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- Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
3: ...her," an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States]]
10: *[[1932]] - [[Bonus Army]] marches on DC
14: *[[1933]] - [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|20th Amendment]]
27: *[[1933]] - [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution|21st Amendment]]
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...blity in the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin America]]."
21: ...h language|English]] and indigenous languages on the Atlantic coast)
27: | [[Abel Pacheco]]
35: ...)<br /> - Total ([[2003]]):<br /> - GDP/head:
49: | '''[[National anthem]]''' - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...s of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people toda...
7: ...l center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was fo...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
14: ...三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...d beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...one another in [[continent]]al [[East Asia]] for the last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view...
5: ...arlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...ormation). The nature and extent of ''China'' is the subject of ongoing political disputes on [[Chines...
14: ...o the historic position of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary stat... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: ... different religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of China is [[Chinese tr...
5: ...and [[Taoism]] as religions, while others regard them as solely philosophies of life.
7: ...to Buddhism while the reverse is not necessarily the case.
9: ...a conception of [[heaven]] and [[yin and yang]]. The Chinese have also believed in such practices as [...
11: ...d into [[corruption]] could lose the [[Mandate of Heaven]] and be overthrown by a [[rebellion]]. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
10: *[[Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford|Acheson, Archibald]] (1776-1849), 2nd Earl of Gosford
11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
41: ...son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech archite...
9: ...itical writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
13: ...Aikenhead, Thomas]], (died 1697), hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
14: ...thur Aikin|Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
17: ...ey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...eir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and wa...
4: ==Born in the Russian empire==
6: ...and the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906== - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...st woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United States Republi...
5: ...onflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ...ated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|Bill Cohen]]).
9: ...ential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]].
11: ...e was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...nder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]].
4: ... another son (Jon Garth Murray) by a different father.
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ...ife'' magazine]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: ...rst [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ... or [[James Joyce]], but she had read neither of these authors.
5: ...efore her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: ...da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life of Macab顬 a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, ...
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ... and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
5: ...n of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became...
7: ... [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name '''Mary Pickford'''.
9: ...s that reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ...s was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: ...sexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...s three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [...
11: ...nce]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...is]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...for her unconventional and Bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs with both men and women.
3: ...[Vassar College]]. After her graduation in 1917, she moved to New York City.
5: ...or Poetry]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems''.
7: ..., fourteen years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
9: ... noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than [[... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...he wound up in [[New York City]]. There, she used her looks and driving personality to obtain a job a...
6: ...] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of the Year in Business''."
8: ... connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstick.
10: ...ng with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family.
12: ...the [[Distinguished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]]. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...r the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming lan...
3: ...ching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...ed to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: ...]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]...
9: ... is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...th her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ...ictor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later.
10: ...in 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)
1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
3: ...to [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until ...
5: ...Harlow Shapley]]. on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]]...
7: ... took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until hi...
9: ...n [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1993. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...nd singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]...
5: ...during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ...ans, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
9: ... also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935...
11: ...ot legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...lie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ...''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...move to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
9: ...ke him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ... Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
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