In a single calendar year — 1889 — the Eiffel Tower was erected in Paris, Van Gogh painted Starry Night, and Nintendo was founded in Japan. These events feel like they belong to completely different eras, yet they all unfolded within twelve months. Stacking distant-feeling milestones into one year collapses the sense that history is spread out.
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