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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - 1920s

1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or primarily in North America and in Australia as the "Roaring Twenties" . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. See 1920s Berlin. 1920s - Events and trends. Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s, especially in the United States. This due to the fact both d ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia II - 1920s - Events and trends Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s, especially in the United States. This due to the fact both decades were considered very economically prosperous times, and a prosperity which lasted throughout almost the entire decade following a tremendous event at the closing of the previous decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the late 1910s, and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s). In Australia, this decad ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - 20s

Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 20s BC - 10s BC - 0s BC - 0s - 10s - 20s - 30s - 40s - 50s - 60s - 70s Years: 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Sometimes the '20s is used as shorthand for the 1920s, the 1820s, or other such decades in various centuries 20s - Events and trends. 20s - Significant people. Tiberius, Roman Emperor (14 - 37). Category: 20s< ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway. The book relates anecdotes of his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate circle of writers in the 1920's. Some of the prominent people to make an appearance in the book include Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. The book was edited by Ernest's fourth wife, Mary Hemingway, and published posthumously in 1964. A Moveable Feast is also the title of a live album by Fairport Convention.

1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Kamala

Kamala is a common Indian name. Some people named Kamala include: Kamala Das, an Indian writer. Kamala, a character in the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Kamala, an 8 year old girl discovered in 1920, who was raised by wolves in India. Kamala was also the stage name of professional wrestler Jim Harris. Other related archivesHermann Hesse, India, Indian, Jim Harris, Kamala, Kamala Das, Siddhartha, professional wrestler, wolves

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - 1950s

1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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1950s - Events and trends

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Jamnagar

Jamnagar is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, and serves as the capital of the Jamnagar District. Its population in 1991 was roughly 326,000 people. The city was built up substantially by Maharaja Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji in the 1920s, when the district was known as Nawangar. The district lies just to the south of the Gulf of Kutch. Most residents of Jamnagar are Gujarati and speak the Gujarati language. A small percentage speak the Kachchi language, which is written in the Gujarati script ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - August Vollmer

August Vollmer (1876 - 1955) was a former Berkeley, California police chief. He is widely considered the "father of modern policing", and was the first chief to require that police officers attain college degrees; during the 1920s, he persuaded the University of California to teach criminal justice. (This is often seen as the start of criminal justice as an academic field.) He was also the first police chief to create a "mobile" force, placing officers on bicycles, motorcycles, and in cars so that they could patrol a broader area with greater efficiency. He was also one of the first peopl ...

1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Aurora Casket Company

Aurora Casket Company is one of the larger manufacturers of caskets and urns. The company has over 700 employees, and is based in Aurora, Indiana. The company traces its roots back to 1890, when John Backman began making wooden caskets by hand. At the time he employed 20 people. In the 1920's, John's son William Backman, and his son-in-law William Barrott joined the company. Since that time the company has been controlled by the Backman and Barrott families. The current President and CEO is William Barrott I ...

1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Watchman Nee

Watchman Nee (倪柝聲 pinyin: Ní Tuòshēng;, 1903-1972) was a citizen of the People's Republic of China who became a Christian in 1920 at the age of 17 and began writing in the same year. In 1921, he met the British missionary M. E. Barber, who was a great influence on him. Through Miss Barber, Nee was introduced to many of the Christian writings which were to have a profound influence on him and his teachings. In 1928, Watchman Nee settled in Shanghai where he based his own speaking and publication work, the Shanghai Go ...

1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Attica Correctional Facility

The Attica Correctional Facility is one of the most well known prisons in the United States, second possibly to Alcatraz. It is located in Attica, New York, a small town located midway between Buffalo and Rochester. It held many of the worst criminals of the time when it was constructed in the 1920s. A tear gas system is installed in the mess hall and industry areas and has been used to cease conflicts in these areas. The prison now holds many people who are serving 25 years-to-life terms for murder. Attica was the site of a prison riot in 197 ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Wadowice

Wadowice is a town in southern Poland, 50km from Krakow with 19,500 inhabitants (2001), situated on the Skawa river, confluence of Vistula, in the eastern part of Silesian Plateau (Pogórze Ślaskie). Wadowice was the birthplace of Pope John Paul II (1920). Wadowice - History. The first permanent settlement in the area of today's Wadowice was founded in late 10th century or early 11th century. According to a local legend, the town was founded by certain Wad or Wład, a short form for the Slavic name of Ladi ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Barnstorming

Barnstorming was a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s in which stunt pilots would perform tricks with airplanes, often in groups as a flying circus. These aerialists — or "barnstormers" as they became known — performed almost any trick or feat with an airplane that people could imagine. Barnstorming was also the first major form of civil aviation in the history of flight. For many pilots and stuntpeople, barnstorming provided an exciting and invigorating way to make a living as well as a challenging outlet for their ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Victor Kugler

Victor Kugler (June 5, 1900-December 16, 1981) was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Born in Hohenelbe, Austria, he joined the Austrian Navy during the First World War once his education was completed but was discharged in 1918 after being wounded. He moved to Germany and worked as an electrician, then in 1920 moved to Utrecht, Holland to work for a company selling pectin. He joined the Amsterdam branch of Opekta as Otto Frank's deputy in 1924. He became a ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Unionists Ireland

In the context of Irish politics, Unionists are people in Northern Ireland, who wish to see the continuation of the Act of Union 1800, as amended by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, under which Northern Ireland, created in that latter Act, remains part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Unionists are mostly, but not exclusively, from Protestant backgrounds in terms of religion. In the context of Irish history, the term refers to those who opposed home rule for Irela ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Corriere della Sera

Corriere della Sera ("Evening Mail") is the leading Italian daily newspaper, printed in Milan. It is the most famous Italian national newspaper, and among the oldest, founded on Sunday, 1876 March 5 by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In the 1910s and 1920s under the direction of Luigi Albertini, it became the most widely read newspaper in Italy. It maintains its importance and influence to this day. Its main rivals are Turin's La ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - 1890s

1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the "Mauve Decade," because William Henry Perkin's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the "Gay Nineties", under the then-current usage of the word "gay" which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no connotation of homosexuality as in current-day usage. 1890s - Events and trends. 18 ...

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1920s - People: Encyclopedia - Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (August 16, 1832–August 31, 1920) was a German physiologist and psychologist. He is generally acknowledged as the founder of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology. Wundt combined philosophical introspection with techniques and laboratory apparatuses brought over from his physiological studies with Helmholtz, as well as many of his own design. This experimental introspection was in contrast to what had been called psychology until then, a branch of philosophy where people introspected themse ...