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  • present after the Russian Revolution of 1917) which dismissed "pure ... the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects ...
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  • My Sister Life, written by Pasternak in 1917, is arguably the most influential ... During World War I he taught and worked at a chemical factory in the ...
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  • in 1897. From 1900 until he retired in 1917 he amassed more hits (2,967 ... In a career that spanned 21 seasons (1897-1917), he led the National ...
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  • the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917, later used as the basis for ... through the catastrophe of the First World War, Surrealism played with ...
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  • to reflect their name, Bashkortostran, in 1917. This process appears to have ... unrest among the population, and led to a series of revolts. The beginning ...
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  • In his book The Non-Objective World, Malevich described the inspiration ... in Skoptsi and Verbovka village. In 1916–1917 he participated in exhibitions ...
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  • and measurement instruments. Nikon is the world's largest manufacturer ... Nikon was founded in 1917, as Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō (日本光学工業株式会社 ...
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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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  • of German Social Democracy before World War I and a principal figure ... tendencies of the Russian Revolution of 1917, drawing the ire of Vladimir ...
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  • imitation of Charlie Chaplin. From 1915 to 1917, Lloyd and Roach created more ... Comedy Theater, an NBC radio-anthology series, after Preston Sturges, who ...
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  • The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...
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  • and his assistants between 1885 and 1917. Fifty of those eggs—known ... for private clients. Among them were a series of twelve Easter eggs commissioned ...
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  • Spain to study art and architecture. With World War I raging in Europe and ... in 1920. Titled, One Man's Initiation: 1917, it was followed by an antiwar ...
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  • equality. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, this tradition of realism ... II of Russia in 1881, he painted a series of pictures dealing with ...
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  • was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the ... because the Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, Dutch artists were ...
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  • traveled to romantic places all over the world. After they returned home ... *"My appearance in this world is especially to explain the philosophy ...
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  • with the Joneses," Edith grew up in a world of extraordinary luxury, ... Custom of the Country (1913), and Summer (1917). In 1920 Wharton published ...
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  • finest works were created between 1906 and 1917 when he was an active part ... now a suburb of the city of Nice, from 1917 until his death in 1954. His ...
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  • is limited to notes within the harmonic series and cannot play normal scales. ... the key of G. Bugles in other parts of the world typically were pitched in ...
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  • announcer carried live on radio for the World Series game. Rice preferred ... announcer carried live on radio for the World Series game. ...
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  • Stieglitz with O'Keeffe owned a series of galleries that brought ... experimenting. He took coursework from world-renowned Dr. Hermann Wilhem ...
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  • "Memoirs")), in Byloe (Leningrad series), 1926, 3 (37), (magazine ... 0-8131-1368-7), 178.. With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Struve adopted ...
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  • on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Due to World War I, he remained in that ... issues, attracting students from all over the world. While in Berlin ...
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  • John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 There is some debate as to Hooker ... in factories in various cities during World War II as he drifted around ...
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  • Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on June 4, 1917, and are now awarded each May. ... was also the publisher of both the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ...
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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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  • reading public wanted to buy, and began a series of cheap but successful periodicals ... newspaper approached 800,000, which was the world record for newspapers at the time. ...
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  • before making his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1917. He soon became the most recognized ... On October 27, 1917, Heifetz played for the first time in the United ...
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  • ) in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the ... museums of human history and culture in the world. The vast Hermitage collections ...
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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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  • On February 20, 1917, some three years after Bland's death, Nesbit ... of Victorian tales, which began in the real world and shifted into a magical ...
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  • teaching the younger players the way of the baseball world. ... 17, 1912: the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1912-1917; the Pittsburgh Pirates in ...
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  • Deanna Durbin, and Sammy Davis Jr. During World War II he worked in a United ... Cantor made his Broadway debut in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1917. He ...
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  • in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 ... was smashed by the catastrophe of the First World War. Dada represented a rebellion ...
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  • It was created by decree on December 20, 1917, by Vladimir Lenin. After ... The Cheka was created in December 1917, over a month after the October ...
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  • science fiction, and satire. In 1916-1917, Kaufman was studying medicine ... After the Russian Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began ...
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  • best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-1912). ... looked for peace during and after the First World War in the works of the philosophers ...
