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- Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
11: *[[1932]] - [[Amelia Earhart]] flies across [[Atlantic Ocean]]
15: *[[1933]] - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] becomes President
44: *[[1935]] - [[National Labor Relations Act]]
58: *[[1938]] - [[Wheeler Lea Act]]
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
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69: ...ence have marred its democratic development. In [[1949]], [[José †igueres Ferrer]] abolished the [[army]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...nd fell behind, and was too weak militarily to repel [[Europe]]an interference or [[Empire of Japan|Ja...
7: ...ruler of China, and increasingly characterizes itself as ''[[Taiwan]]'', which is also the usage commo...
16: ...of surrounding nations; a concept that continued well into the [[Qing dynasty]], although being contin...
23: ...to oppose ''Zhongguo'', then we should break off relations with them soon." In this sense, the term is...
25: ...Dynasty|Song]]. The term ''Zhongguo'' came to be related to geographic, cultural and political identit... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: ...ing [[Taoism]], [[Buddhism]], and [[Chinese folk religion]].
5: ...m]] as religions, while others regard them as solely philosophies of life.
7: ...and it is common to profess a belief in multiple belief systems. It is possible for someone to claim t...
9: ...en]] and [[yin and yang]]. The Chinese have also believed in such practices as [[Chinese astrology|ast...
11: ...[[Mandate of Heaven]] and be overthrown by a [[rebellion]]. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
29: *[[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
32: ... Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
47: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm]], (1896-1962), mathematician - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech architec...
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
20: ... Richard Ainger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...ia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citize...
12: ...ool for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where her o...
16: ...d began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The cou...
22: ... Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...s in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the [[United States House of Represe...
5: ...]. She served in the House until [[January 3]], [[1949]]. She served on the House Armed Services committ...
7: ...[[William Dodd Hathaway|Bill Hathaway]], the only election she ever lost in the state of Maine. (Hath...
11: ...cCarthy. He had successfully intervened in Senate elections defeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...hs and began calling herself Madalyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree from [[South Texas Co...
7: ...eme Court]] which voted 8-1 in her favor, effectively banning 'coercive' public prayer and Bible-readi...
9: ...ovement which defends the [[civil rights]] of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and sta...
11: ...She filed lawsuits on many issues over which she felt there was a collusion of church and state in vio...
13: ...might have characterized as [[self-actualization|self-actualizing]]. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...Selvagem'' (Close to the Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-co...
5: ...er 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life o...
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...y Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Cana...
7: ...o in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage nam...
9: ...d her for a part in a one-reel thriller, ''The Lonely Villa'' in 1909. Pickford would go on to become ...
11: ... Pickford became secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Dou...
22: * [[1913]]: Appears (with [[Lillian Gish]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Good Little Devil'' - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...eminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent mos...
13: ... was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
19: ...rge circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature and art were highly...
21: ...ving the two "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one i...
23: ...rian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values ... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
3: ...e]], [[United States|USA]], to Cora Lounella (Buzzelle), a nurse, and Henry Tollman Millay, a schoolte...
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died ab...
18: It gives a lovely light! - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[M...
3: [[Image:JacquelineCochran.JPG|thumb|Jacqueline Cochran]]
6: ...oyd Odlum quickly became enamored and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her ...
8: ...n began taking flying lessons at [[Roosevelt Airfield]] on [[Long Island]]. A natural, she was quickly...
10: ...er growing fame, and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press a... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer prog...
3: ...i Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in [[1928]]...
5: ...rom the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators...
7: ... first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-...
12: ... was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.]]. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ... Chemistry</i>. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of ph...
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ...the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effect]], which is named...
10: ...celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan...
12: ...e Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
3: '''Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg''' ([[August 1]], [[1905]] ...
9: ...], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[[1988]]), a...
11: ...n the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] in [[1983]]. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...e it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
11: ...batino—a Sicilian stonemason who passed himself off successfully as a Sicilian [[count]]—B...
13: ... to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry ch...
15: ...6]], she starred in a failed show with the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered,...
17: ... given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatri... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...lie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ...reatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood whi...
7: ...her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A hardened and angry child, she dropped ou...
9: ...would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughte...
20: ... that era to perform with white musicians. Nevertheless, she was still forced to use the back entrance...
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