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  • president against Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. He was ambassador ... in civic activities. At the beginning of World War II, in 1939 and 1940 ...
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  • older brother Bradley, was killed in World War II. Clark has been married ... In 1952, Clark moved to Philadelphia and took a job as a disc jockey ...
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  • could push the maximum flow of the dam, a series of emergency spillways have ... than many other dams built around the world for the same purposes. ...
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  • the youngest man then to have won the world heavyweight championship ... Patterson was also the first heavyweight to win the world championship ...
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  • of cultures from different parts of the world. Although he did not do extensive ... social anthropology at Oxford. The Second World War, however, prevented him ...
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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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  • with 150 or more hits (17). He won one World Series ring with the Milwaukee ... the Indianapolis Clowns to victory in the 1952 Negro League World Series ...
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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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  • 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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  • appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring ... more successful and eventually led to a series of pictures (although from ...
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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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  • #039;s books. Blyton is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring ... She is probably best known for several book series, including those ...
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  • College in Claremont, California from 1952 to 2009, retiring shortly ... Sontag served in the U.S. Army during the Second World War, becoming ...
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  • Sachio Hayakawa and I.B. Hutchinson in 1952, and Morrison in 1958, led ... Detectors aboard the Vela satellite series, designed to detect flashes ...
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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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  • 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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  • of the most important film festivals in the world, alongside the Venice Film ... War, in the city of Berlin divided after World War II. Over the years it ...
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  • War of Independence between the Allies of World War I and the Ankara-based ... secular Muslim majority state in the world. The Turkish people were ...
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  • a research fellow of Nuffield College (1946-1952), then as Drummond Professor ... of the Accademia dei Lincei, Italy, in 1952, and of the American Academy ...
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  • Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866 - November 20, 1952) was an Italian ... Bari, to produce three highly influential series of literature, Writers of ...
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  • the ultimate power of justice in an unjust world is such a basic one that ... " The Jewish Quarterly Review (New Series) 43 (1952): 1-26. ...
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  • In can be said that Cagney left the world a better place for having ... his name as a "tough guy" in a series of crime films. ...
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  • and Fort Smith, Arkansas, from the 1890s to World War I. ... " and Jane Russell took on the role in 1952's "Montana Belle ...
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  • This theory presupposes the existence of an objective world. ... out that there is no obvious way for a series of statements about what ...
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  • The nation's entrance into World War II in 1941 marked the beginning ... by spina bifida occulta, a birth defect. In 1952, Hank and Audrey separated ...
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  • a strong amateur team, the Juncos Mules. In 1952, Roberto Clemente was spotted ... he hit .356 for Santurce in the winter of 1952–1953. ...
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  • consecutive Davis Cup victories. He was the World No. 1 player for five years ... dedication to the sport eventually led to a world championship victory in 1928 ...
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  • (January 5, 1893–March 7, 1952), was an Indian yogi and guru ... Yogananda emphasized the underlying unity of the world's great ...
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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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  • senses by which they perceive the physical world, humans also have a moral ... good and evil as there are subjects in the world. This view was put forward ...
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  • through the catastrophe of the First World War, Surrealism played with ... He fought in World War I and, in 1916, received a serious shrapnel ...
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  • of aircraft and spacecraft in the world. It is also a vital center ... aircraft donated to the Smithsonian after World War II and the need for hangar ...
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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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  • almost five years in the military during World War II and the Korean War. ... .400 since. (Williams also hit .400 in 1952 and .407 in 1953, both partial ...
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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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  • * 16-time AL All-Star (1952–1965, 1967, 1968) }} A.L. championship pennant winners and seven World Series championship clubs ...
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  • including participation in the first World Series in 1903. After the ... as a hitting instructor from 1933 to 1952. Future Hall of Famers Arky ...
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  • storm, where one earthquake will trigger a series of earthquakes each triggered ... Small earthquakes occur nearly constantly around the world in places ...
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  • for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for ... as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The building and its street ...
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  • is characteristic of much art of the post-World War I period, and can be ... chose to show Mary offering her son to the whole world. ...
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  • on the Fairmount Park commission. During World War II, President Franklin ... Cooper in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952), a Western filmed in Columbia ...
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  • first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times, ... in two rounds. In 1941, he defeated world champion Sammy Angott, future ...
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  • associated with it. It is one of the world's major news agencies ... 2000, when it was finally acquired by News World Communications, owner of ...
