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- Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
15: ...he [[Allies]] ultimately defeated Germany. In the final days of the war, [[Hitler's death|Hitler died]...
20: ...s Hitler]] ([[1837]]–[[1903]]), a customs official, and [[Klara P?]], Alois' niece and third wif...
24: ...h ancestors. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitler they were reason enough to concea...
25: ...d; however, in sixth grade (1900–1901), his first year of high school (''Realschule'') in Linz, ...
27: ... the boy to follow him in a career as a customs official, although Adolf wanted to become a painter. T...
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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...d the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]].
6: She divorced her first husband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved...
8: ...woman member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance...
10: ...m of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband ...
12: ...speech, first referred to the men of the 8th Army fighting the [[Italian campaign]] as the ''[[D-Day D... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...ider]] aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, and was rat...
6: ...ke-Wulf Fw 61|Focke-Achgelis Fa 61]], the world's first [[helicopter]]. This made her a star of the Na...
8: ... one of only two women awarded the [[Iron Cross]] First Class during world War 2, and the only woman a...
10: ...ved in testing the [[V-1 Flying Bomb]], which was fitted with a cockpit in order to be used during gli...
12: ...scaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fire. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she la...
5: ... it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...o make a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freihei...
9: ...technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the st...
13: ...f her using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in c... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
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14: ... [[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; the town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner [[Museum]].
16: ...ate Beckinsale]] in ''[[The Aviator]]'' (2004), a film by [[Martin Scorsese]] about [[Howard Hughes]].
18: ==Filmography==
43: * [[The Killers (1946 film)|The Killers]] (1946) - Greece (54754 bytes)
15: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Greek language|Greek]]
50: ...el|''Ellás''}} ([[IPA]]: [{{IPA|e̞ˈlas}}])), officially the '''Hellenic Republic''' ({{lang|el|Ελ...
65: ... Greece's [[Aegean Sea]] saw the emergence of the first civilizations in Europe, namely the [[Minoan c...
68: ... the eastern Mediterranean. When the Roman Empire finally split in two, the [[Eastern Roman Empire]], ...
82: ...ire]]. Its last emperor, [[Constantine XI]], died fighting on the walls and was buried anonymously alo... - Germany (46412 bytes)
19: |'''[[Official language]]''' || [[German language|German]]<s...
35: |'''Formation<br>Unification/reunification<br><br><br>'''
51: ...e|Romany]] and [[Frisian language|Frisian]] are officially recognised and protected as minority langua...
62: ...sand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state only in [[1871]], when...
66: ...n strife, the [[Thirty Years War]] ([[1618]]) and finally the [[Peace of Westphalia]] ([[1648]]), that... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
16: | '''[[Official language]]'''
52: ...uropean Union]] and has a population of more than five million. The capital is [[Bratislava]].
63: ...oins with the names of Celtic kings represent the first known use of writing in Slovakia. Since [[Anno...
65: ...the 8th century and its ruler [[Pribina]] had the first Christian church in Slovakia consecrated by 82...
69: ...f art. In 1467, [[Matthias Corvinus]] founded the first university in Bratislava, but the institution ... - Hungary (18459 bytes)
14: official_languages = [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] ...
57: ... other provinces, was affected by the migrations. First came the [[Huns]], who built up under [[Attila...
65: ...om]] and secured civil rights. The Austrians were finally able to prevail only with Russian help.
69: ...y. In June, the [[Treaty of Trianon]] was signed, fixing Hungary's borders. Compared with the pre-war ...
141: ...[Carpathian Basin]] (and probably the largest artificial lake in Europe) is [[Lake Theiss]] (''Tisza-t... - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
6: Following the unification of the multiple city states of [[Ancient Gr...
9: ...ed not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the company of snakes, but by...
11: ...he [[Oracle]] of Ammon at Siwah, according to all five of the extant historians ([[Arrian]], [[Quintus...
23: ...Halicarnassus]], Alexander successfully waged the first of many sieges, eventually forcing his opponen...
27: ...tle of Gaugamela]]. Darius was forced to flee the field after his charioteer was killed, and Alexander... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
12: Colonial America was defined by ongoing battles with Native Americans, a se...
