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- Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: '''Hannah Szenes''' (or '''Chana Senesh''') ([[July 17]],...
7: Hannah Szenes (Senesh) was born to an assimilated Jewi...
13: ...ugoslavia)|partisan group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border i...
17: ..., 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on [[Mount Herzl]], [[...
25: Hanna Shenesh was a talented poetess writing both on H... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...er]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
8: ...nationale]] for 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved in [[Haiti|Haitia... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
7: ...n his film ''[[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]]'' ([[1950]]). Bergman left both her husband and daughter fo...
27: * [[On the Sunny Side]] (1936)
49: * [[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]] (1950)
58: * [[The Inn of the Sixth Happiness]] (1958) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: ... as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]]. ...
5: ...ress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was co...
9: ..., but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ([[1950]]), for which she received another Oscar nominati...
27: ... to songwriters [[Donna Weiss]] and [[Jackie DeShannon]], and singer [[Kim Carnes]] to ask them how th...
32: *Nominated ''[[All About Eve]]'' ([[1950]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...helped to found the organization that became [[Planned Parenthood]]. Hepburn's father was a staunch p...
7: ...ow eighties, and reaching the semi-final of the Connecticut Young Women's Golf Championship. She woul...
12: A banner year for Hepburn, 1928 also marked her nuptuals...
30: ... press attention, would wear overalls and ratty tennis shoes instead of glamorous clothing fit for a s...
48: ...''. Behind the scenes the pair fell in love, beginning what would be one of Hollywood's most famous r... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
7: Loren began her film career in the early 1950s playing bit parts in mostly minor Italian films,...
9: ...eting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: By the second half of the 1950s, her star began to rise in Hollywood, with films...
13: ...her a multitude of awards and, along with the [[Cannes]], [[Venezia]] and [[Berlin]] festivals' best p...
17: ...tore Scola]]'s ''[[A Special Day]]'' with Mastroianni. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...oks and mysterious [[death]] would make her a perennial [[sex symbol]] and later a [[pop icon]].
4: ...t celebrated actor in film history, Marilyn's beginnings were humble to say the least.
10: ...d or kissed her, or even smiled. One day, Gladys announced that she had bought a house for them. A few...
20: ... Bette Davis's classic ''[[All About Eve]]'' in [[1950]] and especially with ''[[The Asphalt Jungle]]'' ...
23: ... [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her unique connection with the [[camera]]. From this point on, au... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: [[Image:FBK1948hurdles.jpg|thumbnail|right|Fanny Blankers-Koen speeding towards the gold medal in...
3: ...] [[athletics|athlete]]. She is most famous for winning four gold medals at the [[1948 Summer Olympics...
11: ...imming]], [[gymnastics]], [[ice skating]] and [[running]]. It soon became clear she was a sports talen...
13: ..., although as a sprinter, not a middle distance runner. The following year, only eighteen years old, s...
17: ...nal medals. At the European Championships in [[Vienna]], she won the bronze in both the 100 and 200&nb... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
9: ...er) until illness shortened her career in the mid-1950s. She won the 1947 [[Titleholders Championship]] ...
11: ...ading the money-list. She was the leading money-winner again in 1951 and in 1952 took another major wi...
13: ...ociated Press Female Athlete of the Year]] and in 1950, she was voted ''Woman Athlete of the First Half ... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
5: ...Nations Organization''', or '''UNO'''. But by the 1950s, English speakers were referring to it as the Un...
26: ...encies located in [[Geneva]], [[The Hague]], [[Vienna]], and elsewhere.
28: ... offices occupy a portion of this complex in [[Vienna]]]]
37: ...fic disarmament matters. In turn, the conference annually reports on its activities to the General Ass...
52: ...ize|Peace]]. In 2001 the United Nations and Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the UN, won the Nobel Pea... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
10: Beginning in the 1950's, brazilian berimbaus have been painted in brigh...
32: *Even beginners will have no difficulty in playing the buzz so...
36: ...that was the length of the bows in the 1940's and 1950's. Today, many berimbaus are overgrown to 5 feet ...
58: ... this uniform playing which they want only of beginners, while they stress that variation must not blu...
66: ...r. Each group delivers its own definitions to beginners. - War (7002 bytes)
16: ...outbreak of [[World War I]] the writer [[Thomas Mann]] wrote, "Is not peace an element of civil corrup...
37: ...U.N.T.S. 135, entered into force [[21 October]] [[1950]].
43: ...er, particularly by those who do not accept the connotations of the term. - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
1: '''Egyptian chronology''' involves assigning beginnings and endings to various Dynasties. The [[conve...
7: ...: 1) there are internal problems of assigning beginnings and endings to various Dynasties, and 2) exte...
13: ...yptian chronology, so the previous "firm" dates cannot be supported astronomically.
15: ...ed, and [[Al-Biruni]] supported him, that the beginning of the next Sothic cycle took place in [[26 BC...
17: ...ating'' states that all the plausible second millennium placements require that a major calendrical re... - Continental drift (4518 bytes)
3: ... become widely accepted as [[theory]] until the [[1950s]] in Europe. By the [[1960s]], geological resea...
5: ...ment of the continental drift hypothesis before [[1950]]. ''See'': '''[[plate tectonics]]''' for inform... - North Africa (3562 bytes)
32: ...[Spanish Empire|Spain]] and [[Italy]]. During the 1950's and 60's, and into the 1970's, all of the North... - Jordan (20715 bytes)
1: ...;, [[transliteration|transliterated]] ''ʼUrdunn''), is a country in the [[Middle East]]. It is bo...
73: ...f Jordan" to include those portions of Palestine annexed by King [[Abdullah I of Jordan | Abdullah]]. ...
79: ...rs meeting at Cairo had arranged a cease-fire beginning the following day. Sporadic violence continued...
150: ...Egypt on [[8 February]] [[2005]], both countries announced plans to return ambassadors to the country. - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
62: ...ters rioted in the early [[1960s]], the land was annexed by [[Ethiopia]], starting a 30-year long [[ci...
113: ...[Ethiopia]], which was in turn formerly (before [[1950]]) subject to the Coptic Pope. But the word ''Co...
115: The vast majority of Muslims in Eritrea are [[Sunni]] Muslims.
117: ...nion]]). Other religions are not registered and cannot worship freely. The government's registration s...
136: * [[Yohannes Zemichael]] - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
69: ...mmoners, users of property) in [[East Bengal]] ([[1950]]) was a major landmark in Bangladesh's movement ...
81: ...the Independence Day of Bangladesh. First [[M A Hannan]] on [[26 March]] and later on [[27 March]] [[Z... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...'' ([[Irish language|Irish]]: ''Poblacht na hɩreann'') is the official "description" of an independen...
13: national_anthem = ''[[Amhrᮠna bhFiann]]'' |
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83: ...terminated membership of the association. Only in 1950 were the rules changed to allow [[India]] as a re...
92: ...[Seanad ɩreann]], and a lower house, [[Dᩬ ɩreann]]. The Seanad is composed of sixty members; eleve... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
12: ...international embarrasment to the newly elected Kennedy administration, and subsequently led to the Cu...
22: ...n.com/US/9602/cuba_shootdown/26/3pm/][http://www.cnn.com/US/9602/cuba_shootdown/27/]. This extraterrit...
72: ...Gulf of Mexico]], to the west by the [[Yucatan Channel]], to the south by the [[Caribbean Sea]], and t...
79: ...ily European than other Caribbean islands, and in 1950 was said to have a 75% white majority. It should ...
88: ...e, use of the dollar in business was officially banned, and a 10% surcharge was introduced for the con...
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