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  • network and five television stations. By 1954, ABC played a minor role in ... of The Untouchables, yet another series which attracted the attention ...
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  • waiting period since it was instituted in 1954. He is also known for being ... Dodgers chose to have Clemente spend the 1954 season in the minors, with ...
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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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  • * 7x All-Star selection (1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955) * World Series champion (1948) * Cleveland Indians #14 retired ...
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  • decade of Formula One racing. He won five World Championship titles—a record ... Argentine National Champion. Following World War II, Fangio, then 36, ...
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  • In 1954, Snow influenced the directors of the Grand Ole Opry to allow ... to the "Country Music Capital of the World," Nashville, Tennessee ...
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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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  • Hank Aaron together in its outfield from 1954 to 1973. Maughn then tipped ... the National League pennant and the 1954 World Series, sweeping the Cleveland ...
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  • Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an early twentieth ... announcer carried live on radio for the World Series game. Rice preferred ...
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  • * 8x All-Star selection (1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964) * 6x World Series champion (1950, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) ...
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  • E. M. Forster discussed the book in his lecture series Aspects of ... society. Meredith's novel depicts a world in which women's bodies ...
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  • with 150 or more hits (17). He won one World Series ring with the Milwaukee ... Clowns to victory in the 1952 Negro League World Series. Shortly thereafter ...
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  • figure in the Partisan movement during the World War II as well as in the ... Thought"), in which he published a series of articles that were increasingly ...
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  • after death; and, hence, liberation from the world. [http://www.poetseers ... to Chile for two brief visits, in 1938 and 1954. Mistral lived in France and ...
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  • was an advocate for gender balance in the dance world. Noted for making ... premiered Le bal masqué (The Masked Ball, 1954; music by French composer ...
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  • , (January 2, 1896 – February 12, 1954) was a Russian pioneer documentary ... the Kino-Pravda (Cinema Verite) newsreel series show a revolutionary romanticism. ...
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  • through 1950. He followed Ninotchka with a series of box office hits in 1942 ... Lemmon, and the romantic comedy Sabrina (1954)—Humphrey Bogart's ...
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  • aircraft to the Government of Japan during World War II. Reorganized as Fuji ... airplanes to the Government of Japan during World War II. Nakajima served as ...
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  • international competitions, including the World Cup and Tri-Nations, as well ... Australia has won every Rugby League World Cup since 1975. Until November ...
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  • (Golden, 1937; Diamond, 1946; and Platinum, 1954.) Almost all of this wealth ... the community in East Africa with a series of local and regional councils ...
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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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  • role as the witch Endora in the television series Bewitched. ... Sorry, Wrong Number also inspired writers of the television series ...
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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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  • Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954) was a French ... city of Nice, from 1917 until his death in 1954. His work of the decade or ...
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  • Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 1954). In 1955, Festinger moved ... At MIT, Festinger began a series of experiments on social influence ...
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  • (1950), Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), The Throne of Blood (1957 ... film festival in 1951, and opened the world to Japanese cinematography ...
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  • pursuits. He was a war correspondent during World War II. He contributed--the ... to realize that no young artist starts the world all over again for himself ...
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  • Agreement, 1947, and On The Waterfront, 1954; he also received a controversial ... as it has come to be known, proposed a series of physical and psychological ...
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  • run from February 19, 1953 to April 10, 1954. He followed with Bus Stop ... In 1963, Inge was in meetings to develop a CBS series of one-hour ...
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  • in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In the post World War II era, de Kooning painted ... of Gorky, De Kooning embarked on a series of male figures, including ...
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  • * 5x Pro Bowl selection (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954) (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955) ...
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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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  • He lived in Paris and in Romania, but after World War II and the communist ... of lute music. The culmination of his series of neo-classical works was ...
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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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  • Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist ... That winter, Bailey was invited to give a series of lectures at Cornell University ...
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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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  • myths and legends of cultures throughout the world. Campbell's ... who relocated to France after the First World War. The 1920s had been time ...
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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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  • * 3x World Series champion (1959, 1963, 1965) * 1962 Cy Young Award ... to lead the Brooklyn Dodgers to multiple World Series championships. Drysdale ...
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  • and motion picture grosses from 1934 to 1954 and the emergence of rock and roll. has sold over 100 million copies around the world, with at least 50 million ...
