Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Isaac Stern across 3 places, from 1928 to 2001.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Isaac Stern is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Isaac Stern was documented, and when
1928 to 1931period
San Franciscoattested“In 1928, Stern’s parents enrolled him at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied until 1931.”source: Wikipedia: Isaac Stern
1967year
USSRattested“In 1967, Stern stated his refusal to return to the USSR until the Soviet regime allowed artists to enter and leave the country freely.”source: Wikipedia: Isaac Stern
22 September 2001exact date
Manhattanattested“Stern died September 22, 2001, of heart failure in a hospital in Manhattan, New York City, after an extended stay.”source: Wikipedia: Isaac Stern
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In each of these, a source puts Isaac Stern and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Isaac Stern was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1921year
San Franciscomentioned“When he was 14 months old, his family moved to San Francisco in 1921.”source: Wikipedia: Isaac Stern
1951year
Soviet Unionmentioned“Stern toured the Soviet Union in 1951, the first American violinist to do so.”source: Wikipedia: Isaac Stern
1999year
Germanymentioned“His only visit to Germany was in 1999, for a series of master classes, but he never performed publicly in Germany.”source: Wikipedia: Isaac Stern
1999year
Carnegie Hallmentioned“In 1999, he appeared in the film Music of the Heart, along with Itzhak Perlman and several other famed violinists, with a youth orchestra led by Meryl Streep (the film was based on the true story of Roberta Guaspari, a gifted violin teac…”source: Wikipedia: Isaac Stern
1999year
Harlemmentioned“In 1999, he appeared in the film Music of the Heart, along with Itzhak Perlman and several other famed violinists, with a youth orchestra led by Meryl Streep (the film was based on the true story of Roberta Guaspari, a gifted violin teac…”source: Wikipedia: Isaac Stern
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.
How to read this page
Every line above is a dated fact taken from a source, with the sentence it came from and a link
back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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