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Il trovatore Jacopo Peri: L'Euridice
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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz
Interior of Niblo's Garden, a successful opera house in New York.
An Evening at the Opera
Stacks of sheet music. Classical music composer composition. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
A Music Lesson
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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)
All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained
New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.
Where Is “Old Zealand”?
Germans from East and West stand on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the November 10, 1989, photo, one day after the wall opened.
Timeline of the 1980s
A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
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Timeline of the 1990s
Space race (1957-1969) infographic between United States (U.S.) and Russia. America, Soviet Union, U.S.S.R., space exploration
Timeline of the Space Race, 1957–69

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Franz von Lenbach: portrait of Richard Wagner
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Key People

Eugen Jochum
German conductor
La Julia Rhea
American singer
Grace Bumbry
American opera singer
Nelson Eddy
American singer and actor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
German composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
German composer

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Interior of Niblo's Garden, a successful opera house in New York.
An Evening at the Opera
Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz
Stacks of sheet music. Classical music composer composition. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
A Music Lesson