. Admiral Rosa Coutinho, the left-leaning Portuguese high commissioner of the colony, offered them a subsidy if they would serve under Neto-and threatened to hand them over to Mobutu if they refused...
...Historians] manage to discuss the reform of insane asylums in the first half of the 19th century without mentioning Dorothea Dix, muckraking without mentioning Ida Tarbell, and the Montgomery bus boycott without mentioning Rosa Parks...
...show includes more than 150 works by 85 painters. Some of them, like American Impressionist Mary Cassatt and her French counterpart Berthe Morisot, are already embedded in the history of modern art. Others, just as famous in their day, now seem more like footnotes than culture heroines: Rosa...