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- Timeline of United States history (1930-1949) (8681 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1930]] to [[1949]]'''.
3: ...:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg|250px|thumb|[[Dorothea Lange]]'s "Migrant Mother," an iconic image of the G...
9: *[[1932]] - [[Norris-Laguardia Act]]
11: *[[1932]] - [[Amelia Earhart]] flies across [[Atlantic Ocean]]
12: *[[1932]] - [[Norris LaGuardia Anti Injunction Bill]]
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin America]]."
5: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
10: ...="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Costa rica flag large.png|125px|]]
11: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Costa Rica|Full Size]])
16: ... <small>''[[National motto]]: ?Pura vida!<br>(Popular saying meaning "Pure life!")''</small> - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and ...
7: ...h itself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically signif...
14: ...this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: s&...
15: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...stors of modern [[Chinese character]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records... - China (38909 bytes)
3: ... another in [[continent]]al [[East Asia]] for the last 4000 years. Depending on one's point of view, m...
5: ...d outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and varied according to its moving fortunes....
7: ..., the ROC, while never formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as th...
10: :''Main article: [[Name of China in various languages]]''
14: ...al State". It literally means "middle (or centre) land," referring to the historic position of China a... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
1: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
3: .... [[Temple]]s of many different religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of ...
5: ...al world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a Chinese belief system as either a relig...
7: ...le belief systems. It is possible for someone to claim to be a [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] while living life...
11: ...le]] was that an unjust imperial dynasty that had lapsed into [[corruption]] could lose the [[Mandate ... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patria...
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
64: *[[Marcela Acuna|Acuna, Marcela]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champio... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...rchitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
7: ...mmed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
9: ...1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
10: *[[Clay Aiken|Aiken, Clay]], (1978-), singer
13: ... 1697), hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
19: ...959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ative-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to...
12: ...she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
16: ... [[1917]] and began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestin...
20: ...them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz li...
22: ...In 1928, she was elected secretary of the women's labor council of Histadrut. This required her to mov... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...nate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 ...
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: ...speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of the end for McCarthy. He ...
14: ...h="30%" align="center"|'''Preceded by:'''<br>[[Wallace H. White, Jr.]] - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...tained a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954...
7: .... In [[1963]] this suit (amalgamated with the similar ''[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]'') rea...
9: ...ic policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
11: ...orn again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]].
13: Madalyn Murray O'Hair clashed not only with religious believers but with ma... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: '''Clarice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[De...
3: ... Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness writing styl...
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life of...
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
15: *La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...uently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ... in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name...
9: ...]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the...
11: ...tionship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The ...
13: ...]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mode...
3: ...|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...n she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduatin...
13: ...bian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude ...
17: ... to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...[[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the [[Pulit...
3: ...912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to [[Vassar College]]. After her graduation ...
5: ...reenwich Village, during which time her great popularity in America was attained. She won the [[Pulitz...
7: ... also married 43-year-old widower of [[Inez Milholland]], [[Eugene Jan Boissevain]], who greatly suppo...
9: ...erle Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democra... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
6: ...siness and the investment proved a lucrative one. Later, in [[1951]], she would be voted one of the 25...
8: ... around the country promoting her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to...
10: ...alifornia|Los Angeles]] to [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] race because officials restricted entrants to...
12: ...pilots in the United States and taking them to England where they joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. ...
16: ...ld, she was given citations and decorations. In [[1949]], the government of [[France]] recognized her co... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming language.
5: ... development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: ...the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[...
9: ... to English rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assem...
14: ... to significant convergence among the programming language [[dialect|dialects]] of the major computer ... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ... Institute for Chemistry</i>. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her k...
8: ...nch scientist who discovered the effect two years later.
10: ...apon, and the knowledge being in German hands, Szilard, [[Edward Teller]], and [[Eugene Wigner]] toge...
12: ...e Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is named [[meitneriu... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...y|astronomer]] noted for her research into [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronom...
7: ...[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director ...
11: ...n the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] in [[1983]]. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...cer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citize...
5: ... the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ..., Chiquita, who was adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchest...
13: ...use herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the ...
15: ...h the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...lie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ...ly 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the gre...
7: ...er to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A hardened and angry child, she dropped out...
9: ...oliday: Wishing on the Moon'', ISBN 0306811367). Clarence Holiday accepted paternity, but was hardly a...
14: ...er first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
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