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  • Francis Poulenc, 20th-Century Composers series. Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN ... Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day ...
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  • in developing the ensemble into one of the world’s most renown orchestras ... of the era, his reputation suffered after World War II for his failure to ...
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  • of countries (also known as the Allies of World War II) that consisted of ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...
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  • Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known ... from the "Indian in His Solitude Series" were printed in a 1907 ...
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  • during a comical, but technically sound, series of concerts organized for ... from the Ukraine, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians ...
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  • to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Though her personal life ... after death; and, hence, liberation from the world. [http://www.poetseers ...
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  • writers published articles and held a series of memorial events in response ... The outbreak of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) radically ...
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  • term was commonly used up until the end of World War II. Zaibatsu were usually ... After Japan’s surrender (1945) in World War II, the breakup of the ...
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  • made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was later ... Pin Up Girl (1944), Diamond Horseshoe (1945) with Dick Haymes, The Dolly ...
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  • in its proper context. Among his pre-World War II contemporaries, only ... 1933 and 1936 and Hal Newhouser in 1944 and 1945. His earned run average of ...
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  • In addition, Mikan also stunned the basketball world by his unique ... Mikan was named NCAA College Player of the Year twice, in 1945 and ...
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  • After World War I started in 1914, Bartlett became the "relief ... the unit after Craik's early death in 1945. Bartlett performed this duty ...
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  • through 1950. He followed Ninotchka with a series of box office hits in 1942 ... Billy Wilder was the Editors Supervisor in the 1945 U.S. Army Signal ...
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  • and highest-paid entertainers during World War II. Other film successes ... the morale of the American public during World War II. Eager to lend their ...
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  • many Americans and people throughout the world, he was the embodiment of ... #039; radio shows and his later television series were among America's ...
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  • Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882 – December 22, 1945) was an Austrian ... in kind" (or barter system) before World War I, the Austrian government ...
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  • John Rogers Commons (October 13, 1862 – May 11, 1945) was an American ... soon engaged in the program, formulating a series of policies on safety regulation ...
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  • pioneering the idea that in today's world a think tank whose mission ... zch,zgp,zru&proj=zdrl,zme,znpp,zusr series of events] on February 5 ...
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  • Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian ... by composers in the years prior to World War II, this atonal syntax ...
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  • Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish ... Bruno Cassirer. The last opus in the series was Cassirer's Immanuel ...
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  • supported the Labour Party since 1945. Emphasizing the sensational ... During World War II, the Mirror positioned itself as the paper of ...
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  • spanned the years of the Great Depression and World War II. ... Despite losing four prime seasons to World War II and another to a ...
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  • Channel Islands by the Third Reich during World War II which lasted from ... The Channel Islands under German Rule, 1940-1945 (Hammersmith, London, UK: ...
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  • beautiful forest preserves in the world. helped to change the way we look at the natural world. ==Geography== ...
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  • and that people should adapt their world view to accept that what ... poetry and its subsequent reform after the Second World War. ...
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  • appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring ... more successful and eventually led to a series of pictures (although from ...
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  • role as the witch Endora in the television series Bewitched. ... Sorry, Wrong Number also inspired writers of the television series ...
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  • was an American tennis champion who was a World Number One player for five ... seven principal tournaments. Budge kept his world crown by winning four of ...
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  • made a notable contribution to the world of music while preserving ... quot;titans" of Soviet music, enjoying world-wide reputation as leading ...
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  • best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-1912). ... looked for peace during and after the First World War in the works of the philosophers ...
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  • influenced a generation of filmmakers the world over, ranging from George ... film festival in 1951, and opened the world to Japanese cinematography ...
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  • Lebensraum almost became a reality in 1918, during World War I. The ... Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945: A Critical Assessment (Berghahn ...
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  • was awarded during the Franco-Prussian War, World War I, and World War II. in wartime and has not been awarded since May 1945. On October 1, 1956 ...
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  • pursuits. He was a war correspondent during World War II. He contributed--the ... to realize that no young artist starts the world all over again for himself ...
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  • He believed that at its root, World War II was caused by a fundamental ... 1909, as counsel at the Paris Court. During World War I, he was drafted into ...
