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- Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
7: ...znick]] had secrectly selected Leigh for the role after seeing her in the [[MGM]] film ''[[A Yank at O...
9: ...actress [[Jill Esmond]] who was pregnant when the affair began).
29: *''[[21 Days]]'' ([[1940]]) (filmed in [[1937]])
30: *''[[Waterloo Bridge]]'' ([[1940]]) - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
7: ...ational Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
17: ...s. The Olympics were formally cancelled on May 2, 1940, a week before the Netherlands were invaded by Ge...
23: ...ver, his attitude towards female athletes changed after he fell in love with Koen, who was fifteen yea...
25: ... other plans, and she resumed training only weeks after her son's birth.
35: ...ad not stopped her from resuming training shortly afterwards. The Championships were a slight disappoi... - Shirley Muldowney (1811 bytes)
2: ... set a NHRA speed record. Muldowney retired again after the [[2003]] season. In [[2004]], she was indu...
8: ...d to [[Rahn Tobler]], who was her [[crew chief]]. After Muldoney's retirement, Tobler became crew chie... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ...r instruments are played in the southern parts of Africa. The Berimbau was eventually incorporated int...
36: ... 2 inches; that was the length of the bows in the 1940's and 1950's. Today, many berimbaus are overgrown...
40: ...t is a matter of controversy. Pressing the dobră¯ after striking the string is a widely used technique...
72:
77: ...tern. Capoeiristas also play [[samba]], before or after capoeira, with the proper toques, deriving fro... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: It was named after its founder, [[Alexander the Great]], and as t...
25: A few months after the foundation, Alexander left Egypt for the E...
27: ...that body were restored by [[Septimius Severus]], after temporary abolition by [[Augustus]].
46: ...e general [[Amr ibn al-As]], captured it for good after a siege that lasted fourteen months. The city...
48: === After Amr === - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...;αρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is a [[continent]] surroun...
8: ...the fifth largest continent, after [[Eurasia]], [[Africa]], [[North America]], and [[South America]]. ...
36: ... Overlaps Argentine and British Claims; claimed [[1940]], as [[comuna de Antá²´ida]], one of the two mun...
47: *[[South Africa]]: claimed [[1963]]–[[1994]]
54: ...f the stations are [[Demographics of Antarctica|staffed]] around the year. These include: - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...e [[United Provinces]] ([[1581]]–[[1795]]). After the Napoleonic era, Holland became a mere prov...
64: ...IV]], the Dutch grew to become one of the major seafaring and economic powers of the [[17th century]] ...
68: After briefly being incorporated in the [[First Fren...
72: ...le with mental retardation and other disabilites. After the war, the Dutch economy prospered again, be...
79: ...nquered during the [[Eighty Years' War]] but only after the people had turned solidly [[Roman Catholic... - Andorra (11532 bytes)
56: ...[[Andorran_diner|diner]] of 100 centim was minted after 1982.</small>
73: ...rs the title passed to the kings of [[Navarre]]. After Henry of Navarre became King [[Henry IV of Fra...
77: ... and ultimately expelled from Spain. From 1936 to 1940, a French detachment was garrisoned in Andorra to... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...ecially influential in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[Africa]].
52: ... especially influential in [[Europe]], [[Northern Africa]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Greece is a...
57: ...nt is written *before* the accented syllable, not after the accented vowel-->. This name is also writ...
65: ...eir name has always been associated with the sea. After the internal struggle between Spartans and Ath...
74: ...nd Greek cities began to recover due to improved safeguards against barbarous incursion and restored c... - Germany (46412 bytes)
79: ...rmer German colonies|colonies were established]]. After [[1888]], the ''[[Year of Three Emperors]]'', ...
85: After the [[German Revolution]] on November [[1918]]...
97: ...tacks. On [[May 8]] [[1945]], Germany surrendered after the [[Red Army]] had occupied [[Berlin]], wher...
100: ...in]] in front of the [[Brandenburg Gate]] shortly after the reunification]]
101: ...e|territorial losses]] and [[Expulsion of Germans after World War II|the expulsion of millions]] from ... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
57: ...d, as the [[Carolingian Dynasty]] soon took over. After [[Charles Martel]] countered the [[Moors|Moori...
63: ...ars of [[France|French]] rule under [[Napoleon]]. After [[Napoleon]]'s demise, in [[1815]], Belgium wa...
67: ...as once again invaded by [[Germany]] in [[1940]]. After [[World War II]], the policy of neutrality was...
