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- Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
8: ... [[1888]] Ford supported himself by farming and running a sawmill.
29: ...utomobiles. Subsequently, the company adopted an annual model change system similar to that in use by ...
35: ... a seat on the board and was responsible for personnel, labor relations, and public relations.
40: ...e, and, importantly, conducted their lives in a manner of which Ford approved. The company established...
44: ...oxer, to be the head of the Service Department. Bennett employed various intimidation tactics to squas... - Airline (29546 bytes)
15: ... annual growth rates of 15% or more were common. Annual growth of 5-6% persisted through the 1980's an...
22: ...en procured by the [[United States Army]] for reconnaissance missions on the Western Front. The Army w...
28: ... Depression]]. This trend continued until the beginning of [[World War II]].
36: ... to introduce the hub-system to facilitate easy connections.
48: In the 1950s, the [[De Havilland Comet]], [[Boeing 707]], [[D... - Sicily (18450 bytes)
8: ...nce of Catania|Catania]]<br />[[Province of Enna|Enna]]<br />[[Province of Messina|Messina]]<br />[[Pr...
24: ...cuse]] (''Siracusa'' in Italian), [[Trapani]], [[Enna]], [[Caltanissetta]], [[Agrigento]], [[Ragusa, I...
34: ...00s|19th century]], but have declined since the [[1950s]].
43: ... the first time in history that Sicily has been connected by a land link to Italy.
52: ...famous, however, are [[Luigi Pirandello]], [[Giovanni Verga]], [[Salvatore Quasimodo]], [[Gesualdo Buf... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
20: *[[Giovanni di Balduccio]]
60: *[[Cosimo Cenni]]
68: *[[Marie-Anne Collot]]
93: *[[Etienne Maurice Falconet]]
119: *[[Paolo di Giovanni]] - Prague (7962 bytes)
24: ...Vysehrad|Vyšehrad]] in 1883, and at the beginning of 1922, another 37 municipalities were incorp...
35: * Various places connected to [[Franz Kafka]]
39: * the [[Lennon Wall]]
85: :1950: 931,500 - Czech Republic (13856 bytes)
65: ...he Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in [[1993]] announced that the name '''Czechia''' ([[Czech langua...
72: ... of Czechoslovakia when [[Germany]] successfully annexed the minority through the [[Munich Agreement]]...
182: !bgcolor=#f9f9f9| [[1950]] - Bill Clinton (59225 bytes)
25: ... experienced the start of the [[Cold War]] in the 1950s. At times his approval rating was very low, sett...
31: ...r, born [[Virginia Dell Cassidy]], remarried in [[1950]] to [[Roger Clinton, Sr.|Roger Clinton]]. Billy...
53: ... Gore was from Clinton's neighboring state of [[Tennessee]]. In retrospect, many now view Gore as a ...
55: ...linton among many conservatives from the very beginning of his presidency.
59: ..., though he is the first President since [[John Kennedy]] to have never achieved a majority of the pop... - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
15: | wife=[[Rosalynn Carter]]
28: ...ministration. Carter's sister, [[Gloria Carter Spann]] ([[1926]]-[[1990]]), was low-key and was famous...
30: ...emy]] in [[1946]], the same year he married Rosalynn Smith. Carter was a very gifted student and finis...
32: ...s inaugural address. Carter loved the Navy and planned to make it his career. His ultimate goal was to...
34: ...and gave birth to his daughter([[Amy Carter|Amy Lynn]], late in life , in [[1967]]). - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[John F. Kennedy]]
19: ...[[1969]]) after [[John F. Kennedy assassination|Kennedy's assassination]].
57: ...n manager, [[John Connally]], was thought to be connected with 202 ballots in [[Jim Wells County]] tha...
61: ... the [[Armed Services Committee]], and later in [[1950]], he helped create the Preparedness Investigatin...
69: ...Democratic convention which nominated [[John F. Kennedy]]. - Richard Nixon (32863 bytes)
22: ...]] on [[January 9]], 1913, to Francis Nixon and Hannah Milhous. He was raised as an [[Evangelicalism|...
34: ...erans, including Nixon's future rival [[John F. Kennedy]] of [[Massachusetts]]. The campaign he ran ag...
39: ...d States Senate]] in [[U.S. Senate election, 1950|1950]], defeating actress turned congresswoman [[Helen...
46: One notable event of the campaign was Nixon's innovative use of [[television]].
