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Women's right to vote
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Revolution
"Frida Kahlo, she was a revolutionist in her way of thinking. She was 3 years old when the revolution started, she was 7 years old when the main, first period of the Mexican Revolution finished.
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Scientific Invention
Inventors Philo Taylor Farnsworth, John Logie Baird, and Charles Francis Jenkins are credited with the idea and creation of televisions as we know them today.
Before electronic television, there was mechanical television. The world’s first electronic television is credited to Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1927. https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/1920s-inventions-influential -
Zorro
The Mark of Zorro is a 1920 American silent Western romance film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. This genre-defining swashbuckler adventure was the first movie version of The Mark of Zorro.
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Fashion Trends
Costume concept for Forbidden Fruit (1921), designed and drawn by Rambova
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Einstein's Theory
This building was designed by Erich Mendelsohn between 1919 and 1921. The structure functions as an observatory and made of brick and cement. It was inspired by Einstein's Theory of Relativity, as it was made to look like it was growing from the ground.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Tower -
Einstein birthday
Einstein began his new life as an intellectual icon in America, where he arrived on 2 April 1921. He was welcomed to New York City by Mayor John Francis Hylan, and then spent three weeks giving lectures and attending receptions.[102]
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Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera's first government-commissioned mural, Creation was created over the course of a year and covers over a thousand square feet. It is an allegorical composition with mythological and religious motifs.https://www.diegorivera.org/creation.jsp -
Frida Kahlo
In 1922 aged 15 Frida became a student of the National Preparatory School in Mexico City and she began studies that would lead to medical school. It was here she first met Diego Rivera who was commissioned to paint a mural in the school theatre as part of a national arts program after the revolution. They did not meet again for another five years
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Hafen von Leba
He was a member of the "Brücke" and the "Berliner Secession", co-founder and president of the "Neue Secession". From 1923 on, he was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and a professor
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President Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr. July 4, 1872 -January 5, 1933) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer from New England who climbed the ladder of Massachusetts politics, becoming the state's 48th governor.
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GEORGE H.W. BUSH US President
The 41st President of the United States who also served as vice president, congressman, ambassador, director of the CIA, and served in World War II. His son, George W. Bush, served as the 43rd President of the United States.Born in
June 12, 1924 died in 2018.
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#/media/File%3AThe_Great_Gatsby_Cover_1925_Retouched.jpg -
Model Ford T
It’s almost undebatable: no one is better known in the world of manufacturing for automotive than Henry Ford. You could argue that some were more influential or innovative, but if you could only choose one individual as the flagbearer of both, it would be Mr. Ford.
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Self Portrait Velvet Dress
This portrait implied the emotional tension as well as showing with her other paintings. This painting she used as a token of love to regain the affection from her lover. She started working on this painting during the late summer of 1926 when her relationship with Alejandro is turning sour because Alejandro thinks she is too liberal.https://www.fridakahlo.org/self-portrait-in-a-velvet-dress.jsp#prettyPhoto[image1]/0/ -
Oriental Poppies Art
Georgia O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.
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Famous sports events
Alvin Kraenzlein, December 12, 1876 – January 6, 1928) was an American track-and-field athlete known as "the father of the modern hurdling technique".[1] He was the first sportsman in the history of the Olympic games to win four individual gold medals
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Death
Robert Abbe (April 13, 1851 – March 7, 1928) was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City. He was born in New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York (S.B., 1871) and Columbia University (M.D., 1874).
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A fashion trends
In 1928, a Daily Mirror advertisement began:
"My dear, I've discovered the most amazing new Kissproof lipstick! I put it on once in the morning and know my lips will look their loveliest all day long, no matter what I do!"
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Fashion trends
May 1928, abdomen and curves. After many years of a "stovepipe" silhouette, "natural" curves were beginning to reappear. Knee-length, pleated skirts and dropped waists were still popular as everyday clothes in 1929, though Paris designers were already showing longer skirts and higher waistlines.
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Wars and battles
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "'20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. In America, it is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age",
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Anne Frank
Was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. She is a celebrated diarist who described everyday life from her family hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. Wikipedia -
Cite page
1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage#Timelines
2.https://spanishmama.com/diego-rivera-famous-paintings-12-works-you-need-to-see/
3.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Poppies
4.https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/04/27/frida-kahlo-diego-rivera
5. https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/1920s-inventions-influential
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