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Years later‚ other factors would contribute to the death of movie palace culture‚ but none would strike the decisive blow that the Great Depression did. By 1932‚ the Great Depression dropped movie attendance from 110 million attendees annually to 60 million attendees‚ and of the 18‚715 theaters in America‚ 3‚200 had already closed and 4‚568 were about to close (Melnick 96). Large scale theaters and palaces that had been picked up in the aforementioned merger and vertical integration suffered as
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Arthur Evans and the Palace of Knossos Archaeology has contributed greatly to our knowledge of past civilisation and in turn the general understanding of humanity’s progression through the ages. Without archaeology‚ this knowledge and understanding would be extremely limited in its range of sources and evidence. Ancient civilisations underground provide an extensive range of remains and artefacts from which historians can draw accurate‚ informed conclusions about mortals who have long since turned
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