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  • in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In the post World War II era, de Kooning painted ... of Gorky, De Kooning embarked on a series of male figures, including ...
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  • The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... Department. After Roosevelt died in April 1945, the new president, Harry ...
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  • rpm records. While he sang at many of the world's great opera houses ... Company came to San Francisco to give a series of performances at the Tivoli ...
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  • now Wrocław, Poland; died April 9, 1945 at Flossenbürg concentration ... down the seminary there following the outbreak of World War II. ...
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  • its official launch, and the beginning of World War II, the time when Prague ... published in the first volume of the series Travaux du Cercle Linguistique ...
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  • and defeat the Chicago Cubs in the 1929 World Series. This would be the ... He wound up his career with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945 as a ...
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  • cooperation with the British. On March 27, 1945, he led the Burmese National ... While in this role, he helped organize a series of countrywide strikes that ...
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  • recovered from the economic devastation of World War II and Macmillan's ... in maintaining a role for Britain within world affairs, partly due to Britain ...
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  • ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... extermination of Jews. In the decades after World War II Allianz became a member ...
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  • Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945, for his role in establishing ... In 1945, Cordell Hull was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "co ...
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  • about its emergence. It wasn't until 1945 that Parker's collaborations ... On November 26, 1945, Parker led a record date for the Savoy record ...
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  • and measurement instruments. Nikon is the world's largest manufacturer ... Nikon is pronounced differently around the world. The Japanese pronunciation ...
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  • ===Second World War=== He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, but his ... of the Guards Armoured Division, 1941-1945. He was sent into the early ...
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  • 4th-rate ships of the line, and, after a series of losses at the outbreak ... the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey–Maturin series and C. S. Forester's ...
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  • is printed in 23 cities throughout the world and has the second highest ... The FT is firmly established as one of the world’s leading sources ...
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  • was the only pupil of F. J. Haverfield to survive World War I. ... of History (1946) and The Idea of Nature (1945), published posthumously, ...
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  • It was use by the United States military during World War I that brought ... word jeep. R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this ...
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  • both in the United States and around the world not just for its financial ... for freedom, peace, and prosperity in a world filled with challenges. ...
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  • in education. As Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) points out, play and joy ... which later became known as The Elysian World Project, which espoused the ...
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  • Back in Hollywood she appeared in And Then There Were None (1945) ... * And Then There Were None (1945) – Emily Brent * The Diary of a ...
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  • unearthed in China, these were lost during World War II. Subsequent inferences ... coincide with the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. ...
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  • rubble of the Korean War into one of the world's foremost economies ... which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, a United ...
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  • Margaret Chase Smith (1949), Women's World Group Margaret Chase Smith ... on the House Naval Affairs committee during World War II. Her efforts to encourage ...
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  • . The American League champion plays in the World Series against the National ... postseason play in 1903 with the inaugural World Series, won by the Boston ...
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  • In this capacity, he was sent to Germany in 1945, to try to negotiate an armistice ... between the State of Israel and the Arab world made him a martyr for peace. ...
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  • of the Eagle and The Three Musketeers series, with occasional bit parts ... draft was reinstated, and the end of World War II in 1945, he remained ...
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  • her work from that period as a series of failed experiments. Although ... launched the Poets' Translation Series, pamphlets of translations ...
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  • College with a degree in romance languages in 1945. Ruby married blues ... The couple divorced in 1945. Three years later she married actor Ossie ...
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  • of the political history of the Western world in the first half of the ... Long out of print, the Lanny Budd series have recently been re-issued ...
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  • Mayer who became popular during the Second World War for her portrayal of ... Davis) five consecutive nominations (1941–1945) in the actress category ...
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  • expansion, which continued until World War II. At the same time, the ... that shaped the history of Asia, and indeed the world. ==Overview== ...
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  • By 1970, Nissan had become one of the world's largest exporters ... largest business conglomerate in Japan during World War II. ...
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  • by Töpffer. Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales ... The history of comic strips also includes series that are not humorous ...
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  • of the atomic bomb and other weapons during World War II, and the idea of the ... During World War I, he worked with the National Research Council in ...
