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Encyclopedia - Czechoslovakia: Encyclopedia Ii - Czechoslovakia - History
Main article: History of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia arose in October 1918 as one of the succession states of Austria-Hungary at the en...   » Read the article

Article - Astrology: Dragons Throughout The Ages - Dragons Importance In Astrology.
Chinese astrologers refer to the Moon's Nodes as the Dragon's Head and Tail and give it tremendous attention as to the placement in the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joan Crawford: Encyclopedia Ii - Joan Crawford - Adopted Children
Joan adopted six children, according to L.A. Times articles from the time, though she kept only four. The first was Christina (born June ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - World War Ii - Participants
The belligerents of the Second World War are usually considered to belong to either of the two blocs: the Axis and the Allies. A number o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Iii Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Iii Of England - Coronation
Richard's three elder brothers were all dead. His elder brother George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence had been attainted in connection...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1939: Encyclopedia - 1939
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1939 - Events. January 2 - End of term for Fran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - June 5: Encyclopedia Ii - June 5 - Deaths
June 5 - 535 to 1899. 535 - Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople 1017 - Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (b. 976) 1118 - R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1936: Encyclopedia Ii - 1936 - Events
1936 - January-March. January 7-10 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: In the Battle of Ganale Doria, General Graziani attacks troops under...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pioneer Zephyr: Encyclopedia Ii - Pioneer Zephyr - Regular Revenue Service
The Zephyr's power (leading) car was numbered 9900, the baggage-coach combine car was numbered 505, and the coach-observation was numbere...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1903: Encyclopedia - 1903
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). It also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1984: Encyclopedia Ii - 1984 - Events
1984 - January. January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state. January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 24 independent units. Ja...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Imperial Household Of Japan: Encyclopedia Ii - Imperial Household Of Japan - Current Members Of The Imperial Family
The 1947 Imperial Household Law defines the imperial household as: the empress (kōgō 皇后), the empress dowager (kōtaigō 皇太后)...   » Read the article

Article - Mayan Calendar: Mayan Calendar And The Cycles Of The Goddess
Humanity�s path towards retrieving the Mayan calendar system really started with the Harmonic Convergence, August 16-17, 1987, when large...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William O. Douglas: Encyclopedia Ii - William O. Douglas - On The Bench
In 1939, Justice Louis D. Brandeis resigned from the Supreme Court, and Roosevelt nominated Douglas as his replacement. Douglas later adm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World War Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - World War Ii - Resistance
Main article: Resistance during World War II Resistance during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joan Crawford: Encyclopedia Ii - Joan Crawford - Marriages
In 1929 at the time she wed her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Crawford bought a mansion at 426 North Bristol Avenue in Brentwood,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1976: Encyclopedia Ii - 1976 - Deaths
1976 - January. January 8 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) January 10 - Howlin' Wolf, American musici...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese American Internment: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese American Internment - History
During the period of 1939-1941, the FBI compiled the Custodial Detention index ("CDI") on citizens, "enemy" aliens and foreign nationals ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1954: Encyclopedia Ii - 1954 - Events
1954 - January. January 1 - Soviet Union no longer demands war reparations from East Germany January 12 - Large-scale avalanches in Au...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uss New Mexico Bb-40: Encyclopedia Ii - Uss New Mexico Bb-40 - World War Ii
USS New Mexico BB-40 - 1940 – 1943. As war threatened, her base was Pearl Harbor from 6 December 1940 until 20 May 1941, Then she sai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope Pius X: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope Pius X - Cardinal & Patriarch
Pope Leo XIII made him a cardinal in a secret consistory on June 12, 1893. He was named Cardinal-Priest of Saint Bernardo alle Terme. Thr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lutsk: Encyclopedia Ii - Lutsk - History
According to legend, Luchesk was founded in the 7th century. However, it wasn't until 1085 when it was first mentioned. Until the foundat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joseph Mccarthy: Encyclopedia Ii - Joseph Mccarthy - The Army-mccarthy Hearings
