1950s - World leaders. Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia) Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (Canada) Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (Canada) Chairman Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China) President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan) President Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel) Emperor Hirohito (Japan) Pope Pius XII Pope John XX ...

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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 earlier decades like women's rights, civil rights, imperialism, and war were relatively suppressed or neglected during this time as a returning world from the brink hoped to see a more con ...

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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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1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). 1950 - Events. January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the U.S. January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response. January 9 - The Israeli government recognizes the People's Republic of China. January 11 - Huk gu ...

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The Indigenous Australians are the first inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands, continuing their presence during European settlement. The term includes the various indigenous peoples commonly known as Aborigines, whose traditional lands extend throughout mainland Australia, Tasmania and numerous offshore islands, and also the Torres Strait Islanders whose lands are centred on the Torres Strait Islands which run between northernmost Australia and the island of New Guinea. Indigenous ...

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The Copley Medal is a scientific award for work in any field of science, the highest award granted by the Royal Society of London. It is also the society's oldest award, the first medal being awarded in 1731. The award was created after a £100 bequest in 1709 to the Royal Society by Sir Godfrey Copley, a wealthy landowner from Sprotbrough, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who was elected to the Society in 1691. It is one of ten medals that the Society awards (some awards are made annually, others at different intervals ...

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Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 - April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer. Born in the village of Ajido, Nigeria, a member of the Yoruba people, Olatunji was introduced to traditional African music at an early age. He read in Reader's Digest magazine about the Rotary International Foundation's scholarship programme, and applied for it. He came to the United States of America on the Rotary scholarship in 1950 a ...

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The name Andrew Downes can refer to two people: Andrew Downes (composer) (b. 1950), a British classical composer, and Andrew Downes (scholar), also known as Dounaeus, (c. 1549-1628) an English classical scholar. Other related archivesAndrew Downes (composer), Andrew Downes (scholar)

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Colectivo is the name given in Argentina to public transportation vehicles, especially those of Argentina's capital city, Buenos Aires. They represent one of the best-known traditions of the city. When they first appeared in the 1920s, colectivos were small buses built out of smaller vehicle chassis (cars, vans, etc.) and, later, out of truck chassis (1950–1990, by Mercedes Benz Argentina). Colectivos used to be built on top of units not specifically designed for the transportation of people and were decorated with unique paintings (fileteado) that gave each unit a distinct flavor and ...

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• Colectivo - Description of the Colectivo
• Colectivo - Multi-colored units
• Colectivo - Fileteados
• Colectivo - Other details
• Colectivo - Argentine culture
• Colectivo - Usage in Buenos Aires
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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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Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. Mesoamerican is the adjective generally used to refer to that group of Pre-Columbian cultures. This refers to an environmental area occupied by an assortment of ancient cultures that shared religious beliefs, art, architecture, and technology that made them exc ...

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The concept of Needs is often used to refer to things that people "must" have. They are often contrasted with wants, which are more discretionary. The most widely known academic model of needs was proposed by Abraham Maslow. In it, he proposed that people have a hierarchy of needs, which range from security to self actualization. However, while this model is intuitively appealing, it has not been supported by evidence. It was further developed by Clayton Alderfer. The academic study of needs was at its zenith in the 1950's, but receives scant attention today. One exception is Richard S ...

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The Central Food and Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) is based in Mysore and was established in the year 1950. Central Food and Technological Research Institute - People. The present Director of the Institute is Dr. V. Prakash. Central Food and Technological Research Institute - Departments. Biochemistry and Nutrition Fermentation Technologies and Bio-engineering Flour Milling, Baking and Confectionery Technologies F ...

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In 1896, the Coptic Berlin Codex (aka. the Akhmim Codex), given the accession number 8502, (Berolinensis Gnosticus 8502) was unearthed in Akhmim, Egypt. It was a papyrus bound book (a codex), dating to the 5th century, found in the desert and taken to Berlin, where it was finally completely translated in the 1950s. Few people paid attention to it until the 1970s, when it suddenly became very interesting to a new generation of scholars of early Christianity in the wake of the more famous group of early Gnostic Christi ...

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Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (February 8, 1928) is a famous Soviet actor, a recipient of numerous state awards, including the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982). He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow and worked at a factory. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was married to Nonna Mordyukova, a far more popular actress at that time. His best known part was that of Standartenführer Stirlitz in a famous series Семнадцать мгновений весны, Seventeen Mom ...

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This article is about the Burroughs Corporation. Other famous people with the surname of Burroughs include: William Seward Burroughs (1857-1898), US inventor Augusten Burroughs (b. 1965), American writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), author and grandson of William Seward Burroughs William S. Burroughs Jr. (1947-1981), author, son of William S. Burroughs, and great grandson of William Seward Burroughs. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), A ...

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The communist forces initially held parts of Manchuria and northern China at the start of the Chinese civil war. By late 1949, they controlled the majority of mainland China, forcing the Republic of China to relocate to Taiwan. The People's Republic made the following changes: China was divided into 6 greater administrative areas that came above provinces. Manchuria was reorganized completely. Inner Mongolia was formed out of parts of Manchuria as the first autonomous region. The short-lived pro ...

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Before the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, China was ruled by a network of kings, nobles, and tribes. The rivalry of these groups culminated in the Warring States Period, and the state of Qin eventually emerged dominant. After the state of Qin managed to subdue the rest of China under a unified Qin Dynasty in 221 BC, it was determined not to allow China to fall back into disunity. It therefore designed, based upon existing systems, the first administrative hierarchy in China, with just two levels: Commanderies (郡 jùn) Countie ...

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The Republic of China streamlined the system down to three levels: Provinces (省 shěng) Circuits (道 dào) Counties (縣 xiàn) Circuits were soon abolished as being superfluous. The Republic of China set up 4 more provinces out of Inner Mongolia and surrounding areas (Ningxia, Suiyuan, Chahar, Jehol) and 2 more provinces out of parts of historical Tibet (Xikang, out of Kham, and Qinghai, out of Amdo; Ü-Tsang was the Dalai Lama's realm at this time and not part of a ...

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