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- Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
1: ...s history]] concerns events from '''[[1900]] to [[1929]]'''.
89: *[[1920]] - First [[radio]] broadcast in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]
110: *[[1929]] - [[Herbert Hoover]] becomes President
111: *[[1929]] - [[Saint Valentine's Day Massacre]]
112: *[[1929]] - [[Immigration Act]]
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...th, and [[Belize]] and [[Guatemala]] to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country i...
76:
78: ...Institutional Revolutionary Party]] or PRI), in [[1929]] ended the struggles, uniting all generals and c...
161: ...retches more than 3000 km from northwest to southeast. Its width is varied, from more than 2000 km in t...
163: ..., open to the north, with mountain chains on the east and west and with ocean-front lowlands lying outs... - Luwian language (1607 bytes)
8: ... (1929–1985). Papers from the Fourth East Coast Indo-European Conference, [[Cornell University]],... - Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
18: ...de the white grapefruit and the red, of which the 1929 US Ruby Red (of the Redblush variety) has a [[pat...
24: ...me that grapefruit increases the effects of [[simvastatin]], [[terfenadine]], [[felodipine]], [[nifedip... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
8: ...e are killed in the deadliest American natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina.
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10:
11: .... tornado since the advent of modern weather forecasting
17: - November 4 (10686 bytes)
30: ...ng [[Marilyn Monroe]] and [[Clark Gable]] -- the last film for both.
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953]])
56: *[[1916]] - [[Walter Cronkite]], news broadcaster
59: *[[1929]] - [[Doris Roberts]], actress
100: * [[Bah�'� Faith]] - Feast of Qudrat (Power) - First day of the 13th month o... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
46: ...vangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...ohn Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
72: ...ams|Adams, Walter Sydney]], (1876-1956), American astronomer
78: *[[Amandus Adamson|Adamson, Amandus]], (1855-1929), Estonian sculptor
79: *[[James Adamson|Adamson, James]], (1946-), astronaut - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
14: ... spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
23: ... [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had been evacuated...
29: ...h Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast to the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwe...
60: ... be her home. She also spends time at [[Balmoral Castle]] in [[Scotland]] and at [[Sandringham House]] ...
64: ...literacy, Queen Elizabeth has witnessed over the past 50 years a gradual transformation of the British ... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
20: ... highest court at that time. On [[October 18]], [[1929]], the committee ruled that Canadian women were i... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
9: ...dbeater's advice to young boys to [[masturbation|masturbate]]. At the time such advice was highly contr...
15: ...ended up disbanding the Order of the Star of the East, which had been founded to support him and of wh... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[June 11]], [[1847]] – [[August 5]], [[1929]]) was a British [[suffragist]] (as opposed to a ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ugh one of these lodgers Gladys, aged seven, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of ''The...
7: ...her of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who...
9: ...he won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after...
15: Her last husband was [[Charles 'Buddy' Rogers|Charles 'Bud...
28: * [[1919]]: A very astute business person, she founded [[United Artists]... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
22: ...]], who caught her eye. The two were married in [[1929]]. In [[1931]], Rand became a [[naturalized citiz...
41: ...ion] works, and by giving talks at several east-coast universities, largely through the [[Nathaniel Bra...
68: ...of them seem to have no shortcomings at all, at least from an Objectivist view (Hank Rearden, however, ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
23: ... Pétain|Pétain]] into English. Contrastingly, Judy Grahn (1989) describes her as, "a 19th...
54: ...e time it is grounded useful, not wistful and fantastic." (p.15)
56: ...ng a variety of interpretations and engagements. Lasty Grahn argues that one must "''inster''stand...en...
58: ...pares Stravinsky's choice of, "the drabbest and least significant phrases," in ''L'Histoire du Soldat''...
74: *''[[Four Saints in Three Acts]]'' (libretto, 1929: music by [[Virgil Thomson]], 1934) - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...icence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]]. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
13: ...e prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums ...
49: *''[[A Room of One's Own]]'' ([[1929]]) - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...[[1937]]), is a retired [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly ...
5: ...ennikovo]], a small village in the [[Yaroslavl Oblast]]. After school she worked in a tire factory, and...
