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  • theater chain was given to Goldenson. In 1953, following the sale of various ... Goldenson assumed ABC operations in 1953, acquiring a minor radio ...
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  • * 6x World Series champion (1950, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) ... 1953 World Series Whitey Ford pitched in game four, earning the loss ...
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  • had been alongside it. He emerged from World War II with a battlefield ... stole American uniforms at that point in World War II and spoke fluent English ...
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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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  • 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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  • In 1953, Inge received a Pulitzer Prize for Picnic, a play based on ... Picnic had a successful Broadway run from February 19, 1953 to April ...
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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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  • St. Louis Browns (1951 – 1953) Kansas City Athletics (1965) ... Cleveland Indians, he helped them win the world championship. In the Major ...
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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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  • 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 ...
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  • he hit .356 for Santurce in the winter of 1952–1953. ... of the major league scouts, and later in 1953 Al Campanis signed him for ...
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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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  • After World War I started in 1914, Bartlett became the "relief ... in 1945. Bartlett performed this duty until 1953. He was knighted in 1948 for ...
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  • Dean's first full year in the big leagues showed the baseball ... as they progressed all the way to the 1934 World Series to face off with the ...
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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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  • "the greatest black writer in the world for me". Wright and ... two novels, Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953) and Giovanni's Room ...
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  • Between 1940 and 1953 Sinclair wrote 11 novels about an American named ... Long out of print, the Lanny Budd series have recently been re-issued ...
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  • In 1886, Funk changed the font size to give his series a more distinctive ... spelling would help make English the world language of the future and ...
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  • In 1942, Anglin was drafted to fight in World War II and the band was temporarily ... for That Back Street Affair" (1953), an answer song to Webb Pierce ...
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  • was also the publisher of both the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ... Prize for Local Reporting, Edition Time (1953-1963), this award became the ...
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  • In addition, Mikan also stunned the basketball world by his unique ... led the Gears to the championship of the World Basketball Tournament, where ...
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  • and publications in the English-speaking world, a position of great import ... to public morality and in 1932 he gave a series of radio broadcasts on psychoanalysis ...
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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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  • almost five years in the military during World War II and the Korean War. ... (Williams also hit .400 in 1952 and .407 in 1953, both partial seasons.) ...
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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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  • role as the witch Endora in the television series Bewitched. ... Sorry, Wrong Number also inspired writers of the television series ...
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  • Thornton, which became a hit for her in 1953. It also became a world-famous ... The duo formed Spark Records in 1953. Their hits during this time ...
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  • constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional ... and American League arranged to meet in the World Series to determine the world ...
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  • teaching the younger players the way of the baseball world. ... in 1924 and 1925. He played in three World Series--in 1916, for the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * 5x Pro Bowl selection (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954) * 10x All-Pro selection (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952 ...
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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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  • MacNeice died in December 1914 after a series of illnesses including uterine ... service. Dan would return to England in 1953, but went to live permanently ...
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  • Bing Crosby Enterprises (BCE), gave the world's first demonstration ... similar to what RCA had demonstrated in 1953 (see below). CBS, RCA's ...
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  • 27, 1871, Berlin, German Empire – May 21, 1953, Freiburg im Breisgau, West ... centre for mathematical research in the world, where he completed his habilitation ...
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  • Gielgud was convicted in 1953 of "persistently importuning for ... Caesar (1950) (which he immortalized in the 1953 film), Leontes in The Winter ...
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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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  • 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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  • Walt Disney Productions, and the Disney World and Disneyland entertainment ... magic, and joy to millions throughout the world. The subjects of his films ...
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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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  • 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 ...
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  • had a substantial impact on the jazz world. One of their first (and ... sub-par record (and re-recorded the tune in 1953 for Verve Records, this time ...
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  • with 150 or more hits (17). He won one World Series ring with the Milwaukee ... Clowns to victory in the 1952 Negro League World Series. Shortly thereafter ...
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  • Ruth in 1948; Don Larsen's perfect World Series game in 1956; Roger ... ===The World Series=== Since its 1923 opening, 37 of 83 World Series ...
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  • during the Third Reich. Following the post-World War II division of Germany ... and remained in captivity until the end of World War II. At the end of the ...
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  • assault on the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, and ended on January 1, 1959 ... In the context of the Cold War between the Western world, led by the ...
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  • WABC-AM 880, to WCBS-AM in 1946. In 1953, WJZ in New York took on the ... time television network service. By mid-1953, Goldenson had begun a two ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • section, and participated as cellist in the world premiere of Verdi's ... his career in Italy, entrusted with the world premieres of Puccini's ...
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  • A.L. championship pennant winners and seven World Series championship clubs ... Among Mantle's many accomplishments are all-time World Series ...
