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Langston Hughes

1901 CE – 1967 CE · 66 years

The story of the boy from Joplin, Missouri, who became the voice of Black America — from a poem written on a train crossing the Mississippi to the jazz clubs of Harlem.

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Langston Hughes on Wikipedia.

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Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Xinjiang

Founded 1914 CE · attested to 1945 CE

Figure · United Kingdom

Queen Victoria

1819 CE – 1901 CE

Conflict

Basmachi Movement

1916 CE – 1934 CE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Dutch East Indies

Attested 1650 CE – 1938 CE

Figure · United States

Thomas Edison

1847 CE – 1931 CE

Conflict

Indonesian National Revolution

1945 CE – 1949 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1901 CE and 1967 CE.

1916 CE Basmachi Movement 1945 CE Indonesian National Revolution 1903 CE Ilinden Uprising (Macedonia) 1903 CE British Expedition to Tibet 1904 CE Russo-Japanese War 1904 CE Herero and Nama War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Christ the Redeemer Landmark · Americas 1931 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Tea Horse Road Trade route · East Asia 700 CE – 1950 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Parícutin Volcano Landmark · Americas 1943 CE – still standing Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE
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