11: ...e married fellow cosmonaut [[Andrian Nikolayev]] (1929–2004) and gave birth to their daughter Elen... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...eceived her Ph.D. from [[Columbia University]] in 1929. She set out in 1925 to do her field work in [[P...
28: ...n-again faith as her reason for admitting to the past deception.) Finally, they suggested that these wo...
59: ...hat at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-i... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
2: ...well''' [[March 14]], [[1851]] - [[January 2]], [[1929]], [[United States|US]] [[Army]] nurse nicknamed ...
13: ... [[Columbia University]] awarded her an honorary master of arts. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...d gained a reputation in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard.
9: ...d occasionally reverted to singing in clubs. In [[1929]], she appeared in a [[Broadway]] flop called ''P... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
9: ...8212; once for over a year — and in January 1929, she told him they were through. Although he was ...
15: ...down "square" jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, burgled stores, and stole...
23: .... Fellow inmate [[Ralph Fults]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a schoolboy to a ratt...
25: ... Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamilton]]...
27: ... swapping stolen plates regularly. Though Clyde's astounding driving skill and ability to evade capture... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
15: From [[1929]] to [[1948]] Mother Teresa taught [[geography]] ...
77: ...was determined that more than 450,000 women in [[East Pakistan]] (now [[Bangladesh]]) had been systemat...
115: In contrast to the conditions at her homes, Mother Teresa sou... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
15: ...at he had seen her movie The Triumph of Will at least 15 times.
25: ...In her obituaries Riefenstahl was said to be the last famous figure of Germany's Nazi era to die.
33: ...m Piz Pal?(''[[The White Hell of Pitz Palu]]'', [[1929]])
50: * ''[[The Last of the Nuba]]'' (Harper, 1974; [[St. Martin's Pre... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: ...[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] performance was in [[1929]], in ''Broken Dishes'' and later in ''Solid Sout...
23: ...[[breast cancer]], and after having suffered at least one serious stroke. She is interred in [[Forest L...
25: She walked out of her last film, "Wicked Stepmother," which was released pos... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...ch was seen by comedy director Eric Petscher. He cast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tra...
10: ... her in [[film|cinema]] [[acting]] technique and cast her in a major role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[19...
23: ...e movie poster. She was next part of an all star cast in ''[[Grand Hotel (film)|Grand Hotel]]'' ([[1932...
25: ...[[1935 in film|1935]], but she insisted on being cast in another screen version of [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolsto...
33: ... Woman]]'', attempted to capitalize upon this by casting Garbo in a romantic comedy that featured her d... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
1: [[Image:AmazinGrace.jpg|thumb|300px|Grace Kelly (1929–1982).]]
3: '''Grace Patricia Kelly''' ([[November 12]], [[1929]] – [[September 14]], [[1982]]), later know...
15: ...l comedy ''[[High Society]]'' ([[1956]]) was her last film, as her [[marriage]] to [[Rainier III, Princ... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
18: *''[[Se Norge]]'' ([[1929]]) (documentary) - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
21: ...h extensions are often criticised by organ enthusiasts as ''unsympathetic'' to the original style.
49: ...ears, many major concert halls around the world boast organs. [[Camille Saint-Sa뮳|Saint-Sa뮳]]' popu...
63: ...s only one pitch at a time, ideally there is at least one pipe for each controlling key or pedal. (Occa...
140: The pipe organ has at least one [[musical keyboard|keyboard]], with 2-5 keybo...
168: ...[Baroque music|Baroque]] [[composer]] [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], have written for the pipe organ. Music... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
12: ... time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and have been a resident of the ...
35: ...utive branch of the federal government — a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, in...
184: || [[1923]] || [[1929]] || [[Republican Party (United States)|Republica...
188: || [[1929]] || [[1933]] || [[Republican Party (United Stat...
291: ... Secret Service until the President's death. The last President to have lifetime Secret Service protect... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
6: ...t bears a possible resemblance to the Antarctic coast. (See also [[History of Antarctica]].)
15: ...tion]] over the continent, but [[ice]] there can last for extended time periods. Nearly all of Antarct...
24: ...tarctica]], since they correspond roughly to the eastern and western hemispheres relative to the [[Gree...
40: ...[Peter I Island]] at 68?50' S, 90?35'W, claimed [[1929]], the only Antarctic claim area that is not a se...