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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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  • ===Second World War=== He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, but his ... from which he hailed. It is told through a series of flashbacks featuring an ...
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  • on the Fairmount Park commission. During World War II, President Franklin ... wife, Georgie Elgin, in The Country Girl (1954), for which she was awarded ...
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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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  • and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September ... I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in ...
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  • The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ... camps in the early to mid 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust ...
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  • It was use by the United States military during World War I that brought ... word jeep. R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this ...
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  • role with Evans on television, firstly in 1954 and then again in 1960 (the ... same play which was broadcast on April 20, 1954 as part of ABC's The ...
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  • Margaret Chase Smith (1949), Women's World Group Margaret Chase Smith ... on the House Naval Affairs committee during World War II. Her efforts to encourage ...
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  • pitfall of violence that continues to plague the world. ... His marriage and new career were quickly interrupted by World War ...
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  • 15, 1966) was the founder and coach of the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters ... Ambassadors that travel all over the world. He was inducted into the ...
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  • After joining the Celtics in 1950, Cousy became the world's premier ... driver who had served in the German Army during World War I. ...
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  • | Years_active = 1886-1954 | Associated_acts = La ScalaNew ... section, and participated as cellist in the world premiere of Verdi's ...
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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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  • jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of jazz piano as the supreme ... For Granz, he recorded an extended series of solo albums and group ...
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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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  • 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 1943 to the pioneering notion of a World Council of Religions that ... the Allies had compromised the justness of World War II. His ecumenical interests ...
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  • as Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 to July 13, 1954), was a Mexican painter of ... people following his wife's death in 1954. It opened as a museum four ...
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  • the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by ... in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, but later (1954-55) had a purpose-built office ...
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  • the plight of people in society and the world? == Life == at sea during the course of the Second World War. "The Quaker Graveyard ...
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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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  • decision not to pitch Game One of the 1965 World Series because game day fell ... on a basketball scholarship. In spring 1954, however, he made the University ...
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  • century and continues through the aftermath of World War II. ... Hiraoka Kimitake, better known to the world by the pen name of Mishima ...
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  • laid the groundwork for the emergence of world music as a popular genre. and appreciation of our multicultural world. Lomax served as consultant ...
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  • to placate critics with an election in 1954 in which he ran unopposed. ... became the third most wealthy city in the world, with more TV sets, telephones ...
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  • Walt Disney Productions, and the Disney World and Disneyland entertainment ... magic, and joy to millions throughout the world. The subjects of his films ...
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  • “he was ready to go to the end of the world, even to the Knesset, in ... During World War II he was imprisoned by the British for his efforts ...
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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 best-known stories from the ancient world circulated in vernacular ... are still taught in schools throughout the world and used as subjects for ...
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  • quot; ABC hit the air on October 27, 1954. Among the shows that brought ... of Hollywood's slickly produced series, ABC began to catch on with ...
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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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  • Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American ... Ives died in 1954 in New York City. ==Ives' early music== ...
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  • Elvis Presley. A year later, on July 5, 1954, Phillips called Presley back ... the American musical landscape. In 1954 and 1955, Presley made a series ...
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  • their long run in the popular television series Sesame Street and The Muppet ... humor gave him an edge in the entertainment world. Known as "the gentle ...
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  • MacNeice died in December 1914 after a series of illnesses including uterine ... to raise money for his family. 1953 and 1954 brought lecture and performance ...
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  • Air Force, yet he did not see combat in World War I. Faulkner began to ... * A Fable (1954) * The Reivers (1962) * Flags in the Dust (1973) ...
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  • 1954 [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,857657,00.html ... featured on the cover of Time Magazine in 1954. The Quartet's 1959 recording ...
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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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  • (February 17, 1899 - October 22, 1954) is the most popular Bengali ... the lines. It is only after his death in 1954, that a competent readership ...
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  • from the nineteenth century. In post-World War I Germany, when Tillich ... similar opportunity was coming to Europe after World War I. ...
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  • a spiritual master, and late in his life (1954 at age 60) publicly declared ... a club dedicated to remaining informed in world affairs and giving money ...
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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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  • of the Eagle and The Three Musketeers series, with occasional bit parts ... draft was reinstated, and the end of World War II in 1945, he remained ...
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  • thrice took his country into war. In World War II he joined the Allied ... When World War I began Menzies was 19, and his family decided that ...
