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1920s and East
The experiences gained by Africans in the war coupled with the creation of the white-settler-dominated Kenya Crown Colony, gave rise to considerable political activity in the 1920s which culminated in Archdeacon Owen's " Piny Owacho " ( Voice of the People ) movement and the " Young Kikuyu Association " ( renamed the " East African Association ") started in 1921 by Harry Thuku ( 1895 – 1970 ), which gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocated civil disobedience.
A champion of breed purity, she struggled alone for nearly three decades, and real Saluki popularity did not take hold until the early 1920s, when officers returning from the war in the Middle East and the Arab Revolt brought their pet Salukis home with them.
This goal was finally achieved by a series of laws in the 1920s and 1930s that made Flemish the language of government, education, and the courts in the northern provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg, and eastern Brabant.
In the 1920s, once the Indian Branch was up and running, it became the custom for staff members going out or returning to take a tour of East and South East Asia.
East Houston Street between Clinton and Suffolk Streets in the 1920s
From the 1920s onwards there had been severe congestion at the line's northern terminus, Finsbury Park, where travellers had to change on to trams and buses for destinations in North and North East London.
The arrival of I-10 in the early 1960s resulted in the demolition of some homes in the Old Metairie neighborhood, where development began in the 1920s, but resulted in even easier access to suburban East Jefferson.
Pea Ridge City Hall occupies a restored historic 1920s building at 227 East Pickens, previously the site of cafes, markets, and medical offices.
By the 1920s and 1930s, the appearance of East Moline in Illinois and Bettendorf in Iowa reflected the further growth and diversification of the region.
Beginning in the 1920s and extending into the 1930s, intrepid working-class settlers ( recently arrived from County Donegal in Ireland ) began building small wood-frame bungalow-type homes in the dangerous fire-prone pine barrens in Wyandance Springs Park-there were no springs, no park and no roads-and in Home Acres in the area bounded by Straight Path, Long Island Avenue, Little East Neck Road and Grunwedel Avenue ( now Patton Avenue ).
In the 1920s African-American families bought plots of land and built their own homes in the " Little Farms " section of the West Babylon school district between Straight Path, Little East Neck Road and Gordon Avenue.
East Bernard has had several newspapers, the first of which, the East Bernard Tribune, began in the 1920s.
The bungalows on the East Side of the borough, which in the 1920s were summer bungalows, are now year-round homes.
With the discovery of the Goose Creek Oil Field, the rival communities of Pelly in the late 1910s, and East Baytown in the early 1920s, developed as early boomtowns.
Isidore became a rabbi and owner of a small vegetable shop in Chicago's Maxwell Street neighborhood, a vibrant Jewish ghetto akin to the New York's Lower East Side of the 1920s and ' 30s.
The experiences gained by Africans in the war coupled with the creation of the white-settler-dominated Kenya Crown Colony, gave rise to considerable political activity in the 1920s which culminated in Archdeacon Owen's " Piny Owacho " ( Voice of the People ) movement and the " Young Kikuyu Association " ( renamed the " East African Association ") started in 1921 by Harry Thuku ( 1895 – 1970 ), which gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocated civil disobedience.
Harlem Stride Piano, stride piano, commonly abbreviated to stride, is a jazz piano style that was developed in the large cities of the East Coast, mainly New York, during 1920s and 1930s.
By the 1920s, B ' nai B ' rith membership in Europe had grown to 17, 500 — nearly half of the U. S. membership — and by the next decade, the formation of a lodge in Shanghai represented the organization's entry into the Far East.
During the 1920s, Chamberlain lived at a house called Twytts Gryll in Fir Toll Road, Mayfield, East Sussex.
The establishment of major cowboy competitions in the East in the 1920s led to the growth of rodeo sports.
The term " gremlin " denoting a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft, originates in Royal Air Force ( RAF ) slang in the 1920s among the British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East and India, with the earliest recorded printed use being in a poem published in the journal Aeroplane, in Malta on April 10, 1929.
