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...ward boss in the hurly-burly of the Boston Irish. It was the urban century, long dominated by men like John (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald, the machine mayor of Boston whose daughter Rose married Joe and became the Kennedy matriarch. It was the century of the Roaring Twenties, and no stock trader or reputed rum runner roared louder than Joe Kennedy did. The century of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who played a long cat-and-mouse game with Joe's bottomless ambitions. The century of Hollywood, where Joe and his older sons cavorted among the starlets...
...World War II raged, Adolf Hitler retained an ambition to build the world's finest museum in his hometown of Linz, Austria. He planned to call it the Führermuseum and hoped to stock it with the greatest works of art from around the globe - which he would obtain by looting collections and museums in occupied territories and hiding them until the war ended. (See a brief history of World War II movies...
...pictures of the 1929 stock-market crash...
...pictures of the top 10 scared stock traders...
Nestled in the hills northeast of Athens, the once picturesque village of Grammatikos now sits in a charred and blackened wasteland. Goats rummage among burned plants, while weary and soot-covered residents take stock of the damage. Above, a steady stream of airplanes and helicopters ferry water from the sea to a nearby village, where the fire is still raging...