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  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) was ... 29 children. All four sons were officers in World War II and were decorated ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • At the outbreak of the World War II in 1939, Kennan was assigned to ... of the Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs," Kennan argued ...
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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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  • to the entertainment industry: a Guinness World Record for "Longest ... broadcast of the new medium at the New York World's Fair. It also happened ...
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  • soprano roles in operas around the world and on recordings. After ... In 1945, Sills made her professional stage debut with a Gilbert and ...
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  • in 1923, and by fire bombing during World War II. Today it is one of ... approximately thirty U.S. air raids during World War II. An estimated 7000 ...
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  • sought to make itself inconspicious on the world stage. It depended on its ... at Inchon. The U.S. Navy in the modern world series, no. 2. Washington: ...
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  • local youth to join. The stories became a series of articles written for the ... * The Ten Commandments in the Animal World, Doubleday (1923) ...
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  • a 5,000 year history. Originating from the 1945 American military occupation ... second most populous metropolitan area in the world. Korea traces its ...
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  • one of the great creative partnerships in world cinema. Several months after ... titled Roma, città aperta (Open City) (1945). Rossellini wanted the young ...
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  • separated from the rest of the world, had not faced the necessity ... culture. One of the oldest cultures in the world, Korea had a history of more ...
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  • Jejudo has a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site: Jeju Volcanic Island ... Before 1945, Europeans called the island Quelpart, which apparently ...
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  • Beal, Records of the Western World, ii.45ff found, at Isipatana, fifteen ... * Narain, Rai Bahadur Pandit Sheo. Sarnath. Maha Bodhi Pamphlet Series ...
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  • Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches, being ... It was named a World Heritage Site in 1996, being one of the best ...
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  • While in the navy (partly on a world cruise), Rimsky-Korsakov completed ... to the events of 1917). This sparked a series of resignations by his fellow ...
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  • As World War I began, Neill became headmaster for a school in Scotland ... quot; (Scottish word for teacher) series, beginning with A Dominie ...
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  • shell of the old." Prior to the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution ... syndicalism influencing labor movements the world over. The CGT was modeled ...
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  • as it has come to be known, proposed a series of physical and psychological ... #039;s Purges, and the Polish massacres of World War II. He still resented ...
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  • In 1945 he moved from his house in Harlech, North Wales to Rhos-on ... magazine and returned to Edinburgh for a series he intended to be visualizations ...
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  • business, government, and the non-profit world. His writings predicted many ... new ideas and ideals.Jack Beatty. The World According to Peter Drucker ...
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  • The second, at age 14, was the outbreak of World War I. Fromm witnessed many ... Washington School of Psychiatry in 1943. In 1945, he helped form the William ...
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  • of airplanes. In addition, they suffered a series of high-profile accidents ... and a veritable airship craze began world-wide. Many airship pioneers ...
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  • Korean and world experts have celebrated Jeong Yak-yong's contribution ... The following year king Chôngjo asked a series of questions on the Doctrine ...
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  • of the most brackish bodies of water in the world, receiving both ocean and ... The Baltic Sea is the second largest brackish water basin in the world ...
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  • Between 1876 and 1878, Gibbs wrote a series of papers collectively ... *In 1945, Yale University created the J. Willard Gibbs Professorship ...
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  • Deanna Durbin, and Sammy Davis Jr. During World War II he worked in a United ... This hour-long Sunday evening variety series teamed Cantor with announcer ...
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  • Berlin; Hollywood movie star in the 1930s; World War II frontline troop entertainer ... after as a result of injuries sustained during World War I. ...
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  • to be major celebrities throughout the world. They wanted to marry, but ... as Emma Hamilton. With Britain engaged in World War II, the Oliviers returned ...
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  • which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, the United ... Since the entry of Soviet forces in 1945, a provisional government ...
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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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  • in the Japanese army's brothels during World War II. Historians and researchers ... throughout the Japanese theater during World War II lay in the desire ...
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  • an independent enclave within Rome and the world's smallest sovereign state. ... As one of the few major European cities that escaped World War II ...
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  • his schoolmates and the traumatic events of World War I caused C. S. Lewis ... in novels, than he did in the technological world of the 20th century. ...
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  • block of concrete, the dam was built as a series of interlocking trapezoidal ... of the finest examples of Art Deco anywhere in the world. ...