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  • simple flutes from cultures all around the world, including the ney, an end ... and-Dance Ensemble (Tianjin gewutuan) in 1952. Liu, together with Feng Zicun ...
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  • Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round the World against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Giants went on to meet the New York Yankees in the 1951 World ...
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  • |death_date=October 19, 1952 |death_place=Whittier, California, U.S. ... Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 16, 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a ...
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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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  • as New Challenge and New Masses. During World War II Ellison joined the ... a time in Rome, Italy, where he composed a series of essays. In 1958, he returned ...
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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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  • are included in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. They are regarded ... The Jenolan Caves in New South Wales, Australia are a series of caves ...
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  • car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s ... the son of Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of world speed records in the 1920s ...
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  • importance of land power and sea power in world history... The geopolitical ... Theory" in 1904. Mackinder divided the world into two sections, the "World ...
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  • and its battle to maintain its values in a modern world. ... he began his journey to becoming one of the world's premier cartoonists. ...
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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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  • 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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  • the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by ... Aino Aalto died in 1949, and in 1952 Alvar married architect Elissa ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • with the railway union. He founded a series of freedom movements, culminating ... a builder of bridges, not of barriers. In a world where too often race, ethnicity ...
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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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  • 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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  • from illegal distributorships and the fast world of gaming to being able to ... Martin's world began to crumble on March 21, 1987, when his son ...
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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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  • MacNeice died in December 1914 after a series of illnesses including uterine ... boarding school) left for America in early 1952 to stay with his mother, to ...
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  • Bing Crosby Enterprises (BCE), gave the world's first demonstration ... The BBC experimented from 1952 to 1958 with a high-speed linear videotape ...
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  • look back until they had reached the upper world. As he returned, each step ... credited with a miraculous return from the world of the dead, a fact that ...
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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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  • 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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  • The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the world's premier ... the highest level of competition in the world of basketball. It has grown ...
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  • insisted that the study of the natural world should serve the purposes ... French learning dominated the intellectual world. Men like Adam Smallbridge ...
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  • even more radical Industrial Workers of the World, it saw the capitalist system ... went into decline. The Knights lost a series of large strikes which cost ...
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  • Deanna Durbin, and Sammy Davis Jr. During World War II he worked in a United ... This hour-long Sunday evening variety series teamed Cantor with announcer ...
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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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  • The Crab Nebula (catalog designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a ... with the equatorial wind appearing as a series of wisp-like features that ...
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  • freedom, and education throughout the world. It provided funding for ... In 1952, the foundation’s first international field office opened ...
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  • "Memoirs")), in Byloe (Leningrad series), 1926, 3 (37), (magazine ... (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1952), 124. quoted in Arthur Levin ...
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  • Tandy became a naturalized citizen of the US in 1952, and spent much ... film career, with character roles in The World According to Garp, Best Friends ...
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  • November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman ... He became a British subject in 1910, and in World War I, he was (1916 ...
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  • of ethics in the English speaking world. Some of Hare's students ... Singapore in 1942, to the end of the Second World War. This experience had ...
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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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  • is often cited, by the Guinness Book of World Records and others, as the ... During World War I she worked as a Red Cross volunteer nurse at a ...
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  • some of the best preserved rock art in the world. The approximately 250 painted ... A series of mountain ranges runs the length of the peninsula, which ...
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  • (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952), went on to become Hollywood ... Steinbeck began to write a series of "California novels" ...
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  • with the Library of Congress in 1952–1953, a fact that led him ... laconic and focused on things in the world rather than abstractions ...
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  • for Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer. The 1952 film adaptation won both an ... In 1963, Inge was in meetings to develop a CBS series of one-hour ...
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  • Ruth in 1948; Don Larsen's perfect World Series game in 1956; Roger ... ===The World Series=== Since its 1923 opening, 37 of 83 World Series ...
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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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  • middle classes. He continued to do so in a series of other films: I vinti ... a conventional narrative, he presented a series of apparently disconnected ...
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  • the way members of each culture experience their world. ... settled down in Lugano, Switzerland in 1952, becoming a professor at the ...
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  • museum by the Chinese. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ... The Potala Palace was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List ...
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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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  • 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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  • and theorist, Constantin Stanislavski. In 1952, Lee Strasberg took over as ... #039;s Purges, and the Polish massacres of World War II. He still resented ...
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  • jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of jazz piano as the supreme ... for Decca (1934-41), Capitol (1949, 1952) and for the labels associated ...
