Search results for "1949 World Series" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring ... and Richard Thomson Howard (born 1949). In 1957, Lamour and Howard ...
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  • fiction writing, setting the Canopus series in space. Sufism offered ... who had lost a leg during his service in World War I, met his future wife ...
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  • the way members of each culture experience their world. ... back to Berkeley, where he stayed until 1949. He became editor of the Indiana ...
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  • #039;s books. Blyton is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring ... She is probably best known for several book series, including those ...
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  • part be made by women.Margaret Chase Smith (1949), Women's World Group ... on the House Naval Affairs committee during World War II. Her efforts to encourage ...
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  • Atlanta Braves #21 RetiredNational League All-Star: 1947, 1949-1954 ... had been alongside it. He emerged from World War II with a battlefield ...
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  • tool in Australia. Bragg then conducted a series of well-attended lectures ... not take up his duties there until after World War I. He did much work for ...
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  • role as the witch Endora in the television series Bewitched. ... Sorry, Wrong Number also inspired writers of the television series ...
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  • made a notable contribution to the world of music while preserving ... quot;titans" of Soviet music, enjoying world-wide reputation as leading ...
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  • 1930s, onetime Heavyweight Champion of the World, and actor. One of the most ... Now in line for the world heavyweight title, Baer fought Primo Carnera ...
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  • influenced a generation of filmmakers the world over, ranging from George ... film festival in 1951, and opened the world to Japanese cinematography ...
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  • MacNeice died in December 1914 after a series of illnesses including uterine ... radio adaptation of Goethe's Faust in 1949. 1948's collection of ...
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  • In September, 1949, when the Communists founded the People’s Republic ... ==After World War II== When the War of Resistance ended with the end ...
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  • and poorly edited versions in 1905 and 1949 as A Diary From Dixie). ... of her diaries came out in 1905 and in 1949, under the title, Diary from Dixie. ...
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  • husband, Jack Briggs, a Marine. They divorced in 1949. In 1953, Rogers ... to Camp White for the war effort during World War II. Rogers loved to fish ...
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  • participated in a conspiracy to throw the World Series. As a result of Jackson ... later, Jackson and the White Sox won the World Series. During the series ...
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  • middle classes. He continued to do so in a series of other films: I vinti ... a conventional narrative, he presented a series of apparently disconnected ...
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  • and highest-paid entertainers during World War II. Other film successes ... the morale of the American public during World War II. Eager to lend their ...
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  • War of Independence between the Allies of World War I and the Ankara-based ... secular Muslim majority state in the world. The Turkish people were ...
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  • news organization into an influential, world-wide publication. Through ... This process would later launch Wide World Photos, Incorporated. ...
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  • the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by ... the same neighborhood. Aino Aalto died in 1949, and in 1952 Alvar married ...
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  • writers published articles and held a series of memorial events in response ... Anti-Japanese Writers Federation. After World War II Lao She published ...
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  • number 91) is a member of the actinide series of chemical elements. It ... Pa-231. The name was shortened to protactinium in 1949. ...
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  • The Royal Ballet has featured some of the world's premier dancers ... Theatre until 1939, and the outbreak of World War II. De Valois produced ...
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  • His fame peaked in the 1950s in a series of movies in which he co ... O'Connor was a favorite of millions of people around the world ...
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  • was a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first ... He became a British subject in 1910, and in World War I, he was (1916 ...
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  • 1957) was an American author who wrote a series of historical fiction books ... "Little House" book series. ‘‘Little House in the ...
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  • Spain to study art and architecture. With World War I raging in Europe and ... manage to hold onto their ideals through the First World War. ...
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  • #039;s Republic of China was founded in 1949. However, he wrote extensively ... In 1949, Qian was appointed a professor in his alma mater. Four years ...
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  • was an American tennis champion who was a World Number One player for five ... seven principal tournaments. Budge kept his world crown by winning four of ...
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  • team, which also won the 1946 Negro Leagues World Series. ... man 24 years older than she, at the 1932 World Series at Yankee Stadium ...
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  • Buster Keaton was born into the world of vaudeville. His father was ... Although he did not see active combat, he served in World War I, during ...
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  • Chikuhei Nakajima (中島 知久平, 1884-1949), as "The Aircraft Research ... Chikuhei, January 1, 1884-October 10, 1949), a Japanese military officer ...
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  • both in the United States and around the world not just for its financial ... for freedom, peace, and prosperity in a world filled with challenges. ...
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  • in developing the ensemble into one of the world’s most renown orchestras ... of the era, his reputation suffered after World War II for his failure to ...
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  • The nation's entrance into World War II in 1941 marked the beginning ... After a few more moderate hits, Williams had a banner year in 1949 ...
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  • had a substantial impact on the jazz world. One of their first (and ... incorporating a riff later used in the late 1949 R&B dance hit "The ...
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  • joined the Chinese communist party. After World War II, he took various high ... that allowed them to learn about the wide world outside. ...
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  • Skelton also helped sell World War II war bonds on the top-rated show ... Skelton was drafted in March 1944, and the popular series was discontinued ...
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  • Frank Albert Fetter (March 8, 1863 – 1949) was an American economist ... Fetter died in 1949 in Indiana. ==Work== In the period between the ...
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  • (indigenous name: Kerepakupay Vená) is the world's highest free-falling ... leading to nearby villages. One of the world's great natural wonders ...
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  • conflict, too, adjoining the zone where the world's largest petroleum ... governmental organizations elsewhere in the world are involved in or concerned ...
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  • 1934-1961, was a monumental synthesis of world history, a metahistory based ... of the roles of religious traditions world wide. Rejecting a natural ...
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  • In 1940, after World War II began, Luce took time away from her success ... tragic death of her daughter, Luce wrote a series of articles, published in ...
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  • of the political history of the Western world in the first half of the ... Long out of print, the Lanny Budd series have recently been re-issued ...
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  • made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was later ... became escapist fare among GIs fighting in World War II. The image was taken ...
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  • by Japan. After Japan's defeat in World War II by the Allies in August ... 1, 1927.Lai to Lee. Trade Unions in China: 1949 To the Present. (National ...
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  • of modern prose, such as the irrational world of Franz Kafka. He was noted ... both during the First and the Second World War. He was a rhetorical ...
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  • invalided out of the French Army during World War I, he moved to the United ... Phillips to present a pavilion at the 1958 World Fair and insisted (against ...
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  • Past, the wild strawberries trigger a series of flashbacks in which both ... to lose. The game is interrupted by a series of episodes, including the ...
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