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Frida is one of only 35 girls to attend the prestigious school James Dole purchases the Island of Lana'i. Researcher John Macleod and chemist James Collip then began to help prepare insulin for human use. On January 11, , Leonard Thompson, a Benedict XV fell ill with pneumonia in early January He succumbed to pneumonia on 22 January Possibly the least remembered pope of the Accumulated snowfall from a blizzard collapses the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.

The blizzard formed in the Please check 'em out! Having characteristics attributed to the common people and intended for or suited to ordinary people. A particular stage of civilization.

The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. Legs are finished at bottom with eyelets and fasten with laces.

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington D. The dedication ceremony was officiated by former U. Harding, and Vice President Calvin Coolidge. The memorial was designed by Henry Bacon to resemble a Grecian-style temple complete with columns and a foot-tall marble statue of Lincoln that was sculpted by Daniel Chester French.

The only regular use is for the two weeks a year that the Wimbledon Championships take place. The Irish Civil War began during June. The conflict was fought between the Irish Nationalists and the Irish Republicans. The civil war continued for 11 months with the Pro-Treaty forces claiming victory in the end. More about the Irish Free State. The initial run of the magazine was just 1, but it soon grew into one of the best-selling magazines in the United States.

By the 's they began to publish original articles and by the end of the century they had a circulation in the millions and were distributed in over 15 languages around the world. The classic silent horror film memorably starred Max Schreck as the titular ghoul and it was directed by F.

For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. In reality, most young women in the s did none of these things though many did adopt a fashionable flapper wardrobe , but even those women who were not flappers gained some unprecedented freedoms. They could vote at last: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution had guaranteed that right in , though it would be decades before African American women in the South could fully exercise their right to vote without Jim Crow intimidation.

Millions of women worked in blue collar jobs, as well as white-collar jobs as stenographers, for example and could afford to participate in the burgeoning consumer economy. The increased availability of birth-control devices such as the diaphragm made it possible for women to have fewer children. And new machines and technologies like the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner eliminated some of the drudgery of household work. During the s, many Americans had extra money to spend, and they spent it on consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothes and home appliances like electric refrigerators.

In particular, they bought radios. By the end of the s, there were radios in more than 12 million households. People also went to the movies: Historians estimate that, by the end of the decades, three-quarters of the American population visited a movie theater every week.

But the most important consumer product of the s was the automobile. In there was one car on the road for every five Americans. Cars also gave young people the freedom to go where they pleased and do what they wanted. Jazz bands played at venues like the Savoy and the Cotton Club in New York City and the Aragon in Chicago ; radio stations and phonograph records million of which were sold in alone carried their tunes to listeners across the nation.

The novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicled the Jazz Age.



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