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	Popular baby names
		Popular names of twins for births in 2006
		Please note that the name you select must be in the top 1000 most popular names in order for the name to appear in the table produced by your request.
		Our popular names are limited to the top 1000 names (top 100 by State) for each year of birth.
	www.ssa.gov /OACT/babynames (244 words)

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		Widely considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time, he became one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA (National Basketball Association) around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
		In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN, and was second to Babe Ruth on the Associated Press's list of athletes of the century.
		One of the most salient consequences of this migration was the emergence of a brewing industry in Milwaukee, such as the establishment of the Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz and Miller breweries, all established by German immigrants between 1840 and 1855.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia (3399 words)

	Collecting: Elegant American Glassware
		Most elegant glassware manufacturers used molded stems (the part between the bowl and foot on a stemware pattern) for their patterns.
		Most of the major manufacturers that produced patterns during the elegant glassware period started producing glass around the turn of the last century and continued to produce until going out of business in the 1970s and early 1980s.
		In a calculated effort, the new pattern names typically evoked long lasting commitment and romance since most of the consumers were newlyweds.
	www.edish.com /e/con_eleg.asp (1012 words)

	1920s Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or the "Roaring Twenties," usually applied to America.
		The three decades are regarded as periods of economic prosperity, which lasted throughout almost the entire decade following a tremendous event that occurred in the previous decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the 1910s, World War II in the 1940s, and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s).
		The 1920s also experienced the rise of the far-right in Europe and elsewhere, starting with Fascism in the world as an antidote to Communism.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/1920s.html (1317 words)

	Names for PR
		More and more American organizations began hiring public relations people and, with the exception of government agencies which had special reasons for not using it, most of them adopted the term public relations to describe their attempts to enhance their relationships with their customers and other constituents.
		New names were concocted for various types of public relations as well as for the departments and the people who were responsible for performing them, and they were often combined with other types of communication activities.
		Each is found as a department or division name in about 20 percent of the Fortune 500 companies and, their popularity seems to increase annually.
	www.nku.edu /~turney/prclass/readings/pr_names.html (1412 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Hake, Popular Cinema of the Third Reich
		Third, the discourses of the popular and the political remained at odds with each other and, based on their different investment in the national and the international, and the modern and the traditional, entered into highly unstable and invariably provisional alliances.
		In terms of modern German history, the emphasis on popular traditions shifts the terms of the debate from a deterministic relationship between cinema and ideology to the often inconsistent articulation of that relationship in economic strategies, political measures, artistic traditions, social movements, and, perhaps most importantly, popular tastes and mentalities.
		Third, the ideological functions of popular cinema, whether in relation to classical narrative cinema or the fascist public sphere, have to be assessed primarily through its successes and failures—that is, through those moments where the plans about political indoctrination and mass manipulation are implemented, modified, or abandoned altogether.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exhakpou.html (2695 words)

	Gusts Of Popular Feeling: Beneath Legation Row, Deoksu Palace
		A Methodist church of redbrick was erected by an American mussionary organization around the time the legations were constructed; the church could be seen from all directions.
		The most dramatic change to the palace after the fire would have been the building of Seokjojeon, the western style building, which would have been massive for its time.
		The property owned by the U.S. government that encompasses the residence was originally purchased in 1884 by the first American resident representative to Korea, Lucius Foote [and was purchased from him by congress in 1887]...
	populargusts.blogspot.com /2006/08/beneath-legation-row-deoksu-palace.html (1534 words)

	The History of Jim Crow
		Most popular were the racist trading or advertisement cards that used the outrageous images of fl people to sell everything from yeast to furniture, pillows, fertilizers, hardware, cigars, breakfast food, and tobacco.
		Continuously voted the most popular film of all times whenever surveys are made, the epic Gone With the Wind, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, presented a range of fl characters who exemplified various aspects of the accepted racial stereotypes.
		McDaniel, who went on to be the first African American to win an Oscar for her performance as the strong and resolute Mammy, was viewed by white audiences as a loyal and faithful servant--which was an acceptable fl image.
	www.jimcrowhistory.org /resources/lessonplans/hs_es_popular_culture.htm (1752 words)

	Drug Trafficking in Mexico - Discussion Paper 36
		Most of the illicit drug trade was taking place through Mexicali and Tijuana, in the territory of Baja California, governed by colonel Esteban Cantú (1916-1920), suspected by the American authorities of controlling opium trafficking.
		The most important group leaders moved to Guadalajara, Jalisco, and continued their business on a bigger scale thanks to cocaine which they had already been smuggling on a large scale since 1975, according to the DEA (39).
		Most of the drug traffickers arrested in Mexico in the aftermath of the Harrison Narcotics Act were of Chinese origin.
	www.unesco.org /most/astorga.htm (12659 words)

