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They were locked into a Europe divided by military deployments; an Asia in turmoil after Japan's defeat and Mao's triumph; and a rivalry between capitalist and Communist systems that long predated both men.
Interestingly, this confluence immediately predated Lichtenstein's entrée into the world of the comic book image, but the relationship seems to be coincidental in view of the iconographic symbolism of his choices.
All these genes have orthologs in the mouse, suggesting that multiple duplications of an ancestral EGF-like gene predated the mouse-human divergence.
Born in Birmingham, the stronghold of British industrialism, Burne-Jones was the son of a gilder and framer whose handicraft traditions predated the Industrial Revolution.
( The Wall Street Journal 's Alix Freedman subsequently published a fuller account that also predated Wigand.)