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6 de may. de 2024 · The Phillies did not do well in the National League during the 1920s. They had the worst percentage of all Major League teams with .370 and going 566-962 for the decade. They also had the worst season record of them all in 1928 by going 43-109. Of eight teams in the National League, Philadelphia finished in seventh place or last in eight seasons.
16 de abr. de 2024 · Sicilian Mafia, hierarchically structured organization of criminals in Sicily, Italy. The Sicilian Mafia is made up of a coalition of criminal organizations—called “families” or “clans” in English and cosche (singular, cosca) in Italian—which engage in extortion, smuggling, gambling, and the mediation of disagreements between other ...
16 de abr. de 2024 · The hairstyles of the 1920s symbolized independence, personality, and a pivotal shift in societal norms. Bold and revolutionary, the bob cut, finger waves, the Marcel Wave, and the array of complementary accessories were all iconic elements of the glamorous 1920s hairstyles. Embracing change and making a statement never looked so fashionable.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Al Jolson (born May 26, 1886, Srednike, Russia [now Seredžius, Lithuania]—died October 23, 1950, San Francisco, California, U.S.) was a popular American singer and blackface comedian of the musical stage and motion pictures, from before World War I to 1940. His unique singing style and personal magnetism established an immediate rapport with ...
7 de may. de 2024 · F. Scott Fitzgerald (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.—died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California) was an American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925). His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France ...
24 de abr. de 2024 · prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages with the aim of obtaining partial or total abstinence through legal means. Some attempts at prohibition were made in Aztec society, ancient China, feudal Japan, the Polynesian islands, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, and India, but ...
20 de abr. de 2024 · Georgia O’Keeffe (born November 15, 1887, near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, U.S.—died March 6, 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American painter who was among the most influential figures in Modernism, best known for her large-format paintings of natural subjects, especially flowers and bones, and for her depictions of New York City skyscrapers and architectural and landscape forms unique to ...
