19th Century

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The Waltz, Woe from Wit, and the Shah Diamond: Alexander Griboyedov
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In my fourth year at music school, I was learning a waltz by Alexander Griboyedov on the piano. Back then, his name above the sheet music meant very little to ...

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Upton’s Breakthrough: How a 24-Year-Old Colonel Found a Way Through the Trenches — and Why It Still Failed
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On May 10, 1864, roughly five thousand Union soldiers emerged from the woods near Spotsylvania and charged toward the Confederate trenches. About 200 yards — ...

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