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A week later, Huff held a news conference in front of the ruins of the high school. School, he declared, would start on time in August. 1.000

👤 C.J. Huff 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , Disasters

Simplified: One week after the 2011 tornado, Superintendent C.J. Huff declared that school would start on time in August.

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The tornado touched down just southwest of Joplin, gathered steam, then carved a six-mile line straight through the city, its winds cresting above 200 miles an hour. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Weather , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado carved a six-mile path through the city with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour.

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It gobbled up nursing homes, churches, 500 businesses and nearly 7,500 houses, more than a third of the city’s housing stock. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Infrastructure , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado destroyed 500 businesses and nearly 7,500 houses, which was over one-third of the city's housing stock.

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And it ultimately killed 161 people, making it the deadliest tornado in America in over half a century. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Public Health , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado killed 161 people, making it the deadliest in the U.S. in more than 50 years.

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The Joplin tornado was a rain-wrapped wedge that expanded to a mile wide, making it hard to identify until it was nearly on you. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Weather , Disasters

Simplified: The 2011 Joplin tornado was a rain-wrapped wedge that grew to one mile in width.

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The weather on May 22, 2011, was bright and cloudless in Joplin, Mo., ideal for a high school graduation. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Weather , Disasters

Simplified: The weather in Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011 was bright and cloudless before the tornado.

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A tornado was entering Joplin, a city of 50,000 people. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Demographics

Simplified: Joplin was a city of 50,000 people when the tornado struck in 2011.

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C.J. Huff, former superintendent of the Joplin, Mo., schools. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , People

Simplified: C.J. Huff is the former superintendent of schools in Joplin, Missouri.

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C.J. Huff, former superintendent of the Joplin, Mo., schools. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , People

Simplified: C.J. Huff is the former superintendent of schools in Joplin, Mo.

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As dueling accusations of fraud and maltreatment swirled throughout his later years, Max’s wife, Mary Max, died by suicide in 2019. 1.000

👤 Jason Farago 📋 News Article 🏷️ People

Simplified: Peter Max's wife, Mary Max, died by suicide in 2019.

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In 2010, he painted an adaptation of one of her album covers. 1.000

👤 Jason Farago 📋 News Article 🏷️ Music , Art , People

Simplified: In 2010, Peter Max painted an adaptation of a Taylor Swift album cover.

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In her youth, Swift remembered, on family vacations to Cape May, she would walk past a commercial gallery with pictures in the window, “and stop in my tracks whenever there was a Peter Max painting on... 0.900

👤 Taylor Swift 📋 News Article 🏷️ Music , Art , Celebrity

Simplified: Taylor Swift remembered that during her youth on family vacations to Cape May, she would stop to look at Peter Max paintings displayed in a commercial...

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To celebrate Expo ’74 in Spokane, Wash., the U.S. Postal Service commissioned Max for its “Preserve the Environment” stamp. 1.000

👤 Jason Farago 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Art

Simplified: The U.S. Postal Service commissioned Peter Max to design the 'Preserve the Environment' stamp for Expo '74.

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“His art is like another world to me,” Taylor Swift said in 2010 when Max painted her portrait — or, more precisely, painted an adaptation 1.000

👤 Taylor Swift 📋 News Article 🏷️ Music , Art , People

Simplified: Taylor Swift said in 2010 that Peter Max's art 'is like another world to me'.

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the Whitney Museum of American Art will soon open a Roy Lichtenstein retrospective zeroing in on the alienating effects of mass media. 0.900

👤 Jason Farago 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , Museums

Simplified: The Whitney Museum of American Art is scheduled to soon open a Roy Lichtenstein retrospective focused on the alienating effects of mass media.

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By 1981 he would set up his easel on the White House lawn, painting the Statue of Liberty and inviting President Reagan to insert a final flourish. 1.000

👤 Jason Farago 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Art , History

Simplified: In 1981, Peter Max painted the Statue of Liberty on the White House lawn and invited President Reagan to add a brushstroke.

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He earned more than that producing trippy clocks for General Electric and advertisements for the New York City Marathon, the Grammy Awards and several Super Bowls. 1.000

👤 Jason Farago 📋 News Article 🏷️ Advertising , Business , Art

Simplified: Peter Max was commissioned to create clocks for General Electric and advertisements for the New York City Marathon, the Grammy Awards, and several Sup...

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Max, who immigrated from Germany to Shanghai, then Israel, then Brooklyn, substantiated a more enduring truth of Pop... 1.000

👤 Jason Farago 📋 News Article 🏷️ Immigration , People

Simplified: Peter Max immigrated from Germany to Shanghai, then to Israel, and then to Brooklyn.

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Max created the livery for Norwegian Cruise Line’s new 144,000-ton liner, Breakaway, shown in Southampton, England, in 2013. 1.000

👤 Jason Farago 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Travel , Art

Simplified: In 2013, Peter Max created the livery for Norwegian Cruise Line's 144,000-ton ship, the Breakaway.

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In this century, Max’s art would be found on cruise ships making round-trip voyages from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on which travelers bid on “Peter Max” products created, in many cases, by battalions of... 0.900

👤 Jason Farago 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Art , Labor

Simplified: Products branded 'Peter Max' sold on cruise ships were, in many cases, created by day laborers who were paid the minimum wage.

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