... one vast city." Just as Clinton predicted, New York City would become precisely what he said. The first official recorded visitor to New York Harbor was in 1524, by an Italian named Giovanni da Verrazano, during a French-sponsored expedition on the ship, Dauphine (named after the eldest son of King Francis I of France). Verranzano left quickly and was not revisited except ... operation to screen immigrants for diseases and to see if they could support themselves. Harlem developed around this time and became a predominantly black area that was home to the Harlem Renaissance. Chinese peop...

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... actors changed, behind it. However, this particular one does not. With that, we end our adventure in Spain. Let us venture forth across the Mediterranean in 14th century Italy. The renaissance in Italy was a great time for all artists to expand their horizons. Some of the greatest painters of all like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci came from this great era ... performances. Modeled by Palladio after his studies of several ancient theatres and his own illustrations of classical theatre design. Made for Daniele Barbaro's translation of Vitruvius, this is a lone surviving Renaissance th...

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