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- Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...emocrat from Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice amo...
24: ...-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was e...
61: *[[A Royal Scandal]] (1945)
64: *[[Die! Die! My Darling!]] (1965) - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Awar...
3: ... a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Inter...
7: ...rgman was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation." One of Rossellini's and Bergman's children...
9: ...6 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scandal return to Hollywood and won Best Actress for a s...
13: She died of [[cancer]] on her birthday in [[1982]] in [[London]], [[England]]. She was ... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
1: ...' the actress; there is also singer named [[Betty Davis]].''
2: [[Image:bettedavis.jpg|thumb|right|208x240|]]
3: ...[October 6]], [[1989]]), better known as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[United ...
5: ...ed by their mother, who aspired to be an actress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s ...
7: ...''. The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for this ''tour de force'', and such was the o... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...d her 13th nomination for ''[[Adaptation (movie)|Adaptation]]''. Hepburn won an [[Emmy Award]] in [[1...
5: ...father was a staunch proponent of publicizing the dangers of [[venereal disease]] in a time when such ...
7: ...ater be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in ...
12: ...n and Smith's marriage was rocky from the start — she insisted he change his name to S. Ogden Lu...
21: ...zon]] princess in [[The Warrior's Husband]] (an update of ''[[Lysistrata]]''), which debuted to excell... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...y, Ontario]], [[Canada]] ? died [[October 22]], [[1938]] in [[New York City]], [[United States]], was an...
4: Born '''Ada May Campbell''', her father died when she was 13 ...
6: ...y Irwin set out on her own. She joined [[Augustin Daly]]'s stock company where she made her first appe...
12: ...lm]] appearance, this time in the feature-length adaptation of [[George V. Hobart]]'s play, ''[[Mrs. B...
14: ... and at her winter home on [[Merritt Island, Florida]] before retiring to a farm near [[Clayton, New Y... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
3: ...ess]] who was born '''Vivian Mary Hartley''' in [[Darjeeling]], [[India]]. She and her parents later ...
5: ... [[1932]] to Herbert Leigh Holman, and they had a daughter, Suzanne, in [[1933]].
7: ... late [[1938]], when filming began. [[Paulette Goddard]] was close to be cast as [[Margaret Mitchell]]...
25: *''[[Dark Journey]]'' ([[1937]])
27: *''[[A Yank at Oxford]]'' ([[1938]]) - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...[[1948 Summer Olympics]]. Left of her is silver medallist [[Maureen Gardner]], while 3rd place finishe...
3: ...ete]]. She is most famous for winning four gold medals at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]]. ...
15: ...e 4 נ100 m [[relay]], both held on the same day. In the high jump, she took sixth place (shared ...
17: ...d]]s), and she also won her first international medals. At the European Championships in [[Vienna]], s...
23: ...ally thought women should not compete in sports – not an unusual opinion at the time. However, h... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: Born in [[Oslo]], Henie took the gold medal in the [[1928 Winter Olympics|1928]], [[1932 Win...
6: ...n, and her first [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medal the following year. She also won six consecutive...
8: ...e in figure skating, and the first to make use of dance [[choreographer|choreography]]. She was also ...
10: ...t shows in Norway in [[1953]] and [[1955]]. In [[1938]] she published her autobiography, which was repu...
12: Henie was married three times, with [[Dan Topping]], [[Winthrop Gardner]], and finally the... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...len''' ([[24 May]] [[1899]] – [[4 July]], [[1938]]) was a [[France|French]] [[tennis]] player who ...
8: ...hief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ... fought three-set match: 5–7, 6–4, 6–3. That same year she won the International Cla...
14: ...h points and winning in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory.
18: ... with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after their opponents withdrew. - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...[[June 26]], [[1911]] in [[Port Arthur, Texas]] – [[September 27]], [[1956]]) was an [[United St...
5: ...ter the Games, Shiley and Didrikson split their medals.
9: In 1938, she married [[George Zaharias]], a former wrestl...
11: ...f|Grand Slam]] of the three women's majors of the day, the [[US Open (golf)|US Open]], the Titleholder...
23: ... Official Site of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Foundation - on archive.org] - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
5: ...ives haul their trains. Increasingly common these days in passenger service is [[push-pull]] operation...
25: ...downhill gradient down Stoke Bank on [[3 July]] [[1938]]. Aerodynamic passenger locomotives from other c...
