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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 ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- after his death until the club closed in 1948 for financial reasons. team, which also won the 1946 Negro Leagues World Series. ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 02:46, 17 January 2023
- | debutdate=Major Leagues July 9, 1948 | debutteam=Cleveland Indians ... Cleveland Indians (1948 – 1949) St. Louis Browns (1951 – 1953) ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, when the surrounding Arab ... best equipped and trained soldiers in the world. The Intifada is the cry ...16 KB (2,421 words) - 10:58, 6 March 2024
- Artaud (September 4, 1896 - March 4, 1948) was a French playwright, ... Artaud's parents arranged a long series of sanatorium stays for ...12 KB (1,968 words) - 07:00, 31 July 2023
- 15, 1966) was the founder and coach of the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters ... Ambassadors that travel all over the world. He was inducted into the ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- sports entertainment franchises in the world. Over the years, they have ... by George Mikan), for two years in a row in 1948 and 1949. In the 1950s, the ...13 KB (1,878 words) - 09:11, 19 January 2024
- Kelly began a series of comic books based on fairy tales and nursery ... Perhaps the most famous quotation to come from this series is, "We ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:09, 3 May 2023
- * World Series champion (1948) * Cleveland Indians #14 retired ... Doby was the first black player to hit a homerun in a World Series ...22 KB (3,428 words) - 17:46, 25 October 2022
- literature (medical papyri) and is the world's oldest known surgical ... was sent to the Brooklyn Museum, and in 1948 it was transferred to the ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- In 1948, when Paramount strictly pursued Hollywood production and ... of The Untouchables, yet another series which attracted the attention ...8 KB (1,119 words) - 20:12, 25 October 2022
- and measurement instruments. Nikon is the world's largest manufacturer ... The first Nikon camera was released in 1948. Nikon lenses and cameras ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- role as the witch Endora in the television series Bewitched. ... Sorry, Wrong Number also inspired writers of the television series ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 16 June 2023
- depression. Williams had a heart attack in 1948, after which his health began ... laconic and focused on things in the world rather than abstractions ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 15:54, 7 May 2023
- as January 23, based mainly on his World War II Draft registration ... to 1943, were released in a six volume series by Rounder Records in the ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- 1904 – January 20, 1984) was one of the world's best swimmers in the ... On July 9, 1922, Weissmuller broke Duke Kahanamoku's world record ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:44, 15 April 2023
- many Americans and people throughout the world, he was the embodiment of ... #039; radio shows and his later television series were among America's ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 20:50, 21 December 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 14:44, 23 July 2022
- In addition, Mikan also stunned the basketball world by his unique ... led the Gears to the championship of the World Basketball Tournament, where ...19 KB (3,019 words) - 16:27, 15 August 2021
- academic and industry professionals from around the world. and consulting. At the beginning of World War I, as the wounded soldiers ...16 KB (2,285 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ... camps in the early to mid 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- 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 ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- during a comical, but technically sound, series of concerts organized for ... from the Ukraine, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:25, 15 January 2023
- with the establishment of South Korea in 1948. South Korea, known as one ... which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, a United ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:47, 1 February 2024
- *Led league in total bases 1937 (418), 1941 (348) and 1948 (355) ... *Led league in home runs 1937 (46) and 1948 (39) *Led league in RBIs ...16 KB (2,431 words) - 13:46, 1 August 2022
- possible to have knowledge of the external world. In its most vivid presentation ... we come to know the true nature of the external world. Now, the 'earlier ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- he then enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, "I don ... After the war, Fonda appeared in the film, Fort Apache (1948), and ...20 KB (3,018 words) - 15:04, 16 July 2022
- Cooking as well as for her television series The French Chef, which premiered ... ==Youth and World War II== Julia was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 21:08, 4 October 2022
- #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 ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- and that people should adapt their world view to accept that what ... poetry and its subsequent reform after the Second World War. ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- made a notable contribution to the world of music while preserving ... quot;titans" of Soviet music, enjoying world-wide reputation as leading ...10 KB (1,319 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- in civic activities. At the beginning of World War II, in 1939 and 1940 ... of state Archibald MacLeish on a proposed world organization. Later that ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- U.S. he was elected to the Cuban Senate in 1948. He later staged a coup d ... Beach, Florida but returned to Cuba in 1948 upon his election to the Cuban ...18 KB (2,625 words) - 11:10, 20 September 2023
