1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940s - Events and trends. The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation ...

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Each family loghouse had a leader; however these leaders were not organized in any sort of village council. The Tapirapé didn't have a village chief either. The loghouses were located in an oval formation surrounding the takana - a sort of men's club and home of the six Bird Societies, each named after a species of bird. Men spent part of the day in the takana. Membership on a Bird Society was by parental lineage; thus each such society mixed up people from several loghouses and served as a medium to integrate the population. ...

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Tapirapé, Tapirapé - Origins and distribution, Tapirapé - Economic system, Tapirapé - Social organization, Tapirapé - Body aesthetics, Tapirapé - Religion, Tapirapé - The Tapirapé from 1940 to 1970, Tapirapé - Bibliography

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Sega - 1940-1988. Sega was originally founded in 1940 as Standard Games (later Service Games) in Honolulu, Hawaii, by Martin Bromely, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert to provide coin-operated amusements for American servicemen on military bases. Bromely suggested that the company move to Tokyo, Japan in 1951 and in May 1952 "SErvice GAmes of Japan" was registered. In 1954, another American businessman David Rosen fell in love with Tokyo and established his own company, Rosen E ...

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Sega, Sega - History, Sega - 1940-1988, Sega - 1989-2001, Sega - 2001 and beyond, Sega - Consoles, Sega - Early consoles, Sega - Master System, Sega - Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega - Saturn, Sega - Dreamcast, Sega - Handhelds, Sega - Game Gear, Sega - Nomad, Sega - Other systems, Sega - Arcade system boards, Sega - Franchises, Sega - Internal structure, Sega - 2004 restructure, Sega - People, Sega - Historic legal case, Sega - Miscellaneous, Sega - Advertisement campaigns

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Sega - Early consoles. Sega entered the video game console market in 1983 with the introduction of the SG-1000 in Japan after having test marketed it there since 1981. The SG-1000 was never released in North America, however, it was released in Australia, New Zealand, and many European nations such as Italy and Spain. In 1984, Sega released an updated version of the SG-1000 called the SG-1000 Mark II and a computer version called the SC-3000. Games for the SG-1000 Mark II were compatib ...

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Sega, Sega - History, Sega - 1940-1988, Sega - 1989-2001, Sega - 2001 and beyond, Sega - Consoles, Sega - Early consoles, Sega - Master System, Sega - Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega - Saturn, Sega - Dreamcast, Sega - Handhelds, Sega - Game Gear, Sega - Nomad, Sega - Other systems, Sega - Arcade system boards, Sega - Franchises, Sega - Internal structure, Sega - 2004 restructure, Sega - People, Sega - Historic legal case, Sega - Miscellaneous, Sega - Advertisement campaigns

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Sega - Game Gear. In response to Nintendo's Game Boy released in 1989, Sega developed and released their first handheld to the market called Game Gear. Initially released in 1990 in Japan, it was later released to the North American market in 1991 and subsequently to Europe and Australia in 1992. It was the first mainstream handheld system to be released with a color screen, something their main competitor, Nintendo, wouldn't do for its Game Boy line until the Game Boy Color debuted in 1998. Essentially th ...

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Sega, Sega - History, Sega - 1940-1988, Sega - 1989-2001, Sega - 2001 and beyond, Sega - Consoles, Sega - Early consoles, Sega - Master System, Sega - Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega - Saturn, Sega - Dreamcast, Sega - Handhelds, Sega - Game Gear, Sega - Nomad, Sega - Other systems, Sega - Arcade system boards, Sega - Franchises, Sega - Internal structure, Sega - 2004 restructure, Sega - People, Sega - Historic legal case, Sega - Miscellaneous, Sega - Advertisement campaigns

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Internally, the company is made up of various research and development teams created throughout the 1980s, called the "AM" teams. In 2000 Sega decided to turn their AM teams into second-party developers that would focus on software development for the Sega Dreamcast video game console. Due to AM2's popularity they chose to keep their original name. Additionally, after the first Sonic the Hedgehog game was released, Sega AM8 changed its name to Soni ...

