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The Post-Jewish Object
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on Peace, Power & Prestige:…
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Staging the Table
in Europe 1500–1800
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Threads of Power
Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen
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Conserving Active Matter
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What Is the Object?
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French Fashion, Women, and the First World War
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September 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020
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Native Art Department International
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March 1 – July 7, 2019
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The Story Box
Franz Boas, George Hunt and…
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February 14 – July 7, 2019
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Jan Tschichold and the New Typography
Graphic Design Between the World Wars
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February 14 – July 7, 2019
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A View from the Jeweler’s Bench
Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements
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February 14 – July 7, 2019
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Agents of Faith
Votive Objects in Time and Place
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September 14, 2018 – January 6, 2019
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Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles
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February 23 – July 8, 2018
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The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity
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February 23 – July 8, 2018
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Reading Room
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February 23 – July 8, 2018
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Textile Arts Center’s Makerspace
Make
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February 23 – July 8, 2018
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Haptic Learning Lab
Touch
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February 23 – July 8, 2018
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John Lockwood Kipling
Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London
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September 15, 2017 – January 7, 2018
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Beau Rhee / Atelier de Geste
Naviguer à vue
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July 13–30, 2017
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Lost Book Found, 1996
Jem Cohen
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July 11–30, 2017
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New York Crystal Palace 1853
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March 24 – July 30, 2017
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Design by the Book
Chinese Ritual Objects and the Sanli tu
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March 24 – July 30, 2017
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Come Read With Us!
Wendy’s Subway Reading Room and Poetry Series
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March 24 – July 30, 2017
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Charles Percier
Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions
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November 18, 2016 – February 12, 2017
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Artek and the Aaltos
Creating a Modern World
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April 22 – October 2, 2016
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Frontier Shores
Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture…
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April 22 – September 18, 2016
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Swedish Wooden Toys
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September 18, 2015 – February 28, 2016
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Revisions—Zen for Film
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September 18, 2015 – February 21, 2016
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Fashioning the Body
An Intimate History of the Silhouette
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April 3 – July 26, 2015
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The Interface Experience
Forty Years of Personal Computing
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April 3 – July 19, 2015
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Barbara Nessim
An Artful Life
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September 19, 2014 – January 11, 2015
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Visualizing 19th-Century New York
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September 19, 2014 – January 11, 2015
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Waterweavers
The River in Contemporary Colombian…
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April 10 – August 10, 2014
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Carrying Coca
1,500 Years of Andean Chuspas
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April 10 – August 3, 2014
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An American Style
Global Sources for New York…
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September 27, 2013 – February 2, 2014
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William Kent
Designing Georgian Britain
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September 20, 2013 – February 9, 2014
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Salvaging the Past
Georges Hoentschel and French…
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April 4 – August 11, 2013
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Confluences
An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935
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April 4 – August 3, 2013
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Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010
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September 21, 2012 – February 3, 2013
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The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot
Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking
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September 21, 2012 – January 27, 2013
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Staging Fashion, 1880–1920
Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke
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January 18 – April 8, 2012
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American Christmas Cards, 1900–1960
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September 21 – December 31, 2011
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Hats
An Anthology by Stephen Jones
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September 15, 2011 – April 15, 2012
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Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010
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May 18 – July 31, 2011
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Objects of Exchange
Social and Material Transformation on…
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January 26 – April 17, 2011
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Cloisonné
Chinese Enamels from the Yuan,…
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January 26 – April 17, 2011
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Dutch New York Between East and West
The World of Margrieta van Varick
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September 18, 2009 – January 24, 2010
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English Embroidery from The Metropolitan…
’Twixt Art and Nature
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December 11, 2008 – April 12, 2009
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Thomas Hope
Regency Designer
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July 17 – November 16, 2008
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Shaker Design
Out of This World
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March 13 – June 15, 2008
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Fragile Diplomacy
Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, ca. 1710-63
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November 15, 2007 – February 10, 2008
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A Brass Menagerie, Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement
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July 12 – October 14, 2007
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Bruno Mathsson
Architect and Designer
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March 22 – June 10, 2007
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James “Athenian” Stuart, 1713-1788
The Rediscovery of Antiquity
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November 16, 2006 – February 18, 2007
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Lions, Dragons, & Other Beasts
Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages,…
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July 12 – October 15, 2006
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Sheila Hicks
Weaving as Metaphor
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July 12 – October 15, 2006
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American Streamlined Design
The World of Tomorrow
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March 16 – June 11, 2006
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Wearing Propaganda
Textiles on the Home Front…
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November 18, 2005 – February 12, 2006
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Georg Jensen Jewelry
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July 14 – October 16, 2005
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Cherished Possessions
A New England Legacy
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March 10 – June 5, 2005
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The Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry
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November 18, 2004 – February 6, 2005
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Vasemania–Neoclassical Form and Ornament in Europe
Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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July 22 – October 17, 2004
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The Devonshire Inheritance
Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth
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March 17 – June 20, 2004
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Marimekko
Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture
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November 21, 2003 – February 15, 2004
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Thomas Jeckyll
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July 17 – October 19, 2003
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Quiet Beauty
Fifty Centuries of Japanese Folk…
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March 27 – June 15, 2003
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Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier
Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting, and Photography, 1907-1922
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November 22, 2002 – February 23, 2003
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Hungarian Ceramics from the Zsolnay Manufactory, 1853-2001
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July 17 – October 13, 2002
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Utopia and Reality
Modernity in Sweden 1900-1960
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March 14 – June 16, 2002
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William Beckford, 1760-1844
An Eye for the Magnificent
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October 18, 2001 – January 6, 2002
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Print, Power and Persuasion
Graphic Design in Germany 1890–1945
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May 23 – August 26, 2001
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Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000
Diversity and Difference
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November 15, 2000 – April 8, 2001
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Roman Glass
Reflections of Everyday Life
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March 23 – June 11, 2000
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E. W. Godwin
Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer
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November 17, 1999 – February 27, 2000
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Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste…
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July 14 – October 23, 1999
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Life and the Arts in…
Ambiente Barocco
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March 10 – June 13, 1999
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India
A Jewelry Spectrum
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October 8, 1998 – January 31, 1999
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Finnish Modern Design
Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997
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February 27 – June 14, 1998
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The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph…
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October 17, 1997 – February 1, 1998
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Masterworks
Italian Design, 1960-1994
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April 10 – September 21, 1997
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The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939
An Alliance of Art and Industry
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November 21, 1996 – March 2, 1997
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Josef Frank, Architect and Designer
An Alternative Vision of the Modern Home
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May 9 – July 21, 1996
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A.W.N. Pugin
Master of Gothic Revival
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November 9, 1995 – February 25, 1996
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English Silver
Masterpieces by Omar Ramsden from the Campbell Collection
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March 18 – May 14, 1995
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Arthur J. Stone 1847-1938, Designer and Silversmith
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March 18 – May 14, 1995
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Crosscurrents of Modernism
Selections from the Sydney and…
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November 18, 1994 – February 26, 1995
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Baroque Splendor
The Art of the Hungarian Goldsmith
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August 25 – October 30, 1994
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Cast Iron from Central Europe, 1800-1850
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May 25 – August 7, 1994
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Objets d’Usage & de Goût…
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March 11 – May 8, 1994
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Brodures et Frises Papiers Peints
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March 11 – May 8, 1994
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Along the Royal Road
Berlin and Potsdam in KPM…
Past Exhibition
October 13, 1993 – January 30, 1994
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