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  • In 1953, Rogers married her fourth husband, lawyer Jacques Bergerac ... to Camp White for the war effort during World War II. Rogers loved to fish ...
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  • freedom, and education throughout the world. It provided funding for ... Throughout the 1950s, the foundation provided a series of arts and ...
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  • Theatre. She also played Herodias in Salome (1953). She returned to ... On May 10, 1953 she starred, together with Burgess Meredith, in a ...
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  • writer of the nouveau roman, published a series of essays on the nature and ... His first novel The Erasers (Les Gommes) was published in 1953, after ...
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  • Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1 ... The nation's entrance into World War II in 1941 marked the beginning ...
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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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  • as influenced, many modern languages of the world, including Hindi, Bengali ... is one of the largest poetic works in the world. While it is clearly a poetic ...
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  • who pioneered bridging the Far Eastern world and the West by introducing ... was one of the invited speakers at the World Parliament of Religions held ...
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  • public both in the US and around the world. Former Federal Reserve Board ... of Economics. He spent the academic year 1953-1954 as a Visiting Fellow ...
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  • and is widely considered one of the world's greatest pianists ... from public performances (1936-1938, 1953-1965, 1969-1974, 1983-1985 ...
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  • drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil ... from isolation and entry into the first World War created a new, faster ...
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  • were also featured in the 1951 CBS radio series, Your Tropical Trip. ... Ball to adapt her very popular radio series, My Favorite Husband, for ...
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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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  • announcer carried live on radio for the World Series game. Rice preferred ... announcer carried live on radio for the World Series game. ...
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  • fourth largest body of water of any of the world's principal oceans. ... oceanographers to be the youngest of the world's oceans, formed only ...
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  • | period = 1953 to 1964 | genre = Spy fiction, Children ... was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. Fleming ...
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  • establishment of the Republic of China, two World Wars and the rise of the ... After Japan surrendered at the end of World War II, Baishi again began ...
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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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  • nurse cells, and follicular cells) and a series of follicles. The nurse cells ... and fascinating spectacles in the insect world," involving sound production ...
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  • from illegal distributorships and the fast world of gaming to being able to ... ; Ricci James Martin, born on September 20, 1953; Gina Caroline Martin, born ...
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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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  • and Tibet. Its summit was first reached in 1953 by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand ... had failed before it was finally conquered in 1953. [http://www.everesthistory ...
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  • UNESCO designated the temple a World Heritage Site in 1991. ... with the main building completed in 1953. What caused Hindu devotees ...
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  • decision not to pitch Game One of the 1965 World Series because game day fell ... #039;s record of 14 strikeouts in the 1953 World Series. Yogi Berra, after ...
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  • and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September ... I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in ...
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  • theory; in econometrics he worked on time series and linear regression analysis; ... He was the creator of much of the nomenclature used in the world of ...
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  • His son was king for less than a year; Egypt became a republic in ... During the hardships of World War II, criticism was leveled at Farouk ...
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  • laid the groundwork for the emergence of world music as a popular genre. and appreciation of our multicultural world. Lomax served as consultant ...
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  • During World War II, Wesley Prince left the group and Cole replaced ... his first 10-inch long-play album, his 1953 Nat King Cole Sings For Two ...
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  • to discover the structural laws of the real world, to state the problems of ... of reality. Though Hartmann’s work was world-famous during his lifetime ...
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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 best-known stories from the ancient world circulated in vernacular ... are still taught in schools throughout the world and used as subjects for ...
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  • of entrepreneurs and managers across the world, for which they developed ... He published a series of influential books on motivation, including ...
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  • Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). During World War II, he consulted for ... him on the air in 1951. On October 19, 1953, Godfrey fired LaRosa on the ...
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  • Sun got its first national R&B hit in 1953, with Rufus Thomas' “Bear ... In the summer of 1953, a shy young singer arrived at Sun Studio with ...
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  • 1940 and an even more significant split in 1953. Despite a partial reunification ... the pressures of a hostile capitalist world unless socialist revolutions ...
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  • aircraft to the Government of Japan during World War II. Reorganized as Fuji ... airplanes to the Government of Japan during World War II. Nakajima served as ...
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  • Pasteur is most famous for his series of experiments designed to ... reflect the true diversity of the microbial world because of their exclusive ...
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  • of the most important film festivals in the world, alongside the Venice Film ... War, in the city of Berlin divided after World War II. Over the years it ...
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  • Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round the World against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Giants went on to meet the New York Yankees in the 1951 World ...
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  • who founded the Church of Scientology in 1953. As with many new religious ... The Church of Scientology was founded by Lafayette Ron Hubbard in ...
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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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  • of Adolph Zukor (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953). The film had a good run ... circuit had become the largest in the world, double the size of its nearest ...