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  • Mansfield co-edited and contributed to a series of journals. Mansfield and ... the death of her brother, a soldier, during World War I. She was shocked and ...
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  • Vicariate of Kivu. After being defeated in World War I (1914-1918), Germany ... Native authorities also had powers. After World War II (1939-1945), Ruanda ...
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  • 27, 1994) a factory worker, laborer, and World War II veteran and Lulu Mary ... storyline. Instead, the book contains a series of anecdotes broken into ...
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  • writer of the nouveau roman, published a series of essays on the nature and ... time to go to the theater and the opera. In 1945, Robbe-Grillet completed his ...
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  • in seven plays for television’s Omnibus series. They remained happily married ... appearances in The Valley of Decision (1945), The Green Years (1946, as ...
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  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German ... in the small town of Bad Wörishofen, on May 31, 1945, Ronald Hayman ...
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  • nearly inert gas that heads the noble gas series in the periodic table. Its ... In the periodic table, helium is at the head of the noble gas series ...
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  • Transport Corporation") was the world's first airline. It ... Following World War I, the United States found itself swamped with ...
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  • She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short ... massive mobilization of able-bodied men in World War I had sent many women ...
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  • of the weakest in Africa. Between 1935 and 1945, Nkrumah studied at several ... he damaged democracy in Ghana, where a series of coups and counter-coups ...
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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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  • to Camp White for the war effort during World War II. Rogers loved to fish ... She went on to make a series of films with RKO and, in the second ...
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  • Tianjin was formally opened to the outside world. Between 1895 and 1900, Britain ... Japanese occupation lasted until August 15, 1945, when Japan surrendered, officially ...
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  • river. Large sectors were built after the Second World War. ... In 1918, after the end of World War I (1914-1918) and the dissolution ...
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  • Padua's Orto Botanico di Padova was the world's first academic ... built between 1507 and 1544, including a series of monumental gates. ...
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  • metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The ... Australia has the world's largest uranium ore reserves—40 percent ...
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  • offensive on the Western Front during World War II; to the south Operation ... major ports on the Channel coast until May 1945; those ports that did fall ...
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  • throughout the sixteenth century by a series of treaties and wars and ... and one of the fastest-growing in the world. China is Angola's biggest ...
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  • ==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 ...
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  • the empire then disintegrated into a series of small khanates, some of ... of collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II, and sent into internal ...
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  • Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 1945 to 1950, they did not appear ... the final short in the Laurel and Hardy series was 1935's Thicker than ...
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  • to Europe two years later to fight in World War II as an infantry squad ... After leaving the army in 1945, he returned to Minneapolis, where ...
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  • in Asia and [Africa]] following World War II. This conforms with ... territory, achieved independence. From 1945 and the end of the twentieth ...
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  • quot; remains a major problem in the modern world.|left In addition to forced ... bondage in exchange for passage to the New World. In 1925, the League of Nations ...
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  • He returned following the outbreak of World War II and studied at the ... life," although Trimble, who died in 1945 in World War II, apparently ...
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  • it is the most populous island in the world; it is also one of the most ... Java is the 12th largest island in the world and the fourth largest island ...
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  • [[Image:John Garang.jpg|thumb|200 px|John Garang de Mabior (June 23 ... settled in the largest swamp area in the world, the southern Sudan. Dinka ...
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  • He then took up a series of unsatisfying office jobs before finding ... being doomed to tempt humans. It presents world history through showing how ...
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  • Botswana has maintained one of the world's highest economic growth ... Botswana has maintained one of the world's highest economic growth ...
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  • reflects the advance of humankind toward a world in which human rights of ... Charles Tilly defines social movements as a series of contentious ...
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  • Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945 ... died in a New York hospital on November 21, 1945. His family opted for a private ...
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  • of origin, as well as throughout the world. Although the internal combustion ... their entry into the world of wheeled vehicles was by means of crinoline ...
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  • University Press). The authors detailed a series of experiments conducted ... v. Karl Brandt et al.), this was part of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...
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  • by Nazi Germany as a supply depot during World War II, and since gaining ... The Medina of Tunis has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979 ...
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  • steady job. In 1917, when the U.S. entered World War I, he enlisted in the ... creation–a recurring character in a series of novels including The Big ...
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  • his distinguished military service during World War II. His novels deal with ... and let wither all the dear things of the world." ==Early life== ...