53: ...lly estimated that at a given time there are at least 1,000 people living in Antarctica. This varies co... - United States (58223 bytes)
66: ...ce for the nation was the [[Great Depression]] ([[1929]]–[[1939]]). The U.S. has also has taken pa...
76: ... population of the state, and each state has at least one representative. As of the [[United States 200...
80: ...[[President of the Senate]], with the ability to cast a tiebreaking vote. These two posts are elected, ...
95: ...e|Air Force]]. The [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]] is under the [[Department of Homeland Sec...
110: ...ins]] west of the plains, deserts and temperate coastal zones west of the Rocky Mountains and [[tempera... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
49: ...s]] that separate [[Southwest Asia]] from [[Southeast Europe]]. [[Anatolia]] is situated between the [[...
50: ...hichevan]] and to the northeast; [[Iran]] to the east; and [[Iraq]] and [[Syria]] to the south.
62: ... ways of classifying the history of Turkey. The least disputed classification is based on three global...
72: ...idates may run. To be elected, they must win at least 10% of the vote in the province from which they a...
103: ...al Infantry) and Air Force. The Gendarmerie and Coast Guard operate as the parts of Dept. of Internal A... - Argentina (30219 bytes)
48: ...he north, [[Brazil]] and [[Uruguay]] in the northeast and [[Chile]] in the west. It's the second larges...
61: ...sion of agriculture and foreign investment in infrastructure. Conservative forces dominated Argentine p...
80: ...or a third term or more after an interval of at least one term. The president appoints [[cabinet (gover...
88: ...rly known as ''capital federal''), marked with an asterisk:
156: ...entina's economy had been on a Keynesian roller-coaster ride, and since the late 1970s the country had ... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
1: ... and [[People's Republic of China|China]] in the easternmost part of the country. It is among the poore...
30: | '''[[Land borders]]'''<br>'''[[Coastline]]''' || 5,529 km<br>none
66: ...[1919]] (assassination), [[1929]] (abdication), [[1929]] (execution), [[1933]] (assassination), [[1973]]...
68: The last period of stability in Afghanistan lay between [[...
72: ...ern Alliance]] strongholds primarily in the northeast. The Taliban sought to impose a strict interpreta... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: ...stern [[Europe]] which borders [[Russia]] to the east, [[Belarus]] to the north, [[Poland]], [[Slovakia...
3: ...itory of present-day Ukraine was a key centre of East Slavic culture in the [[Middle Ages]] before bein...
42: ...T]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+2)<br/>[[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]] ([[Coordinated Uni...
60: ...-Iranian language moved from Ukraine to the southeast but many also remained.
64: ...e Rus' its first powerful dynasty, the [[Rurik Dynasty]]. - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
52: ...] to the south and east, [[Hungary]] to the northeast, and [[Austria]] to the north.
65: ...Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]], later renamed, in [[1929]], the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]. Following the r...
91: The last two are usually considered together as Primorska ...
139: ...st, up to 3500 mm for the Alps, 800 mm for south east and 1400 mm for central Slovenia.
210: * [[Coast of Slovenia]] - Flag of Colorado (1126 bytes)
4: ...y within the center stripe. On [[February 28]], [[1929]], the General Assembly added to the description ... - Flag of West Virginia (372 bytes)
2: ...was adopted by [[West Virginia]] on [[7 March]] [[1929]]. - Aswan Dam (6375 bytes)
10: ...dam was raised in two phases, 1907–1912 and 1929–1933.
23: ...hich was once brought by the Nile) all along the eastern Mediterranean.
25: ...an fish stocks are also impacted by the dam. The eastern basin of the Mediterranean is low in fertility... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
4: ...t has become statistically the greatest sports dynasty in history, the [[New York Yankees]]. His inter...
15: ...deral League]], a rebel major league which would last only 2 years, placed a team in Baltimore, across ...
41: ...920 figures for slugging and reaching base. Most astonishingly, he broke the home run record for the t...
51: ...d, but despite this, they had just enough to get past [[George Sisler]] and the heavy-hitting [[St. Lou...