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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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  • through 1950. He followed Ninotchka with a series of box office hits in 1942 ... a wholesome family man from the television series My Three Sons, but he played ...
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  • discrete elements of the natural world. Zivie-Coche, 40-41; Frankfort ... creation accounts or depictions of the world of the dead, with a particular ...
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  • He believed that at its root, World War II was caused by a fundamental ... 1909, as counsel at the Paris Court. During World War I, he was drafted into ...
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  • Show, which eventually spawned the hit series The Simpsons, the longest ... more TV station groups. The first was New World Communications, which had ...
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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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  • Berlin; Hollywood movie star in the 1930s; World War II frontline troop entertainer ... after as a result of injuries sustained during World War I. ...
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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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  • largest automobile manufacturer in the world, employs over 45,000 people ... At the beginning of World War II, the government declared civilian ...
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  • Mauna Loa is the world's largest shield volcano. Because its ... at the other. For example, between 1934 and 1952, Kīlauea was dormant and ...
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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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  • his distinguished military service during World War II. His novels deal with ... and let wither all the dear things of the world." ==Early life== ...
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  • industry and making the Soviet Union into a world power, while collectivization ... Ukrainian Communist Party. During 1948 to 1952, he served as the Chief of ...
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  • between Western culture and democracy and the world of Islam. ... to cover the whole history of Egypt in a series of books. However, following ...
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  • Scofield as the title role in Richard II (1952). Gielgud didn't always ... Lear (1950, 1955), Much Ado About Nothing (1952, 1955, 1959) and his signature ...
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  • are the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent ... to art. In 1910 he left Vienna to see the world, traveling throughout Europe ...
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  • others such as Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. A European edition ... U.S. radio and movie theaters around the world to promote both Time magazine ...
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  • the Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World," 1893) and Cello Concerto ... the Symphony No. 9 known as From the New World. He spent the summer of 1893 ...
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  • During World War II, Wesley Prince left the group and Cole replaced ... *Nat King Cole and Joe Adams Orchestra (1952) *Nat King Cole and Russ ...
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  • air is moved through the tunnel using a series of fans. For very large wind ... and laminar. To correct this problem, a series of closely-spaced vertical ...
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  • maintain his large format group. In March 1952, Gillespie left for France ... he returned to the United States after a series of successful concerts and ...
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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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  • 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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  • | spouse = Anne Geraldine Charteris (1952-1964) }} was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. Fleming ...
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  • America, and other parts of the developing world advanced, the communist state ... and listed his ethnicity as Ukrainian until 1952 (afterwards, evidently, considering ...
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  • General of Australia. He fought in both World War I and World War II. He ... his Governor-Generalship of Australia (1952-59). His term was extended ...
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  • but escaped to join the Resistance. After World War II he was Finance Minister ... in a civilian capacity during the First World War and never wore a German ...
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  • His own experiences of being wounded by shrapnel in World War I, and ... In 1915, during the First World War, he joined the No. 2 Field Ambulance ...
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  • as fire. The Stoics believed that a "world soul" informed all things ... accepted the Stoic concept of the world-soul, but gave priority to ...
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  • During World War II, Miller worked for several years as an economist ... economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1952. His first academic appointment ...
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  • his high school graduation, to serve in World War II. O'Hara served ... time at work and his friends in the art world would drop by and visit him ...
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  • By 1952, the González-Videla dictatorship was on its last legs, weakened ... translated into most major languages of the world. He was also vocal on political ...
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  • fielder by 1909 and led the Red Sox to World Series championships in 1912 ... of the Philadelphia Athletics. In the 1912 World Series, Speaker led the Red ...
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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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  • who pioneered bridging the Far Eastern world and the West by introducing ... was one of the invited speakers at the World Parliament of Religions held ...
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  • Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement ... to the violent and grotesque Women series of Willem de Kooning (which ...
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  • In the context of the Cold War between the Western world, led by the ... attacked into the mountains. In a series of small scale fights, the ...
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  • was an advocate for gender balance in the dance world. Noted for making ... His first major ballet, Persephone, was created in 1952. Two years ...
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  • 0713480344). Dean's father served in World War II and later remarried. ... (1951), a boxing cornerman in Sailor Beware (1952), Tony Curtis, American ...
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  • 1987), or Andy Warhol as he is known to the world, was an American renaissance ... His first exhibit was at the Hugo Gallery in 1952 and was titled, ...
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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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  • in the long-running radio and television series, The Adventures of Ozzie ... "Poor Little Fool," "Young World," "Lonesome Town ...
