Actualités ac261/1949
London Declaration, 1949
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 09:00:00 GMT
At a Commonwealth Prime Ministers meeting in London in 1949, the London Declaration said that republics and other countries could be part of the Commonwealth. The modern Commonwealth of Nations was ...
Top 25 Movies in 1949
Sat, 18 May 2019 03:55:00 GMT
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. A psychopathic criminal with a mother ...
Beyond the Forest (1949)
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:10:00 GMT
Beyond the Forest (1949) is a melodramatic, far-fetched high-camp classic and also a fine example of film noir from director King Vidor, with an impressive bombastic, Oscar-nominated musical score by ...
Parliament Act 1949
Tue, 16 Aug 2016 01:31:00 GMT
It was used a third time in 1949 to pass a second Parliament Bill, which amended and strengthened the 1911 Act. As in 1906, the origins of the second Parliament Act lay in anticipated tension between ...
Triumph Mayflower: Buying guide and review (1949-1953)
Sun, 04 Nov 2018 16:00:00 GMT
As long ago as 1949 Sir John Black introduced the Triumph Mayflower in a bid to prove that you didn’t have to buy a large car to enjoy a spot of luxury. When Triumph went bust in 1939 it was ...
The Heiress (1949)
Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:10:00 GMT
The Heiress (1949), as the theatrical poster declared, is "a truly great motion picture" - a bleak tale of crushed, heartbroken expectations and incisively-harsh retribution. The top-line, prestige ...
Constitution of India, 1949
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:30:00 GMT
249 Power of Parliament to legislate with respect to a matter in the State List in the national interest 250 Power of Parliament to legislate with respect to any matter in the State List if a ...
Soviet Tests
Sun, 14 Apr 2019 23:01:00 GMT
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...
The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949
Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:25:00 GMT
Seaton, Philip 2019. War, Popular Culture, and Contents Tourism in East Asia. Journal of War & Culture Studies, Vol. 12, Issue. 1, p. 1. Koyama, Hitomi and Buzan ...
1949 Postseason Recap
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:00:00 GMT
2010s: 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 2000s: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 1990s: 1999 ...
What is the government of China like?
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 08:11:00 GMT
Since 1949, China has been ruled by the Communist Party of China, also known as the Chinese Communist Party or CCP. Figure caption, The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 when the ...
China to raise retirement age as population gets older
Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:00:00 GMT
Life expectancy in the country has now risen above the United States, to 78 years, from just 36 years at the time of the Communist revolution in 1949. But China's retirement age remains one of the ...