In July 1938, Corrigan piloted the single-engine plane nonstop from California to New York. Although the transcontinental flight was far from unprecedented, Corrigan received national attention simply because the press was amazed that his rattletrap aircraft had survived the journey.
<span>Doménikos Theotokópoulos most widely known as El Greco, was a painter, sculptor and Michelangelo's influence can be seen in later El Greco works such as the ... However, the king did not like these works and placed the St Maurice ..... These are the words Meier-Graefe used to describe El Greco's impact on the artistic </span><span>
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<span>Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci were the nucleus of fifteenth-century Florentine art. Also worth citing is the painter and historian Giorgio Vasari, whose Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects first came out in 1550, with the enlarged edition appearing in 1568. Lastly, there was Michelangelo's close friend and first biographer, Ascavio Condivi. Whatever the shortcomings of these two men's works, they provide invaluable insight into the Florentine Renaissance and the people who made it happen.
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Communism expanded. At the end of the war, North Vietnam conquered South Vietnam in 1975. The north and south united under one government. Communism spread and is one of the few remaining communist countries.