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  • writing: "There are few things in this world which it is worth while to ... that foreign correspondents contributed world news thoroughly, carefully ...
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  • best equipped and trained soldiers in the world. The Intifada is the cry ... In 1952, citizens of Baghdad had engaged in a series of large-scale ...
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  • Desi Arnaz (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III) (March 2, ... were also featured in the 1951 CBS radio series, Your Tropical Trip. ...
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  • Scott Joplin (January 1868 - April 1, 1917) was an African-American ... In mid-January 1917, Joplin was hospitalized at Manhattan State Hospital ...
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  • novels, she is known most famously for her series of books that brought to ... Even though Lucy Maud Montgomery captured the world's attention ...
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  • ===Prior to World War I=== Ethnically Belarusian, Alexander Malinovsky ... ===After World War I=== Bogdanov served in World War I as a physician ...
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  • fell in 1921 to 20 percent of the pre-World War I level, with many crucial ... As a result, a series of workers' strikes and peasants' ...
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  • awareness of the Gulag on the non-Soviet world, especially after the publication ... Solzhenitsyn fought in the Red Army during World War II. He became a captain ...
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  • In 1894 he settled in Berlin, giving a series of concerts there both ... During World War I, Busoni lived first in Bologna, where he directed ...
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  • Seiko introduced the Seiko Astron, the world's first production quartz ... Inc.; and in 1947, after the end of World War II, the retail division ...
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  • In 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power following the October Revolution ... === Before the Revolution (1901–1917) === [[File:FichaPolicialDeZinoviev1908 ...
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  • by composers in the years prior to World War II, this atonal syntax ... direction. After graduating, he took a series of conducting posts at theaters ...
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  • in Chicago, the first juvenile court in the world, and setting up a psychiatric ... and maternal mortality. She conducted a series of local studies that collected ...
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  • local youth to join. The stories became a series of articles written for the ... * The Preacher of Cedar Mountain, Doubleday (1917) * Woodcraft Manual ...
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  • equally conscious of belonging to a wider world within which the Counts of ... * Longley, Norm. The Rough Guide to Slovenia. (Rough Guides Series ...
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  • in its proper context. Among his pre-World War II contemporaries, only ... the Washington Nationals/Senators to two World Series, in 1924 and 1925 ...
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  • from 305 B.C.E. to 30 B.C.E., issued a series of decrees over the course ... since 1802, with only one break, from 1917–1919. Toward the end of the ...
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  • of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I. had increasingly demanded independence. In 1917, a meeting took place in Pittsburgh ...
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  • next several years until the outbreak of World War I, which would ultimately ... Great Tyrants?: Contemporary Views of World Rulers Who Made History ...
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  • of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment ... is converted to nihilism and lives in a world of equality between sexes ...
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  • from 1894 until his forced abdication in 1917. Nicholas proved unable to ... nor to provoke a general war. In a series of letters exchanged with ...
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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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  • Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, ... At the same time, as opposed to the Old World where class and privilege ...
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  • reign title Kangde (康德). At the end of World War II, Puyi was captured ... ===Brief Restoration (1917)=== In 1917, the warlord general Zhang Xun ...
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  • Several times during the development of the Oz series, Baum declared ... year after his death, in 1920, but the Oz series was continued long after ...
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  • by Adolf Hitler with disastrous consequences for the world. ... wages to the new eight-hour workday. From 1917 to 1918 he served as Administrator ...
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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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  • 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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  • industry and making the Soviet Union into a world power, while collectivization ... and sent back to Kabany. In March-April 1917, he was the Chairman of the ...
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  • and early nineteenth centuries. In 1917, the United States purchased ... centuries, until the price of sugar on the world market dropped when beet ...
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  • its official launch, and the beginning of World War II, the time when Prague ... published in the first volume of the series Travaux du Cercle Linguistique ...
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  • Gardencraft, and Young Folks Library series of manuals. He wrote scores ... That winter, Bailey was invited to give a series of lectures at Cornell University ...
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  • is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it…. The unexplainable ... impulse) to be good stewards of the natural world and to imagine what the world ...
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  • In fact, H.G. Wells suggested that a series of articles Milne had written ... Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer ...
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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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  • Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill ... at sea during the course of the Second World War. "The Quaker Graveyard ...