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Sega, Sega - History, Sega - 1940-1988, Sega - 1989-2001, Sega - 2001 and beyond, Sega - Consoles, Sega - Early consoles, Sega - Master System, Sega - Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega - Saturn, Sega - Dreamcast, Sega - Handhelds, Sega - Game Gear, Sega - Nomad, Sega - Other systems, Sega - Arcade system boards, Sega - Franchises, Sega - Internal structure, Sega - 2004 restructure, Sega - People, Sega - Historic legal case, Sega - Miscellaneous, Sega - Advertisement campaigns

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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to murder every possi ...

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The Holocaust - Etymology and usage of the term The Holocaust - Features of the Nazi Holocaust
The Holocaust - Premeditation The Holocaust - Efficiency The Holocaust - Scale The Holocaust - Cruelty
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The Holocaust - Jews The Holocaust - Slavs The Holocaust - Roma Sinti and Manush 'Gypsies' The Holocaust - Gay men The Holocaust - Jehovah's Witnesses The Holocaust - Disabled people The Holocaust - Others
The Holocaust - Death toll
The Holocaust - Searching for records of victims
The Holocaust - Execution of the Holocaust
The Holocaust - Concentration and Labor Camps 1933-1945 The Holocaust - Pogroms 1938-1941 The Holocaust - Euthanasia 1939-1941 The Holocaust - Ghettos 1940-1945 The Holocaust - Death Squads 1941-1943 The Holocaust - Extermination camps 1942-1945 The Holocaust - Death Marches and liberation 1944-1945
The Holocaust - Resistance and Rescuers
The Holocaust - Resistance The Holocaust - Rescuers
The Holocaust - Historical interpretations
The Holocaust - Who was directly involved in the killings? The Holocaust - Why did people participate in authorize or tacitly accept the killing? The Holocaust - Revisionists and deniers
The Holocaust - Aftermath
The Holocaust - Displaced Persons and the State of Israel The Holocaust - Legal proceedings against Nazis The Holocaust - Legal action against genocide
The Holocaust - Impact on culture
The Holocaust - Holocaust theology The Holocaust - Art and literature The Holocaust - Holocaust Memorial Day
The Holocaust - Notes The Holocaust - Resources

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Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. While organizing describes any activity involving people interacting with one another in a formal manner, much community organizing is in the pursuit of a common agenda. Many groups seek populist goals and the ideal of participatory democracy. Community organizers create social movements by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people ...

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Community organizing - Common Aspects of Organized Communities Community organizing - History of Community Organizing in the United States
Community organizing - 1880 to 1900 Community organizing - 1900 to 1940 Community organizing - 1940 to 1960 Community organizing - 1960 to Present
Community organizing - Organizations Community organizing - Notable community organizers

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The Camphill Movement is an international movement of therapeutic intentional communities for those with special needs or disabilities. Unsalaried workers and their families live with people with special needs in sheltered village communities. The movement was founded in Aberdeen, Scotland by the Austrian paediatric Doctor Karl König in 1940. It is inspired by Christian ideals and the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. Other related archives1940, Aberdeen, Austrian, Rudolf Steiner, Scotla

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Witches in modern culture Today, few people believe in witches that can curse enemies, change shapes, or fly. However, since the emergence of the witchcraft-inspired religion of Wicca in the 1940s a growing number of people have called themselves witches. While most of western culture continues to assign negative connotations to the word, Wiccans do not consider it a derogatory term, nor do they associate it with Satanism. In fact, many Wiccans wi ...

