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  • the board (1919-1932), and treasurer (1932-1947). She was the main fundraiser ... retired as a board member of the NAACP in 1947 and in doing so, ended her ...
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  • UN Resolution 181 to partition Palestine in 1947. In 1949, Eban became Israel ... Drawing on his linguistic skills, in 1947, he translated the 1937 novel ...
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  • [[Image:1947 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith Franay Drophead Coupe.JPG|right ... [[Image:1947-rolls-royce-archives.jpg|right|thumb|250px|1947 Rolls ...
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  • black with white elements, whereas Zurich (1947) and Mailbox (1947/48) are ... regularly in the early 1940s and again from 1947 to 1949. The biomorphic shapes ...
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  • Wilella Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent American authors. She is known for her depictions of life ...
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  • Jozef Tiso (October 13, 1887 – April 18, 1947) was a Roman Catholic priest and a famous Nazi collaborator as president of Slovakia during World ...
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  • ); February 13, 1915 – July 19 1947) was a Burmese revolutionary ... but was assassinated on July 19, 1947, six months before its final ...
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  • at Tanis) published in 3 volumes between 1947 and 1960. ... *Montet, Pierre. [1947] 1960. La Necropole Royale de Tanis, 3 vols ...
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  • Following this theme, Pope Pius XII issued, in 1947, the Apostolic ... Pius XII, Apostolic Constitution Provida Mater Ecclesia (Vatican, 1947). ...
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  • Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ... His mission a failure, he returned in January 1947. Mark A. Stoler ...
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  • 1941), and briefly for the St. Louis Browns (1947). After his pitching ... Dizzy Dean made a one-game comeback on September 28, 1947. After retiring ...
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  • vindicated Dart. So much so that in 1947, Sir Arthur Keith said " ... such as "Mrs. Ples" discovered in 1947 at Sterkfontein in South Africa ...
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  • ; February 12, 1947–June 6, 1984) lead the Damdami Taksal, a Sikh ... "We won't reject it. We shall not repeat 1947." ...
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  • Leigh made her film debut in The Romance of Rosy Ridge in 1947, as ... * The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) * Act of Violence (1948) ...
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  • ===NBL Chicago American Gears (1946-1947)=== After the end of the 1945 ... However, before the start of the 1947-1948 NBL season, Maurice White ...
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  • of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. Kazan collaborated ... Director, for Gentlemen's Agreement, 1947, and On The Waterfront, 1954; ...
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  • Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia, often spelled La Guardia, was the Republican ...
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  • war" to common currency in his 1947 book by the same name. But ... *The Cold War (1947) ISBN 0061317233 *Essays in the Public Philosophy ...
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  • Baroque Era. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947. ISBN 0393097455 * Reese, Gustave. Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & ...
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  • first recordings as leader for Blue Note in 1947 (later anthologised on Genius ... recording sessions for Blue Note during 1947–1952, he was under contract ...
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