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  • Lenin and the Bolsheviks following the 1917 Russian Revolution. Gorky ... He left home at the age of 12 and began a series of occupations, as an errand ...
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  • and from 1896 to 1898, he released a series of articles entitled "Probleme ... #039;s left wing. From July 1915 he opposed World War I and in 1917 he was ...
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  • John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 - January ... John Birks Gillespie was born October 21, 1917, in Cheraw, South Carolina ...
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  • While in the navy (partly on a world cruise), Rimsky-Korsakov completed ... of 1905, a precursor to the events of 1917). This sparked a series of ...
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  • apprentice and serve as a critique of the world's distribution of wealth. ... futuristic work. Anticipating what the world would be like in the year ...
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  • David Clarence McClelland (May 20, 1917 – March 27, 1998) was an ... David McClelland was born on May 20, 1917, in Mt. Vernon, New York ...
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  • committee's photographer in 1908. In 1917, Adler served on the Civil ... Unlike many of his contemporaries during World War I, Adler didn& ...
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  • 1880s. At that time, the German-speaking world was engaged in the Methodenstreit ... aspx Economists' Papers - Series Two: The Papers of John Neville ...
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  • he painted near the front lines during World War I; he painted the artists ... His best portrait work is considered to be the series of portraits ...
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  • young ingénues pitted against a cruel world earned her the sobriquet ... recognition through his appearance in a series of light, satiric comedies. ...
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  • Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known ... was born in Newport News, Virginia, on April, 25, 1917. ...
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  • Industries Co., Ltd. (FHI). Founded in 1917, by Chikuhei Nakajima (中島 ... founded the Aircraft Research Laboratory in 1917. Reorganized as "Nakajima ...
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  • French Republican anti-clericalism softened after the First World ... After World War II, anti-clericalism was embodied by the communist ...
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  • However, he was sharply critical of the world of affluence in which he ... After serving in World War I in London, he established the New York ...
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  • Grainger moved to the United States at the outbreak of World War I ... When the United States entered the war in 1917, he enlisted into a ...
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  • His novels include his pre-World War I era novel, Tarr (set in Paris ... movement broke up, largely as a result of World War I. Lewis was posted to ...
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  • studying Korean from all parts of the world with a focus on Korean grammar ... ===Under Japanese rule (I) (1917 - 1936)=== On August 22, 1910, Japan ...
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  • the run-up to the United States joining the Second World War. ... LaGuardia briefly served in the armed forces (1917-1919), commanding ...
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  • bed and firmly believed that the natural world, along with all its creatures ... " Lucy, as if the diaries were a series of letters and it was as ...
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  • Bella. While Chagall was in Russia, World War I erupted. During the ... Chagall became an active participant in the Russian Revolution of ...
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  • records with music from different parts of the world. Stumpf retired ... collected music from different parts of the world. In 1886 he published his ...
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  • highly influenced by music from around the world including American Jazz, ... to becoming a pilot, during the First World War, he was not allowed to ...
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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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  • her work from that period as a series of failed experiments. Although ... launched the Poets' Translation Series, pamphlets of translations ...
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  • [[Image:Kepler-world.jpg|thumb|200 px|left|Antique Map]] ... [[Image:1917 Dodge Brothers touring car.JPG|thumb|250 px|1917 Dodge ...
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  • In 1917, during World War I Black joined Royal Canadian Army Medical ... circles, and he traveled around the world to convince his colleagues ...
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  • began to decline. Starting in 1951, a series of strokes followed. Williams ... laconic and focused on things in the world rather than abstractions ...
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  • when he developed a variant suprematist series of his own, Proun, and further ... remained in Germany until the outbreak of World War I, when he was forced ...
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  • magazine and returned to Edinburgh for a series he intended to be visualizations ... him "the greatest photographer in the world," although he was only ...
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  • Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti (June 7, 1917 – December 25 ... Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio on June 7, 1917. He was the second son for ...
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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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  • destruction of the Russian Second Army. A series of follow-up battles kept ... border, was heavily fortified with a long series of fieldworks. ...
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  • a treasure to spying for the Germans during World War I. During the 1950s, ... parchments. One of the codes involved a series of raised letters in the ...
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  • and publications in the English-speaking world, a position of great import ... In 1917, Jones married the Welsh composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen. She ...
