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  • inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951. ... and defeat the Chicago Cubs in the 1929 World Series. This would be the ...
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  • Of his gubernatorial bids, Sinclair remarked in 1951: "The American ... of the political history of the Western world in the first half of the ...
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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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  • Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and ... them to New York and drifted into a series of odd jobs. When he died ...
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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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  • through 1950. He followed Ninotchka with a series of box office hits in 1942 ... In 1951, Wilder followed up Sunset Boulevard with the remarkably cynical ...
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  • 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 ...
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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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  • Cooking as well as for her television series The French Chef, which premiered ... ==Youth and World War II== Julia was born Julia Carolyn McWilliams ...
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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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  • the Globes' viewership around the world. ==History== ... television award categories, Best TV Series, Best TV Actor, and Best ...
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  • * 6x World Series champion (1950, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) ... * 1961 World Series MVP * 3x AL TSN Pitcher of the Year (1955, 1961, 1963) ...
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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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  • his high school graduation, to serve in World War II. O'Hara served ... his collection of poems, A Byzantine Place (1951) and Try! Try! (1951), a verse ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • as Ricky Ricardo on the immensely popular 1951 television show, I Love Lucy ... and his orchestra were also featured in the 1951 CBS radio series, Your Tropical ...
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  • born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late ... equal rights and equal voice, she entered a world dominated by men. She served ...
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  • early life in Malta, losing his father in World War I. He first appeared ... 50s and also opened bowling during the series, leading to him coming home ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Skelton received 13 Emmy Award nominations, winning in 1951, 1956 ... Skelton also helped sell World War II war bonds on the top-rated show ...
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  • sports entertainment franchises in the world. Over the years, they have ... During the 1970s and 1980s, in addition to their world touring, the ...
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  • The nation's entrance into World War II in 1941 marked the beginning ... Like This Kind of Livin'." In 1951, "Dear John" became ...
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  • from 1984 to 1995. Puckett led the Twins to World Series titles, in 1987 and ... in the 1991 American League Championship Series. Puckett batted .429 with ...
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  • | teams= New York Yankees (1936–1942), (1946–1951) | HOFer=HOFer ... entire Major League baseball career (1936–1951) for the New York Yankees ...
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  • MacNeice died in December 1914 after a series of illnesses including uterine ... in Greece, were broadcast by the BBC in 1951 and published the following ...
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  • 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ... and was the first to propose the actinide series, which led to the current ...
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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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  • term was commonly used up until the end of World War II. Zaibatsu were usually ... After Japan’s surrender (1945) in World War II, the breakup of the ...
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  • to, chronicled American history from World War I through space exploration ... like Oliver Twist. Both his view of the world and his powers of observation ...
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  • as it has come to be known, proposed a series of physical and psychological ... and directing A Streetcar Named Desire, (1951) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ...
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  • president Lee Strasberg, who took over in 1951. The "method style" ... It was the Group Theatre that, prior to World War II, was working to develop ...
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  • is characteristic of much art of the post-World War I period, and can be ... on the French Riviera between 1949 and 1951 under an architectural plan ...
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  • | date_of_death = August 14, 1951 | place_of_death = Los Angeles, ... William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an ...
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  • During World War II Kapitsa was engaged in applied research on the ... institute until his own death in 1984. In 1951, he co-founded the Moscow ...
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  • Association's Boston Celtics from 1951 to 1963, led the team to six ... After joining the Celtics in 1950, Cousy became the world's premier ...
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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 copyediting; its journalism about world politics and social issues; ... to edit the magazine until his death in 1951. For the first, occasionally ...
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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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  • 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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  • . 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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  • in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, but was hospitalized ... is grounded in one's experience of the world--where experience is not ...
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  • the Yoga Sutra became popular around the world, as the practice of Raja ... Desiring to teach yoga to the world, he is said to have fallen (pat ...
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  • actor who appeared in almost 170 post-World War II feature films. Born ... Aerial Photography (Ko-type) unit during World War II, teaching aerial photography ...
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  • to the unappetizing Agnes Pembroke. In a series of scenes on the hills of ... Billy Budd (1951) — (based on Melville's novel, for the opera ...
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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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  • in the militaristic fervor accompanying World War II, he was also unimpressed ... After the end of World War II, Kawabata said that from then on he ...
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  • 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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