Articles related to "1930"

Unmentioned at two years of age, Gallant Fox, the first major American winner bred from foreign stock, came to the forefront in 1930 as a Triple Crown winner.

Uruguay captured the first-ever FIFA World Cup crown with 4-2 victory over Argentina. European powers turn down long travel to Uruguay.

Visitors to Brighton England are offered a window on the western take on Oriental style in the mid-18th century - Chinoiserie - in the Chinese Whispers Exhibition.

The giant women's sewing pattern catalogs from the 1920s and 1930s included gorgeous, fascinating costume ideas, as well as vintage versions of some current standards.

The 1920 and 1930 Federal Census Records contain much genealogical information, and are often the first public record for beginning genealogists to access.

Ashutosh Gowariker is no stranger when it comes to epic film making. The Director of Lagaan and Jodha Akbar is preparing a film about the Chittagong armoury raid of 1930.

The Hollywood sign, a world famous landmark, which is perched on top of Mount Lee in Hollywood Hills, is where former Broadway star Peg Entwistle jumped to her death.

A.k.a Batoru Rowaiaru, Fukasaku's controversial depiction of a paranoid totalitarian state pits youth against youth in this darkly entertaining classic.

The charming English couturier Edward Molyneux designed clothes that were the last word in elegance during the Twenties and Thirties.

As an attack on American capitalist values, director Ernst Lubitsch creates visual and ideological associations between Hell and American's wealthiest.

1933, John Dillinger's (Johnny Depp) bank robbing spree turns him into a celebrity. Young FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) is ordered to hunt down Dillinger.

The terms recession and depression have often been mentioned recently. What do they mean, and which one is worse?

Detail of Mahatma Gandhi & contribution to Independent India via his leadership of the Indian National Congress in British India. The All India move & Civil disobedience

Since the birth of the skyscraper two American cities, Chicago and New York, have battled it out to build America's tallest building.

Machine Gun Kelly would be among the first notable bandits to emerge during the period of time in American history called The Mid-West Crime Wave

When the Everglades was nothing but swamp and sawgrass, a few brave folks came to tame the wilderness.

Agatha Christie's world fame derives from her persona as a crime writer. But she also wrote six romantic novels, which deserve much more recognition than they have had.

Children all over the United States and Canada loved the radio program "Let's Pretend," which ran for twenty years on radio, and was written and directed by Nila Mack.

Fifty-five years before the first night baseball games were introduced to the major leagues in 1935, lighting was brought to baseball at lower levels.

Looking for a way out of the realities of their time, movie audiences enjoyed ten years of Cinema that took them to the most fantastic reaches of the soul and the mind.

The first woman appointed as a Senator In the Government of Canada. Cairine Mackay Wilson dedicated her work to bettering the lives of women, children and refugees

Since the 1800s, making soup has been good business for the American food company, Campbell's Soup. OPening a division in Canada was a natural step forward

A look at the life and career of a female composer who was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 1930 which allowed her to go to Europe to study .

Horrified by communism, Elizabeth Dilling conducted a personal investigation attempting to link New Deal officials with communist and radical groups.

Not an immediate favorite in the American classics, Gallant Fox earned his status slowly and won nine races in 1930, after a bleak two-year-old season.

Lameness curtailed Omaha's 1935 season. He raced in England the next year. One of his bloodline mares foaled the great stallion, Nijinsky.

In the founding years of the MGM Studios, Irving Thalberg was the sole producer behind every major film the studio generated.

Many of London's Taxi cabs have had a face life over the years. From being clad in sober black many have covered themselves in colourful, often amusing, advertisments.

Luther Burbank's love of nature, and his belief that development of plants could help end world hunger, led him to become a world-renowned horticulturist.

A Saturday morning 'must' on national radio, "Let's Pretend" ran from 1934 to 1954, thrilling children of all ages with its stories and fairy tales.

Childhood malnutrition was a troubling issue for parents and doctors in the early 1900s. Toronto doctors set to work, developing infant food with essential ingredients.

João Francisco, a convicted murderer, gangster, street fighter, homosexual, and prostitute made his début as Madame Satã in the 1930's in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro.

With so many great seasons by so many great MLB players to choose from, it's hard to narrow the best seasons ever down to just ten. Here's a shot, though.

Margaret Bonds was the premier African-American woman composer from the 30's to the 70's. She helped pave the way for many composers of color today.

Countdown of the ten worst natural disasters in the United States related to hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, earthquakes, fires and floods.

As a defense against low-cost manufactured goods from China, trademark lawsuits are proving to be a more effective international trade strategy than high tariffs.

U.S. Federal Census Records can help genealogists identify ancestors who fought on either side of the Civil War conflict.

An explanation of how the shadow material of the unconscious works in people's lives and ways it can be brought into healthy balance within the personality.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913, at Howard University by twenty-two former members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have one of the richest franchise histories in baseball. In their honor, please memorize their team and individual hitting and pitching records.

America's most famous city, New York, is home to some of the world's best-known skyscrapers, many of which once held the title as world's tallest.

In honour of Walt Disney's cantankerous canine, Pluto, a number of countries issued philatelic tributes in the early 1980's.

Knowing how to test for setting point is crucial in the science and art of making jams, jellies and marmalades.

Egan delivers an intimate view of the Dust Bowl, presenting the struggles of the those trying to survive the greatest environmental disaster in American history.

Zinedine Zidane's two goals bring Les Bleus to the top of the football world as the defensive-minded French become sixth nation to win World Cup at home.

Lawrence of Arabia was selected as the number one Eric drama by the American Film Institute in their listing of the "Top Ten Epic Films of All Time."

Dr. Helen Sawyer Hogg spent her life watching the skies through the lens of a telescope, searching for Globular Clusters, encouraging star-gazing and promoting astronomy

The twenty year life of the Czechoslovak Republic from its birth in 1918 until its death at Nazi hands in 1938 saw a revolution in architecture, much of it residential.

From the first World Cup to the late Fifties, here are the World Cup top scorers & early Golden Boot award winners - World Cup statistics from Uruguay 1930 to Sweden 1958

Known as the "Father of Naval Aviation" and "the fastest man alive" he was a pioneer motorcycle and aeronautic inventor.