- Work by Eugene Feenberg and H. Primakoff in 1948, Sachio Hayakawa and I.B. ... Detectors aboard the Vela satellite series, designed to detect flashes ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:09, 18 April 2024
- influenced a generation of filmmakers the world over, ranging from George ... film festival in 1951, and opened the world to Japanese cinematography ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- Francis Poulenc, 20th-Century Composers series. Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN ... Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day ...8 KB (1,187 words) - 05:16, 30 September 2022
- MacNeice died in December 1914 after a series of illnesses including uterine ... adaptation of Goethe's Faust in 1949. 1948's collection of poems ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire (1948). ... in seven plays for television’s Omnibus series. They remained happily married ...17 KB (2,512 words) - 20:21, 19 November 2022
- the Hale Telescope was replaced as the world's largest when the Russian ... Angeles. The telescope (the largest in the world at that time) saw 'first ...11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:07, 10 November 2022
- of knowledge of objects in the external world, however, it is probable ... many philosophers in the English-speaking world from the 1930s through the ...13 KB (2,023 words) - 02:56, 24 November 2022
- of his art. His best-known novel, Yukiguni (1948; Snow Country), is the story ... in the militaristic fervor accompanying World War II, he was also unimpressed ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- in 1943 to the pioneering notion of a World Council of Religions that ... the Allies had compromised the justness of World War II. His ecumenical interests ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- position of general manager from 1925 to 1948 and concluding his career ... This process would later launch Wide World Photos, Incorporated. ...7 KB (1,050 words) - 03:26, 6 October 2022
- the Globes' viewership around the world. ==History== ... television award categories, Best TV Series, Best TV Actor, and Best ...36 KB (5,125 words) - 21:44, 6 January 2024
- 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 ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 17:21, 30 January 2024
- did manage their first winning season since 1948 in 1959. In 1960, however ... Clemente reportedly never wore his 1960 World Series ring. He was also ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- by Lou Gehrig in 1939 and Babe Ruth in 1948; Don Larsen's perfect ... ===The World Series=== Since its 1923 opening, 37 of 83 World Series ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- of America. He joined the U.S. Navy during World War II and was elected to ... involved in the Industrial Workers of the World and were founding members ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring ... more successful and eventually led to a series of pictures (although from ...28 KB (4,290 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- 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 ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 17:12, 9 November 2022
- military. After leaving Basie for good in 1948, he spent the remaining of ... *Dance, Stanley. The World of Count Basie. New York: Charles Scribner’s ...6 KB (967 words) - 13:25, 1 August 2022
- Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948. Corporate headquarters are ... where it owned radio stations. On April 19, 1948, the ABC television network ...19 KB (2,902 words) - 00:51, 9 January 2023
- #039;s declaration of statehood on May 14, 1948. Since the disputed area is ... governmental organizations elsewhere in the world are involved in or concerned ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- would not prevent persecution. During World War II, the most assimilated ... Welt of Vienna. Then he planned the first World Zionist Congress in Basel ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- the same time, beginning with a comedy series pairing him with silent film ... Jackson, and Durante on his April 21, 1948, broadcast. ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 13:22, 1 August 2022
- Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn, and until 1948, it remained owned by Munn ... In the years after World War II, the magazine fell on hard times. ...13 KB (1,844 words) - 17:24, 25 January 2023
- Between the years 1948 and 1971, nearly everyone who watched television ... a powerful starmaker in the entertainment world himself, becoming one of ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- in factories in various cities during World War II as he drifted around ... to emphasize the end of a line with a series of trills, done by rapid ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 06:12, 3 August 2022
- her face, was to be prominent in his amant series. He studied at the Académie ... During the German occupation of Belgium in World War II, he remained ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 04:07, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- figure in the Partisan movement during the World War II as well as in the ... Djilas was sent to Moscow to meet Stalin again in 1948 to try and ...13 KB (1,947 words) - 20:29, 5 January 2024
- is characteristic of much art of the post-World War I period, and can be ... chose to show Mary offering her son to the whole world. ...14 KB (2,268 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- . 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 ...19 KB (2,735 words) - 03:36, 24 July 2023