	American Broadcasting Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From the organization of the first true radio networks in the late 1920s, broadcasting in the United States was dominated by two companies, CBS and RCA's NBC.
		Most of the in-house ABC shows produced prior to 1973 are now the responsibility of CBS Paramount Television (via its acquisition of Worldvision Enterprises in 1999).
		The typeface used is a simple geometric design inspired by the Bauhaus school of the 1920s; its simplicity makes it easy to duplicate, something ABC has taken advantage of many times over the years (especially before the advent of computer graphics).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company (4646 words)

	Eugenics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most of these policies were later regarded as coercive, restrictive, or genocidal, and now few jurisdictions implement policies that are explicitly labeled as eugenic, or unequivically eugenenic in substance (however labeled).
		The most significant era of eugenic sterilization was between 1907 and 1963 when over 64,000 individuals were forcibly sterilized under eugenic legislation in the United States.
		Various authors, notably Stephen Jay Gould, have repeatedly asserted that restrictions on immigration passed in the United States during the 1920s (and overhauled in 1965) were motivated by the goals of eugenics, in particular a desire to exclude "inferior" races from the national gene pool.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eugenics (7292 words)

	Contagion: The Spread of Eugenics Throughout American Popular Culture in the 1920s
		Contagion: The Spread of Eugenics Throughout American Popular Culture in the 1920s
		The most likely "carrier," the ad suggested by placing him in the center foreground, is the one working-class figure in the crowd.
		At state fairs across the country throughout the 1920s the Eugenics Society of the United States sponsored "Fitter Family" contests.
	www.assumption.edu /users/McClymer/his394/contagion.html (2177 words)

	Iowa History Timeline: Important Dates, Events, and Milestones
		He is the first white American known to have been buried in what would become Iowa, and he is the only soldier to die on the Lewis and Clark expedition.
		She was killed in the war zone by an exploding shell, the first American woman to die in the combat zone during World War I. Governor Harding issued a proclamation which forbid the use of any language but English in public gatherings of 2 or more people.
		It was during this election that Weaver's record for 3rd party popular and electoral votes was broken, because of Wallace and the Progressive Party and the candidacy of J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina with the Dixiecrat Party.
	www.e-referencedesk.com /resources/state-history-timeline/iowa.html (4127 words)

	CR20: The 1920's
		The younger generations of American women are hampered by the double standards that both their male peers and their matriarchs still cling to.
		Most politicians played ball with the Mob as they were particularly wealthy, violent and powerful at this time.
		Most cities were accompanied by a rich oral tradition in urban legends and Chicago was no exception.
	members.tripod.com /chicagotheroarin20s/the1920s.html (4133 words)

	Jazz Description for MusicSource
		Most often, the time signature is in 4/4 time, though in jazz it can vary greatly and still retain the same jazz flavor.
		Many of the aspects of African American folk music contributed to jazz, along with European aspects of music and also the popular form of music at that time, including ragtime.
		During the 1920s the jazz center was moving from New Orleans to Chicago and New York, where the style of music was beginning to change.
	library.thinkquest.org /3387/jazz_nf.html (682 words)

	The Red Hot Jazz Archive
		The song might have been a popular ditty or blues that they didn't compose, but by the time they were finished with it they had composed a new piece that often bore little resemblance to the original song.
		Although these musicians names are unknown to most people, then and now, their ideas are still being elaborated on to this day.
		Most of these men could not make a living with their music and were forced to work menial jobs to get by.
	www.redhotjazz.com /index.htm (506 words)

	JAH Roundtable (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although Japanese translations of the American Declaration of Independence began to appear as early as 1854, the year when the first United States-Japanese treaty was signed in Yokohama, those early translations, based on an American history book written in Chinese, did not convey the political philosophy of the declaration intelligibly.
		When I translated the American document to be printed as an appendix to an American high school textbook for a project that translated representative high school history textbooks from various countries in 1982, I used Takagi's version of 1951 as the basis of mine, as other translators did.
		Excepting my name, which appears romanized in the Western name order, Japanese personal names are romanized in the family name - given name sequence in the text and footnotes of this essay in accordance with conventions among Western specialists in Japanese studies.
	www.chnm.gmu.edu /declaration/japanese/aruga2.html (9917 words)

	The Herring of New York
		As stated before, most herring are anadromous, spending the bulk of their lives in the ocean and only returning to freshwater to reproduce or spawn.
		American shad are sweet in taste and the eggs or roe are considered a spring delicacy.
		The most popular lure to use is the shad dart, a small jig about an inch long with a fuzzy tail.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/fish/fishspecs/herrtext.html (2740 words)

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		The most common types of stations had little design distinction - they were simple buildings thrown together ad hoc to serve their very specific purpose.
		The most spectacular and entertaining stations were those constructed in fantastic mimetic shapes: Wadham's Oil Company in the upper Midwest built "Japanese tea houses," Shell had a series of gigantic scallop-shell stations in North Carolina; and a mammoth Sinclair dinosaur loomed beside highway 19 on the west coast of Florida.
		And since most travelers were dressed informally, fancy atmosphere and haute cuisine were not appropriate.
	www.nbm.org /blueprints/95s/fall99/page2/page2.htm (1770 words)