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  • Bella. While Chagall was in Russia, World War I erupted. During the ... With the outbreak of World War II, the Nazi occupation of France led ...
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  • July 4, 1917.John Fricke, Judy Garland: World's Greatest Entertainer ... the name Garland, from the name of New York World-Telegram drama critic Robert ...
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  • made many starts in the NASCAR Winston Cup series and acted in several Hollywood ... to serve in the United States Navy during World War II. He was stationed ...
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  • and that people should adapt their world view to accept that what ... poetry and its subsequent reform after the Second World War. ...
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  • to Camp White for the war effort during World War II. Rogers loved to fish ... She went on to make a series of films with RKO and, in the second ...
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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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  • who traveled extensively to third world countries as Goodwill Ambassador ... Raised under Nazi rule during World War II, she trained to be a prima ...
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  • he had once been a pacifist, during World War II Bonhoeffer took part ... down the seminary there following the outbreak of World War II. ...
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  • In 1954, the Post consolidated its position by acquiring its last ... and Carl Bernstein, who, in a long series of articles, chipped away ...
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  • At a time when American women were entering the workforce after World ... to Europe and began making fewer films. In 1954, after a successful appearance ...
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  • ==Early life and career (1926-1954)== breadwinner, Coltrane's uncle. This series of tragedies caused Coltrane ...
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  • in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known ... of numerous concerts, featuring many of the world's leading orchestras ...
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  • only interrupted by military service during World War II. ... He went on to appear in a series of screwball comedies with varying ...
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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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  • and publications in the English-speaking world, a position of great import ... Honorary Doctor of Science at Swansea University in 1954. ...
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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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  • the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage ... Sagan also wrote a bestselling book supporting the Cosmos series and ...
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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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  • new work, not least of all the Star Wars series of films despite his own ... respectively during the First and Second World Wars while his Star Wars ...
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  • for the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in World War I. Due to an administrative ... At the end of the First World War, Cummings went to Paris to study ...
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  • rubble of the Korean War into one of the world's foremost economies ... which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, a United ...
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  • not his cigarette, she could have prevented World War I. After the outbreak ... West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" where Oakley was a ...
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  • (1929 and 1936), The Cherry Orchard (1954), and Ivanov (1965)–establishing ... , his own adaptation of The Cherry Orchard (1954), The Potting Shed (1958) ...
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  • " in April 1965. This launched a long series of successful hit singles ... together with "I'm In a Different World," were their last hits ...
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  • The battle occurred between March and May 1954, and culminated in a massive ... reminiscent of the trench warfare of World War I. The French repeatedly ...
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  • The World Cup, sometimes called the FIFA World Cup, is an international ... The tournament's final phase is often called the World Cup Finals ...
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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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  • One year later, Alicia left Simpson for a series of post-marriage adventures ... also served as a naval officer in World War I before working to develop ...
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  • group members. From the Dada activities of World War I Surrealism was formed ... and Eugenio Granell. Miró created a series of sculptures and ceramics ...
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  • Cleveland Indians, he helped them win the world championship. In the Major ... of the powerful Homestead Grays in the 1942 World Series, with Satchel himself ...
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  • was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. Fleming ... a modern hero who is at home in the modern world which emphasizes technological ...
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  • to the entertainment industry: a Guinness World Record for "Longest ... broadcast of the new medium at the New York World's Fair. It also happened ...
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  • in 2004. In 2003, she and Davis narrated a series of Works Progress Administration ... Legend Ruby Dee Dies at 91] Broadway World, June 12, 2014. Retrieved ...
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  • steady job. In 1917, when the U.S. entered World War I, he enlisted in the ... In 1954, Cissy Chandler died after a long illness, during which time ...
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  • the most influential gospel singers in the world. Her music reached millions ... concert halls in Europe and around the world. She appeared on the popular ...
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  • in America. As the United States entered World War II studios were reluctant ... led Burton Lane to describe him as, The world's greatest musical performer. ...
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  • He did these entertainment tours from World War II up until the Persian ... Honored Entertainer by The Guinness Book of World Records. ...
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  • bombs on Laos than on Germany and Japan in World War II. The complex internal ... Vietnam. There were repeated attempts from 1954 onward to get the North Vietnamese ...
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  • acclaimed. Four of his movies, La Strada (1954), Le Notti di Cabiria (1957 ... one of the great creative partnerships in world cinema. Several months after ...
