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- Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
1: ...United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1950]] to [[1969]]'''.
3: === [[1950s]] ===
4: ...seph McCarthy]] gains power, and [[McCarthyism]] (1950-1954) begins
5: *[[1950]] - [[McCarran Internal Security Act]]
6: *[[1950]] - [[Korean War]] begins
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- China (38909 bytes)
1: ...hina]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north...
16: ...ver, and carries certain cultural and political connotations. During the [[Spring and Autumn Period]],...
18: ...nbei]] and [[Xiongnu]]. As the PRC now governs [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and th...
25: ...esent political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing...
30: ... short-lived and was often regarded as overly tyrannical it unified the written language in China and ... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
9: *[[Julius Aamisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
14: *[[Marc Aaronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer
17: *[[Johannes Aavik|Aavik, Johannes]], (1880-1973), Estonian linguist - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, Lord of Mann, has two-->; she has reigned in these positions s...
42: ...nne Elizabeth Alice Louise) (born [[15 August]] [[1950]]), married ([[14 November]] [[1973]]) and divorc...
80: ... Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]], marking the 50th anniversary of her accession to the Throne. The year ...
87: ...tional travel. The subsequent, perhaps pointed, announcements that they would be visiting Canada, Mal...
89: ...nd in [[Normandy|Normandy, France]] for the 60th anniversary of [[D-Day]], where, for the first time, ... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
12: ...y sources, her mother-in-law, [[Ad鬡ide de Maurienne]], who was from the staid northernƠcountry of S...
16: ... and piety clashed. The city of Antioch had been annexed by Bohemond of Hauteville in the First Crusad...
18: ...me conventions developing there that were the beginnings of what would become the field of [[Admiralty...
20: ... was no saving the marriage. In [[1152]], it was annulled on the grounds of [[consanguinity]]. Her est...
22: On [[May 18]], [[1152]], six weeks after her annullment, Eleanor married [[Henry II of England|Hen... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
11: ...f Teck was however granted a [[Parliament]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother...
40: ...lbert was found to be abusing the children. The nanny would pinch Edward before he was to be presented...
58: The beginning of Mary's reign as Queen Consort saw her come ...
62: ...e mother. She failed to notice the neglect of a nanny of the young Princes Edward and Albert, and her ...
73: ...e spotted on the roads and caused her niece some annoyance by having the ancient ivy torn from the wal... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
76: ...e and her parents moved to the United States in [[1950]] via [[United Kingdom|Britain]], having fled the... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...'' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[Un...
5: ...[Bakerville, Tennessee]] in [[Humphreys County, Tennessee|Humphreys County]].
15: ...he Senate she took advantage of the situation to announce that she would run for reelection. Populist...
25: Hattie Caraway suffered a stroke in early [[1950]] and died in [[Falls Church, Virginia]]. She is... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
9: |[[February 26]] [[1950]]<br>in [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]], [[New...
37: |[[Jenny Shipley]]
43: ...Helen Elizabeth Clark''' (born [[February 26]], [[1950]]) has served as [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]...
47: ...l Party administrations of [[Jim Bolger]] and [[Jenny Shipley]] during the [[1990s]]. She is seen as a...
65: {{New Zealand prime ministers | before=[[Jenny Shipley]] | after=in office| years=1999-present}... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
11: ...t did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of the end for McCarthy. He had successfully i... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: '''Deborah Ann Stabenow''' (born [[April 29]], [[1950]]) is a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
29: ...p in [[1975]]. She was undefeated at the polls, winning the [[United Kingdom general election, 1979|19...
40: ==Political career between 1950 and 1970==
41: In the election of [[1950]] she was the youngest woman Conservative candida...
68: ...s Haughey]] to discuss [[Northern Ireland]], she announced in the [[House of Commons]] that "The futur...
69: ...p for the IRA and is seen as the beginning of [[Sinn F驮]]'s electoral rise, as they capitalised on t... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
1: ...iu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
12: ...rban and architectural images. With Stieglitz's connections in the arts community of New York, O'Keefe... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
19: ...st name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name s...
22: ...g young actor, [[Frank O'Connor (actor)|Frank O'Connor]], who caught her eye. The two were married in ...
39: In [[1950]] Rand moved to [[New York City]], where in [[195...
43: ...and then published a letter in "The Objectivist" announcing her repudiation of Branden for various rea...
54: Nonetheless, there are connections between Rand's views and those of other ph... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After r...
23: ... "a 19th Century Republican, in her manners and manner of speech she was Victorian, socially was more ...
26: ..., a gay collaborator with the Vichy regime with connections to the [[Gestapo]].
50: ...nterly influence on Stein's work is that of [[Cezanne]], specifically in her idea of equality, what Ju...
54: ...developed a remarkable objective voice. To an uncanny degree at times, social judgement is absent in h... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...February 22]], [[1892]] – [[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the firs...
7: ...teen years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
12: ...hysics Unit, directed by John Randall, at the beginning of January 1951. Originally to have worked on ...
15: ... were spotted immediately by Franklin. By the beginning of 1952 it was generally accepted in King's th...
25: ...ed only if the recipient dies after the award is announced).
33: *Sayre, Anne. 1975. ''Rosalind Franklin and DNA''. New York: ... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]] and [[Adolf Ot...
7: ...th spinning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elega...
9: ...en add one more variation; all the dancers are spinning twirling round and round like tops as they cir...
11: ... shell structure". Maria was quoted as saying, "winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the...
13: During the 1940s and early 1950s, she computed equations on [[opacity]] for [[Edw... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...he most important [[jazz]] [[singer]]s, and the winner of thirteen [[Grammy Award]]s. Gifted with a th...
10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer, she also ...
12: ... Berlin]], [[Cole Porter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[Johnny Mercer]] (the only songbook devoted soley to a l...
14: ...as [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Count Basie]] ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), [[Joe Pass]] ("Speak love"...
20: ...rried Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annulled. Her second husband was the famous [[double... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
11: ...[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by [[El Greco]] (157...
13: ...rovided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among ...
25: ...otre Dame'', ''Nuestra Señora'', and ''Madonna'' respectively). Among Catholics and the Eastern...
27: ...salem]] when she was three years old, much like Hanna took Samuel to the [[Tabernacle]] as recorded in...
29: [[image:frangelo.JPG|right|frame|The [[Annunciation]] by [[Fra Angelico]]]] - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
22: ...at have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."
33: ...rize. Other awards bestowed upon her included a Kennedy Prize ([[1971]]), the [[Albert Schweitzer]] In...
70: ...d [[Tariq Ali]], produced a critical British [[Channel 4]] documentary, ''Hell's Angel'', based on Cha...
75: ...some criticism. Many advocates of the [[family planning]] and [[pro-choice]] movements were critical o...
79: ...holic Church]], which asserts [[natural family planning]] is the only acceptable form of [[birth contr...
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