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The Century: America's Time is a 15-part television series of documentaries produced by ABC News about the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a superpower. The documentary originally aired on The History Channel in 1999.
The Century: America's Time: With Peter Jennings, Neil Simon, John Updike, Stephen Ambrose. Peter Jennings hosts this 15 part documentary that chronicles the defining events of the 20th century.
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The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.
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James and his team developed the series as a study on the concept fame, and more specifically "world fame". They focused on over 250 people who are "undeniably world famous". Certain artists, musicians or sports figures became well known even for people who don't know much about their field. Louis Armstrong is for instance world-famous, even for no...
The television series made use of seldom seen archive material and world-famous photographs, film and audio material where celebrities did or said famous things. Sometimes the footage was not famous, but was used as a typical example of what the public associates with the celebrity or to show them during a more casual moment, instead of as an icon....
Carried over from the 19th century
Clive James included these 9 celebrities, who were internationally famous from the late 19th century into the 20th century:
1900–1918
For the period from the start of the 1900s to the 1918 end of World War I, Clive James puts forth these 36 celebrities:
1918–1932
For the period from the 1918 end of World War I to 1932, just prior to the January 1933 appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, Clive James lists these 36 celebrities:
James, Clive (1993). Fame in the 20th Century. New York City: Random House. ISBN 067942699X.(open access on Clive James' official website)
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American Association (American football), a minor professional American football league that existed from 1936 to 1950.
The American Association (AA) was a Minor League Baseball league that operated primarily in the Midwestern and South Central United States from 1902 to 1962 and 1969 to 1997. It was classified as a Triple-A league, which is one grade below Major League Baseball, for most of its existence.
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American television series that have aired at least one episode in the 20th century
