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  • appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring ... and Richard Thomson Howard (born 1949). In 1957, Lamour and Howard ...
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  • fiction writing, setting the Canopus series in space. Sufism offered ... who had lost a leg during his service in World War I, met his future wife ...
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  • the way members of each culture experience their world. ... back to Berkeley, where he stayed until 1949. He became editor of the Indiana ...
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  • #039;s books. Blyton is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring ... She is probably best known for several book series, including those ...
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  • part be made by women.Margaret Chase Smith (1949), Women's World Group ... on the House Naval Affairs committee during World War II. Her efforts to encourage ...
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  • Atlanta Braves #21 RetiredNational League All-Star: 1947, 1949-1954 ... had been alongside it. He emerged from World War II with a battlefield ...
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  • tool in Australia. Bragg then conducted a series of well-attended lectures ... not take up his duties there until after World War I. He did much work for ...
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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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  • 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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  • 1930s, onetime Heavyweight Champion of the World, and actor. One of the most ... Now in line for the world heavyweight title, Baer fought Primo Carnera ...
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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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  • MacNeice died in December 1914 after a series of illnesses including uterine ... radio adaptation of Goethe's Faust in 1949. 1948's collection of ...
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  • In September, 1949, when the Communists founded the People’s Republic ... ==After World War II== When the War of Resistance ended with the end ...
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  • and poorly edited versions in 1905 and 1949 as A Diary From Dixie). ... of her diaries came out in 1905 and in 1949, under the title, Diary from Dixie. ...
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  • husband, Jack Briggs, a Marine. They divorced in 1949. In 1953, Rogers ... to Camp White for the war effort during World War II. Rogers loved to fish ...
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  • participated in a conspiracy to throw the World Series. As a result of Jackson ... later, Jackson and the White Sox won the World Series. During the series ...
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  • middle classes. He continued to do so in a series of other films: I vinti ... a conventional narrative, he presented a series of apparently disconnected ...
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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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  • War of Independence between the Allies of World War I and the Ankara-based ... secular Muslim majority state in the world. The Turkish people were ...
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  • news organization into an influential, world-wide publication. Through ... This process would later launch Wide World Photos, Incorporated. ...
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  • the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by ... the same neighborhood. Aino Aalto died in 1949, and in 1952 Alvar married ...
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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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  • number 91) is a member of the actinide series of chemical elements. It ... Pa-231. The name was shortened to protactinium in 1949. ...
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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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  • 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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  • was a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first ... He became a British subject in 1910, and in World War I, he was (1916 ...
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  • 1957) was an American author who wrote a series of historical fiction books ... "Little House" book series. ‘‘Little House in the ...
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  • Spain to study art and architecture. With World War I raging in Europe and ... manage to hold onto their ideals through the First World War. ...
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  • #039;s Republic of China was founded in 1949. However, he wrote extensively ... In 1949, Qian was appointed a professor in his alma mater. Four years ...
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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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  • team, which also won the 1946 Negro Leagues World Series. ... man 24 years older than she, at the 1932 World Series at Yankee Stadium ...
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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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  • Chikuhei Nakajima (中島 知久平, 1884-1949), as "The Aircraft Research ... Chikuhei, January 1, 1884-October 10, 1949), a Japanese military officer ...
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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 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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  • The nation's entrance into World War II in 1941 marked the beginning ... After a few more moderate hits, Williams had a banner year in 1949 ...
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  • had a substantial impact on the jazz world. One of their first (and ... incorporating a riff later used in the late 1949 R&B dance hit "The ...
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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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  • Skelton also helped sell World War II war bonds on the top-rated show ... Skelton was drafted in March 1944, and the popular series was discontinued ...
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  • Frank Albert Fetter (March 8, 1863 – 1949) was an American economist ... Fetter died in 1949 in Indiana. ==Work== In the period between the ...
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  • (indigenous name: Kerepakupay Vená) is the world's highest free-falling ... leading to nearby villages. One of the world's great natural wonders ...
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  • conflict, too, adjoining the zone where the world's largest petroleum ... governmental organizations elsewhere in the world are involved in or concerned ...
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  • 1934-1961, was a monumental synthesis of world history, a metahistory based ... of the roles of religious traditions world wide. Rejecting a natural ...
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  • In 1940, after World War II began, Luce took time away from her success ... tragic death of her daughter, Luce wrote a series of articles, published in ...
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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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  • made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was later ... became escapist fare among GIs fighting in World War II. The image was taken ...
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  • by Japan. After Japan's defeat in World War II by the Allies in August ... 1, 1927.Lai to Lee. Trade Unions in China: 1949 To the Present. (National ...
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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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  • invalided out of the French Army during World War I, he moved to the United ... Phillips to present a pavilion at the 1958 World Fair and insisted (against ...
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  • Past, the wild strawberries trigger a series of flashbacks in which both ... to lose. The game is interrupted by a series of episodes, including the ...
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  • decade of Formula One racing. He won five World Championship titles—a record ... Argentine National Champion. Following World War II, Fangio, then 36, ...
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  • in the militaristic fervor accompanying World War II, he was also unimpressed ... After the end of World War II, Kawabata said that from then on he ...
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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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  • Count Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright ... 1890). In the following years, he wrote a series of symbolist plays characterized ...
