1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1940 - Births. See also Category:1940 births January 4 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate January 4 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate January 6 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d. 1989) January 14 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist January 20 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater < ...

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1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1934 - Events. January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring." January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published. January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe January 24 - Einstein visits White House January 26 - The Apollo The ...

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1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1927 - Events. January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France January 19 - Britain sends troops to China Including:

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1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1939 - Events. January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 13 - Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bushfires. January 24 - Earthquake kills 30.000 in Chile – about 50.000 sq mi razed January 26 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and ...

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Courbevoie is divided into two cantons: Canton of Courbevoie-Nord: 28,351 inhabitants (40.68% of the total). Canton of Courbevoie-Sud: 41,343 inhabitants (59.32% of the total). Courbevoie - Mayors of Courbevoie. Antoine Le Frique (1800-1818) Joseph Derbanne (October, 1818-February, 1826) Nicolas Rousselot (February 1826 - April 1830) Jean-Baptiste Chevalier (April 1830 - August 1830) Constant Grebaut (August 1830 - September 1840) ...

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The Latin word basilica (derived from Greek basiliké stoà, royal stoa), was originally used to describe a Roman public building (as in Greece, mainly a tribunal), usually located at the centre of a Roman town (forum). In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC. After the Roman Empire became officially Christian, the term came by extension to refer to a large, and important church that has been given special ceremonial rights by the Pope, and thus the word retains two senses today, in ...

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Băile Herculane (Hungarian: Herkulesfürdő) is a town in Romania (Caraş-Severin county), situated in the valley of the Cerna River, between the Mehedinţi Mountains to the east and the Cerna Mountains to the west, elevation 160 meters; population 6,164 (2000). The spa town of Băile Herculane has an ancient history. The numerous archaeological discoveries show that the area has been inhabited since the Paleolithic era. The Peştera Hoţilor, or Cave of the Thieves, contains multiple levels, including one from the Mousterian period, one from the Mesolithic period (Late Epigra ...

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Bangor, in north Wales, UK, is one of the smallest cities in the United Kingdom. It is a university city with a population of around 20,000, of whom about a third are students at the University of Wales, Bangor. The origins of the city date back to the founding of Bangor Cathedral by the Celtic saint Deiniol in the early 6th century AD. The name 'Bangor' itself comes from a Welsh word for a type of fenced-in enclosure, such as was originally on the site of the cathedral. The present cathedral is a somewhat more recent building ...

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Barbed wire is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s). It is used to construct inexpensive fences. A person or animal trying to pass through a barbed-wire fence will suffer discomfort and possibly injury. Barbed-wire fencing requires only fenceposts, wire and fixing devices such as staples. It is simple to construct and quick to erect by a skilled fencer. The most successful barbed wire was patented by Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois in 1874. It was an improvement on earlier less successful pointed wire products such a ...

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August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. August 13 - Events. 3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury corollation, the Maya calendar starts. 523 - John succeeds Hormisdas as Pope. 1099 - Paschal II elected Pope. 1315 - Louis X of France marries Clemence d'Anjou. 1326 - Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult, subsequently founds th ...

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Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (July 14, 1816 - October 13, 1882) was a French aristocrat who became famous for advocating White Supremacy and developing the theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853-1855). Gobineau was a successful diplomat whose career in Iran influenced the development of his ideas. He came to believe that race created culture, arguing that that distinctions between the three "black", "white", and "yellow" races are natural barriers, and that race ...

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1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. 1932 - Events. 1932 - January-February. January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with pia ...

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Ascott House, sometimes referred to as simply Ascott, is situated in the hamlet of Ascott near Wing in Buckinghamshire. The house was originally a farm house, built in the reign of James I and known as "Ascott Hall". It was acquired by Baron Mayer de Rothschild (of the neighbouring Mentmore Towers estate) in 1873. The Rothschild family had begun to acquire vast tracts of land in Buckinghamshire earlier in the century, on which they built a series of large mansions from 1852 onwards. Baron Mayer gave the house at Ascott to his n ...

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Minor planets, or planetoids are minor bodies of the Solar system orbiting the Sun (or of other planetary systems orbiting other stars) that are larger than meteoroids (the largest of which might be taken to be around 10 meters or so across) but smaller than major planets (Mercury having a diameter of about 4880 km). The term minor planet is sometimes used as a synonym for asteroid though this is technically incorrect; asteroids are one group of minor planets, a category which also includes Trans-Neptunian objects and ot ...

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By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by category Novelists - Playwrights Poets - Essayists Short Story Writers Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. Arthur Rimbaud - Life and work. He was born into the rural middle class of Charleville (now part of Charleville-Mézières) in th ...

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The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC (25 July 1848–19 March 1930) was a British statesman and the thirty-third Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is perhaps best known as author of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, promising a homeland for the Jewish people. Arthur Balfour - Early Life. The eldest son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingehame, Haddingtonshire, and of Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridg ...

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Archimandrite (Greek: ἀρχιμανδρίτης — archimandrites) is a title in the Eastern Orthodox Church for a superior abbot who has the supervision of several abbots and monasteries appointed by a bishop. The title has been in use since the 5th century, with some evidence of the 4th century usage. When the monastic supervision was passed to another episcopal official, Great Sakellarios ("sacristan"), the title of archimandrite became a honorary one for abbots of important monasteri ...

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This page indexes the individual year in architecture pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. 21st century in architecture: 2000s 20th century in architecture: 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 19th century in architecture: 1800s - 1810s - 1820s - 1830s - 1840s - 1850s - 1860s - 1870s - 1880s - 1890s ...

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Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, (the anglicized form of Schönberg—Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he became a U.S. citizen) (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was a composer, born in Vienna, Austria. He is particularly remembered as one of the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development, and for his twelve tone technique of composition using tone rows. He was also an important music theorist and an influential teacher of composition. Arnold Schoenberg - Biography. Arn ...

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The astronomical unit (AU or au or a.u. or sometimes ua) is a unit of distance, approximately equal to the mean distance between Earth and Sun. The currently accepted value of the AU is 149 597 870 691 ± 30 metres (about 150 million kilometres or 93 million miles). The symbol "ua" is recommended by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures [1], but in the United States and other anglophone countries the reverse usage is more common. The International Astronomical Union recommends "au" [2] and in ...

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[1] - In 1994, a players' strike wiped out the last eight weeks of the season and all post-season. Atlanta was six games out of first place in the East Division but leading the wild card race by two games when play was stopped. No official titles were awarded in 1994. Atlanta Braves (1966-present) Milwaukee Braves (1953-1965) Boston Braves (1945-1952) Bo ...

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