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... early period was Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) , which won the Academy Award for best picture of 1928-29 . In the early 1930s the German direc- tor G.W. Pabst presented a serious musi- cal film , The Threepenny Opera ( 1931 ; Die ...
... early period was Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) , which won the Academy Award for best picture of 1928-29 . In the early 1930s the German direc- tor G.W. Pabst presented a serious musi- cal film , The Threepenny Opera ( 1931 ; Die ...
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... Early life . Niebuhr was the son of Gustav and Lydia Niebuhr , who had emigrated to the United States at an early age from Germany . Gustav Niebuhr was a minister of the Evangel- ical Synod of North America , a denomination with a ...
... Early life . Niebuhr was the son of Gustav and Lydia Niebuhr , who had emigrated to the United States at an early age from Germany . Gustav Niebuhr was a minister of the Evangel- ical Synod of North America , a denomination with a ...
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... early as about 3000 BC , the term opus sectile properly refers to an art that began in the Hellenistic world , perhaps first in Italy , and continued as a European decorative tradition . Opus sectile first appeared in Rome in Re ...
... early as about 3000 BC , the term opus sectile properly refers to an art that began in the Hellenistic world , perhaps first in Italy , and continued as a European decorative tradition . Opus sectile first appeared in Rome in Re ...
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