- 1934-1961, was a monumental synthesis of world history, a metahistory based ... of the roles of religious traditions world wide. Rejecting a natural ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet, and two honorary ... to be major celebrities throughout the world. They wanted to marry, but ...43 KB (6,624 words) - 17:52, 25 October 2022
- section, and participated as cellist in the world premiere of Verdi's ... his career in Italy, entrusted with the world premieres of Puccini's ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- in 2004. In 2003, she and Davis narrated a series of Works Progress Administration ... Legend Ruby Dee Dies at 91] Broadway World, June 12, 2014. Retrieved ...28 KB (3,881 words) - 21:03, 21 December 2022
- a curiosity about the reality of spiritual world vis-a-vis his creative process ... to the final "Four Last Songs" of 1948, he always preferred the soprano ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- 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 ...13 KB (1,971 words) - 13:34, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- Wisborg (January 2, 1895 – September 17, 1948), was a Swedish diplomat. ... After achieving a truce a truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he began ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 22:38, 5 May 2020
- The Bowring Treaty served as a model for a series of treaties with other Western ... Treaty later served as a model for a series of trade treaties with other ...12 KB (1,824 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- written in classical Chinese, was published in 1948. Besides rendering ... and was made into a popular television series in the early 1990s. ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- teaching the younger players the way of the baseball world. ... in 1924 and 1925. He played in three World Series--in 1916, for the ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
- the plight of people in society and the world? == Life == at sea during the course of the Second World War. "The Quaker Graveyard ...8 KB (1,303 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2022
- nation was ranked among the poorest in the world, he ranked as one of the ... During the hardships of World War II, criticism was leveled at Farouk ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 00:45, 14 July 2022
- After an excursion to the Western United States in 1948, Knopf became ... itself as a major force in the publishing world, attracting established writers ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- a compelling social critique of the Western world, with each chapter heralding ... a wildlife-preservation movement; and the 1948 novel Walden Two by psychologist ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 20:52, 18 November 2022
- for phenomenological aesthetics. During World War II, Ingarden switched ... in the English-speaking philosophical world, and was reviewed twice in ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- 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. ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 22:37, 22 June 2022
- at a time of immense transition both in the world at large and in the poetic ... move away from England, just as the Second World War was starting, was seen ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- and Israel had been in a state of war since 1948. Sadat himself had coordinated ... During World War II he was imprisoned by the British for his efforts ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- #039;s Father in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film version, but the voice ... #039;s Fan (1945), The Glass Menagerie (1948), The Heiress (1949), his ...34 KB (5,145 words) - 05:10, 3 August 2022
- has sold over 100 million copies around the world, with at least 50 million ... in the Ampex company, which developed the world's first commercial reel ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 17:48, 31 October 2023
- and actor. His first TV appearance was in 1948, when he played the voiceless ... Before he could discover this for himself, World War II interrupted. Shortly ...14 KB (2,120 words) - 08:42, 16 November 2023
- The nation's entrance into World War II in 1941 marked the beginning ... " a massive country hit. In August 1948, Williams joined the Louisiana ...23 KB (3,620 words) - 03:08, 28 January 2022
- S. Truman called her the First Lady of the World, in honor of her extensive ... the Great Depression and to lead it during World War II. Yet Eleanor did not ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:11, 13 February 2024
- During World War II, Wesley Prince left the group and Cole replaced ... tune four times), "Nature Boy" (1948), "Mona Lisa" (1950 ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- taught for the University of Leeds (from 1948) then at the University of ... was to be used for trying to make the world a safer, more habitable place ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 17:30, 12 February 2024
- elaborating on the Neoplatonist view of the world's ensoulment and its ... but do not see life in the heavens or the world ... Now if those little men ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- After World War I started in 1914, Bartlett became the "relief ... this duty until 1953. He was knighted in 1948 for services to the Royal ...9 KB (1,276 words) - 10:25, 11 April 2024
- the instruments used in Monroe's post-World War II bands to be the traditional ... and harmonies. Monroe's 1945-1948 band—featuring Monroe on ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
