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- Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
15: ...933]] - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] becomes President
26: *[[1933]] - [[Montevideo Conference]]
57: *[[1937]] - [[Golden Gate bridge]] completed
93: *[[1945]] - Nationwide [[labor strike]]s due to [[inflation]]; OPA disb...
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...tinent|continental]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example o...
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12: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:CostaRica_coa.jpg]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fr...
7: ...a about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice paddy]] agriculture ...
11: ...]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chi...
14: ...e of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Followi...
15: ..._ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...he [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...erized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war and violent ...
7: ...dering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and increasingly cha...
14: ...nslated as, "Central State". It literally means "middle (or centre) land," referring to the historic p...
25: ... be related to geographic, cultural and political identity and less to ethnic origin. - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
1: ...00px|Temple incense near Beijing China. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa...
3: ...t religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of China is [[Chinese traditional...
11: ...between the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dynastic cycle]] was that an unjust im...
42: ...uction of [[Nestorianism]] spread by European or Middle-Eastern travellers who came to China in AD [[6...
48: ...ituals and offerings to the emperor constituted [[idolatry]]. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
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)
26: ...us|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
41: ...35-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
43: ... Charles Francis]] (born 1910), son of above, president of [[Raytheon]]
44: ..., (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
54: ...John Adams|Adams, John]], (1735-1826), second President of the United States - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
6: *[[Saint Aidan|Aidan, Saint]], (died 651)
7: *[[Mohamed Farrah Aidid|Aidid, Mohammed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician...
20: ... Richard Ainger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP
24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...pithet was coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man ...
33: ... in Moscow crowd.jpg|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (es...
34: ...t Union]]. She served there briefly, leaving in [[1949]]. She then entered the [[Knesset]] (Israeli Par...
38: ... Minister. While she was the Foreign Minister, David Ben-Gurion was the [[Prime Minister]]. He asked ...
44: ...came prime minister, Israel was brimming with confidence, having humiliated the Arabs in the [[1967]] ... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... problems encountered by the War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was i...
7: .... Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[January 3]], [[1973]]. She was defeated f...
9: ...ed the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]...
11: ...Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning...
14: |width="30%" align="center"|'''Preceded by:'''<br>[[Wa... - 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: ... Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide movement which defends the [[civil rights]] of n...
13: ...d behave. In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemi...
18: ... bodies buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family.
21: ...ianity, which included specific attacks on its validity using quotes from the [[Bible]], was flawed an... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
25: *A Vida ͮtima de Laura (1974)
31: *Um Sopro de Vida (1978) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...or some reason, Pickford always claimed that her middle name was Marie). Her father, John Charles Smit...
7: ... also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage...
18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biogr...
28: ...husband, Fairbanks, and became its first vice president in 1936.
29: ... a performance that was praised by critics but avoided by her fans for not sticking to her little girl... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...tsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna...
23: ...llaborative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it b...
29: ... the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the question?"
34: ...poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and som...
37: ...ndness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out ... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
7: In 1923, she also married 43-year-old widower of [[Inez Milholland]], [[Eugene Jan Boisseva...
9: ...ics for supporting democracy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fascism."
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died ab...
22: [[Thomas Hardy]] once said that America had two great attractions: the skysc... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...t age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], working as a hairdresser until she wound up i...
6: ...Atlas Corp. and CEO of [[RKO]] in [[Hollywood]]. Widely reputed to be one of the 10 richest men in the...
8: After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran be...
10: ...and she made up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and imp...
16: ...ld, she was given citations and decorations. In [[1949]], the government of [[France]] recognized her co... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper ...
9: ... IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language th...
16: ... led to her promotion to Commodore by special Presidential appointment. By [[1985]] she became a [[re...
18: ...capacity was as a goodwill ambassador, lecturing widely on the early days of computers, her career, an...
20: She was laid to rest with full military honors in [[Arlington ... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ...n|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, wh...
12: ...e Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is name... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
7: ...d to [[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became dir...
11: ...n the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] in [[1983]].
15: The asteroid [[2917 Sawyer Hogg]] is named after her. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
17: ...ly one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hysterectomy]... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...lie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ... '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of a...
7: ...or [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they ...
9: ...y threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Aro...
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