	The Discourse of Whiteness: Chinese-American History, Pearl S. Buck, and The Good Earth \|\| Americana: The Journal Of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The reasons for the novel's popularity and supposed universal appeal may be found in an examination of the position that Chinese immigrants had attained in American culture by the time of the novel's publication.
		Most Chinese immigrants were men who had migrated to the "gold mountain" of America in hopes of making money and returning to China as wealthy men or bringing their wives and families eventually to America.
		To most Americans in the thirties, difference was still a sign of deviance, and western cultural practices were considered to be the norm.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/spring_2002/spencer.htm (4455 words)

	Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms - Map 12 Curator's Notes
		By 1916 Americans owned 3.3 million automobiles; by 1929 there were 29 million cars on the road, or roughly one for every four Americans.
		Today, most Americans regard their cars as necessities, but in the early decades of the twentieth century, motoring was regarded as a form of recreation.
		Road conditions slowly improved during the later 1910s and early 1920s thanks in part to the efforts of automobile clubs and highway associations dedicated to the cause of good roads.
	www.newberry.org /k12maps/module%5F12/curator.html (1030 words)

	Poker History \| Poker Articles \| Online Poker
		The game was also previously played under the name of Glic and was played in French territory well into the 19th century (and was sometimes also referred to as Bog.) Poque was a three-part game played by up to six players, with a 32 card deck.
		Two of the most popular versions of community card poker were developed in the 1920s and are still immensely popular today.
		The most popular versions are those that originated in the Wild West at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, namely Texas Hold’em, Omaha and Stud.
	www.casinocashjourney.com /poker_history.htm (2978 words)

	History: American Doll and Toy Company
		The American Character Doll Company was founded by the Russian immigrant, Jacob Brock in 1919, in Brooklyn, New York.
		American Character's Sweet Sue Sophisticate was one of the best according to A. Glenn Mandeville, June-July, 2001 issue of Doll Reader magazine.
		The Whimsey dolls were created in 1960, the year that the American Character Doll Company changed its name to American Doll and Toy Company.
	whimsiedolls.tripod.com /american_doll_and_toy_company.htm (686 words)

	CEA: Digital America - Radio Basics
		In the early 1920s, a 20-year-old inventor named William Lear, who would later go on to invent the eight-track cassette and the luxury jet plane that bears his name, along with his sometime partner and friend Elmer Wavering, invented and perfected what many believe to be the first practical car radio.
		Radio Row, with store after store filled with surly salesman and endless supplies of the most popular and arcane electronics gear available, was the premier radio and electronics marketplace in the world until the entire area was bulldozed to make way for the World Trade Center in 1966.
		During radio's formative period in the mid-teens and 1920s, all radio broadcasts were on the AM band.
	www.ce.org /Press/CEA_Pubs/947.asp (1688 words)

	The Physical and Psychological Effects of Meditation Introduction, part 1
		This was the first time that Western audiences on American soil received Asian spiritual teachings from Asians themselves. Thereafter, Swami Vivekananda taught meditation to the spiritualists and New Thought practitioners in New Hampshire and went on to found various Vedanta ashrams around the country in his wake.
		Perhaps the most significant opportunity to arise out of the new stream of Western meditation practitioners has been heightened awareness of Asian cultures, especially in terms of their unique integrity and outlook.
		Finally, and perhaps most important from the standpoint of basic science, investigation has moved from the level of gross physiology to more detailed points of biochemistry and the voluntary control of internal states.
	www.noetic.org /research/medbiblio/ch_intro1.htm (5017 words)

	Popular Baby Names Losing Ground - Baby Names
		Mary and John were the most popular baby names in the U.S. for a number of decades.
		Most people already know that the most popular baby names have evolved over the years.
		Well, as the reigning baby names become relatively less prevalent in society, the race for #1 will become tighter -- and a larger pool of names with a real shot at reaching the top spot will make the "most popular" rankings more volatile and less predictable from year to year.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art28518.asp (407 words)

	MBSI.org : Manufacturers
		Name given to several different models of reproducing piano mechanisms installed by the American Piano Co. in its many lines of pianos, 1912-1932, and then by Aeolian-American, 1932-1938.
		New name in 1897 for the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory, established by Eugene deKleist in 1893.
		The name was changed after deKleist agreed to sell its products exclusively to the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., including a new line of coin pianos in addition to its established line of band organs.
	www.mbsi.org /manufacturers.php (5383 words)

	Ragtime
		Ragtime originated in African American musical communities, in the late 19th century, and descended from the jigs and marches played by all-fl bands common in all Northern cities with fl populations (van der Merwe 1989, p.63).
		By the start of the 20th century it became widely popular throughout North America and was listened and danced to, performed, and written by people of many different subcultures.
		A distinctly American musical style, ragtime may be considered a synthesis of African-American syncopation and European classical music, though this description is oversimplified.
	music.information-free.com /American-music/Ragtime.html (1648 words)

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