27: ...wo and a half times that of diesel power, and the daily mileage achievable was far lower. As labour co...
29: ...e in [[China]], where [[coal]] is a much more abundant resource than [[petroleum]] for diesel fuel. In...
32: ...mber of which survive and are still operational today. - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
8: ...nstructed folded back on itself, as it is to this day (giving it the name in some regions "curtall", a...
10: ... current form, and a three-keyed bassoon has been dated to 1699.
16: ...e interior of the wing and boot joints to prevent damage from moisture with extensive playing; wooden ...
35: ...both fingered with Heckel-system keywork, a descendant of the original Baroque fingering system, as op...
48: * [[Carl Maria von Weber]], Andante e rondo ungarese in C minor, op. 35 - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1829]]
6: | date2=[[March 3]], [[1837]]
7: | preceded= [[John Quincy Adams]]
9: | date of birth= March 15, 1767
12: | date of death= June 8, 1845 - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
34: ... and British claims; claimed [[1943]] as [[AntᲴida Argentina]], one of the four departments of [[Tie...
36: ...h Claims; claimed [[1940]], as [[comuna de AntᲴida]], one of the two municipalities of [[AntᲴica C...
39: *[[Norway]]: 44?38' E to 20?W; claimed [[1938]] as [[Dronning Maud Land]], a Norwegian territor...
46: ...?W; overlapped Norwegian claim; claimed [[1939]]–[[1945]] as [[New Schwabenland]]
47: *[[South Africa]]: claimed [[1963]]–[[1994]] - Germany (46412 bytes)
15: ...| [[List of national anthems|National anthem]]: [[Das Lied der Deutschen]]<br>3rd stanza (''Einigkeit ...
51: <sup>1</sup> [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Low German language|Low German]], [[Sorb...
61: ...lector]]s of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. From ''Bildatlas der Deutschen Geschichte'' by Dr Paul Kn? (18...
66: ... the [[Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation]] – stemmed from a division of the [[Franks|Caroli...
78: [[Image:Reichsgruendung2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Foundation of modern Germany, Versailles, 1871. Bismarck... - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
26: | [[Mikulas Dzurinda|Mikulᦡmp;#353; Dzurinda]]
63: ...ire]] maintained a chain of outposts around the [[Danube]]. From 20 to 50 AD, the Kingdom of [[Vannius...
67: ... Hungary, while the ethnic composition of present-day Slovakia itself became more diverse due to the a...
71: ...toman Empire]] started its expansion into present-day Hungary in the early 16th century, the center of...
75: ... finally broken up by the [[Munich Agreement]] of 1938, when Slovakia became a separate [[Slovak Republi... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
5: Barbados has one of the highest standards of living and literacy rates in the world and ...
9: ...dash;like the Arawak and the Salodoid-Barrancoid—lived in isolation on the island.
13: ...rrival of the first British settlers in [[1627]]–[[1628]] until independence in [[1966]], Barbad...
17: ...ams]], founded the [[Barbados Labour Party]] in [[1938]].
21: ...e [[West Indies Federation]], and Sir [[Grantley Adams]] served as its first and only prime minister. ... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...greatly from the devastating and [[genocide|genocidal]] [[Second Congo War]] (known also as the Africa...
31: population_census_year = 1938 |
40: established_events = - Date |
41: established_dates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[June 30]], [[...
57: ...entury|8th]] centuries by [[Bantu]]s from present-day [[Nigeria]]. - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...eorge Herman Ruth''', ([[February 6]], [[1895]] – [[August 16]], [[1948]]), better known as '''B...
6: ==Early days==
12: ...sition because he was involved in every play. One day, as his team was getting pounded, Babe started m...
14: ...s club, and took him to spring training in [[Florida]], where a strong performance with bat and ball s...
15: ...ue Orioles, and the competition hit Orioles' attendance significantly. To make ends meet, Dunn was ob... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
16: LandArea = 23,974 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[March 4]], [[1791]] |
25: ...Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]]: [[UTC]]-5/[[Daylight saving time|-4]] |
36: ...the east, [[New York]] to the west, and the [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Quebec]] to the north.
38: ...ar|Revolutionary War]]. Famous for its scenery, [[dairy]] products and [[maple syrup]], Vermont has lo...
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