"American Visions, " Mr. Hughes' history of art in North America from the 16th Century, was "a love letter to America, " he said.

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More Gypsies are beginning to lay claim to their own history, holding a string of memorial services across Europe and North America in August to commemorate the month when several thousand of them had been sent to their deaths at Auschwitz.

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These emerging partnerships build upon a long history of joint research and management that, in the Arctic, date back to the land claim processes in northern North America in the 1970s and 1980s.

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