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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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  • ) 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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