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- Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
14: *[[1933]] - [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|20th...
25: ...[[Frances Perkins]] appointed [[United States Secretary of Labor]]
38: *[[1934]] - [[Share the Wealth society]] founded by [[Huey Long]]
48: *[[1935]] - [[Fair Labor Standard Act]] - sets [[minimum wage]] and hours
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ample of political stablity in the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin...
13: ...r" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Costa Rica|Detail]])
52: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
61: ...] were part of the [[Intermediate Area]] located between the [[Mesoamerican]] and [[Andean]] cultural ...
69: ...ence have marred its democratic development. In [[1949]], [[Jos順igueres Ferrer]] abolished the [[army]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...2.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the ...
5: ...ntury|nineteenth]] and early [[20th century|twentieth centuries]], China stagnated and fell behind, an...
7: ...) government was forced to flee the mainland and retreat to Taiwan, which it had governed since the en...
18: ...overns [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and the ROC now governs [[Taiwan]] (also claim...
21: ...the capital or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition. - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: A wide variety of [[religion]]s have been practiced in [[China]...
5: ...ncepts of a sacred and sometimes spiritual world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a...
7: ...ountries, Chinese belief systems allow for [[syncretism]] and it is common to profess a belief in mult...
11: ... be a [[deity]], but rather someone who mediated between the forces of heaven and earth. A central ide...
35: ... of Chinese, predominantly such [[list of Chinese ethnic groups|minority groups]] as the [[Hui people|... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
71: ...dams (footballer)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1966), athlete - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
3: *[[Sin Ai|Ai, Sin]], poet
9: ...], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
11: *[[Conrad Aiken|Aiken, Conrad]], (1889-1973), poet
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
20: ... Richard Ainger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...er American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family...
6: ...he rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
10: ...ning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ... her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later b...
14: She returned to Milwaukee at the urging of her father whe... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: '''Margaret Chase Smith''' ([[December 14]], [[1897]] –...
5: ...ion, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military....
7: .... Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[January 3]], [[1973]]. She was defeated f...
11: ...s rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conf... - 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: ... [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]'') against the [[Baltimore, Maryland]] School ...
11: ...] she publicly debated religious leaders on a variety of issues and also produced an [[atheism|atheist...
13: .... In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemingly all...
18: ...vict who had worked as an office manager and typesetter for American Atheist and had previous convicti... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
5: ... birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
35: *Cartas perto do Cora磯 (2001) (letters exchanged with [[Fernando Sabino]]) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ... picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became on...
9: ...cademy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series o...
11: ...film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving ...
13: ...rried Fairbanks on [[March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and ...
25: ...tion]]" as a part of [[Paramount Pictures]], she gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actre... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and cat...
7: ...a]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in...
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 19...
17: ...with [[Alfred North Whitehead]] in England. They returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies ...
29: ...nd was interred there in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. When she was being wheeled into the operating... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...first woman to receive the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]. She was also known for her unconventional an...
5: ... was attained. She won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poe...
7: ...en years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
9: Her reputation was damaged by poetry she wrote in support of the Allied war effort d...
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died ab... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ... enamored and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of education, Ms. C...
8: ...r, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstic...
10: ..." and maintaining the Cochran name, she began competing in both American and international air races, ...
12: In 1939, she set a new altitude and international speed record, re...
14: ...ying the new [[jet engine]] aircraft going on to set numerous records. She still holds more distance a... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...'''. She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor'...
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper ...
9: She later returned to the Navy where she worked on validation s...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Comma...
16: ... By [[1985]] she became a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]]. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...ck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked together with Hahn for 30 years, each of them leading a...
10: ...te President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ...e Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
9: ...85]], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[[1988]])...
11: ...n the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] in [[1983]]. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[Fr...
7: ...a pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
13: ...anaged to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never r...
17: ...cism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tribe.... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...lie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
7: ...ceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
14: ...d producer]] [[John Hammond]] at a club called Monette's (there is still some dispute among historians...
16: ...forming regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
24: ...raneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
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