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  • was a fellow of the latter college 1938–1945). For much of this time, ... On the outbreak of the Second World War, Wilson volunteered for service ...
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  • of these different responses operate on the world in the same way and achieve ... *Skinner, B.F. 1945. "The operational analysis of psychological ...
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  • almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s. He played ... === Early life (1926 to 1945) === Miles Dewey Davis was born into a ...
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  • the mythologizing of the South, while the series of "problem novels" ... and life of his late nineteenth-century world, and also his desire to find ...
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  • against Japanese occupation from 1939-1945, but in retaliation, over ... After the Japanese surrender in 1945, the Nationalist Party (KMT) ...
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  • from illegal distributorships and the fast world of gaming to being able to ... ; Barbara (Gail) Martin, born April 11, 1945; Deana (Dina) Martin, born ...
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  • Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945 ... Mussolini entered World War II in June, 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany ...
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  • a conference organized by the victors of World War I to negotiate the peace ... The results of this division of territory continues to impact the ...
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  • international organization established in 1945 for the purpose of securing ... As a result, a sizable number of the world's peoples feel they ...
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  • During World War II, Wesley Prince left the group and Cole replaced ... *See My Lawyer (1945) *Breakfast in Hollywood (1946) *Killer Diller (1948) ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * 10 million years ago a series of uplifts reversed the subsidence ... plateau is separated from the shore by a series of steep slopes or cliffs ...
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  • of cargo cult activity can be traced to a series of movements founded in the ... cult activity occurred during the Second World War (and the years immediately ...
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  • itself as a major force in the publishing world, attracting established writers ... World War II temporarily cut off American access to European writers ...
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  • camps in the early to mid 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust ... chapters in human subject research. After World War II, many of the Nazi ...
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  • Geddes’ example, Mumford carried out a series of “regional surveys,” ... In 1918 he joined the navy to serve in World War I and was assigned ...
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  • The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the world's premier ... the highest level of competition in the world of basketball. It has grown ...
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  • professor of Anglo-Saxon language (1925 to 1945) and English language and ... and other literary essays about an imagined world called Arda, and Middle-earth ...
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  • only interrupted by military service during World War II. ... He went on to appear in a series of screwball comedies with varying ...
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  • and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global ... proxy wars in the developing world that garnered superpower ...
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  • in Marion, Alabama at the top of her class in 1945. From the perspective ... In 1964, a pinnacle year for civil rights, Mrs. King organized a series ...
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  • foundation of a new way of looking at the world, called quantum theory. ... 1919) and Grete (1889-1917), and Erwin (1893-1945). After the appointment ...
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  • Moscow in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War. It was in Moscow the ... helped the Soviet Union prevail in the Second World War. ...
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  • A decorated naval aviator, Bush is the last World War II veteran to have served ... He championed the concept of a “New World Order” where international ...
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  • and creator of special military units in World War II and Palestine in the ... and from the influence of the outside world. Until he was 12 years old ...
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  • Tanzania remains one of the poorest countries in the world, but has ... In 1877, the first of a series of Belgian expeditions arrived on Zanzibar ...
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  • profiteering by military contractors during World War I, and served briefly ... In 1945, Hiss was a member of the U.S. delegation to the wartime Yalta ...
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  • pitfall of violence that continues to plague the world. ... born in 1940; and a daughter, Judith, born in 1945. ===Military service=== ...
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  • the best and fastest sailing ships in the world at the time. Their merchant ... independence was declared on August 17, 1945, and officially recognized ...
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  • moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable ... style while creating a film persona of the world-weary tough guy with a heart ...
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  • territory and its nation were devastated in World War II, during which Belarus ... Belarus has four World Heritage Sites: the Mir Castle Complex, the ...
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  • By 1908, São Tomé had become the world's largest producer of ... in March 2002. For the next four years, a series of short-lived opposition ...
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  • in America following the end of the Second World War, the theremin soon fell ... To partly linearise the pitch field, the antenna may be wired in series ...
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  • to the general public at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The FCC began ... During World War II years, commercial television broadcasting was ...
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  • camp for Japanese in Canada during World War II]] A concentration camp ... During World War I, and for two years after its end, thousands of ...
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  • history, politics and sailing, were a series of novels featuring CIA agent ... in his later writings. Just before World War II, at age 13, he attended ...