Although it had found early favour in Europe, especially on lightly engineered railways, the Mallet type had generally been superseded by the Garratt locomotive by the mid 1920s, but in the Dutch East Indies, now the Republic of Indonesia, several types and sizes remained in use into the 1980s.

1920s and Bay
In the early 1920s the Busselton to Margaret River Railway was built and in 1925 the Margaret River to Flinders Bay line opened.
* Ki Longfellow, China Blues, Eio Books 2012, ISBN 0-9759255-7-1 Warren Harding looms large in this story of 1920s San Francisco in which Harding dies during his visit to the City by the Bay.
Most of the luxurious historic residences from the 1920s boom period along the northern shore of Sarasota Bay also have survived.
Days Bay, 1920s
* Gordon Collection ; performed by unknown persons in the Bay Area of California in the early 1920s
During the 1920s Carroll had the lead in a successful Broadway play, The Green Bay Tree ( based on the novel of the same name by Louis Bromfield ), and in 1941 starred with Vincent Price and Judith Evelyn in Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street ( Gas Light ), which ran for three years at the Golden Theatre on 45th Street in New York City.
Robert Winslow Gordon, founding head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, recorded sailors singing shanties in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1920s.
* Sample: " Haul the Woodpile Down " ( audio ) sung by unnamed sailor in San Francisco Bay area, early 1920s.
* Sample: " Roll the Old Chariot Along " ( audio ) sung by unnamed sailor in San Francisco Bay area, early 1920s.
The Venetian Islands in Miami Beach, Florida, in Biscayne Bay added valuable new real estate during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.
In the 1920s Sarah also maintained a houseboat on San Francisco Bay at Burlingame, California, which became known as " Sarah's Ark " as it was reputedly kept there as insurance against her fear of a second great flood, such as the Biblical one experienced by Noah and his family, but a more mundane answer is that many people of her social standing in California at that time had house boats or yachts.
There are several roads and streets named after the Huia in the North Island, with several in Wellington ( including Huia Road in Days Bay – not far from where one of the last sightings of this species occurred in the early 1920s in the forests of East Harbour Regional Park ) and also in Auckland, where there is even a Huia suburb in Waitakere.
Before the Dumbarton and San Mateo-Hayward Bridges were built across the San Francisco Bay in the 1920s, San Francisco was bottled up at the north end of a long peninsula, with driving south on El Camino Real towards San Jose as the only reasonable alternative to the ferries for crossing the bay.
The original railway station was named " Pukerua " until it was changed briefly to Waimapihi in the 1920s and then to " Pukerua Bay " to avoid confusion with " Pukerau " in the South Island.
By the end of the 1920s, Pukerua Bay numbered 100 houses, a small school on land donated by Charles Gray, and a few small stores.
The township includes the communities of Attercliffe, Beckett's Bridge, Belleview Beach, Burnaby, Camelot Beach, Chambers Corners, Long Beach, Morgan's Point, O ' Reilly's Bridge, Ostryhon Corners, Perry, Wainfleet ( known until the 1920s as Marshville ), Wellandport ( which straddles the border with the neighbouring Township of West Lincoln ), Willow Bay and Winger.
Cambridge Bay was the site of Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) and Hudson's Bay Company outposts established during the 1920s.
This view would inspire numerous works-at least six wood block prints rendered during the 1920s specifically capture Mosman Bay and the Mosman Bridge.
Lachlan T. Burwash, an exploratory engineer with the Department of the Interior, made a survey of the east coasts of Hudson Bay and James Bay, and the Belcher Islands in the late 1920s.
In the 1920s he visited Doctor's Cave Beach Club in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and was most impressed by the curative powers of the waters.
In the 1920s, most of the low-lying marsh of Ashbridge's Bay was filled in to create Toronto's inner harbour area ( with the small section to the east and the shipping channel the only reminder of the body of water ).
In the 1920s, Cleveland Bays replaced black Hanoverians in the British royal stables, and both the Cleveland Bay and Cleveland Bay / Thoroughbred crosses are used as royal carriage horses today.

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