- down and he begins to experience a series of apocalyptic visions. Meanwhile ... Victor Price. Oxford and New York: Oxford World's Classics, 1998. ISBN ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the world's premier ... the highest level of competition in the world of basketball. It has grown ...32 KB (4,894 words) - 01:38, 11 November 2022
- the impact behavior in the physical world has on human beings only ... Lashley married Edith Ann Baker in 1918. After Edith died in 1948 ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 07:17, 5 October 2022
- James Vernon Taylor (March 12, 1948 - ) is an American singer-songwriter ... Louvin Brothers duet, "How's the World Treating You?" In 2004 ...20 KB (2,798 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (3,121 words) - 05:16, 17 November 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- 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 ...21 KB (3,062 words) - 16:07, 1 October 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- 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 ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 03:07, 15 December 2022
- 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 ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- * 10x All-Pro selection (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952 ... * AAFC co-MVP (1948) * AAFC MVP (1947) * Cleveland Browns #14 retired ...20 KB (3,076 words) - 04:46, 18 November 2022
- When World War II broke out, Wolpe joined the South African army as ... systematic desensitization and conducted a series of studies. ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 02:11, 11 August 2022
- In 1917, during World War I Black joined Royal Canadian Army Medical ... circles, and he traveled around the world to convince his colleagues ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 08:39, 28 January 2024
- Berlin; Hollywood movie star in the 1930s; World War II frontline troop entertainer ... after as a result of injuries sustained during World War I. ...31 KB (4,546 words) - 16:02, 6 November 2022
- ===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 ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 00:33, 5 December 2023
- Clyde Jackson Browne (October 9, 1948 - ) is an American rock singer ... International Conspiracy of Hope concert series in 1986. Noted for his political ...19 KB (2,645 words) - 09:05, 13 March 2024
- the way members of each culture experience their world. ... in Anthropology and Linguistics in 1948, maintaining that responsibility ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 01:29, 23 November 2022
- become the cognitivist program. Tolman (1948) argued that rats constructed ... of these different responses operate on the world in the same way and achieve ...19 KB (2,675 words) - 10:26, 26 September 2023
- writers published articles and held a series of memorial events in response ... Anti-Japanese Writers Federation. After World War II Lao She published ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- 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 ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
- origin--intrude into the everyday world. Common horror film archetypes ... the horror film, bringing to the screen a series of successful features including ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 14:21, 7 February 2024
- 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 ...29 KB (4,299 words) - 07:54, 24 January 2023
- from October 21, 1947, to December 31, 1948. The second war, in 1965, ... Since 1948, part of Kashimr (Azad Kasmir) has been under Pakistani ...51 KB (7,827 words) - 00:17, 28 July 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
- of his characters with the modern world. ==Childhood and education== ... published novels. Too old to enlist when World War I broke out, Maugham ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...26 KB (4,059 words) - 05:09, 17 June 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (3,873 words) - 22:37, 26 July 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- regnant of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. Her mother, Queen Emma, acted ... Wilhelmina won respect and admiration for her role during World War ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- A.L. championship pennant winners and seven World Series championship clubs ... was the Baxter Springs (Kan.) Whiz Kids. In 1948 Yankees' scout Tom Greenwade ...17 KB (2,724 words) - 17:26, 9 November 2022
- the pressures of a hostile capitalist world unless socialist revolutions ... in 1916 following disagreements over World War I. Although the organization ...51 KB (7,375 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- He also asserted that the physical world was undergoing a process ... dissertation, and gave a successful series of lectures at St. Petersburg ...15 KB (2,232 words) - 20:48, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 06:43, 16 June 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 04:13, 6 November 2022
- 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 ...27 KB (3,928 words) - 20:26, 6 February 2024
- of people fleeing Eastern Europe following World War II. Under international ... for them and their children. In a world full of barriers between ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah (December 25, 1876 – September 11, 1948) was ... perid=P009 "Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)"] Story of Pakistan ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...38 KB (5,692 words) - 14:21, 27 January 2023