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  • by Adolf Hitler with disastrous consequences for the world. ... affairs of corporations and authored a series of articles in the New York ...
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  • a curiosity about the reality of spiritual world vis-a-vis his creative process ... men." Strauss went on to write a series of other tone poems, including ...
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  • at a time when Britain was a major world leader, Reith's BBC ... Scottish Rifles soon found him serving in World War I. He suffered an injury ...
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  • Abinger Hammer in Surrey until her death in 1945. His early novels, set in ... to the unappetizing Agnes Pembroke. In a series of scenes on the hills of ...
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  • importance of land power and sea power in world history... The geopolitical ... Theory" in 1904. Mackinder divided the world into two sections, the "World ...
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  • His fame peaked in the 1950s in a series of movies in which he co ... O'Connor was a favorite of millions of people around the world ...
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  • At a time when American women were entering the workforce after World ... In 1945, Colbert ended her association with Paramount Studios, and ...
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  • In 1945, he married Georgia Davis. The couple had two children, Richard ... Skelton also helped sell World War II war bonds on the top-rated show ...
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  • May 28, 1971) was an American soldier in World War II, who later became ... In 27 months of combat action in World War II, Murphy became the most ...
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  • for the invasion of Japan near the end of World War II. The operation was ... Operation Coronet. Set to begin in October 1945, Operation Olympic was intended ...
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  • Notre Dame, and Princeton University. From 1945 to 1948, he was the French ... bishops commissioned Maritain to write a series of textbooks to be used in ...
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  • In can be said that Cagney left the world a better place for having ... his name as a "tough guy" in a series of crime films. ...
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  • The controversial bombing of Dresden in World War II by the British Royal ... The Dresden Elbe Valley was designated a World Heritage Site in 2004. UNESCO ...
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  • Buster Keaton was born into the world of vaudeville. His father was ... Although he did not see active combat, he served in World War I, during ...
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  • Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong would last until 1945. ... in with him. When Japan was defeated in 1945, Hu used a fake name and hid ...
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  • During World War I, Baeck served as an army chaplain in the German ... During World War I, Baeck served as an army chaplain in the German ...
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  • following year. He had become one of the world's leading performers ... Nikisch. This concert, followed by a series of American tours from 1901 ...
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  • joined the Chinese communist party. After World War II, he took various high ... that allowed them to learn about the wide world outside. ...
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  • awareness of the Gulag on the non-Soviet world, especially after the publication ... Solzhenitsyn fought in the Red Army during World War II. He became a captain ...
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  • India, and now are practiced all around the world, though more than 90 percent ... allow for a man to renounce the material world from any of the first three ...
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  • the instruments used in Monroe's post-World War II bands to be the traditional ... Charlie parted was as a duet act. The 1945 addition of banjo player Earl ...
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  • older brother Bradley, was killed in World War II. Clark has been married ... Clark's career in show business began in 1945, when he started ...
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  • the Globes' viewership around the world. ==History== ... television award categories, Best TV Series, Best TV Actor, and Best ...
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  • led him to be rejected by the academic world, and he turned to popular ... of Race (Montagu 1942), and followed by a series of works (including Montagu ...
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  • competition in Budapest. At the outbreak of World War I, he was sent to Ruma ... == World War II == On April 6, 1941, German, Italian, Hungarian and ...
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  • It faced another crisis leading up to World War II as the newly formed ... from the ranks of the Industrial Workers of the World. ===The first ...
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  • collapsed, on the afternoon of March 17, 1945, killing many American soldiers ... stole American uniforms at that point in World War II and spoke fluent English ...
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  • of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945. He was popularly known as ... Service on the Italian/Austrian front in World War I, rising to the rank ...
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  • first concert in Moscow. During the First World War, he remained actively ... the good fortune to be initiated into the world of anthroposophy and during ...
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  • made many starts in the NASCAR Winston Cup series and acted in several Hollywood ... to serve in the United States Navy during World War II. He was stationed ...
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  • the aesthetic was articulated through a series of manifestos, attracting ... human activities, and all other real world phenomena will not be described ...
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