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  • the Masters, on an exhibition basis until 1948, when he quit golf permanently ... In 1948, he was diagnosed with syringomyelia, and it led to his death ...
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  • Deanna Durbin, and Sammy Davis Jr. During World War II he worked in a United ... decades, he continued making films until 1948, including Roman Scandals ...
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  • and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show that ... them to New York and drifted into a series of odd jobs. When he died ...
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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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  • oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Hebron was an ancient Canaanite ... of about 750. In December 1917 and during World War I, Great Britain occupied ...
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  • the run-up to the United States joining the Second World War. ... Service on the Italian/Austrian front in World War I, rising to the rank ...
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  • In August 1939, as World War II became imminent, plans were made to ... highest-scoring British Commonwealth ace of World War II, Pat Pattle and Dahl ...
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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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  • * 10x All-Pro selection (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952 ... * AAFC co-MVP (1948) * AAFC MVP (1947) * Cleveland Browns #14 retired ...
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  • When World War II broke out, Wolpe joined the South African army as ... systematic desensitization and conducted a series of studies. ...
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  • In 1917, during World War I Black joined Royal Canadian Army Medical ... circles, and he traveled around the world to convince his colleagues ...
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  • Berlin; Hollywood movie star in the 1930s; World War II frontline troop entertainer ... after as a result of injuries sustained during World War I. ...
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  • ===Second World War=== He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, but his ... from which he hailed. It is told through a series of flashbacks featuring an ...
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  • to Europe two years later to fight in World War II as an infantry squad ... different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked ...
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  • Clyde Jackson Browne (October 9, 1948 - ) is an American rock singer ... International Conspiracy of Hope concert series in 1986. Noted for his political ...
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  • the way members of each culture experience their world. ... in Anthropology and Linguistics in 1948, maintaining that responsibility ...
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  • freedoms humans "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy: Freedom ... to working for human rights around the world prior to the U.S. entry into ...
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  • become the cognitivist program. Tolman (1948) argued that rats constructed ... of these different responses operate on the world in the same way and achieve ...
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  • writers published articles and held a series of memorial events in response ... Anti-Japanese Writers Federation. After World War II Lao She published ...
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  • origin--intrude into the everyday world. Common horror film archetypes ... the horror film, bringing to the screen a series of successful features including ...
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  • The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. ... Award (this is for a single program or series acquired from the international ...
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  • Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches, being ... It was named a World Heritage Site in 1996, being one of the best ...
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  • during World War II. Feller became the first pitcher to win 24 games ... Feller started Game One of the 1948 World Series against the NL-champion ...
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  • and was the first to propose the actinide series, which led to the current ... later convert U238 to plutonium in the world's first controlled nuclear ...
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  • Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. That same year, he was also ... He believed that at its root, World War II was caused by a fundamental ...
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  • from October 21, 1947, to December 31, 1948. The second war, in 1965, ... Since 1948, part of Kashimr (Azad Kasmir) has been under Pakistani ...
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  • of his characters with the modern world. ==Childhood and education== ... published novels. Too old to enlist when World War I broke out, Maugham ...
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  • Seiko introduced the Seiko Astron, the world's first production quartz ... Inc.; and in 1947, after the end of World War II, the retail division ...
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  • Mayer who became popular during the Second World War for her portrayal of ... protecting the homefront during the Second World War in Mrs. Miniver, co-starring ...
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  • new work, not least of all the Star Wars series of films despite his own ... respectively during the First and Second World Wars while his Star Wars ...
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  • regnant of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. Her mother, Queen Emma, acted ... Wilhelmina won respect and admiration for her role during World War ...
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  • the pressures of a hostile capitalist world unless socialist revolutions ... in 1916 following disagreements over World War I. Although the organization ...
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  • A.L. championship pennant winners and seven World Series championship clubs ... was the Baxter Springs (Kan.) Whiz Kids. In 1948 Yankees' scout Tom Greenwade ...
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  • He also asserted that the physical world was undergoing a process ... dissertation, and gave a successful series of lectures at St. Petersburg ...
