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1944 to 1944 opens onto 1 life, 1 place story, and 1 named historical windows.
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1944 - the Salò Republic (Lake Garda; the offices at Gargnano)
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A deposed dictator, reinstalled as figurehead of a puppet republic by the foreign power that rescued him, performs the rituals of authority he no longer holds, issuing decrees and communiqués into a regime that exists only as German-dependent theatre.
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1944 - the Salò Republic (Lake Garda; the offices at Gargnano)
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1944 - the Salò Republic (Lake Garda; the offices at Gargnano)
Benito Mussolini stands at 1944 - the Salò Republic (Lake Garda; the offices at Gargnano), with connected routes through neighbouring lives, places, and historical pressure.
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1945 - Warm Springs
Concealed weakness, wartime reassurance, and the private cost of calm.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In the final weeks of the war, a president whose body has been failing for years faces the cost of leading from a wheelchair.
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1934 - Chicago
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In Chicago, the founder of Hull House reflects on what reform cost her and what the Depression is doing to everything she built.
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1934 - Passy, France
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In Passy, while her blood fails her, the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences reflects on what discovery actually costs.
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1942 - New Yorker Hotel, New York
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Watched by maids, creditors, and memory alike, the inventor who lit the world reflects on the difference between vision and vindication.
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1937 - Lae, New Guinea
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In the heavy heat of Lae, with the hardest leg of the flight ahead, a pilot who redefined what women could do writes what the headlines never captured.
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1942 - Germany / occupied Europe
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Germany, 1942.
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1945 - Warm Springs
Concealed weakness, wartime reassurance, and the private cost of calm.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In the final weeks of the war, a president whose body has been failing for years faces the cost of leading from a wheelchair.
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1934 - Chicago
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In Chicago, the founder of Hull House reflects on what reform cost her and what the Depression is doing to everything she built.
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1934 - Passy, France
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
In Passy, while her blood fails her, the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences reflects on what discovery actually costs.
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1942 - New Yorker Hotel, New York
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
Watched by maids, creditors, and memory alike, the inventor who lit the world reflects on the difference between vision and vindication.
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