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Fifth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
It was, all in all, a very inauspicious beginning for what would soon become the world's most recognizable piece of classical music: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67—the “Fifth Symphony” -
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen in 1813. -
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto is a political document by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Originally published in London as the 1848 Revolution began to erupt. One of the world's most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism, the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. -
Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species
Considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. -
Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise
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Antonín Dvořák Serenade for Strings in E major Op. 22
Antonín Dvořák's Serenade for Strings in E major Op. 22, was composed in just two weeks in May 1875. It remains one of the composer's more popular orchestral works to this day. -
Brahms Symphony 4 in E minor, Op.98, Third Movement
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 by Johannes Brahms is the last of his symphonies. -
Tchaikovsky Symphony 6 "Pathétique"
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, also known as the Pathétique Symphony, is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony, written between February and the end of August 1893. The composer led the first performance in Saint Petersburg on 28 October [O.S. 16 October] of that year, nine days before his death. -
Claude Debussy, La mer, 3rd mov. "Dialogue du vent et de la mer"
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Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring
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Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis and dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien. It is written in a satirical, epistolary style and while it is fictional in format, the plot and characters are used to address Christian theological issues, primarily those to do with temptation and resistance to it. -
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Orwell wrote Animal Farm to illustrate the way Stalinism had betrayed the ideals of the socialist revolution in the Soviet Union. As he put it, "I thought of exposing the Soviet myth in a story that could be easily understood by almost anyone and which could be easily translated into other languages." -
Student Killed in Bombing
In 1970 a political protest that, went violently wrong when students bombed a building on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, killing one person and injuring several others, endures in the national memory as an act of domestic terrorism -
Collapse of the World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City was destroyed during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, after being struck by two hijacked commercial airliners. -
Makoto Fujimura, Zero Summer