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  • of life that, taken together, give the world meaning. As Moore calls it ... In part because of her extensive travels before the First World War ...
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  • is often cited, by the Guinness Book of World Records and others, as the ... During World War I she worked as a Red Cross volunteer nurse at a ...
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  • and Princeton University. From 1945 to 1948, he was the French ambassador ... bishops commissioned Maritain to write a series of textbooks to be used in ...
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  • the most influential gospel singers in the world. Her music reached millions ... concert halls in Europe and around the world. She appeared on the popular ...
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  • public both in the US and around the world. Former Federal Reserve Board ... of risk-aversion and risk-proclivity (1948, with L. J. Savage), his use ...
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  • of people fleeing Eastern Europe following World War II. Under international ... for them and their children. In a world full of barriers between ...
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  • that he had seemingly helped launch. By mid-1948, he was convinced that the ... At the outbreak of the World War II in 1939, Kennan was assigned to ...
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  • first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times, ... in two rounds. In 1941, he defeated world champion Sammy Angott, future ...
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  • Wilshire Methodist Church. On January 30, 1948, Temple gave birth to their ... In January 1950, Temple met Charles Alden Black, a World War II United ...
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  • General of Australia. He fought in both World War I and World War II. He ... on August 22, 1914, at the outbreak of World War I; in later life, as ...
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  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah (December 25, 1876 – September 11, 1948) was ... perid=P009 "Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)"] Story of Pakistan ...
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  • Research Society. When U Po Hnit died, a series of inheritance disputes forced ... During the Second World War, while Burma was occupied by Japanese ...
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  • of Europe and containing communism after World War II. The initiative was ... as it had no viable trading partners in the world after both Western Europe ...
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  • entire life, and he became acquainted with world chess champions Jose Raul ... During World War I, Prokofiev returned again to the Academy, now studying ...
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  • various means of weaponizing plague. During World War II, the Imperial Japanese ... investigators reported their findings, a series of confusing and contradictory ...
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  • As Czechoslovakia, independence was gained after World War I, but ... ===Two world wars=== Following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian ...
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  • by Japan. After Japan's defeat in World War II by the Allies in August ... pockets of Communist activity in a series of encirclement campaigns ...
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  • was a key figure in the eyes of the world in challenging the moral ... Following evacuation in 1941 during the World War II, he graduated in Aşgabat ...
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  • In the aftermath of World War II, several people proposed that an ... EEC, the EFTA, and the EEC, negotiated a series of agreements that would ...
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  • The Royal Ballet has featured some of the world's premier dancers ... Theatre until 1939, and the outbreak of World War II. De Valois produced ...
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  • speech in the Chilean senate on January 6, 1948 called Yo acuso ("I accuse ... was removed from office and in September 1948 the Communist Party was banned ...
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  • A number of electro-mechanical devices were tried during World War ... In 1948, Curtiss-Wright delivered a trainer for the Stratocruiser ...
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  • twentieth century: the end of the Second World War both in Europe and Pacific ... high school in 1901, Truman worked at a series of clerical jobs. He returned ...
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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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  • People's Republic of Korea in 1948. which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, the United ...
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  • was an advocate for gender balance in the dance world. Noted for making ... collaborators, and eventually lovers. In 1948, Joffrey left for New York ...
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  • ===Welles in Hollywood (1939 to 1948)=== RKO Pictures president George ... 1942 on radio. CBS offered him two weekly series, Hello Americans, which was ...
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  • War or 1956 War, commonly known in the Arab world as the Tripartite aggression; ... a strategic center was apparent during both World Wars. During the First World ...
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  • Eliot's pessimistic view of the modern world, The suggests a bright future ... include more personal lyrics, including a series of Valentines addressed to ...
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  • from the nineteenth century. In post-World War I Germany, when Tillich ... similar opportunity was coming to Europe after World War I. ...
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  • and under equipped police force, in 1948, to one of the world's ... South Korea maintains one of the largest standing armies in the world ...
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  • area. It came to be reflected in the art world through movements like the ... Revolution and its philosophy. The bitter series of aquatinted etchings that ...
