* Enid Bagnold – National Velvet

His sister was the novelist and playwright Enid Bagnold, who wrote the 1935 novel National Velvet.

* National Velvet ( 1944 )

* National Velvet ( 1944 )

After the Velvet Revolution of 1990 ended Communist rule, the National Front was dissolved.

National Velvet is a novel by Enid Bagnold ( 1889 – 1981 ), first published in 1935.

" National Velvet " is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who rides her horse to victory in the Grand National steeplechase.

The horse which Velvet trains and rides in the Grand National is named The Piebald, because it is piebald colour.

The National Hunt Committee finds no evidence of fraud, exonerates all involved, and Velvet and her family return to their ordinary lives ; or rather, Velvet goes on " to her next adventures ", for clearly she is a person to whom great things happen.

National Velvet was acknowledged as the ninth best film in the sports genre.

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* Government of National Understanding, established in Czechoslovakia after the Velvet Revolution of 1983.

After the Velvet Revolution, Palach ( along with Zajíc ) was commemorated in Prague by a bronze cross embedded at the spot where he fell outside the National Museum, as well as a square named in his honour.

Many film and television horses of the Golden Age of Hollywood were also Saddlebreds, including the horses selected to portray Mr. Ed, Flicka and one of the horses used in National Velvet.

Based on the character of Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet, she only wears braids when she is wearing blue jeans.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress three times and won for her performance in National Velvet.

She is sometimes mistakenly credited with having been the lead singer of the 1980s Canadian goth rock band National Velvet, which was in fact fronted by a different Maria del Mar.

Maria del Mar is a Canadian rock singer, who was the lead vocalist for 1980s goth rock band National Velvet.

For the summer of 2008, TCM launched " Essentials Jr .", a youth-oriented version of its The Essentials weekly series hosted by actors Abigail Breslin and Chris O ' Donnell, which included such family-themed films as National Velvet ( 1944 ), The Courtship of Eddie's Father ( 1963 ), Meet Me in St. Louis ( 1944 ), Captains Courageous ( 1937 ), and Yours, Mine and Ours ( 1968 ), as well as more eclectic selections as Sherlock Jr. ( 1924 ), The Music Box ( 1932 ), Harvey ( 1950 ), 20 Million Miles to Earth ( 1957 ), Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ), On the Town ( 1949 ), and The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ).

National Velvet are a recently re-formed Canadian goth rock band, popular in the 1980s and 1990s.

* 1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60, 000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.

* 1944 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders.

National Allied Publications soon merged with Detective Comics Inc. to form National Comics, which in 1944 absorbed an affiliated concern, Max Gaines's and Liebowitz's All-American Publications.

The National Liberation War of the Albanian people started with the Italian invasion in Albanian on 7 April 1939 and ended on 28 November 1944.

* National Day, celebrates the independence of Iceland from Kingdom of Denmark in 1944.

* 1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland

Landis was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by a special vote shortly after he died in 1944.

In 1944, the Nyasaland African Congress ( NAC ), inspired by the African National Congress Africa Peace Charter of 1914, emerged.

* 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.

* The PKWN manifesto ( 1944 ), by Polish Committee of National Liberation

* 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.

* 1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.

Desmond once told Marian McPartland of National Public Radio's Piano Jazz that he was taken aback by the chord changes Brubeck introduced during that 1944 audition.

But it was National AAU champion swimmer, Esther Williams, who popularized synchronized swimming through ( often elaborately staged ) scenes in Hollywood films such as Bathing Beauty ( 1944 ), Million Dollar Mermaid ( 1952 ), and Jupiter's Darling ( 1955 ).

Whilst meantime, in Nazi-occupied Poland, the Council of National Unity was set up ; this body functioned from 1944 to 1945 as the parliament of the Polish Underground State.

Skopje was liberated on 13 November 1944 by Yugoslav Partisan units of the Macedonian National Liberation Army, together with units of the newly allied Bulgarian People's Army ( Bulgaria having switched sides in the war in September ).

At the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, Dewey easily overcame Bricker and was nominated on the first ballot.

SAIC has been accredited since 1936 by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944 ( charter member ), and by the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design ( AICAD ) since its founding in 1991.

He, however, supported the party establishment's platform that was a replication of the 1944 Democratic National Convention plank on civil rights.

In August 1944, Dubček fought in the Slovak National Uprising and was wounded.

Between 1920 and 1926 he was Director of the National Museum of Wales, and from 1926 to 1944 Keeper of the London Museum.

In 1944 most of the town became a park, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, administered by the National Park Service.