Early in 1954, the Army accused McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, of pressuring the Army to give favorable treatment to another f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - P-51 Mustang: Encyclopedia Ii - P-51 Mustang - Genesis
Shortly after World war II began, in 1939, the British government established a purchasing commission in the United States, headed by Sir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adolf Hitler: Encyclopedia Ii - Adolf Hitler - Legacy
"I would have preferred it if he'd followed his original ambition and become an architect." — Paula Hitler, Hitler's younger sister, du...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1949 In Baseball: Encyclopedia Ii - 1949 In Baseball - Champions
1949 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1) All-Star Game, July 12 at Ebbets ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1977 In Baseball: Encyclopedia Ii - 1977 In Baseball - Champions
1977 in baseball - Major League Baseball. World Series: New York Yankees over Los Angeles Dodgers (4-2); Reggie Jackson, MVP American...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1875: Encyclopedia Ii - 1875 - Events
1875 - January - April. January 12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. February 27 - Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resign...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2003 In Baseball: Encyclopedia Ii - 2003 In Baseball - Major League Baseball Final Standings
  * The asterisk denotes the club that won the Wild card for its respective league. ... See also:2003 in baseball, 2003 in baseba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope Pius X: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope Pius X - Pius X's Pontificate
The pontificate of Pope St. Pius X was noted for its conservative agenda and as one of the most controversial modern papacies. In what be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frank Herbert: Encyclopedia Ii - Frank Herbert - Biography
Frank Herbert was born in 1920 in Tacoma, Washington. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer, and in 1939 he lied about ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Paris: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Paris - Ancient Paris
The area of modern Paris has been inhabited since at least the fourth millennium BC, although little is known about these early inhabitan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benito Mussolini: Encyclopedia Ii - Benito Mussolini - Fascist Dictatorship
At first Mussolini was supported by the Liberals in parliament. With their help, he introduced strict censorship and altered the methods ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vannevar Bush: Encyclopedia - Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his political role in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ustaše: Encyclopedia Ii - Ustaše - Connections With The Catholic Church
Main article: Involvement of Croatian Catholic clergy with the Ustasa regime The Ustaša policies against the Eastern Orthodoxy are calle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1954: Encyclopedia - 1954
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. 1954 - Events. January 1 - Soviet Union no longer demand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gestapo: Encyclopedia Ii - Gestapo - Organization
When the Gestapo was founded, the organization was already a well-established bureaucratic mechanism, having been created out of the alre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tv-fm Dx: Encyclopedia Ii - Tv-fm Dx - Meteor Scatter Propagation
Meteor scatter occurs when a signal bounces off a meteor's ionised trail. When a meteor strikes the Earth's atmosphere, a cylindrical reg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frank Lloyd Wright: Encyclopedia Ii - Frank Lloyd Wright - Works
Frank Lloyd Wright - 1880's. Hillside Home School I, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1887 Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Saddam Hussein: Encyclopedia Ii - Saddam Hussein - 1991-2003
Relations between the United States and Iraq remained tense following the Persian Gulf War. In April of 1993 the Iraqi Intelligence Servi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brian Mulroney: Encyclopedia Ii - Brian Mulroney - Legacy
Mulroney's legacy is a complicated one, and even as of 2006 remains one heavily based on emotion. Mulroney makes the case that his once r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Empress Kojun: Encyclopedia Ii - Empress Kojun - Marriage
The January 1919 engagement of Princess Nagako to her distant cousin then-Crown Prince Hirohito was unusual in two respects. First, she w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Encyclopedia Ii - Royal Canadian Mounted Police - The Rcmp In Wartime
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - The Boer War. During the Boer War, members of the North West Mounted Police were given leaves of absenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Margaret Mitchell: Encyclopedia Ii - Margaret Mitchell - Gone With The Wind
Mitchell is reported to have begun writing Gone with the Wind while bedridden and nursing a broken ankle. Her husband, John Marsh, brough...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Drive-in Theater: Encyclopedia Ii - Drive-in Theater - History