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  • rpm records. While he sang at many of the world's great opera houses ... Company came to San Francisco to give a series of performances at the Tivoli ...
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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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  • in most library catalogs around the world (by now displaced by the ... center called at first Palais Mondial (World Palace), later, the Mundaneum ...
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  • academic and industry professionals from around the world. and consulting. At the beginning of World War I, as the wounded soldiers ...
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  • Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was ... Yahya Khan was born in Chakwal in 1917, to an ethnic Shi'a Muslim ...
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  • In 1917, Cummings' first book of poems appeared in a collection ... On September 21, 1917, just five months after his belated assignment ...
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  • The Comintern held seven World Congresses, the first in March 1919 ... At the start of World War II, the Comintern supported a policy of ...
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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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  • Brunner served as pastor from 1916 to 1917, in the mountain village of ... He returned to Europe prior to World War II and was an outspoken opponent ...
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  • From 1912-1917 Maritain taught at the Collège Stanislas, Institut ... In 1917, a committee of French bishops commissioned Maritain to write ...
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  • Society. It has become one of the world's best-known magazines ... well beyond exploration curiosities. Series of articles were included ...
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  • the Hale Telescope was replaced as the world's largest when the Russian ... in 1908 and the 100-inch telescope in 1917. These telescopes were very ...
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  • Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... Between 1915 and 1917 there were several major offensives along this ...
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  • Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (June 19, 1917 – July 1, 1999) was ... a builder of bridges, not of barriers. In a world where too often race, ethnicity ...
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  • Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California. The world-class theater is custom designed ... *Epstein, Lawrence J. Samuel Goldwyn. Twayne's filmmakers series ...
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  • ; March 20, 1917 – June 18, 2020) was an English singer, songwriter ... cancer. Held in great affection by Second World War veterans and the public ...
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  • the Soviet Union and the future Socialist world. Stalinism claimed to apply ... From 1917 to 1924, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin often appeared united ...
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  • his invitation to Sigmund Freud to give a series of lectures at Clark's ... and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers ...
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  • the Qing Dynasty (清朝) had suffered a series of humiliating military defeats ... subtitled La Jeunesse from 1916 to 1919. In 1917, Chen was appointed dean ...
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  • of health issues. They denounced the 1917 October Revolution, seeing ... Waves, appeared in Mir Bozhy (God's World). Seeing the writing of mediocre ...
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  • assuming power in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Following on from his early ... to counter his critics. During the First World War, he relocated to Switzerland ...
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  • making the first jazz recording ever, in 1917. The LaRocca influence is ... . It was later parodied in the BBC radio series Round The Horne as "Young ...
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  • Dorothy Parker felt ill prepared for the world of Manhattan that awaited ... In 1917 Dorothy met and married Edwin Pond Parker II, a stockbroker ...
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  • exchange as an agent of progress toward a world federation of humankind. ... but the]…rude contact with the world of events [which] is often ...
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  • most widely distributed mustelid in the New World. Its range extends from southern ... example, in Brian Jacques' Redwall series, weasels are one of many ...
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  • class gradually improved in the Western world, and the socialist revolution ... (New York: International Publishers, orig. [1917] 1977. ISBN 0717801969). ...
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  • Europe, as well as by the Nazis during World War II. It managed to survive ... As a small child, he eschewed the pleasures of this world and set ...
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  • a conference organized by the victors of World War I to negotiate the peace ... example, by the Sykes-Picot Agreement of May 16, 1917 About War: Official ...
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  • during the Third Reich. Following the post-World War II division of Germany ... ; Frieda (1909-1974); Erich; Gertrud (b. 1917; m. Hoppstädter); and Karl ...
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  • to a second term, a term that centered on World War I and his efforts afterward ... the Allied and American war efforts in World War I. [[Image:Pump1913 ...
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  • of the dead exist in a "spiritual world" or afterlife, and can ... revelations supposedly from the unseen world." Critics of this claim ...
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  • named Emir of Cyrenaica by the British in 1917. The Senussi, encouraged by ... * Malcolm, Peter and Elie Losleben. 2004. Libya. Cultures of the World ...
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  • With the outbreak of the World War I Frisch was called to the service ... teaching there until the beginning of World War II. During the war the ...
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