57: ... of land in the [[Bronx]] for $600,000 from the [[Astor]] estate. After a year of construction and a c... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
22: * [[Animal husbandry]] in the [[Middle East]]
46: * the use of [[yeast]] for:
54: ...el [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle East]]
67: * [[150s BC]]: [[Astrolabe]]: [[Hipparchus]]
79: * [[4th century|300s]]: [[Stirrup]] in [[Jin Dynasty (265-420)|China]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
40: *[[Lev Yashin|Yashin, Lev]], ([[1929]]-[[1990]]), Russian football goalkeeper
41: *[[Carl Yastrzemski|Yastrzemski, Carl]], (born [[1939]]), [[Baseball Hall ...
68: ...|Yegorov, Boris Borisovich]] (1937-1994), Russian astronaut
70: ...eksei Yeliseyev|Yeliseyev, Aleksei]] (born 1934), astronaut
86: *[[Yi Jachun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
3: ...years of rebuilding and coming to terms with the vast human cost of the conflict. Unlike after [[World ...
17: ...300,000 vehicles registered in [[1918]], but by [[1929]] there were 1.9 million. The automobile had wide...
19: ...the [[media]] of the masses, the first mass broadcasting medium. Radios were affordable and entertainin...
23: ===New infrastructure===
25: ...logies led to an unprecedented need for new [[infrastructure]], mostly built by the [[government]]. Cru... - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
22: ...he United States, and provided U.S. farmers with vast expanses of land.
26: ...ritain imposed a loose blockade of the American coast.
28: ...e of the American coast. The embargo, however, devastated American agricultural exports while Britain f...
32: ...e 'status quo ante' after bitter fighting, which lasted until January 8, 1815 (after the peace treaty) ...
34: ...he federal government forcibly deported the Southeastern tribes to less fertile territories to the west... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
6: ...measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at G...
8: ... the last Sunday in October and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in March. For the remainder of the year lo...
33: ...to do so. It was based on the longitude 172? 30' East of [[Greenwich]], that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahe...
35: ... Central Standard Time, [[local mean time]], and Eastern Standard Time until it settled on EST by ordin...
37: ...ajor countries had adopted hourly time zones by [[1929]]. Even today, they have not been fully realized,... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...y related to, but distinct from [[science]] (at least in the modern conception). [[Technology]] concern...
29: Many ancient civilizations collected astronomical information in a systematic manner throu...
40: ... and is known as the philosophic school of [[scholasticism]]. The rise of [[Christianity]] saw a strang...
48: ===The Middle Ages: Eastern World===
52: ...8th]] centuries, a period of Islamic scholarship lasted until the [[14th century]]. This scholarship wa... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
370: *[[Anne Dunn]] ([[1929]]-)
376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
401: *[[Julian Falat]] ([[1853]]-[[1929]])
531: *[[Robert Henri]] ([[1865]]-[[1929]]) - Electronic musical instrument (4501 bytes)
1: ...roduces its sounds using [[electronics]]. In contrast, the term [[electric instrument]] is used to mean...
18: Ca. 1929 [[Friedrich Trautwein]] invented the [[Trautonium... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
5: ...nium]], and increasingly, [[Graphite-reinforced_plastic|carbon fiber]], which is prized for its lightne...
25: During the last years of the 18th century, [[Sir George Cayley]] ...
33: ...turing his spine. He died the next day, with his last words being "sacrifices must be made". Lilienthal...
41: ...pont Langley]]. After a distinguished career in [[astronomy]] and a tenure at the [[Smithsonian Institu...
53: ...elin flight occurred on [[July 2]], [[1900]]. It lasted for only 18 minutes, as LZ 1 was forced to land... - Watercolor painting (4393 bytes)
3: ...per. Others include [[papyrus]], bark papers, [[plastic]]s, [[leather]], [[fabric]], wood, and [[canvas...
10: ...nting using pigments in a water medium on wet [[plaster]]. One well-known example of buon fresco is the...
21: ...|right|200px|[[Francis Picabia]], ''Ridens'', (c. 1929), gouache and watercolor on cardboard, 104 x 74 c...
33: According to a tradition, dating from at least the early [[20th century]], the white of the pape... - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
20: ... - (1944), [[Belgian]]–American — [[plastic]]
28: *[[Emile Berliner]], (1851-1929) [[Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[...
73: *[[George Eastman]], (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — ...
77: *[[John S. Eastwood]] (1857-1924) - reinforced concrete multiple ...
100: *[[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]], (1638-...
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