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  • he passed away, Jones was named to the World Golf Hall of Fame for his ... his peers and aspiring golfers all over the world. After winning the two British ...
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  • and economic resources of the modern world, however, famine still strikes ... for all if the number of people in the world increases much more, others ...
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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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  • saw action with the surface navy during World War II. He became a naval ... with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. ...
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  • On April 13 Berlin Radio broadcast to the world that the German military ... the Soviet Government in the eyes of the world and briefly raised the specter ...
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  • the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. Founded in 1922, it produces ... 1, 1939 to June 7, 1946 due to the Second World War. Competition to the BBC ...
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  • and played a major role in European and world politics. The map of Europe ... In 2001, the city center was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ...
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  • Prisoner of war (POW) camps as long ago as World War II were authorized to ... was not proposed again officially until after World War I. ...
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  • Prior to the Second World War, developments by the Americans, the ... since the earliest years of radar use in World War II, but limitations of ...
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  • of the Black bass into other regions of the world, such as Japan, has endangered ... of unrelated fish species found around the world and called "bass," ...
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  • As the world is increasingly globalized, preservation of traditional ... #039;s landmark work, Lay My Burden Down (1945) was the first American book ...
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  • city centers in the German-speaking world, and was listed as a UNESCO ... church state which was ruled by a series of powerful archbishops, ...
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  • short, is a Japanese automaker. It is the world's second largest automaker ... During the Pacific War (World War II), the company was dedicated to ...
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  • dynasty. During the Nguyen dynasty (1802–1945), the last ruling dynasty ... ====Nguyen Dynasty (1802–1945)==== The Nguyen dynasty, the last ruling ...
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  • The glaciated range is composed of a series of horns and arêtes separated ... sediments. The lake was dry by the time a series of glaciations in the Pleistocene ...
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  • and Jews while his writing praised the World War II Ustashe regime, which ... Apart from his book on guerrilla warfare, Tuđman wrote a series of ...
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  • purports to describe a Jewish plot to achieve world domination. ... of the Protocols as a forgery were a series of articles printed in The ...
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  • of people fleeing Eastern Europe following World War II. Under international ... for them and their children. In a world full of barriers between ...
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  • in civic activities. At the beginning of World War II, in 1939 and 1940 ... In 1945, Stevenson accepted what he called a "temporary" ...
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  • In June 1945, Mademoiselle published his short story, "Miriam ... of Porgy and Bess, he produced a series of articles for The New Yorker ...
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  • Air Corps and served for two years during World War II. After completing ... was getting a naval cadet's pay in World War II when Brown came out ...
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  • had died in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.Henry Abbott. [http://myespn ... Bears of the National Basketball League in 1945-1946 and with the Pittsburgh ...
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  • Denmark as "the happiest place in the world," based on standards ... Denmark is one of the world's flattest countries. There is little ...
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  • Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), as well as five-time ... 1921 for denouncing U.S. participation in World War I. His health suffered ...
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  • Otto Neurath (1882-1945) studied sociology, economics and philosophy ... by Albert Einstein. Hahn left Vienna during World War I and returned in 1921 ...
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  • the musical history of this century—the world premiere of The Rite of Spring ... He moved to neutral Switzerland in 1914, because of World War I, but ...
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  • canon. George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945), in contrast, savagely criticized ... are united by a "carnival sense of the world," wherein "carnival ...
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  • narodnogo khozyaystva SSSR) consisted of a series of nationwide centralized ... the major steel-producing countries of the world. Further improvements were ...
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  • part of it burned down in the fires of World War II, the castle was restored ... of devastation during the final stages of World War II. ...
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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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  • Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1945, and Festinger followed, becoming ... At MIT, Festinger began a series of experiments on social influence ...
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  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/world/europe/trump-enemy-of-the ... During the period of Stalinism a series of purges, known as the Great ...
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  • first, that there exists a "spiritual world," or afterlife, and ... the group in communication with the spirit world. Mediums may go into a trance ...
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  • against participation in the First World War. In 1915, she broke with ... retired from diplomatic service in 1945 and died in Moscow in 1952. ...
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  • sharp break from the wicked reality of the world by inaugurating the millennial ... to be enjoyed here in the physical world as "heaven on earth ...
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  • Grand Ole Opry. He followed this with a series of minor hits and then retired ... in the Rain" (written by Fred Rose in 1945), which became Nelson's ...
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