Word: 1900s
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...from materials as varied as opium, gold and ivory. Dr. Friedrich Wilde, a German gynecologist, developed the modern rubber version in 1838, and it quickly gained widespread popularity in Europe. In the U.S., however, it never caught on, mainly because Margaret Sanger, a pioneer in family planning in the 1900s, favored the diaphragm...
Dukakis' father Panos left Pelopi for America in the early 1900s. Dukakis' second cousin Elli Petridou, who lives in nearby Mytilene, confides that Panos, then 15, left Greece against the wishes of his father, who had a store just across the water in Turkey. "Michael's grandfather sent a telegram to my father telling him to tie Panos up so he couldn't leave for America. Instead, my father got him an English teacher," she says conspiratorially. The rest is history: Panos became a doctor in Massachusetts and married a girl from the Greek town of Larissa, who became...
With 2,135,000 adherents and 11,000 churches in the U.S., the denomination is one of the Pentecostal groups that took root in the early 1900s. A gathering of pastors formed the Assemblies in 1914 and almost immediately faced down a schism by sticking firmly to orthodox doctrine. Then and now the group's born-again converts undergo "baptism in the Holy Spirit," an experience that must be accompanied by speaking in tongues, or glossolalia...
...Generale is part of Belgium's bedrock. The company was founded by King William I of the Netherlands in 1822, eight years before Belgium became an independent country. As the country's first central bank, La Generale printed its own paper currency until 1850. By the early 1900s, it was financing copper mining in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) and the building of China's Peking- Hankow railway. With its headquarters in a stately turn-of-the-century building situated between the royal palace and the Belgian Parliament, La Generale today employs nearly 100,000 workers and holds interests...
...portraits. Yet theorganization of the exhibit ignores thesedistinctions in subject, dividing the paintingsinstead according to period: the four rooms plusthe hallway in the Fogg roughly reflect theprogression of Russian realism, from its originsin the elevated social consciousness of the 1850sto the emergence of a more abstract art in theearly 1900s...