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  • maturity. The piece is the first of a series of stark urban and rural ... endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality ...
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  • touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles ... Apart from the "College" and the "Time" series ...
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  • during the Third Reich. Following the post-World War II division of Germany ... and remained in captivity until the end of World War II. At the end of the ...
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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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  • 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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  • defended in the English-speaking world by Ronald Dworkin—claims ... Nicomachean Ethics. Clarendon Aristotle series. Oxford: Clarendon Press ...
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  • Indians. In other parts of the New World the Spanish simply eliminated ... to the modern era. Before the revolution of 1952, native Bolivians were not ...
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  • longest serving executive head of state in the world. Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on August 11, 1952. His formal accession to the ...
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  • ALP), Whitlam entered Federal Parliament in 1952, winning a by-election for ... the University of Sydney. During the Second World War he served overseas as ...
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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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  • he had first met in 1934. During the Second World War he served with distinction ... service when Elizabeth became queen in 1952, having reached the rank of ...
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  • Early Flight. (New York, NY: Alfred Knopf, 1952).Smithsonian Institution. ... on tethered observation balloons in World War I. These were tempting ...
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  • of countries (also known as the Allies of World War II) that consisted of ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...
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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 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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  • . He wrote that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them ... # The proponents of different paradigms see the world in a different ...
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  • public both in the US and around the world. Former Federal Reserve Board ... as income rose. On the other hand, time series data showed much less change ...
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  • interrupted in June 1941 when, with World War II looming, Hubbard joined ... In mid-1952, Hubbard expanded Dianetics into a secular philosophy ...
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  • The White House is well known throughout the world as a symbol of ... moved back into the White House on March 27, 1952. While the house ...
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  • his family began to feel unsafe in the pre-World War II political and economic ... being a Jew, he fled Paris. After a series of attempts to obtain passage ...
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  • one of the top 10 endangered birds in the world, the Puerto Rican Amazon. ... Puerto Rico and Cuba became the sole New World remnants of the large Spanish ...
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  • were very popular during the Second World War. She was widely referred ... cancer. Held in great affection by Second World War veterans and the public ...
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  • Before long, World War II was underway. The draft, and other factors ... material to record, Fitzgerald recorded a series of duets with pianist Ellis ...
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  • Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other ... In between, he spent three years during World War II working as a civilian ...
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  • maximized her "sex appeal." In World War II, her picture was popular ... their full share of responsibility in the world alongside men is increasingly ...
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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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  • literary figures in the English-speaking world, including T. S. Eliot, Robert ... Orwell and the Politics of Truth,” to the 1952 reissue of George Orwell’s ...
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  • Lou Gehrig. The Yankees had not been to the World Series since 1932, but, thanks ... Following the U.S. entrance in World War II, DiMaggio enlisted in ...
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  • on young European architects after World War I and is called the ... Wright is responsible for a series of extremely original concepts ...
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  • by Albert Einstein. Hahn left Vienna during World War I and returned in 1921 ... Under the direction of Schlick, a new regular series of meetings was ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • soprano roles in operas around the world and on recordings. After ... Violetta in La traviata and, in the fall of 1952, singing Micaëla in Carmen ...
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  • From 1948 to 1952 he worked in a record store. In 1955, Dick and his ... Throughout February and March 1974, he experienced a series of visions ...
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  • interested in serving his country during World War II. But on December 9 ... The down-side of fame for Sinatra was a series of public relations ...
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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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  • Industrialization during World War II and after attracted an influx ... opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1952) won the presidential polls ...
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  • appearances on NBC between 1948 and 1952. In 1950, the network sanctioned ... also known as the GE Building, is the world headquarters of NBC.]] ...
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  •  – March 9, 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat ... against participation in the First World War. In 1915, she broke with ...
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  • merged to form the modern province of Anhui in 1952. ==Geography== ... occupying much of southwestern Anhui and a series of hills and ranges cutting ...
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  • John Dewey at Columbia University, in a series of public exchanges. ... This 283-page book expanded from a 1952 pamphlet of the same title ...
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  • encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest recorded cave ... national park on July 1, 1941. It became a World Heritage Site on October ...
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  • has sold over 100 million copies around the world, with at least 50 million ... in the Ampex company, which developed the world's first commercial reel ...
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  • He supported himself at a series of jobs, including real estate and ... "social" science fiction. During World War II he did aeronautical ...
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