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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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  • the Globes' viewership around the world. ==History== ... television award categories, Best TV Series, Best TV Actor, and Best ...
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  • * 7x All-Star selection (1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955) * World Series champion (1948) * Cleveland Indians #14 retired ...
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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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  • ranking American military officer during World War II and the 34th President ... truce to conclude the Korean War in 1953. During his two terms, Eisenhower ...
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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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  • 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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  • touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles ... Apart from the "College" and the "Time" series ...
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  • John Dewey at Columbia University, in a series of public exchanges. ... On February 6, 1953, Hook discussed "The Threat to Academic Freedom ...
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  • Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Greenglass ... During World War II, the USSR and the U.S. became allies in war, but ...
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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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  • to culturally as the "roof of the world." The range is home ... It is the source of three of the world's major river systems: ...
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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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  • and United States established at the end of World War II. The conflict began ... the most heavily fortified border in the world. There is a constant hope ...
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  • and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.0247885 ... Society from 1947-1950 and again in 1953.[http://www.asi.org/adb/06/09/03/02 ...
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  • He did these entertainment tours from World War II up until the Persian ... Honored Entertainer by The Guinness Book of World Records. ...
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  • *1953 - Stringin' Along *1953 - String Dustin'*1954 - A Session with Chet Atkins ...
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  • academic and industry professionals from around the world. and consulting. At the beginning of World War I, as the wounded soldiers ...
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  • is one of many major science museums in the world and is a part of the National ... and manuscripts, and is used by scholars world-wide. It has for a number ...
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  • :::HOG Butcher for the World, :::Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, ... Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons, a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • [[Image:E._E._Cummings_NYWTS.jpg|thumb|right|220px|E. E. Cummings, 1953]] ... for the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in World War I. Due to an administrative ...
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  • industry and making the Soviet Union into a world power, while collectivization ... after Stalin's death in March 1953. In 1957, along with fellow ...
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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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  • are the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent ... to art. In 1910 he left Vienna to see the world, traveling throughout Europe ...
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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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  • 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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  • seminary's first exchange student after World War I. ... He returned to Europe prior to World War II and was an outspoken opponent ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • teacher in Whittier, California. During World War II, she would work as ... Richard Nixon served in the Navy during World War II. After a brief ...
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  • like Théatre des Champs-Elysées. In 1953 he returned to the United ... 26, 1992, followed the Second Bahá'í World Congress and was to be offered ...
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  • and in 1858 he engaged in a well-known series of debates with Stephen A ... onset of depression. She slipped into a world of illusion where poverty ...
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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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  • , a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent ... based on the comparative analysis of a series of different Arabic manuscripts ...
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  • Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California. The world-class theater is custom designed ... *Epstein, Lawrence J. Samuel Goldwyn. Twayne's filmmakers series ...
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  • front during the last three months of World War I. In 1917 Heidegger ... appointed Rector of the university. After World War II, the French Occupation ...
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  • During World War II, Miller worked for several years as an economist ... at the London School of Economics. In 1953 he started to work as professor ...
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  • the most famous anthropologist in the world. Mead was a gifted writer ... them both to many different parts of the world, Mead and Benedict remained ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • with the company of Sidney Bechet) and a series of accompaniments for Blues ... and listened to every day throughout the world in films, television broadcasts ...
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  • devoted his time and energies to making the world a better place for all. ... Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific ...
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  • In 1953, Iosif Shklovsky proposed that the diffuse blue region is ... with the equatorial wind appearing as a series of wisp-like features that ...
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  • * The Saros number of the solar eclipse series that began on March ... * The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series that began on August ...
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  • Marilyn that when Robert later suffered a series of physical ailments, Baker ... While her husband served in the Merchant Marines during World War ...
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  • maturity. The piece is the first of a series of stark urban and rural ... endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality ...
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  • he then enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, "I don ... seat for the NBC western television series, The Deputy (1959–1961 ...
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  • and Green Eggs and Ham. Geisel created a world of whimsical characters, ... million copies have been sold around the world. In 1984, Geisel was awarded ...
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  • for Jaspers, that which exists beyond the world of time and space. Jaspers ... economic and political institutions. During World War II, he had to abandon ...
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  • . He wrote that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them ... # The proponents of different paradigms see the world in a different ...
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  • flew as a co-pilot on B-24 bombers during World War II. It was while training ... Altman joined the Calvin Company, the world's largest industrial ...
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  • He supported himself at a series of jobs, including real estate and ... "social" science fiction. During World War II he did aeronautical ...
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  • His newspaper column was syndicated in over 2000 newspapers world ... center political view through the 1930s and World War II, when he was stridently ...
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  • Comedy Theater, an NBC radio-anthology series, after Preston Sturges, who ... from his old comedies, Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy and The Funny Side ...
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