The drive-in theater was the creation of Camden, New Jersey, chemical company magnate Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., whose family owned an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1998 In Literature: Encyclopedia - 1998 In Literature
See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. 1998 in literature - Events. Novem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algerian War Of Independence: Encyclopedia Ii - Algerian War Of Independence - De Gaulle
A lot of people, French citizens or not, greeted Charles de Gaulle's return to power as the breakthrough needed to end the hostilities. O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indigenous Australians: Encyclopedia Ii - Indigenous Australians - Population
As at June 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident indigenous population to be 458,500 (2.4% of Australia'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Involuntary Settlements In The Soviet Union: Encyclopedia Ii - Involuntary Settlements In The Soviet Union - Exile Settlements
Exile settlements (ссыльное поселение, ssylnoye poselenie) were a kind of internal exile. The system of political and ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aden: Encyclopedia Ii - Aden - History
Main article: History of Yemen The port's convenient position on the sea route between India and Europe has made Aden desirable to rulers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Immanuel Velikovsky: Encyclopedia Ii - Immanuel Velikovsky - Biography
Immanuel Velikovsky was born in Vitebsk in what is today Belarus. He learned several languages as a child, performed exceptionally well i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joan Crawford: Encyclopedia Ii - Joan Crawford - Early Life
She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, the third child of Thomas E. LeSueur (1868-1938) and Anna Bell Johnson (1884-1958...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Saddam Hussein: Encyclopedia Ii - Saddam Hussein - Personal
Saddam married Sajida Talfah in 1958. Sajida is the daughter of Khairallah Talfah, Saddam's uncle and mentor. Their marriage was arranged...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gulag: Encyclopedia Ii - Gulag - History
From 1918 camp-type detention facilities were set up, as a reformed extension of earlier labour camps (katorgas), operated in Siberia as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Einstein: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Einstein - Personality
Albert Einstein was much respected for his kind and friendly demeanor rooted in his pacifism. He was modest about his abilities, and had ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Archibald Maule Ramsay: Encyclopedia Ii - Archibald Maule Ramsay - Spanish Civil War
When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Ramsay was a strong supporter of the Nationalists under Franco, largely arising out of his oppositi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zeppelin: Encyclopedia Ii - Zeppelin - Principal Characteristics
The most important feature of Zeppelin's design is a slim, rigid aluminium alloy skeleton, made of rings and longitudinal girders. The ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustus Agar: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustus Agar - End Of The Dorsetshire
Dorsetshire was in some ways a victim of the lack of British intelligence about the capabilities of the Japanese fleet. Neither Agar nor ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ifk Göteborg: Encyclopedia Ii - Ifk Göteborg - Supporters
Main article: Supporterklubben Änglarna Before the foundation of IFK Göteborg, the dominant club in the Gothenburg area was Örgryte IS...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palmach: Encyclopedia Ii - Palmach - History
The Palmach (Hebrew abbreviation of "Plugot Mahatz פלוגות מחץ" - in English strike force) were the regular fighting forces of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Croatia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Croatia - Habsburg Empire Venice And The Ottomans 1527–1918
The 1526 Battle of Mohács was a crucial event in which the rule of the Jagiellon dynasty was shattered by the death of King Louis II. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abu Dhabi: Encyclopedia - Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (Arabic: أبو ظبي ʼAbū Ẓaby) is the largest of the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates and was also ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Butler Yeats: Encyclopedia Ii - William Butler Yeats - Modernism
In 1913, Yeats met American poet Ezra Pound. Pound traveled to London to meet the older man, whom he considered "the only poet worthy of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Butler Yeats: Encyclopedia Ii - William Butler Yeats - The Young Poet
Even before he began to write poetry, Yeats had come to associate poetry with religious ideas and thoughts of sentimental elements. Descr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Orwell: Encyclopedia Ii - George Orwell - Education
At the age of six, Blair was sent to a small Anglican parish school in Henley-on-Thames, which his sister had attended before him. He nev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Subhash Chandra Bose: Encyclopedia Ii - Subhash Chandra Bose - Early Life