- entire life, and he became acquainted with world chess champions Jose Raul ... During World War I, Prokofiev returned again to the Academy, now studying ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- 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 ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- various means of weaponizing plague. During World War II, the Imperial Japanese ... investigators reported their findings, a series of confusing and contradictory ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- Research Society. When U Po Hnit died, a series of inheritance disputes forced ... During the Second World War, while Burma was occupied by Japanese ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times, ... in two rounds. In 1941, he defeated world champion Sammy Angott, future ...21 KB (3,404 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- 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 ...40 KB (5,930 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- As Czechoslovakia, independence was gained after World War I, but ... ===Two world wars=== Following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,513 words) - 06:10, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,679 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,869 words) - 04:30, 23 March 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 20:54, 21 December 2022
- 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 ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
- People's Republic of Korea in 1948. which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, the United ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- ===Welles in Hollywood (1939 to 1948)=== RKO Pictures president George ... 1942 on radio. CBS offered him two weekly series, Hello Americans, which was ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- A number of electro-mechanical devices were tried during World War ... In 1948, Curtiss-Wright delivered a trainer for the Stratocruiser ...23 KB (3,448 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- was an advocate for gender balance in the dance world. Noted for making ... collaborators, and eventually lovers. In 1948, Joffrey left for New York ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
- 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 ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- spanned the years of the Great Depression and World War II. ... Despite losing four prime seasons to World War II and another to a ...29 KB (4,518 words) - 21:15, 17 January 2024
- Eliot's pessimistic view of the modern world, The suggests a bright future ... include more personal lyrics, including a series of Valentines addressed to ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- from the nineteenth century. In post-World War I Germany, when Tillich ... similar opportunity was coming to Europe after World War I. ...22 KB (3,350 words) - 01:34, 23 November 2022
- 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 ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- maximized her "sex appeal." In World War II, her picture was popular ... their full share of responsibility in the world alongside men is increasingly ...30 KB (4,610 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,863 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- 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 ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- 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 ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- for the 2013 ceremony to honor such web-only series. Paige Albiniak ... before settling on McManus's design in 1948. The statuette "has since ...32 KB (4,624 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
- Geographically, South Africa is defined through a series of plateaus ... In terms of natural resources, the region has the world's largest ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- full season, 1942, the Cardinals won the World Series. The following year ... manager in 1967, winning the pennant and World Series, then resigning that ...74 KB (10,809 words) - 20:06, 28 April 2024
- special advertising and marketing strategy.World Intellectual Property Organization ... overall economic vitality of a society. The World Intellectual Property Organization ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 04:53, 1 May 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (3,942 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- "the greatest black writer in the world for me". Wright and ... for an extended period of time beginning in 1948. His first destination was ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- 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 ...22 KB (3,187 words) - 03:36, 24 July 2023
- Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, his first color film, came next in 1948 ... Rope (1948) was another technical challenge: a film that appears to ...29 KB (4,441 words) - 08:14, 20 July 2023
- formulation of quantum mechanics in 1948. This work would prove exceedingly ... at Cambridge from 1932 to 1969. During World War II, he conducted important ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- 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 ...37 KB (5,789 words) - 09:21, 13 March 2024
- publicly, causing mourning throughout the world. She bore seven other children ... and the family stayed in England until World War II broke out. ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- and its battle to maintain its values in a modern world. ... he began his journey to becoming one of the world's premier cartoonists. ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
- 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. ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- 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. ...27 KB (3,748 words) - 14:49, 31 May 2023
