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Pulitzer-prize winning historian Stanley Karnow recalls interviewing Ernest Hemingway in Paris in the 1950s for Time magazine. They met in the Ritz bar shortly after Hemingway had won the Nobel Prize. As Hemingway got increasingly sloshed, the interview went downhill. Find out how Hemingway ended their time together that day.

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Historian Stanley Karnow Remembers His Hemingway Encounter appeared first on Witnify.

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Eartha Kitt describes exactly what happened the day of her first solo performance in Paris and explains how she succeeded without bringing any sheet music with her.

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Eartha Kitt Recalls Her Solo Debut in Paris appeared first on Witnify.

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This video presents a letter from July 23, 1943 by Rose Valland, who worked at the Jeu de Paume Museum and played a pivotal role in the Monuments Men story. Valland recorded information on the artwork stolen by Nazis during World War II–information that helped to recover the artworks stolen from France.

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Heroine of the Monuments Men Story: Rose Valland appeared first on Witnify.