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- Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...ny|German]] [[filmmaker]] renowned for her [[aesthetics]] and advances in film technique. Her most fam...
5: ...in film|bergfilme]], presenting herself as an athletic, adventuresome young woman with sex appeal sugg...
7: ...irected a [[short film]] about a [[Nazi]] party meeting. Hitler then asked her to film the Nazi Party ...
9: ...]'', a film celebrated for its technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways...
13: ...using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in court. ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: ...agazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, ...
8: ...other minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
12: ...rally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: ...st choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ... Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face). - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[A...
5: She was born '''Greta Lovisa Gustafsson''' in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]...
8: ...her. He cast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...Berling''). He also gave her the [[stage name]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] a... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...[birth control]] advocate who, along with [[Margaret Sanger]], helped to found the organization that b...
7: ...nship. She would later be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed he...
10: ...e|degree]] in [[history]] and [[philosophy]] in [[1928]] <!-- check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got a ...
12: ...ite businessman Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she had met while attending Bryn Mawr and married after a sho...
17: ... During her last years at Bryn Mawr, Hepburn had met a young producer with a stock company in [[Baltim... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
3: ..., which was unheard of at a time where female athletes were still frowned upon by many. It earned her ...
5: ... was hampered by [[World War II]], Blankers-Koen set several world records during that period, in even...
7: ...entury" by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
11: ... better chance to qualify for the Olympics in athletics.
13: ...race, she set a new National Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, altho... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...took the gold medal in the [[1928 Winter Olympics|1928]], [[1932 Winter Olympics|1932]] and [[1936 Winte...
10: ...published in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello...
12: ..., and finally the shipowner [[Niels Onstad]]. Together, they accumulated a large collection of modern...
17: *''[[Seven Days for Elizabeth]]'' ([[1927]]) - Eliska Junkova (2642 bytes)
1: '''Eliška Junková''', also known as '''Elizabeth Junek''', born [[November 16]], [[1900]] in [[Ol...
3: <table align=right><tr><td>[[Image:ElizabethJunek.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ... began winning and by 1926 was good enough to compete in races around Europe against the best male dri...
6: In 1926, she competed in the [[Targa Florio]] in [[Sicily]], a race w...
8: ...ooting with the top male drivers who would be competing. At the end of the first lap Junek was fourth... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
13: ...#953;κά, [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] {{IPA|/ɛˌliniˈka/}} – ...
23: ...eek is traditionally written in the [[Greek alphabet]].
25: ...placed prior to the creation of the [[Greek alphabet]] are not listed in this article. For more inform...
32: ...bably created by modifying the [[Phoenician alphabet]] in c. [[1000 BC]] and, with minor modifications...
38: ...s: ''anthropology'', ''photography'', ''isomer'', etc. and form, with [[Latin language|Latin]] words, ... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
6: Simple metal or wood reed instruments ("Maultrommel", Jews' ...
10: Sound is made by a thin metal ribbon, a reed, which is held at one end and fr...
14: *Metal frame and metal tongue
22: ...both directions, which is more similar to a clarinet than a modern free-reed instrument.
33: ...e bellows are expanded. The pitch of the note is determined by the length and thickness of the reeds, ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
20: ...of Death:'''</td><td>[[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]]</td></tr>
29: ...publican Party|Republican]] political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election o...
46: ... Cleveland vetoed that, too. Cleveland used the veto far more often than any President up to that tim...
50: ...s they held by Government grant, forcing them to return 81,000,000 acres (328,000 km²). He also s...
52: ...ing elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?" He often opposed the Republican-controlled ... - Continental drift (4518 bytes)
3: ...0s]], geological research conducted by [[Robert Dietz]], [[Bruce C. Heezen|Bruce Heezen]], and [[Harry...
9: ...th America and Africa are moving apart at [[Centimetre|3 cm]] per year, due to the [[seafloor spreadin...
20: ... debated. The resulting papers were published in 1928 under the title ''Theory of continental drift''. ...
22: ...h's mantle at ocean trenches. Remarkably, in the 1928 AAPG volume, G. A. F. Molengraaf of the Delft Ins... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
1: ...ital is [[Bishkek]]. Once a republic of the [[Soviet Union]], Kyrgyzstan has been independent since 19...
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37: established_dates = From the [[Soviet Union]]<br> [[31 August]] [[1991]]<br> [[December...
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43: utc_offset_DST = +6 | - Spain (36498 bytes)
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48: ...up>2</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[peseta|Spanish Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, ...
58: ...e [[Iberian peninsula]] through the Pyrenees and settled throughout the peninsula, becoming the [[Celt... - Flag of Kentucky (1206 bytes)
2: ...n [[1918]] and finalized in its present form in [[1928]]. - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ... 6]], [[1895]] – [[August 16]], [[1948]]), better known as '''Babe Ruth''' and also commonly kno...
7: ... the saloon they owned and operated on Camden Street. Kate would walk to her father's home each time s...
9: ...e skipped school, ran the streets, and committed petty crime. By age seven, he was drinking, chewing t...
12: ...o pitcher to teach him a lesson. But, instead of getting his comeuppance, Babe shut the other team dow...
15: ... the [[Boston Red Sox]], for a sum rumored to be between $20,000 and $35,000. - Florida (24937 bytes)
43: ...e Spanish and [[France|French]] both established settlements in Florida, with varying degrees of succe...
49: ...]], leaving the state approximately evenly split between the two parties. Despite this demographic par...
51: ...e and heavily associated with the [[good ol' boy network]].
56: ...es on top of that, so sales taxes vary by county between 6 and 7.5 percent. The state [[use tax]] is 6...
68: At 345 feet (105 metres) above [[sea level]], [[Britton Hill]] is the ... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
38: ...ty Bell]], [[Independence Hall]], and a thriving metropolitan area, and [[Pittsburgh]], a busy inland ...
42: ...ler numbers extending northeast to the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area and up the Susquehanna River va...
53: ...by [[Sweden]], but control later passed to the [[Netherlands]], and then to [[England]] (later [[Great...
57: ... Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware Counties, was settled by [[Wales|Welsh]] [[Quaker]]s and called the...
59: ...ns of Pennsylvania were among disputed territory between the colonial [[United Kingdom|British]] and [... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
10: ... 60 KYA: [[Shipbuilding|Ships]] probably used by settlers of [[New Guinea]]
18: * 8700 BC: [[Metalworking]] ([[copper]] pendant in [[Iraq]])
34: * [[39th century BC|3800s BC]]: [[Sweet Track|Engineered roadway]] in [[England]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
60: * [[Odometer]] : [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]: [[Archimedes]]? - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress...
54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...psulates a fascinating story, beginning with the return of young [[soldier]]s from the fronts of the [...
3: ...States did little to try and rebuild Europe, and retreated to an [[isolationism|isolationist]] stance....
5: ...c]] and [[innovation|technological]] growth were yet unknown. Technologies like [[train]]s, [[automobi...
8: ...il [[1924]]. At the same time the [[1920]]s were setting the stage for the [[Great Depression]] that w...
11: ...diers entered the labor force and factories were retooled to produce consumer goods.
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