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(Sings "Hava Nagila") And their neighbor, an Argentine kid of Italian origin named Astor Piazzolla, hears it, assimilates it and transforms the tango of the second half of the 20th century with his ... (Counts out the beats) One two three, one two three, one two.

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It dates back at least 200 years, to Galvani's famous experiments in the late 18th century and beyond.

So around the turn of the last century, I started to think, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if one could take this logic and turn it upside down?"

2010: Statistics about Native population today, more than a century after the massacre at Wounded Knee, reveal the legacy of colonization, forced migration and treaty violations.

By the middle of the 19th century, it's in full flower.

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