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- Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
13: *[[1932]] - [[Reconstruction Finance Corporation]]
27: *[[1933]] - [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution|21...
35: *[[1934]] - [[Tydings-McDuffie Act]]
75: *[[1942]] - [[Office of Price Administration]]
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ntry has been free of violent political conflict. Figueres also abolished the [[military]] and today, ...
20: | '''[[Official language]]'''
21: | [[Spanish language|Spanish]] (Official), ([[English language|English]] and indigenou...
61: ...fined to include the [[Isthmo-Colombian]] area, defined by the presence of groups that spoke [[Chibcha...
69: ...ence have marred its democratic development. In [[1949]], [[José †igueres Ferrer]] abolished the [[army]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...tory characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war ...
7: ...t of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
16: ... [[Qing dynasty]], although being continually redefined while the central political influence expanded...
21: ...he ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
22: ...empire. Three are with the Man and Yi barbarians. Five are in ''Zhongguo''." - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
42: Some consider the first entry of [[Christianity]] into China was the i...
46: The first [[Jesuit]] attempt to reach China was made in ...
50: ...s to China. The book ''[[The Small Woman]]'' and film ''[[Inn of the Sixth Happiness]]'' tell the sto...
52: ...[[Cultural Revolution]], and there remains some official harassment in the form of arrests and interro...
56: ...l government towards some Christian sects, and difficulties in obtaining accurate statistics on house ... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
25: ...n|Ackerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
86: *[[Filippo Addis|Addis, Filippo]], (1884-1974), writer - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
20: ... Richard Ainger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
28: ...Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of ...
20: ...d to join Kibbutz Merhavia and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. ...
30: ...nsjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's first passport and sent to the United States to rais...
32: ...eir handing certificates to the [[USSR|Soviet]] officials.]]
34: ...t Union]]. She served there briefly, leaving in [[1949]]. She then entered the [[Knesset]] (Israeli Par... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...the [[United States Senate| Senate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at...
5: ...]. She served in the House until [[January 3]], [[1949]]. She served on the House Armed Services committ...
7: .... Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[January 3]], [[1973]]. She was defeated f...
11: ...the Maine voters rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate ... - 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...
9: ...d as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
11: ...h she criticized [[religion]] and [[theism]]. She filed lawsuits on many issues over which she felt th...
16: ...rom any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray filed a [[missing persons]] report.
18: ...s buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...e was 2 months old. In [[1944]] she published her first novel ''Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem'' (Close to ...
7: ... Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Amer...
9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and mar...
18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
21: ...as four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
50: ... in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any...
52: ...Using the idea of everything belonging to a whole field and mattering equally, as well as each being h... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poet...
3: ... schoolteacher. Cora divorced Millay's father for financial irresponsibility in 1900, when Millay was ...
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died ab...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920):
20: Her finest poems, however, are probably "[http://www.bar... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...to obtain a job at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
6: ... education, Ms. Cochran had a quick mind and an affinity for business and the investment proved a lucr...
8: ... married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recognized the valu...
10: ...ts to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relented and allowed her and fellow aviatrix...
12: ... British Air Transport Auxiliary, recruiting qualified women pilots in the United States and taking th... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...he [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming langua...
3: ...o subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her d...
5: ...Aiken]] on the [[Mark I Calculator]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end ...
7: ... The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were rele...
9: ... language [[COBOL]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended he... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ... named the process "[[nuclear fission]]". Nuclear fission as a phenomenon was completely unexpected; ...
12: ...e Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...05]] – [[January 28]], [[1993]]) was a prolific [[astronomy|astronomer]] noted for her research ...
9: ...apers, and established herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she married [[F. E...
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... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...e.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
9: ...al star, Baker also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse ...
11: ... and public persona into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stu...
17: ...osephine Baker, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949]]Though based in France, she supported the [[Amer...
19: ... show opened to rave reviews, but Baker never benefited from it. She died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]]... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...lie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ...all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...st who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she w...
9: ...ternity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father a...
11: ==First success==
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