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- Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
13: ...into [[Yugoslavia]] and joined a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah ...
17: ..., 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on [[Mount Herzl]], [[...
52: ...er she was parachuted into a Partisan camp in Yugoslavia:
59: ...ebrew version by Avigdor Hamieri), in another translation it's Spring instead of July: - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...er]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved in [[Haiti|Haitia... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: ...The following year she won Best Actress for ''[[Gaslight]]'' ([[1944]]). She received a third consecut...
7: ...n his film ''[[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]]'' ([[1950]]). Bergman left both her husband and daughter fo...
15: Bergman was honored posthumously with an [[Emmy Award]] for Best Actress in [[198...
40: * [[Gaslight]] (1944)
49: * [[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]] (1950) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
9: ..., but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ([[1950]]), for which she received another Oscar nominati...
25: ... "Wicked Stepmother," which was released posthumously in [[1989]] with her still included. She is also...
32: *Nominated ''[[All About Eve]]'' ([[1950]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
7: ...d for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in films such as ''[...
38: ...suits and disdaining makeup. She also had a famously difficult relationship with the press, turning d...
54: ... back entrances to studios and hotels and assiduously avoiding the press. They were undeniably a coup...
66: ...that even months after she returned home the famously-vigorous actress was still ill. The trip and th...
84: ...n the [[1988]] television movie ''[[Laura Lansing Slept Here]]''. - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
7: Loren began her film career in the early 1950s playing bit parts in mostly minor Italian films,...
11: By the second half of the 1950s, her star began to rise in Hollywood, with films...
17: After becoming a mother of two sons her career slowed down and Loren moved into her 40s and 50s gra...
45: *''[[The Ballot]]'' (1950)
46: *''[[Toto Tarzan]]'' (1950) - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
8: ...s death, Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously considered adopting her, which they could not ha...
20: ... Bette Davis's classic ''[[All About Eve]]'' in [[1950]] and especially with ''[[The Asphalt Jungle]]'' ...
34: ...," Dougherty *[http://www.familyforest.com/captainslog/64.html ]confirms that they were in love and wo...
40: ...was also said to have been disgusted by Marilyn's sloppiness and poor hygiene. DiMaggio biographer Ri...
46: ... reportedly placed in the ward for the most seriously disturbed. He got her out six days later, and to... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
17: ...100 and 200 m, which were both won by [[Stanislawa Walasiewicz|Stanisława Walasiewicz]]. Man...
29: ...erman press was excited, as the record had previously been owned by an English team. Months later, she...
35: ...ning shortly afterwards. The Championships were a slight disappointment. In the 100 m semi-finals...
37: ...lympics]] in [[London]]. After her experience in Oslo, she decided not to take part in all events, but...
41: ...nish line, and the two finished almost simultaneously. When the British national anthem was played, th... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
9: ...er) until illness shortened her career in the mid-1950s. She won the 1947 [[Titleholders Championship]] ...
11: ...when she completed the [[Grand Slam of golf|Grand Slam]] of the three women's majors of the day, the [...
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: ...onstructed in [[New York City]] in [[1949]] and [[1950]] beside the East River on land purchased by an 8...
30: ...f [[collective security]]. Those hopes have obviously not been fully realized. From about [[1947]] unt...
48: ...sessments at these lower rates and has sought legislation from the [[Congress of the United States|U.S...
73: ...ery|United Nations Convention on the Abolition of Slavery]] and [[Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Chil... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
10: Beginning in the 1950's, brazilian berimbaus have been painted in brigh...
34: ...n sound, by releasing a little the string, and by sliding the gourd a little up or down from the place...
36: ...that was the length of the bows in the 1940's and 1950's. Today, many berimbaus are overgrown to 5 feet ...
70: ...sely associated (very strictly in some groups) to slowness and very sneaky Capoeira game. Rests on (do...
72: ... most common toque for playing, after the initial slow chanting over Angola toque, in most groups. Ref... - War (7002 bytes)
14: ... gradually increased. Today war is almost unanimously seen as undesireable and morally problematic. M...
37: ...U.N.T.S. 135, entered into force [[21 October]] [[1950]]. - Egyptian chronology (11665 bytes)
21: ...aoh [[Sesostris III]] about 3,621 years before c. 1950 CE.
48: :Khaslim - 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...
20: ...which the continental drift hypothesis was vigorously debated. The resulting papers were published in... - North Africa (3562 bytes)
14: The [[Canary Islands]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Eritrea]], [[Azores]] and ...
26: ...bic]] or [[Berber languages|Berber]]-speaking [[Muslim]]s (or, in the [[Copt]]s' case, [[Christianity|...
30: ...t, on the other hand, seems to have been continuously inhabited by Caucasoid peoples. [[Afro-Asiatic l...
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: ...nd the [[Dead Sea]]. Jordan's main religion is [[Islam]] and its main language is [[Arabic language|Ar...
69: ...ia]]ns, [[Iran|Persia]]ns, Greeks, Romans, Arab Muslims, Christian Crusaders, [[Mameluks]], [[Ottoman ...
73: In 1950, the country was renamed "the Hashemite Kingdom o...
75: ...rael allowed for a continuing Jordanian role in Muslim and Christian holy places in Jerusalem. The U.S...
88: ...n by the king. Of the 80 seats, 71 must go to [[Muslim]]s and nine to [[Christian]]s. The 40-member [[... - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
89: ...unds. The land to the south, in the highlands, is slightly less dry, and cooler. The highest point of ...
111: ...he dominant religions are [[Christianity]] and [[Islam]], each group representing roughly 50% of the p...
113: ...[Ethiopia]], which was in turn formerly (before [[1950]]) subject to the Coptic Pope. But the word ''Co...
115: ...st majority of Muslims in Eritrea are [[Sunni]] Muslims.
117: ...ment of Eritrea only officially recognizes the [[Islam]]ic, Catholic, Orthodox and [[Evangelical]] [[L... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
67: ...ns caused it to be divided into a predominantly Muslim [[Pakistan]] and a predominantly [[Hinduism|Hin...
69: ...mmoners, users of property) in [[East Bengal]] ([[1950]]) was a major landmark in Bangladesh's movement ...
88: ...government]]. The president is elected by the legislature every five years and his normally limited po...
133: ...[natural gas]]), insufficient power supplies, and slow implementation of economic reforms, caused by p...
267: ..., has often been compared to Indonesia's [[Java (island)|Java]]. - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...re than four million. The remaining sixth of the island of Ireland is known as [[Northern Ireland]] an...
58: ... of Ireland" in order to distinguish it from the island of Ireland as a whole. The name ''Republic of ...
67: ...mon in contrast to the more agrarian rest of the island. (Any tariff barriers would, it was feared, mo...
71: ...one's surprise. The remaining 26 counties of the island became the [[Irish Free State]], a [[constitut...
81: ...ct declared a republic, with the functions previously given to the King given instead to the President... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
2: ...e west [[Mexico]], to the southwest the [[Cayman Islands]] and [[Jamaica]], and to the southeast [[Hai...
6: ... of [[1898]]. The [[United States]] occupied the island until its independence was granted in [[1902]]...
22: ...ba_shootdown/27/]. This extraterritorial U.S. legislation is considered highly controversial, and the ...
24: ...storical or political interests in the Caribbean island , some U.S. citizens visit Cuba by traveling t...
41: ...4 provinces, and one special municipality (the [[Isla de la Juventud]]).
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