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- Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
9: *[[1932]] - [[Norris-Laguardia Act]]
12: *[[1932]] - [[Norris LaGuardia Anti Injunction Bill]]
15: *[[1933]] - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] becomes President
29: *[[1933]] - [[Good Neighbor Policy]] announced
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ntral America]], bordered by [[Nicaragua]] to the north and [[Panama]] to the south-southeast. Since t...
21: ...fficial), ([[English language|English]] and indigenous languages on the Atlantic coast)
50: | ''[[Noble patria, tu hermosa bandera]]''
61: ...mbian]] times the [[Native American]]s in what is now [[Costa Rica]] were part of the [[Intermediate A...
69: ...ence have marred its democratic development. In [[1949]], [[Jos順igueres Ferrer]] abolished the [[army]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...arian-based Chinese an advantage over neighboring nomadic and mountain-dwelling cultures. The developm...
7: ...and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]...
14: ...torical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiographer of the [[2nd century ...
18: ...aracter]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle...
24: ...he early Zhou (successor state of the Shang), is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang. - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...eginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...e existed and are viewed as having succeeded one another in [[continent]]al [[East Asia]] for the last...
5: ...decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...some islands in the South China Sea. The PRC does not recognize the ROC, as it claims to be the sole s...
9: ==Terminology== - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
5: ... of a sacred and sometimes spiritual world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a Chine...
7: ...stian concepts into Buddhism while the reverse is not necessarily the case.
11: ...rt in performing elaborate annual rituals. He was not believed to be a [[deity]], but rather someone w...
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam...
28: ...ing]] is attributed to [[Lao Zi]], who may or may not have been a real person. The philosophy is cent... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
4: ...s, Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
5: ...born 1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
51: ...yd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
9: ...]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
25: ...cki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
56: ...ouch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
63: ...s (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist
65: ...s, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor
20: ... Richard Ainger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP
21: ...insworth|Ainsworth, Henry]], (1571-1622), English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar
24: ...ge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer
26: *[[Queen Aiswarya|Aiswarya, Queen]], (died 2001), non-reigning Nepalese queen - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
30: ... by joint forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued...
34: ...t Union]]. She served there briefly, leaving in [[1949]]. She then entered the [[Knesset]] (Israeli Par...
38: From 1949 to [[1956]], she was also the Israeli Minister of...
44: ...ar and captured large areas of territory. She saw no need to seek compromise with the [[Palestinians]]...
53: ... can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."—Golda Meir, [[March... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...he was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United ...
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: ...gie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: '''Madalyn Murray O<nowiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) wa...
4: ...d. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Garth Murray) by a different father.
9: ...de movement which defends the [[civil rights]] of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and...
13: ...She expelled members of American Atheists who did not conform to her ideas of how atheists should beha...
16: ...tonio jeweler but took delivery of only $500,000. No further communication came from any of the O'Hair... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
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7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the...
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
27: *Onde estivestes de Noite? (1974) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with th...
13: ...schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorce in [[January]] [[1936]...
15: ...Buddy' Rogers]] (1904-1999), a fresh-faced actor known as "America's Boy Friend" and later a bandleade...
17: == Partial chronology ==
29: ...as praised by critics but avoided by her fans for not sticking to her little girl image. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...n [[Pittsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [...
17: ...e supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work.
23: ...borative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brou...
29: ...ked Toklas, "What is the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the q...
34: ...to Paris in 1903 she started to write in earnest: novels, plays, stories, librettos and poems. Increas... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ... the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]. She was also known for her unconventional and Bohemian lifestyle a...
3: ...alled "Vincent" by her close friends and family), Norma, and Kathleen then moved to [[Camden, Maine]]....
9: ...d war effort during [[World War II]]. Merle Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the ...
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died ab...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920): - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
10: Known by her friends as "Jackie," and maintaining the...
16: ... that body's board of directors and director of [[Northwest Airlines]] in the U.S. At home, the Air Fo...
20: ...ailures she ever experienced and never attempted another run. It has been said by those who knew Jacqu...
22: ...Hall of Fame]] and became the first woman to be honored with a permanent display of her achievements a...
24: ...sea. In [[1996]], the United States Post Office honored her with a postage stamp. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
7: ...al [[compiler]] work was done. The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A...
14: ...in the 1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
20: She was laid to rest with full military honors in [[Arlington National Cemetery]].
22: ...rial park in front of her former residence and is now owned by Arlington County, Virginia.
24: == Honors == - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: '''Lise Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]...
4: ...oactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
8: ...3]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effe...
10: ...n. Because this could be used as weapon, and the knowledge being in German hands, Szilard, [[Edward Te...
12: ...e Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...ular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]]....
5: ...arvard Observatory]] to work with [[Annie Jump Cannon]] and [[Harlow Shapley]]. on star clusters. She...
9: ...ablished herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley...
11: ...n the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] in [[1983]]. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|Fre...
7: ...t, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
11: ...The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legally binding). At this time she also scored h...
13: She was so well-known and popular that even the [[Nazism|Nazis]], who...
15: ... she went through six marriages, some legal, some not. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...lie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ...est [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which a...
9: ...ank DeViese]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or governmen...
16: ...had her first successes as a live performer. On [[November 23]], [[1934]], she performed at the [[Apol...
24: ...and contemporaneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
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