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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These interesting scenes from Churchill's young life all occurred in the nineteenth century, but they prepared him for what would come in the twentieth century, beginning with his first election to Parliament in 1900. Churchill's service in the Cabinet before World War I, his return to the front in 1916, and his inter-war successes and failures are well known and easily discovered. Of course, even better known is Churchill's and Britain's lonely fight against Germany for two long years in World War II. But it is especially worthwhile that the readers of a college newspaper...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Remembering Greatness in Full | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...about this decline in the prestige of the Crown are ambivalent. When I was a little kid my father explained that the surname Jenkins--unusual in a Hispanic country like Costa Rica--was the legacy of an old English miner who had migrated to Central America in the late nineteenth century. Right then and there I became a fierce Anglophile...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: The Queen In Parliament | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...clips spanned period between the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, which gave women the right to vote...

Author: By Benjamin P. Solomon-schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ken Burns Screens New Suffrage Film | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...nineteenth year, HRST has enjoyed success in the past with shows like Othello and Slavs...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Theater Season Opens | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...nineteenth year, HRST has enjoyed success in the past with shows like Othello and Slavs...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Theater Co. Begins Summer Season | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

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