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  • Athens, it was day on the other side of the world. They did not include a specific ... *Mates, Benson. Diodorean Implication. 1949. *Mikel, Anton F. The Master ...
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  • the plight of people in society and the world? == Life == at sea during the course of the Second World War. "The Quaker Graveyard ...
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  • ceremonies. The ATAS first awarded Emmys in 1949 to honor shows produced in ... Emmy ceremony] took place on January 25, 1949, at the Hollywood Athletic ...
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  • through 1950. He followed Ninotchka with a series of box office hits in 1942 ... a wholesome family man from the television series My Three Sons, but he played ...
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  • In 1942, Anglin was drafted to fight in World War II and the band was temporarily ... and Jack were signed to RCA Records in 1949. At the duo's first session ...
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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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  • in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known ... of numerous concerts, featuring many of the world's leading orchestras ...
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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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  • Mayer who became popular during the Second World War for her portrayal of ... Her third marriage in 1949, was to millionaire Texas oilman and horse ...
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  • resumed cautiously cordial relations after World War II. Bataille was a member ... The imagery of the novel is built upon a series of metaphors which in turn ...
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  • receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949, the 1949 Tony Award for Best ... as it has come to be known, proposed a series of physical and psychological ...
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  • The English Civil War consisted of a series of armed conflicts and ... of all government. In the beginning of the world, God gave authority to Adam ...
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  • through a highly unusual (for the time) series of correspondence courses ... throughout government owned plants during World War I. This influenced the ...
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  • first woman to fly on a bombing mission (World War II). During her long ... different circumstances with the advent of World War II. ...
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  • The first BAFTA Awards ceremony was held in 1949, and the ceremony ... The first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949, honoring the ...
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  • but escaped to join the Resistance. After World War II he was Finance Minister ... in a civilian capacity during the First World War and never wore a German ...
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  • his family began to feel unsafe in the pre-World War II political and economic ... being a Jew, he fled Paris. After a series of attempts to obtain passage ...
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  • of cultures from different parts of the world. Although he did not do extensive ... social anthropology at Oxford. The Second World War, however, prevented him ...
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  • this time, Gummo left the group to fight in World War I ("Anything is ... at the Opera (1935), a witty satire of the world of opera music, where the ...
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  • His novels include his pre-World War I era novel, Tarr (set in Paris ... a letter to Theodore Weiss (dated April 19, 1949) that he "began by embracing ...
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  • Western musicians such as Buck Clayton. In 1949 the Kuomintang relocated to ... ===Republic of China Era (1912 - 1949)=== The New Culture Movement ...
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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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  • Yukawa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949. ... The normal spin-parity series is formed by those mesons where P=(−1 ...
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  • at the Australian general election, 1949 elections, and he then dominated ... When World War I began Menzies was 19, and his family decided that ...
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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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  • writer of the nouveau roman, published a series of essays on the nature and ... Robbe-Grillet wrote his first novel Un Régicide (A Regicide) in 1949 ...
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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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  • Lipmann in 1941 (Lipmann (1941). Later, in 1949, Morris Friedkin and Albert ... been proposed to be a remnant of the RNA world, with early ribozymes evolving ...
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  • In September 1949, during his term as governor of Illinois, Stevenson ... in civic activities. At the beginning of World War II, in 1939 and 1940 ...
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  • he had once been a pacifist, during World War II Bonhoeffer took part ... down the seminary there following the outbreak of World War II. ...
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  • integration, having been founded in 1949. It has a particular emphasis ... The vision behind the founding of the post World War II European institutions ...
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  • was deeply concerned with the state of the world around him and struggled ... During World War II Tinbergen spent two years imprisoned in a Nazi ...
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  • The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the world's premier ... Basketball Association in the Autumn of 1949 after merging with the rival ...
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  • from illegal distributorships and the fast world of gaming to being able to ... Their divorce was finalized in September 1949, at which point Martin wed Jeanne. ...
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  • Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German ... a curiosity about the reality of spiritual world vis-a-vis his creative process ...
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  • some of the oldest wooden buildings in the world, and is one of the most celebrated ... 48 Buddhist monuments designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Many of the ...
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  • and also played the lead in a popular television series. ... flier with the Air Transport Command during World War II. From 1940 to 1956 ...
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  • Air Force, yet he did not see combat in World War I. Faulkner began to ... he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. It is said that his speech ...
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  • When Airlanggha died, Bali went through a series of rulers from the middle ... and it is one of the best spots in the world for surfing and scuba diving ...
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  • Hiroshima is known throughout the world as the first city in history ... (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914), 640 Before World War II, Hiroshima's ...
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  • path and developed phenomenology of life world which encompasses a broader ... on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World. New York: Seven Stories ...
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  • The natural world exists according to the principles of interdependence ... Elsewhere in the world the terms preservation and conservation may ...
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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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  • to, chronicled American history from World War I through space exploration ... like Oliver Twist. Both his view of the world and his powers of observation ...
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  • leaflets by the United States over Japan in World War II and later over Afghanistan ... however, the greatest victory will be a world in which all methods of war ...
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  • almost five years in the military during World War II and the Korean War. ... his lone post-season appearance, the 1946 World Series. Williams managed ...
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