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  • maximized her "sex appeal." In World War II, her picture was popular ... their full share of responsibility in the world alongside men is increasingly ...
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  • newspaper El Sol, where he published as a series of essays his two principal ... of San Marcos, Lima. At the end of World War II he returned to Spain ...
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  • Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of major ... City became the most populous city in the world in 1925, overtaking London ...
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  • Geographically, South Africa is defined through a series of plateaus ... In terms of natural resources, the region has the world's largest ...
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  • full season, 1942, the Cardinals won the World Series. The following year ... manager in 1967, winning the pennant and World Series, then resigning that ...
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  • special advertising and marketing strategy.World Intellectual Property Organization ... overall economic vitality of a society. The World Intellectual Property Organization ...
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  • now South Africa. The small kingdom gained world fame during and after the ... A series of incidents followed, all of which gave the British an excuse ...
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  • for the 2013 ceremony to honor such web-only series. Paige Albiniak ... before settling on McManus's design in 1948. The statuette "has since ...
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  • "the greatest black writer in the world for me". Wright and ... for an extended period of time beginning in 1948. His first destination was ...
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  • as it has come to be known, proposed a series of physical and psychological ... #039;s Purges, and the Polish massacres of World War II. He still resented ...
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  • publicly, causing mourning throughout the world. She bore seven other children ... and the family stayed in England until World War II broke out. ...
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  • and largest library association in the world, with approximately 64,600 ... Act (FOIA) request. The request revealed a series of e-mails in which FBI agents ...
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  • formulation of quantum mechanics in 1948. This work would prove exceedingly ... at Cambridge from 1932 to 1969. During World War II, he conducted important ...
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  • remained strong in spite of changing art-world trends. After Lee died ... remained strong in spite of changing art-world trends. They are buried in ...
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  • and its battle to maintain its values in a modern world. ... he began his journey to becoming one of the world's premier cartoonists. ...
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  • Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, his first color film, came next in 1948 ... Rope (1948) was another technical challenge: a film that appears to ...
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  • of the Inter Religious Federation for World Peace. Smart held both titles ... consultant for the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while ...
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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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  • 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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  • head of the Department of Philosophy from 1948 to 1969. He retired from the ... John Dewey at Columbia University, in a series of public exchanges. ...
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  • Gardencraft, and Young Folks Library series of manuals. He wrote scores ... That winter, Bailey was invited to give a series of lectures at Cornell University ...
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  • When Other Voices, Other Rooms was published in 1948, it stayed on ... Max Shulman's Large Economy Size (1948). Random House featured the ...
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  • the civil service examinations, he held a series of minor government posts. ... in the condensed qi of the material world, which is subject to death ...
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  • have been made into films and television series. The graphic novel usually ... middle, and end, as opposed to an ongoing series with continuing characters; ...
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  • National League (NL) pennants and four World Series titles, including ... In 1948, Alston managed the St. Paul Saints, a Dodgers Class AAA affiliate ...
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  • Signing with the Warner Brothers studios for a series of "talkies ... "Most Popular Male Vocalist" in 1948 by a poll in the show biz ...
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  • well respected in Germany and Europe. In 1948 Jaspers moved to the University ... for Jaspers, that which exists beyond the world of time and space. Jaspers ...
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  • of modern prose, such as the irrational world of Franz Kafka. He was noted ... both during the First and the Second World War. He was a rhetorical ...
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  • kept him out of military service during World War II. While being kept ... His life from 1939 through 1948 was largely spent obtaining a license ...
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  • and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.0247885 ... During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force as a ...
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  • skills. He concluded that he had little world experience and no strong ... to Harvard as a tenured professor in 1948. He remained there for the ...
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  • unveiling filled U.S. Capitol." Tulsa World, 2007-06-05 [http://www ... Blake (Jim), and Fred Stone. Bill became a World War II hero, played his father ...
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  • for peace," and was eulogized by world leaders, including Arabs ... com. November 6, 1995. [http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9511/rabin/funeral/wrap/index ...
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  • it was not until sugar shortages during World War I that its use became ... of the artificial sweetener. The initial series of investigations begun by ...
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