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3 days ago · By the 1920s, Japanese intellectuals were underscoring the apparent decline of Europe as a world power, and increasingly saw Japan as the natural leader for all of East Asia. However, they identified a long-term threat from Western colonial powers in Asia deliberately blocking Japan's aspirations, especially regarding control of China.
3 days ago · Greek and American troops landing at Bandirma, July 1920. During the summer of 1920, the Greek army launched a series of successful offensives in the directions of the Büyük Menderes River (Meander) Valley, Bursa (Prusa) and Alaşehir (Philadelphia). The overall strategic objective of these operations, which were met by increasingly stiff ...
5 days ago · The role established her as a symbol of modern 1920s-style femininity who rivaled Clara Bow, the original It girl, and Hollywood's foremost flapper. A stream of hits followed Our Dancing Daughters , including two more flapper-themed movies, in which Crawford embodied for her legion of fans (many of whom were women) an idealized vision of the ...
4 days ago · Bennett sisters boxing, c.1910–1915 Louise Adler, female lightweight world boxing champion of the 1920s, training for her title defense. One of the earliest mentions of women's boxing is in the travelogue of a German man who visited London in 1710. While taking in a men's boxing match, he met a woman in the audience who claimed to have ...
4 days ago · The history of Spain dates to contact between the pre-Roman peoples of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula made with the Greeks and Phoenicians.During Classical Antiquity, the peninsula was the site of multiple successive colonizations of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans.
1 day ago · The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
2 days ago · 1900–1920 Uganda African trypanosomiasis epidemic 1900–1920 Uganda: African trypanosomiasis: 200,000–300,000 [177] Papua New Guinea kuru epidemic 1901–2009 Papua New Guinea: Kuru: 2,700–3,000+ [182] [183] 1903 Fremantle plague epidemic (part of the third plague pandemic) 1903 Fremantle, Western Australia: Bubonic plague: 4 [184]