- of the Inter Religious Federation for World Peace. Smart held both titles ... consultant for the major BBC television series, The Long Search (1977) while ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- When Other Voices, Other Rooms was published in 1948, it stayed on ... Max Shulman's Large Economy Size (1948). Random House featured the ...40 KB (6,280 words) - 18:27, 2 May 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 22:29, 25 October 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- have been made into films and television series. The graphic novel usually ... middle, and end, as opposed to an ongoing series with continuing characters; ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 12:19, 24 January 2023
- Signing with the Warner Brothers studios for a series of "talkies ... "Most Popular Male Vocalist" in 1948 by a poll in the show biz ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,830 words) - 07:16, 5 October 2022
- 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 ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023
- and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.0247885 ... During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force as a ...45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- 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 ...20 KB (3,039 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- for peace," and was eulogized by world leaders, including Arabs ... com. November 6, 1995. [http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9511/rabin/funeral/wrap/index ...37 KB (5,856 words) - 11:15, 24 May 2023
- 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 ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- University Press). The authors detailed a series of experiments conducted ... In 1948, Samuel A. Stouffer et al. published The American Soldier: ...43 KB (6,319 words) - 17:27, 28 September 2021
- 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 ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 00:18, 22 August 2022
- development of the German V-2 rocket during World War II, and in the American ... to study medicine, but at the outbreak of World War I he was drafted in an ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 10:20, 22 January 2024
- יעקב צבי זקס, romanized: Ya'akov Tzvi Zaks; March 8 ... better and thus create a harmonious society and world. ==Life== ...46 KB (6,319 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
- he worked as an editor and director on a series called "Screen Snapshots ... 1924, as a gag-writer for the comedy series "Our Gang." However ...21 KB (3,350 words) - 05:01, 9 April 2024
- In fact, H.G. Wells suggested that a series of articles Milne had written ... Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer ...15 KB (2,362 words) - 06:49, 13 June 2023
- associated with it. It is one of the world's major news agencies ... 2000, when it was finally acquired by News World Communications, owner of ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 11:51, 3 May 2023
- He lived in Paris and in Romania, but after World War II and the communist ... of lute music. The culmination of his series of neo-classical works was ...17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
- and technological realms of the modern world, and his style is to take ... Article in an American Magazine (1967), the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... After a series of negotiations between the U.S., Britain, the Soviet ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- natural processes of the formation of the world. Pythagoras, who was born ... find the original matter out of which the world is made, Pythagoras dove ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 10:55, 19 December 2023
- half of the Korean peninsula at the end of World War II, South Korea achieved ... declared its independence in September 1948. To the west, across the Yellow ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- in America. As the United States entered World War II studios were reluctant ... led Burton Lane to describe him as, The world's greatest musical performer. ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- of the Russian empire. In between the two world wars, the town was located ... in Siberia in great detail in a series of autobiographical works. ...40 KB (6,019 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian ... High School in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. In 1948, she graduated from Barnard ...14 KB (1,976 words) - 01:05, 9 February 2023
- 94° E the range is continued by a double series of mountain chains, all of ... the Oyrot Autonomous Oblast in 1922. In 1948, the term “Oyrot” was ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 08:35, 23 July 2023
- He broke with the Soviet Union in 1948 and enjoyed good relations ... competition in Budapest. At the outbreak of World War I, he was sent to Ruma ...27 KB (4,017 words) - 07:41, 27 February 2023
- century and continues through the aftermath of World War II. ... Hiraoka Kimitake, better known to the world by the pen name of Mishima ...26 KB (3,997 words) - 18:56, 9 November 2022
- economic policy and planning throughout the world since the middle of the twentieth ... From 1927 to 1930 Leontief worked at the Institute for World Economics ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- Steinbeck began to write a series of "California novels" ... IV (Catbird), in 1946. They divorced in 1948. Two years later, Steinbeck ...27 KB (4,116 words) - 07:52, 3 August 2022
- He supported himself at a series of jobs, including real estate and ... "social" science fiction. During World War II he did aeronautical ...54 KB (8,294 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- on young European architects after World War I and is called the ... Wright is responsible for a series of extremely original concepts ...16 KB (2,277 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- of English. He became a full professor in 1948, and in 1965 was named the ... literary figures in the English-speaking world, including T. S. Eliot, Robert ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 04:21, 29 October 2022
