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Roman satire gains a sharp new voice
In Volterra, Etruria, Aulus Persius Flaccus was born into a wealthy equestrian family. Despite a tragically short life of just twenty-seven years, he would produce a small but influential body of satirical poetry that dissected Roman society with surgical precision. His six surviving satires, dense with moral philosophy, influenced writers from Juvenal to the Renaissance humanists.
A journalist who served two Germanys
In Berlin, Albert Norden was born into a politically engaged family. As a communist politician and journalist, he would navigate the turbulent waters of twentieth-century German history, from the Weimar Republic through Nazi persecution, exile, and eventually prominence in the German Democratic Republic. His career embodied the ideological fault lines that divided Germany for decades.
The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.
The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.