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	Max tours in a one-man show featuring ragtime music and American culture. He has worked as a salesman, a jazz musician, and a performer in Old West ghost-town theaters. He knows all about the technologies of 1900. 1. If I'm a kid in 1900, what's the technology I'm dying to get my hands on? 2. What kind of technology did most kids use? 3. How many kids had access to what we think of as technology -- things like the telephone, for example? 4. What about lights? 5. How many people had cars in 1900? 6. How was life different for kids on the farm? 7. What did kids in 1900 do to entertain themselves? 8. Didn't the piano help a new form of music get its start? 9. How was ragtime in 1900 like rock and roll today? 10. Who invented ragtime? 11. What made ragtime lyrics special? 12. It sounds like there were a lot of breakthroughs around 1900, is this true? 13. So what do you predict for our next century?

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