71: Belgium's foreign involvement increased after the World War I when two former German colonie...
91: ...Federal government'': Jurisdiction over [[Foreign affairs]], [[development aid]], [[defence]]/[[Belgiu... - Romania (19812 bytes)
68: ... [[Bessarabia]] that had been regained by Moldova after the Crimean War [[1852]], as a swap with [[Dob...
70: ...eing under the dictatorship of [[Carol II]]. In [[1940]] Carol II abdicated and Romania entered the war ...
72: ...ch would have required the CDR to resign en masse after 200 days from a mixed coalition government (so...
162: After Romania's Communist regime was overthrown in l...
176: ...ro, which is expected to take place several years after EU accession. The Romanian government has said... - Finland (29511 bytes)
57: ...s the [[Greater Wrath]] and the [[Lesser Wrath]]. After that, "Finland" became the predominant term fo...
59: ... of Russia|Russian Emperor Alexander I]] and thereafter remained an autonomous [[Grand Duchy of Finlan...
61: On [[December 6]], [[1917]], shortly after the [[Bolshevik Revolution]] in Russia, [[Finl...
67: ... twice: in the [[Winter War]] of [[1939]]–[[1940]] and again in the [[Continuation War]] of [[1941...
69: ...Moscow Peace Treaty (1940)|Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940]]). - Israel (51605 bytes)
60: ...sh population, see [[Destruction of Jerusalem]]). After crushing [[Bar Kokhba's revolt]] in [[135]], E...
68: ...s) in [[638]] CE and attracted [[Arab]] settlers. After a brief period of prosperity under the [[Umayy...
73: ...ed from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]].
94: After the war, 14-25% (depending on the estimate) of...
98: ...an Air Force. Hostilities came to include Jordan (after Jordan reluctantly chose to dismiss Israeli ap... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
5: ...[[Portuguese Empire]] stretched across the world. After the rise of other colonial powers, Portugal de...
25: ...ly [[Berber]] with some [[Arab]], mainly expelled after the [[Christian]] reconquest or [[Reconquista]...
27: ...s son, [[Afonso I of Portugal|Afonso Henriques]] (Afonso I), took control of the county. The city of [...
29: ... 5]], [[1143]], Portugal was formally recognized. Afonso, aided by the [[Templar Knights]], continued ...
31: ...ile]] who would therefore be the King of Portugal after Fernando's death. However, the impending loss... - Mummy (16225 bytes)
4: ... a person's [[Ka]] which was essential in one's [[afterlife]].
16: ...ade so that the bodies would not decompose in the afterlife. The mummified individual was placed at hi...
20: ..., so their spirit had a body to guide them to the afterlife.
27: A typical mummification took 70 days in which craftsmen raced to finish the tomb.
31: ...re stored in so called [[canopic jar]]s, modelled after the four sons of [[Horus]] who would protect t... - California (63989 bytes)
89: ...t [[Economy of California|economy]] in the world (after the rest of the U.S., [[Japan]], [[Germany]], ...
101: ...ly dissolved and abandoned. For a quarter century after the achievement of Mexican independence in 182...
109: ...tant upper California numbered around 4,000. But after gold was discovered, the population burgeoned ...
113: ...ental Railroad|first transcontinental railroad]]. After this rail link was established, hundreds of th...
128: ...urs. Superior Court judges serve six-year terms, after which they may run for re-election. Unlike th... - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
49: After the [[American Revolutionary War]], Wisconsin ...
51: ...Hoan]], was mayor of Milwaukee from [[1916]] to [[1940]]. During both the [[2000]] and [[2004]] presiden...
61: ...sconsinites although the nicknames "[[Badger]]s" (after the state's nickname and school mascot of the ...
65: ...state Progressive Party]] establishment soon thereafter, Wisconsin and in particular, Madison, have of...
125: *5.7% [[African American|Black]] - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
65: ... second state on December 12, [[1787]] (five days after Delaware became the first).
69: ...the vast majority of U.S. kerosene for years thereafter, and saw the rise and fall of oil boom towns.
80: ...ue, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Community Affairs, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of E...
118: ...a recreational mountain lake for sportsmen, burst after a heavy rain and destroyed the downstream fact...
129: ...ese are produced by [[Amish]] and [[Mennonite]] craftsmen. - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
83: ...[Nikolai Yezhov|Yezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich]] (1895-1940)
174: *[[James Young|Young, Paraffin]], (1811?1883), Scottish chemist
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