* Alexandra ( singer ) ( 1942 – 1969 ), German singer ( stage name ; real name Doris Nefedov )

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

The five stars are also in the logo of the Brazilian football team Cruzeiro Esporte Clube and the Brazilian coat of arms ; it is mentioned in the Brazilian national anthem, and even featured as the name of the currency ( the cruzeiro from 1942 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 1994.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

* Bella Abzug ( 1942 ), Feminist ; political activist ; U. S. Representative, 1971 – 1977

569 ) on 2 July 1942 ; and virtually completed on 30 June 1943.

New Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolina's State Parks ( University of South Carolina Press ; 2011 ) 201 pages ; CCC built 16 state parks in SC between 1933 and 1942.

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

Strand produced films for the MOI ; Thomas scripted at least five films in 1942, This Is Colour ( a history of the British dyeing industry ) and New Towns For Old ( on post-war reconstruction ).

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Besides those six camps, there existed the little-known Maly Trostenets extermination camp, at Minsk, Belarus, in the anti-Communist Lokot Republic ( July 1942 – August 1943 ) established in the Nazi-occupied USSR ; similar camps existed at Warsaw and Janowska.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).

* 1942 – The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history ; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25, 1942.

The completed films included the seven-episode Why We Fight series — consisting of Prelude to War ( 1942 ), The Nazis Strike ( 1942 ), Divide and Conquer ( 1943 ), The Battle of Britain ( 1943 ), The Battle of Russia ( 1943 ), The Battle of China ( 1944 ), War Comes to America ( 1945 ) – plus Know Your Enemy: Japan ( 1945 ), Tunisian Victory ( 1945 ), and Two Down and One to Go ( 1945 ) that do not bear the Why We Fight banner ; as well as the African-American related, The Negro Soldier ( 1944 ).

In November 1942, the Allied forces retook Cyrenaica ; by February 1943, the last German and Italian soldiers were driven from Libya.

In November 1942 Vichy France was finally occupied by German forces, because the war in North Africa was coming to an end ; the Germans foresaw a threat in southern Europe by the allied forces.

And the dogwood in early May, for Miss Ada's alfresco party ; ;

For some unusual photographic subjects, if your vacation takes you nearby, try these events: the 600-mile auto race in Charlotte, N.C.,, on May 27 ; ;

the Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, May 5-7 ; ;

A re-enactment of the Battle of Lexington, May 18th at Lexington, Missouri ; ;

the world-renowned 500-mile auto race at Indianapolis, Indiana, plus a festival from May 27-30 ; ;

Michigan offers the lovely Tulip Festival in Holland, Michigan, May 12-14 ; ;

On May 15, a very large increase occurred with Af of mass between Af and Af ; ;

In May 1859, Lincoln purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper which was consistently supportive ; most of the state's 130, 000 German Americans voted Democratic but there was Republican support that a German-language paper could mobilize.

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, Anatolij Evgen ' evič Karpov ; born May 23, 1951 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

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Abby May applied as his teaching assistant ; instead, the couple were engaged, without consent of the family.

They were married at King's Chapel on May 22, 1830 ; he was 30 years old and she was 29.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

" He died three days later on March 4 ; Louisa May died only two days after her father.

During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

When Sforza also abandoned Louis, Alfonso seemed to have all his problems solved ; however, his relationship with Joan suddenly worsened, and in May 1423 he had her lover, and a powerful figure in the Neapolitan court, Gianni Caracciolo, arrested.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ( also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution ; 26 August 17438 May 1794 ; ), the " father of modern chemistry ," was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology.

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Other casinos at the North Shore include the Crystal Bay Club, first built in 1937 as the Ta-Neva-Ho ; the Tahoe Biltmore, and the Nugget.

In 1961-62, Art Carney played Frank Michaelson in an English comedy by Phoebe & Henry Ephron entitled " Take Her, She's Mine " with Phyllis Thaxter as his co-star in the Biltmore Theatre in New York two seasons before his role in " the Odd Couple " in the Plymouth Theatre in New York ; the character was played by James Stewart in the 1963 film version.

Major towns and cities along the way include Waynesboro, Roanoke, and Galax in Virginia ; and in North Carolina, Boone and Asheville, where it runs across the property of the Biltmore Estate.

At, the 127 room structure was designed as the second largest private residence in the United States ( after George Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ) by Delano & Aldrich of New York City ; its landscaping was designed by Olmstead Brothers, sons of Frederick Law Olmsted of Brookline, Massachusetts.

This area is home to Phoenix's Ritz-Carlton hotel ; the Biltmore Fashion Park shopping center, which includes many high-end tenants including Saks Fifth Avenue, Ralph Lauren, Cartier, and Escada ; and many eateries.

" Collected Stories " has had three New York productions: its premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club's City Center Stage I, in 1997, with Maria Tucci and Debra Messing, directed by Lisa Peterson ; the following year at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with Uta Hagen and Lorca Simons, directed by William Carden ; and, on Broadway, in 2010, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Friedman ( formerly Biltmore ) Theatre, starring Linda Lavin and Sarah Paulson, directed by Lynne Meadow.

The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel was the " Nerve center " of the 1960 Democratic National Convention ; the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, the TV networks, and the candidates including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Adlai Stevenson.

* The Dayton Biltmore Hotel is currently a retirement home ; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

* Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina ; estate of George Washington Vanderbilt II

Most of the principal filming for the movie was done in the mountains of western North Carolina including scenes: along the Rocky Broad River where it flows into Lake Lure in Rutherford County, Dillsboro, along the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad ; Waynesville, where a giant clown sign crashes through their windshield as they try to flee and where they find the baby in the stolen car is in Marshall, North Carolina ; and in Asheville, at the Biltmore Estate.