54: ...b|Vice President Nixon, right, and Senator John Kennedy during their TV debate prior to the 1960 presi... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[John F. Kennedy]]
30: ...then served as a battalion commander, at [[Fort Benning]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], until [[1...
45: ...1945]]. In these positions he was charged with planning and carrying out the Allied [[Battle of Norman...
55: ...U.S. Army in November [[1945]], and in December [[1950]] was named Supreme Commander of the [[North Atla...
107: * [[L駊on d'honneur|French Legion of Honor]] - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
53: ...exceeded the low expectations many had at the beginning of his administration, and developed a reputat...
61: ...at Ft. Sill he was given the additional duty of running the camp canteen (to provide candy, cigarettes...
68: ... works projects, including the series of 12 [[Madonna of the Trail]] monuments to pioneer women dedica...
82: ... short-lived: the onset of the Korean conflict in 1950 once again required an increase in taxes.
88: ...owing the Chinese intervention in early November, 1950, MacArthur advocated extending the war into [[mai... - History of India (31279 bytes)
8: ...ibuted greatly to India's cultural landscape. Beginning around [[180 BC]], a series of invasions from ...
14: ...mic invasions in the beginning of the second millennium, much of India was ruled by the [[Delhi Sultan...
20: During the middle of the second millennium, several European countries, including the [[P...
23: ...later becoming a [[republic]] on [[January 26]] [[1950]].
26: ...sts in [[1998]]. Significant economic reforms beginning in [[1991]], have transformed India into one o... - Aircraft (13315 bytes)
15: ...o the ground). Helicopters and autogyros use a spinning rotor (a ''rotary wing'') to provide both lift...
18: ...buoyancy]] to float in the air in much the same manner as ships float on the water. In particular, th...
31: ...Finnair.a320.arp.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Finnair]] Airbus A320]]
47: The forerunner of these types of aircraft is the [[Kite flying...
51: The number of lift surfaces varied in the pre-[[1950]] period, as [[biplane]]s (two wings) and [[tripl... - African American (19830 bytes)
19: ...e|NAACP]], led a series of legal battles in the [[1950s]] to overturn [[Jim Crow]] segregation, culminat...
43: ...ommodationist, even [[Uncle Tom|Uncle Tomish]], connotation. The period was a time when growing number...
112: | [[1950]] || 15.0 million || 10.0% - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
2: ...was engaged in the [[slave trade]] after it was banned.
6: ... of the journal was delayed for 100 years. In the 1950's the journal was translated from the [[French la... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
104: ...yal of [[Long John Silver]] in the [[1950 in film|1950]] film adaptation of ''[[Treasure Island]]''. Man...
131: ...he wooden timbers of one's ship "shivered" by a cannonball, in the archaic sense of the term shivered)
137: ...ly 1960s British pop group called themselves [[Johnny Kidd and the Pirates]] and wore eye-patches whil...
139: ...ilee]] of [[Elizabeth II]] the [[Sex pistols]], banned from performing on land, hired a pleasure boat ...
147: *Major [[Stede Bonnet]] - Continental Congress (4041 bytes)
4: ...74, to [[October 26]], 1774, in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. [[Peyton Randolph]] served as the fir...
14: *Sept. 5, 1774- Oct. 26, 1774 [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
21: *Sept. 27, 1777 (one day only) [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]
22: *Sept. 30, 1777- June 27, 1778 [[York, Pennsylvania]]
25: *Nov. 26, 1783- June 3, 1784 [[Annapolis, Maryland]] - March 17 (9666 bytes)
17: ...fe Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in [[1912]]).
23: ...University of California, Berkeley]] researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name ...
48: *[[1888]] - [[Frank Buck]], big game hunter (d. [[1950]])
77: *[[1954]] - [[Lesley-Anne Down]], actress
80: *[[1956]] - [[Patrick McDonnell]], cartoonist - March 18 (10594 bytes)
6: *[[37]] - The [[Roman Senate]] annuls [[Tiberius]]' will and proclaims [[Caligula]] ...
19: ...]]. Despite the recent Polish successes, Soviets annex [[Ukraine]] and [[Belarus]]. Government of [[Uk...
25: ...lf Hitler]] and [[Benito Mussolini]] meet at [[Brenner Pass]] in the [[Alps]] and agree to form an all...
29: *[[1961]] - In [[Cannes]], [[France]], [[Jean-Claude Pascal]] wins the ...
57: *[[1872]] - [[Anna Held]], actress amd singer, (d. [[1918]])
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