- late August or early September. It is the world's oldest film festival ... is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions ...27 KB (3,956 words) - 16:58, 3 May 2023
- adventurer and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics and culture ... At the outbreak of the Second World War Malraux joined the French ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- member of the Royal Swedish Academy in 1948, of the Accademia dei Lincei ... to introduce this to the English-speaking world. In 1934, he tried to do ...15 KB (2,155 words) - 07:42, 3 August 2022
- In 1948, Zukor was awarded a special Oscar for his trailblazing contributions ... circuit had become the largest in the world, double the size of its nearest ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 06:05, 15 June 2023
- Council and the first Director of the World Council of Churches' ... can find allies in the task of making the world a better, more peaceful, ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- escape the chaos of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. ... quoted as saying in his review for New York World (Sept. 1928) "She reverses ...25 KB (3,800 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,439 words) - 04:31, 31 July 2022
- towards a spiritual reality in a corporeal world. Along with Schoenberg and ... work on his first opera, Wozzeck. Following World War I, he settled again in ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 18:49, 1 January 2023
- of art itself. Best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography ... for Man Ray in what became a well-known series of photographs depicting ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 06:42, 5 November 2022
- Saint-Exupéry kept writing and flying until the beginning of World ... *Citadelle (1948) (translated into English as The Wisdom of the Sands ...18 KB (2,919 words) - 06:45, 31 July 2023
- From 1948 to 1952 he worked in a record store. In 1955, Dick and his ... Throughout February and March 1974, he experienced a series of visions ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 03:22, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 16:52, 21 January 2024
- remained in operation until the end of World War II. Davis later commented ... In 1983, she was acting in the television series Hotel when she was ...21 KB (3,286 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- ==1929 until World War II== Dalí collaborated with the surrealistic ... until the time of his death and beyond. As World War II started in Europe ...38 KB (5,792 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- The Christian Socialist (1850-1851) and a series of tracts, Tracts on Christian ... gave his support to schemes for which the world was not really not quite ...29 KB (4,360 words) - 10:32, 11 April 2024
- in the Philosophies Ancient and Modern Series. From 1908 to 1911, he was ... the stuff and matter that make up our material world: :Space-Time ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- language science fiction author in the world.Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ... at Lwów University (1939-1941). During World War II and Nazi occupation ...29 KB (4,415 words) - 15:49, 27 April 2023
- Chandrasekhar, grew up to become world famous as an extraordinary ... show to our vision a glimpse of the vast world of natural knowledge awaiting ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 19:55, 24 November 2023
- river that was artificially deepened by a series of dams. The dams raise the ... of a more global conflict—perhaps the world's first truly global ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 10:20, 11 March 2023
- His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged conservative critics ... He returned following the outbreak of World War II and studied at the ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- developments in modern times. Soon after World War II large-scale irrigation ... Edad del Hierro (1200-586) CEHAO Monograph Series Vol. 1. [http://www.uca.edu ...13 KB (2,056 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- ten television appearances on NBC between 1948 and 1952. In 1950, the network ... also known as the GE Building, is the world headquarters of NBC.]] ...26 KB (4,061 words) - 14:41, 11 November 2022
- Walt Disney Productions, and the Disney World and Disneyland entertainment ... magic, and joy to millions throughout the world. The subjects of his films ...23 KB (3,587 words) - 22:09, 3 May 2023
- The revolution included a series of broad intellectual and social ... costs of defending them, Britain imposed a series of taxes that proved highly ...47 KB (6,905 words) - 06:45, 25 July 2023
- Air Force, yet he did not see combat in World War I. Faulkner began to ... * Intruder in the Dust (1948) * Requiem for a Nun (1951) ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- By 1970, Nissan had become one of the world's largest exporters ... largest business conglomerate in Japan during World War II. ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- traditional culture of Korea, but since the 1948 division of Korea developed ... especially the short form dramatic mini-series colloquially called "dramas ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- He did these entertainment tours from World War II up until the Persian ... Honored Entertainer by The Guinness Book of World Records. ...28 KB (4,249 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
