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  1. Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
    1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
    3: ...'s "Migrant Mother," an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States]]
    7: *[[1931]] - [[Japan]] invades [[Manchuria]]
    15: ...33]] - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] becomes President
    26: *[[1933]] - [[Montevideo Conference]]

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  1. Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
    1: ...inent|continental]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of...
    5: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
    6: |+<big><big>'''Rep?a de Costa Rica'''</big></big>
    9: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
    13: ...er" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Costa Rica|Detail]])
  2. History of China (45919 bytes)
    2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
    7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
    11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
    14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
    15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
  3. China (38909 bytes)
    1: ...e [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
    3: ...nding on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or multiple c...
    5: ...of China]] in [[1912]]; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Jap...
    7: ...utes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
    14: ...of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states.
  4. Religion in China (12456 bytes)
    1: ...0px|Temple incense near Beijing China. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
    3: ... religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of China is [[Chinese traditional ...
    9: ...r belief systems that developed within China include [[ancestor worship]], [[Chinese folk religion]], ...
    11: ...etween the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dynastic cycle]] was that an unjust imp...
    13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam]] and [[Christianity]].
  5. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
    11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
    36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
    51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
    53: *[[Jose de Acosta|Acosta, Jose de]] (1540-1600)
    56: *[[Mercedes de Acosta|Acosta, Mercedes de]] (1893-1968)
  6. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    5: ...1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
    16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
    26: ...s|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
    27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
    35: *[[Alvin Adams|Adams, Alvin]] (1804-1877), founder of [[Adams Express]]
  7. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    7: ...rah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
    20: ... Richard Ainger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP
    24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer
  8. Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
    2: ...ive-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to I...
    12: ...ed and ran away. She went to Denver, where her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris...
    20: ...o represent them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of th...
    24: ...vement in Palestine. They arrested many of its leaders. Golda, however, was never arrested. She gradua...
    28: ...itting down and signing a [[declaration of independence]]."
  9. Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
    3: '''Margaret Chase Smith''' ([[December 14]], [[1897]] &ndash; [[May 29]], [[1995]]...
    5: ...that investigated problems encountered by the War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the ...
    7: ...thaway only served one term in the Senate; he was defeated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|Bill ...
    9: ...d the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]]...
    11: ...ully intervened in Senate elections defeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when he attempted to challen...
  10. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
    1: ...as an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]], founder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the ...
    4: ...lf Madalyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never...
    9: ...American Atheists]], "a nationwide movement which defends the [[civil rights]] of nonbelievers, works ...
    11: ...t the [[1970s]] she publicly debated religious leaders on a variety of issues and also produced an [[a...
    13: ... behave. In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemin...
  11. Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
    1: ...larice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] wr...
    3: ...t her stream-of-consciousness writing style was under heavy influence of [[Virginia Woolf]] or [[James...
    5: ...s buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
    7: ...', where the life of Macab顬 a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fiction...
    13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
  12. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    5: ...ther, n饠Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged ...
    7: ...tten by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was p...
    9: ... film era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retir...
    11: ...s driving and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped.
    13: ...March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and were famous for enter...
  13. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    1: ...laywright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life ...
    3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
    7: ...sburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]...
    9: ...by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
    13: ...klas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was support...
  14. Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
    3: ...cence]" (1912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to [[Vassar College]]. After her g...
    9: ...ore flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fa...
    11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died ab...
  15. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    4: ...b at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
    6: ...fered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of education, Ms. Cochran had a qui...
    8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran beg...
    10: ... she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impove...
    12: ...g America's entry into the War, in 1942 she was made director of women's flight training for the Unite...
  16. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    1: ...rogrammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer p...
    3: ... at [[Yale University]], where she received an MA degree in the same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [...
    5: ...d from the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculat...
    7: ...auchly]] Computer Corporation and joined the team developing the [[UNIVAC I]]. In the early [[1950s]] ...
    9: ...machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fa...
  17. Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
    4: ...wig Boltzmann]]. After she obtained her doctorate degree, she went to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study ...
    10: ...|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, whi...
    12: ...e Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
    17: ...h, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue o...
  18. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
    7: ... Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
    9: ... numerous papers, and established herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she mar...
    11: ...n the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] in [[1983]].
    13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to Companion in [[1...
  19. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    5: ...ddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a teen, gradually heading toward [[New ...
    7: ... acts. Already a star, she performed in a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet...
    11: ...ime she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contempo...
    13: ...ker was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre]] for her underground activity.
    15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never real...
  20. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    1: ...lie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
    3: ...'''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of al...
    7: ...ng as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother sometim...
    9: ...er as a "[[Frank DeViese]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital...
    16: ...ormance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], did much to solidify her standing as a jaz...

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