24: ...nies. Both sides permitted this trade when it benefitted them, but opposed it when it did not.
32: ...ronts. Crucially, the [[Treaty of Ghent]] which officially ended the war saw the end of the British al...
45: ... Confederate General [[Pierre Beauregard]] opened fire upon [[Fort Sumter]].
54: ...ade the United States a major military as well as financial power. - Politics (7193 bytes)
6: One theorist, [[Harold Lasswell]], has defined politics as "who gets what, when, and how."
14: ...ion were the institutionalization of social stratification, non-agricultural specialized crafts (inclu...
23: ...democracy]], having various officers selected for fixed terms by popular [[election]]. Following the ...
34: ...timacy for authority known as ([[tripartite classification of authority]]). He proposed three reasons ...
40: ...ten short lived, seldom outliving the charismatic figure that leads them. Examples include [[Hitler]]... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...wars]] are one conflict separated only by a "ceasefire".
6: ...ld War II|Middle East]], in the [[Pacific War|Pacific and South East Asia]], and it continued in China...
20: ...ading and occupying parts or the whole of Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania.
22: ... States]], from December 1941. [[China]] had been fighting Japan since 1937. The independent dominions...
24: ...r in their neighborhood. Sovereignty was often difficult to maintain as many countries that did not di... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...[populism]] and the American [[labor movement]]. Finally, the era was capped by U.S. involvement in [...
7: ...]] to resist readmitting the rebel states without first imposing preconditions. A series of laws, pas...
11: ... under Abraham Lincoln's plan were abolished; the first Reconstruction Act stated that "no legal State...
15: ...he Union, they were required to accept it (or the fifteenth after passage of the fourteenth).
21: ...d blacks going their own ways, and with whites in firm political control. The North allowed white sup... - History of the United States (1988-present2) (20668 bytes)
10: ...e USSR was officially disbanded, breaking up into fifteen constituent parts. The [[Cold War]] was over...
14: ...d economic stagnation, while at the same time benefitting U.S. consumers and corporations. The [[North...
16: ...Certain states such as [[North Korea]] were classified as "rogue" for undertaking actions the U.S. cla...
21: ...ern countries, became painfully clear to the U.S. first in the aftermath of the [[1973 energy crisis|1...
23: ...to continue talks. Iraq and Kuwait then met for a final negotiation session, which failed. Saddam then... - April (9790 bytes)
11: ...Uzuki'' (卯月). In [[Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''huhtikuu'', meaning...
214: *First Day of Summer (Iceland) - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
7: ...deeply concerned with the social impact of scientific discovery. An individual of monumental intellect...
16: ... to [[dyslexia]], simple [[shyness]], or the significantly rare and unusual structure of his [[human b...
20: ...r, but this meant he had no secondary-school certificate. {{an|1}}
22: ... became enamoured with Marie, their daughter, his first sweetheart. Albert's sister Maja was to later ...
26: ...]. During this time Einstein discussed his scientific interests with a group of close friends, includi... - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
19: ...dent to have ever [[resignation|resigned]] from office. His resignation came after a loss of politica...
28: ...nt as president was organizing Whittier College's first school dance, forbidden by the Quakers. In [[1...
30: ...l career is that he learned to play poker for the first time and quickly became known as the best poke...
34: ... of members from a Left-Wing PAC with Communist affiliations, and said that, there were a few people w...
47: ...on was accused by nameless sources of having been financed by a [[slush fund]] provided by [[business]... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
18: ...President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. Born to wealth and ...
20: ...seph Stalin]], are criticized by some historians. Finally his vision of an effective international org...
22: ...ing figure: he was a hero to liberals and a hated figure to conservatives. Today opinions of him are m...
28: ...n Oyster Bay Republican, was Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin. Despite their political differences, t...
34: ...ad previously met as children, but this was their first serious encounter.) - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
2: ...ited States]] [[aviator]] famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the [[Atlantic Oce...
6: ...[[United States Army Air Corps]]. After finishing first in his class, he worked as a civilian [[airmai...
8: ==First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean==
11: ...rst by the crew of the [[NC-4]] in 1919, with the first non-stop flight made by [[Alcock and Brown]] l...
18: {{multi-video item|filename=Charles Lindbergh flight to Brussels.ogg|ti...
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