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  • By the 1954 Olympic Games, apparatus and events for both men and women ... ponytailed little girl" who showed the world that perfection could be achieved. ...
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  • drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil ... from isolation and entry into the first World War created a new, faster ...
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  • the final short in the Laurel and Hardy series was 1935's Thicker than ... Stan and Ollie are children in a grown-up world: A skinny-and-fat pair of ...
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  • him, won a great following in the Arab World in the 1950s and 1960s. Nasser is still seen by many throughout the Arab World as a symbol ...
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  • Yamaha began producing harmonicas during World War I and hand-wound phonographs ... manufacturer of musical instruments in the world, and Yamaha Motor Corporation ...
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  • 1987), or Andy Warhol as he is known to the world, was an American renaissance ... he kept, but his brush with death began a series of artistic meditations on ...
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  • with 305 while playing for Keokuk in 1954. Meanwhile, in four minor ... in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 1962 World Series, holding a runner ...
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  • were also featured in the 1951 CBS radio series, Your Tropical Trip. ... Ball to adapt her very popular radio series, My Favorite Husband, for ...
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  • husband to Montgomery, Alabama in September 1954, where he was named pastor ... In 1964, a pinnacle year for civil rights, Mrs. King organized a series ...
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  • A number of electro-mechanical devices were tried during World War ... In 1954, General Precision Inc., later part of Singer Corporation ...
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  • in the long-running radio and television series, The Adventures of Ozzie ... "Poor Little Fool," "Young World," "Lonesome Town ...
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  • frame of reference—to an ever expanding world fan and supporter base for ... ==Youth (1933–1954)== Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon ...
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  • spanned the years of the Great Depression and World War II. ... Despite losing four prime seasons to World War II and another to a ...
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  • made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was later ... Louis, Missouri to John Conn Grable (1883-1954) and Lillian Rose Hofmann ...
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  • States National Bureau of Standards in 1954. PZT is used as an ultrasonic ... The military requirements of World War II (1939-1945) encouraged developments ...
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  • most famous performing arts venues in the world. Designed by Jørn Utzon ... The Sydney Opera House is an expressionist modern design, with a series ...
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  • "the greatest black writer in the world for me". Wright and ... never returns. He later dies in France in World War I, but Florence only ...
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  • in club history, the Yankees earned seven World Series titles and 11 pennants ... New York Yankees won three consecutive World Series championships; 1998 ...
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  • of modern prose, such as the irrational world of Franz Kafka. He was noted ... edition of his complete works was published in 1954. ==Political sympathies ...
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  • at the age of 88 for All the Money in the World, making him the oldest person ... Plummer made his Broadway debut in 1954 and continued to act in leading ...
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  • devoted his time and energies to making the world a better place for all. ... Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific ...
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  • was also the publisher of both the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ... or team, presented as a single article or series. Former titles of this award ...
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  • Marilyn that when Robert later suffered a series of physical ailments, Baker ... While her husband served in the Merchant Marines during World War ...
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  • captured the imagination of his audience world wide, and brought a greater ... When his father was declared bankrupt in 1954, Cornwell left Oxford ...
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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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  • and then a lecturer at Dundee. During World War I, he combined his lectureship ... of the Aristotelian Society twice: 1927-1928; and 1954-1955. ...
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  • General of Australia. He fought in both World War I and World War II. He ... on August 22, 1914, at the outbreak of World War I; in later life, as ...
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  • During World War II, Wesley Prince left the group and Cole replaced ... |1965 || Unforgettable (1965 reissue of 1954 album) |- style="background:white; ...
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  • leading his school to City Championships in 1954 and 1955. He scored 90 points ... In July 1954, he was showcased in a Paramount Newsreel, entitled Giant ...
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  • Bing Crosby Enterprises (BCE), gave the world's first demonstration ... to have a commercial version available in 1954, but none came forth. ...
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  • the pressures of a hostile capitalist world unless socialist revolutions ... in 1916 following disagreements over World War I. Although the organization ...
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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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  • were deposited by a massive rock slide in 1954. The larger Canadian Horseshoe ... de la Salle, thus bringing them to the world's attention. Hennepin ...
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  • He supported himself at a series of jobs, including real estate and ... under the veil of fictionalization. In 1954, he wrote: "…many Americans ...
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