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The First Radio
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Fritz Pollard (1920-1930) football
Fritz Pollard 1st black All-America RB (1916 at Brown); 1st black to play in Rose Bowl; 7-year NFL pro (1920-26); 1st black NFL coach, at Milwaukee and Hammond, Ind.In 2005, Fritz Pollard was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He appears as a free agent in Madden NFL 09 and is also a part of the game's Hall of Fame feature. -
Eleonora Duse
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Mens Suits
In the early part of the 1920′s the “conservative suit”, as it’s known today, was the most popular mens suit style. -
Group of Seven
- The Group of Seven was made up of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. Macdonald and F.H. Varley .-First exhibition of of paintings was at eh Art Gallery of Ontario in 1920- Ifluenced by impressionist artist.- Painted Canadian landscape and dealt with the Canadian experience.- The first to create Canadian national style painting.
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Traffic Light
The traffic light was invented by police officer William Potts. He used red, amber and green lights and $37 worth of wire to make his traffic light -
Wommen Granted To Vote
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The first Miss America Contest
Margaret Gorman, the first
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Warren G Harding 1921-1923
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movies in 1920s
Nanook of the North" was one of the first documentary style films. The Prisoner of Zenda" with Ramon Navarro was one of the years big hits. -
Insulin
Insulin was discovered by Frederick Banting and Charles Best at the University of Toronto. Although Insulin is not a cure, it is a life saving treatment for people suffering from diabetes. Insulin was discovered by tying a string around the pancreatic duct of several dogs. Several weeks later, all of the pancreas digestive cells died and absorbed by the immune system, leaving thousands of pancreatic islets. The protein from islets was isolated, and insulin was discovered. -
Calvin Coolidge 1923-1928
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First olympic games
This is where and when the olympic beginging to expand. It was in the !924. in greece -
skirts in the 1920s
Certain women still wore conservative dresses, but younger women made sportswear a fad. Tubular dresses were popular in teenagers, having shorter skirts with pleats, gathers or slits. Hats became very popular, which caused women to have 'bob-cuts'. Low -
Flapper Fashion
Flappers did not truly emerge until 1926. Flapper fashion embraced all things and styles modern. A fashionable flapper had short sleek hair, a shorter than average shapeless shift dress, a chest as flat as a board, wore make up and applied it in public, smoked with a long cigarette holder, exposed her limbs and epitomised the spirit of a reckless rebel who danced the nights away in the Jazz Age. -
Liquid-Fueled Rocket
The Liquid-Fueled Rocket was invented by Robert Goddard. The North American Space Association tell use it today. -
Spirit of St. Louis
The Spirit of St. Louis (Registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built single engine, single seat monoplane that was flown solo by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. -
The first feature film originally presented as a talkie the jazz singer
The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927 -
Black Tuesday
Canada's economy was growing rapidly in 1929. The stock market values were soaring and loans were easy to get. Then the market became unstable and investors became nervous and started selling stocks all at once, crashing the markets. Millions of people had no income and unemployment rose to 23%. Canada was pulled out of the Great Depression by WWII in 1939. Many soldiers were needed, and factories opened to manufacture supplies, creating more jobs.
