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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater turns 75 this year. A house of genius and mystery, it may be admired as America’s best 500 years from now. December sun filled the sky in 1934 as department-store mogul Edgar Kaufmann left Pittsburgh with the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. They drove on winding back roads into the deep …
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Mannerheim Draws Lines in the SnowA former Russian cavalry officer helped Finland win independence, then saved it from Stalin and Hitler. On a pedestal across from the Central Post Office in Helsinki stands an impo… Read MoreThe Revolution’s Band of BrothersWhether heroes or opportunists, the O’Brien family of privateers helped America launch its battle for independence. It was an unlikely setting for one of the American Revolution’s … Read MoreMr. Gatling’s Game-Changing GunConceived as a peacemaker, the inventor’s weapon ushered in an era of mechanized killing. Rumors raged. In ex- cited whispers, in idle conversations that filled the nervous hours b… Read MoreHeroes in Coats, Breeches, and Cock’d HatsIn The Death of General Wolfe, Benjamin West combined elements of national pride, historical accuracy, and Christian iconography to create a new image of the heroic. On September 1… Read More1914: Marne in the BalanceFrance very nearly failed to repulse Germany’s mammoth initial invasion. But it did, leading to a slaughterous long-term war of attrition. The Battle of the Marne was a close-run t… Read More
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