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The Color Purple was written by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. |
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The rose figures prominently in I. M. Pei’s design of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio? |
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American writer Alice Walker brings a positive tone to her exploration of the African American experience. |
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John de Andrea is known for his evocative abstract paintings. |
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Milan Kundera is a novelist whose use of fantasy brings out moral themes. He wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being. |
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The European Union has instituted its own currency, known as the Euro. |
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The Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, in Washington, D.C., was designed by Maya Ying Lin. |
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Rem Koolhaas received the 1989 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his work in Bilbao, Spain. |
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Chernobyl, Ukraine, was abandoned after a meltdown at a nuclear power plant. |
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Pope John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope elected in over 450 years. |
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In "video art," the idea or concept is more important than the means employed to complete it. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev's domestic reforms contributed to the breakup of the centralized structure of the USSR. |
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A paradigm shift requires the denial of objective truth. |
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The microchip replaced the transistor and all of its components with a single integrated circuit (or chip) thus making it possible to further reduce the size of machines, especially the computer. |
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"Bird flu" is among the infectious diseases especially worrisome to the World Health Organization. |
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