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Рик Бёрнс

Ric Burns

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4 апреля 2014 г., 19:14

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"Americans need new york because new york is one of the few places in the country that allows difference to be celebrated, that allows people to reach their full potential. And that's in a sense what drives covilization, what drives freedom, what moves us forward, and what is really the hope of the future. New York is…

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New York: An Illustrated History

Рик Бёрнс, James Sanders, Lisa Ades

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4 апреля 2014 г., 18:59

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The unique geography of Manhattan itself - both natural and manmade - has only served to intensify over time the baffling, exhilarating, and sometimes frightening experience of congestion and commingling that New York's economic engine and openness to newcomers began conjuring into existence almost two centuries ago. What…

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New York: An Illustrated History

Рик Бёрнс, James Sanders, Lisa Ades

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4 апреля 2014 г., 18:47

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"The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents - but whose…

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New York: An Illustrated History

Рик Бёрнс, James Sanders, Lisa Ades

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13 ноября 2013 г., 16:44

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Unlike Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, New York was founded not as religious establishment but as a business colony. The first colonists - all employees of the Dutch West India Company - came to New Amsterdam not to find God but to collect beaver skins and so devoted were they to making money that it took eight…

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New York: An Illustrated History

Рик Бёрнс, James Sanders, Lisa Ades

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13 ноября 2013 г., 16:33

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"The firmament that is New York," the writer Luc Sante once said, "is greater than the sum of its constituent parts. It is a city and it is also a creature, a mentality, a disease, a threat, an electromagnet, a cheap stage set, an accident coridor. It is an implausible character, a monstrous vortex of contradictions, an…

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New York: An Illustrated History

Рик Бёрнс, James Sanders, Lisa Ades

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