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  • involved in directing Nijinsky's career. In 1909 Diaghilev took a company to Paris, with Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova as the leads. The show was a great ...
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  • built the first gas station in the West in 1909 and commissioned a fleet of delivery trucks, each with three separate tanks to transport different ...
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  • *1909--Anne of Avonlea *1910--Kilmeny of the Orchard *1911--The Story Girl *1913--The Golden Road (sequel to The Story Girl) *1915--Anne of the Island ...
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  • * Riis, Jacob A. 1909. The Old Town. New York: Macmillan Company * Riis, Jacob A. [1910] 2007. Hero Tales of the Far North. BiblioBazaar. ISBN ...
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  • such as Selma Lagerlöf (Nobel laureate 1909) and Pär Lagerkvist (Nobel ... awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909, mainly for her storytelling ...
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  • remarried to Elizabeth Holdridge (1909-1998), and he continued to write until his death in Baltimore in 1970. He is interred in Yeocomico Churchyard ...
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  • * Eastman, Crystal. 1909. Employers' liability: A criticism based on facts. American association for labor legislation. * Eastman, Crystal ...
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  • ** Pale-spot whip ray, Himantura alcockii (Annandale, 1909). ... ** Pointed-nose stingray, Himantura jenkinsii (Annandale, 1909). ...
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  • In 1909, Fisher won a scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ... of London, founded by Francis Galton in 1909 (Box 1978). ...
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  • works. The fourth movement of An die Jugend (1909), for instance, uses two of Niccolò Paganini's Caprices for solo violin (numbers 11 and 15 ...
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  • the North Polar Basin. On hearing in 1909 that first Frederick Cook ... by Frederick Cook in 1908, Robert Peary in 1909, and Richard E. Byrd in 1926 ...
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  • and the novel The Pit were the basis for the 1909 D.W. Griffith film A Corner in Wheat. Norris' McTeague has been filmed repeatedly, most famously ...
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  • Stravinsky and Medtner. During the period 1909 to 1920 he established himself as a brilliant conductor in Europe. After the Russian Revolution ...
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  • venomous on both sides, for many years. In 1909, the first part of I Vecchi ... Vecchi e i Giovani (The Old and the Young) (1909-1913), a "populous and ...
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  • The Elfstedentocht was organized as an outdoor skating competition in 1909. In its early years it was held at irregular intervals whenever the ...
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  • In 1909, Outcault created the Outcault Advertising Agency. Outcault accumulated a great deal of wealth and retired, leaving his son to run the ...
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  • and attempted suicide a second time in 1909. Balmont wrote poetry and ... Слова поцелуйные, 1909) and The Glow of Dawns (Zarevo ...
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  • Collection of Poems. Book 2. 1903-1909, in 1910. After the Russian ... By the time her Collection of Poems. Book 2. 1903-1909 came out in ...
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  • Frederick John Perry (May 18, 1909 – February 2, 1995) was an English tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. He also carried Great ...
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  • Isaiah Berlin was born June 6, 1909, into a Jewish family, the son of Mendel Berlin, a timber merchant, and his wife Marie, née Volshonok. He ...
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