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Real people named Mason include: A. E. W. Mason, author Andrea Mason (1968- ), politician Sir Anthony Mason (1925- ), Australian judge Armistead Thompson Mason (1787-1819), US Senator Barry Mason, songwriter Bill Mason (1929-1988), Canadian canoeist, author, artist Bobbie Ann Mason (1940- ), novelist C. Vernon Mason, lawyer Charles Mason (of the Mason-Dixon line), astronomer Christina Mason, musician Claire Mason, wor

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Bantustan refers to any of the territories designated as tribal "homelands" for black South Africans and Namibians during the apartheid era. The term "bantustan" was first used in the late 1940s and was coined from Bantu (meaning "people" in the Bantu languages) and -stan (meaning "land of" in the Persian language, equivalent to the Latin ending -ia and the Germanic -land). It was based on Hindustan, a term used to refer to the land beyond the Indus/Sindhu India. It was a disparaging term used by critics of the apartheid-era government ...

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Yu Suzuki - Previously the head of AM2, and is attributed with being behind numerous arcade classics including Hang-On, OutRun, Space Harrier, Afterburner, and Virtua Fighter, just to name a few. In 1999, his first ever console-specific title, Shenmue, launched in Japan, and was the most expensive game ever produced. In 2003's internal restructure, he formed a new internal studio named Digitalrex, which was reintegrated into S ...

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Sega, Sega - History, Sega - 1940-1988, Sega - 1989-2001, Sega - 2001 and beyond, Sega - Consoles, Sega - Early consoles, Sega - Master System, Sega - Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega - Saturn, Sega - Dreamcast, Sega - Handhelds, Sega - Game Gear, Sega - Nomad, Sega - Other systems, Sega - Arcade system boards, Sega - Franchises, Sega - Internal structure, Sega - 2004 restructure, Sega - People, Sega - Historic legal case, Sega - Miscellaneous, Sega - Advertisement campaigns

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Batesville is a city located in Independence County, Arkansas, 114 miles (183 km) north by east of Little Rock, the State capital. In 1890, 2,150 people lived in Batesville; in 1900, 2,327, in 1910, 3,399; and in 1940, 5,267. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 9,445. The city is the county seat of Independence CountyGR6. Batesville Arkansas - History. Batesville is the second oldest city in the state of Arkansas. It was named for James Woodson Bates who set ...

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Dr. August Dvorak (May 5, 1894 – October 10, 1975) was an educational psychologist and professor of education at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He and his brother-in-law, Dr William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard layout. In the 1940s, Dvorak designed keyboard layouts for people with the use of one hand. Dr. Dvorak, along with Dealey, Nellie Merrick, and Gertrude Ford, wrote the book Typewriting Beha ...

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The Western Allies were the democracies and their colonial peoples, within the broader coalition of Allies during World War II. The term is generally understood to refer to the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations (from 1939), exiled forces from Occupied Europe (from 1940), the United States (from 1941), and a few other countries. This term therefore excludes the Soviet Union and China, which were also Allies. From 1942 onwards, the entire military forces of the Western Allies were overseen by the U.S.-Britis ...

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Ancomah (Antzomakh, Antzimah) is a mythological place which was first mentioned by Hasan Umur in the 1940s, approximately fifty meters inland near Trabzon, Turkey. It is a place on the lower slopes of a mountain. According to the story Ancomah had been a very rich city before the Bosporus appeared. With the existence of the Bosporus the relationship between the city and the sea disappeared and the city was destroyed. According to the people (Their language Of dialect of Pontic Greek. It’s a Mediaval dialect still spoken by Muslims i ...

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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first, followed by the runners-up. The films below are listed with their production year, so fo ...

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Academy Award for Best Picture - 1920s Academy Award for Best Picture - 1930s Academy Award for Best Picture - 1940s Academy Award for Best Picture - 1950s Academy Award for Best Picture - 1960s Academy Award for Best Picture - 1970s Academy Award for Best Picture - 1980s Academy Award for Best Picture - 1990s Academy Award for Best Picture - 2000s

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Bisbee is a city located in Cochise County, Arizona, USA, 82 miles (132 km) southeast of Tucson. It is located within a productive copper region. In 1910, 9,019 people lived here; in 1940, 5,853 people lived here. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 6,090. The city is the county seat of Cochise CountyGR6. Bisbee Arizona - History. Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the finan ...

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