Orville Wright
1947 - Dayton, Ohio
In Dayton, in rooms that have outlasted the century, the surviving Wright brother reflects on the twelve seconds that changed the world — and the decades of argument that followed.
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In Dayton, in rooms that have outlasted the century, the surviving Wright brother reflects on the twelve seconds that changed the world — and the decades of argument that followed.
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1959 - the Beijing study at Zhongnanhai (the desk where the provincial production returns are read), in the months following the Lushan Conference
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1820 - Longwood House, Saint Helena
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1955 - Hyde Park Gate, London
Victory, ageing power, and the fight to shape the peace.
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
After the war, after the applause, after the second stroke — a prime minister reckons with what victory actually cost.
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1942 - New Yorker Hotel, New York
science-and-discovery
A contrasting life shaped by science and discovery.
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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1953 - the Kuntsevo dacha, outside Moscow
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
A ruler whose lifelong control ran through guards, secretaries, and doctors lies collapsed on the floor of his dacha while the apparatus of fear he built leaves the staff too frightened to enter or to summon help, the control-system turning fatally inward.
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1959 - the Beijing study at Zhongnanhai (the desk where the provincial production returns are read), in the months following the Lushan Conference
Nearby in time, but facing a different kind of historical pressure.
A chairman in his Beijing study reads the inflated production figures the provinces have learned to send up, treating reports manufactured to survive the recent purge of Peng Dehuai as administrative confirmation that the policy is working, while the state requisition apparatus takes grain at the reported rate from villages in Xinyang prefecture and elsewhere where the families are already starving.
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