Subhash Chandra Bose was born to an affluent Bengali family in Cuttack, Orissa. His father, Janakinath Bose, was a public prosecutor who ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Washington: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Washington - History
The city of Seattle was one of several settlements in the mid to late 19th century vying for primacy in the newly formed Washington Terri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centre Province: Encyclopedia Ii - Centre Province - Geography
Centre Province - Land. The Centre's soil is primarily composed of Precambrian deposits of metamorphic rocks, such as gneiss, mica, mig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2nd Prince Chun: Encyclopedia - 2nd Prince Chun
The 2nd Prince Chun (Chinese: 醇親王) (February 12, 1883 - February 3, 1951) was born Zaifeng (Chinese: 載灃; Wade-Giles: Tsai-feng)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Wagner: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Wagner - Wagner's Influence And Legacy
Wagner's contributions to art and culture are undeniable and monumental. In his lifetime, and for some years after, Wagner inspired fanat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chiang Kai-shek: Encyclopedia - Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Batman: Encyclopedia Ii - Batman - Powers And Abilities
Unlike Superman and most other costumed heroes, Batman is a human being who does not possess any superhuman abilities. However, he has el...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigmund Freud: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigmund Freud - Patients
This is a partial list of patients whose case studies were published by Freud, with pseudonyms substituted for their names: Anna O. = Be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marcus Garvey: Encyclopedia Ii - Marcus Garvey - Early Life
Garvey was born in Saint Ann's Bay August 17, 1887, the capital of the parish of Saint Ann, Jamaica, where he attended grammar school. He...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jean-paul Sartre: Encyclopedia Ii - Jean-paul Sartre - Sartre And Literature
During the 1940s and 1950s Sartre's ideas remained ambiguous, and existentialism became a favoured philosophy of the beatnik generation. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Munich: Encyclopedia Ii - Munich - Politics
Munich's current mayor is Christian Ude of the SPD (Social-democratic Party of Germany). Munich has a nearly unbroken history of SPD gove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Queens: Encyclopedia Ii - Queens - Law Government And Politics
Queens is a borough of New York City. The current borough president is Democrat Helen Marshall. Queens is considered a volatile swing co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Portugal: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Portugal - Early History
Portugal has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, first by Neanderthals and then by homo sapiens. In the early first millennium BCE...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Refugee: Encyclopedia Ii - Refugee - Historical Refugee Crises
Refugee - Huguenot refugees. After the signing of the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, which outlawed Protestantism in France, hundreds ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Workers' Party Of Korea: Encyclopedia - Workers' Party Of Korea
The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK; Korean chosŏn'gŭl: 조선로동당; hanja: 朝鮮勞動黨; McCune-Reischauer: Chosŏn Rodong-dang; r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Papal Conclave 1800: Encyclopedia Ii - Papal Conclave 1800 - Historical Context
Papal conclave 1800 - Pope Pius VI. Pius VI's reign had been marked by tension between his authority and that of the European monarchs ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Canada: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Canada - Early Colonial Period: The Rise And Fall Of New France Nouvelle-france 1604-1763
In the 16th and 17th centuries English and French colonists established settlements in eastern Canada largely to support fishing or fur t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lviv: Encyclopedia Ii - Lviv - Education
L'viv is one of the most important education centres of Ukraine. It is home to three major universities and a number of smaller schools o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York Yankees: Encyclopedia Ii - New York Yankees - Controversy
It is a heated debate whether the Yankees' free-spending is positive or negative for baseball, and whether a strict salary cap would make...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stuttering: Encyclopedia Ii - Stuttering - Onset And Development
Like most other speech disorders, stuttering begins in early childhood, when a child is first developing his or her speech and language s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1939: Encyclopedia Ii - 1939 - Deaths
1939 - January-March. January 2 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864) January 23 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1939: Encyclopedia Ii - 1939 - Events
1939 - January. January 2 - End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1939: Encyclopedia Ii - 1939 - Births
1939 - January. January 2 - Jim Bakker, American televangelist January 2 - John McBon, Argentianian Tv Star Ed the Repairman January 3...   » Read the article