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  1940 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar).
November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' first third-term president.
November 7 - In Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion (it opened to traffic on July 1, 1940 as the third-longest suspension bridge in the world).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1940   (3505 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1941
See also: 1940 in literature, other events of 1941, 1942 in literature, list of years in literature.
See also: 1940 in music, other events of 1941, 1942 in music and the list of years in music.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1941   (8749 words)

  
 Aromanian Vlachs: The Vanishing Tribes
John Nandris FSA Institute of Archaeology University College London
Oral tradition maintains that it was founded by Polish settlers left behind from the crusaders' army.
The author adds: "By the 18th century the Aromani of the Epirus and Albania had created a nucleus of substantial urbanisation at Moschopolje to the south of Lake Ohrid, but this was destroyed twice by Ali Pasha, and never recovered.
www.vlachophiles.net   (11119 words)

  
 Calendars - Credits, feedback, bibliography
Soc., 83:447-64 (1940), is also an important discussion.
The most complete account of the lunar-solar calendar of India may be found in "Indian Calendar," ch.
See also Fray Diego Durn, Book of the Gods, and The Ancient Calendar(1971; originally published in Spanish, 1867), containing illustrated explanations of the Aztec calendar.
webexhibits.org /calendars/credits.html   (1769 words)

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