" It has long been realized that the Marduk epic, for all its local coloring and probable elaboration by the Babylonian theologians, reflects in substance older Sumerian material ," American Assyriologist E. A. Speiser remarked in 1942 adding " The exact Sumerian prototype, however, has not turned up so far.

From 1939 to 1942, Maxwell served as the dialogue director for the films of epic director Cecil B. DeMille.

Once the show hit its stride, they had leading roles in the RKO Radio Pictures films Look Who's Laughing ( 1941 ), Here We Go Again ( 1942 ), and Heavenly Days ( 1944 ).

Other film roles for the team include Look Who's Laughing ( 1941 ) and Here We Go Again ( 1942 ), both with Fibber McGee and Molly.

Cronin, including The Citadel ( 1938 ), The Stars Look Down ( 1939 ), Hatter's Castle ( 1942 ), and Web of Evidence ( 1959 ).

Redgrave also starred in The Stars Look Down ( 1939 ), with James Mason in the film of Robert Ardrey's play Thunder Rock ( 1942 ), and in the ventriloquist's dummy episode of the Ealing compendium film Dead of Night ( 1945 ).

After joining Jim and Marion Jordan ( as Fibber McGee and Molly ) and fellow radio favorite Edgar Bergen in Look Who's Laughing ( 1941 ) and Here We Go Again ( 1942 ), Peary finally received top billing for a brief series of RKO films.

The book received good reviews and attained literary success, leading to a feature article on Mary in Look magazine in July 1942.

He eventually moved on to sound and English-language films in England such as The Stars Look Down ( 1940 ), Hatter's Castle ( 1942 ), Thunder Rock ( 1942 ), So Evil My Love ( 1948 ), Night and the City ( 1950 ) and I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ), usually credited as " Max Greene ".

Two of her more visible roles are in the 1942 serial Gang Busters ( a small role, but important enough to serial audiences for her name to appear prominently in the ads and posters ) and the 1945 Gloria Jean-Kirby Grant musical Easy to Look At ( in which she plays a Broadway seamstress ).

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.

Construction of what would become Mountain Home Air Force Base was begun in October 1942, southwest of Mountain Home.

Mountain Brook was originally developed in 1929 by local developer Robert Jemison as an extensive residential subdivision, and was incorporated on May 24, 1942.

Edwin " Big Ed " Wilkes ( 1931 – 1998 ), a radio personality in Lubbock, Texas, was born in Blue Mountain but moved to Lubbock with his family in 1942.

Ms. Lombard's plane TWA Flight 3 crashed into nearby Potosi Mountain on January 16, 1942.

* 1942 Mud Mountain Dam completed.

However, Kim Jong-il's official biography states he was born in a secret military camp on Baekdu Mountain ( Korean: 백두산밀영고향집 ) in Japanese-occupied Korea on 16 February 1942.

The South Country is home to a series of six difficult peaks, namely Mount Phillips, Comanche Peak, Big Red, Bear Mountain, Black Mountain, and Schaefers Peak, as well as Trail Peak, which is popular for its relative ease, its nearness to Beaubien, and the wreckage of the crash of a B-24 bomber in 1942 near its summit.

In 1942 his proposal to do so was rejected by Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

The Gospel Herald, official publication of the Church of God Mountain Assembly, was first published in 1942.

A 3. 7 inch Mountain Howitzer of 1 Mountain Artillery Regiment, Royal Artillery | RA attached to 52nd Division, on exercise at Trawsfynydd in Wales in 1942.

From May 1942 until June 1944, the division was trained in a Mountain warfare capacity, but was never employed in this role.

George was born in Wales in 1942 and was educated at the Mountain Ash Grammar School and the University of Wales, Swansea where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in political theory and government.

The Army Mountain Warfare School was eventually established at nearby Camp Carson in late 1942, and began to oversee mountain warfare training.

In September 1942, the unit was remnamed the SS Gebirgs-Division " Nord " ( SS Mountain Division " Nord ") and in October 1943 became the 6th SS Gebirgs-Division " Nord ".

In 1942 as a General der Gebirgstruppe he took command of the XIX Mountain Corps, part of the German Army in Finland.

Camp Hale, between Red Cliff and Leadville in the Eagle River valley in Colorado, was a U. S. Army training facility constructed in 1942 for what became the 10th Mountain Division.

White painted barracks for 15, 000 soldiers were built straight lines on the mountain meadow, but when the first trainees of the 87th Regiment of the 10th Light Division, quickly renamed the 10th Mountain Division, arrived in the winter of 1942 only a small portion of barracks were filled.

* Army Air Base, Mountain Home, Nov 1942

The regiment was initially formed at Camp Toccoa, Georgia in 1942 where it earned its nickname, " Currahees ", after Currahee Mountain which is located inside the boundaries of the camp.

In November 1942 the corps was renamed the XIX Gebirgskorps or XIX Mountain Corps.

In the Dunn-Atherton memorandum of February 4, 1942, the State Department had expected to be able to hold Russia in check by withholding agreement to her 1941 boundaries.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

* 1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

In the book of " Ainu life and legends " by author Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( published by the Japanese Tourist Board in 1942 ) contains the physical description of Ainu: Many have wavy hair, but some straight black hair.

The term antibiotic was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution.

These drugs were later renamed antibiotics by Selman Waksman, an American microbiologist, in 1942.

He encouraged technical investigation, and was Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the first technical journal, Technical Studies, in the Field of the Fine Arts, published by the Fogg from 1932 to 1942.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

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.

A resistance movement called Otechestven front ( Fatherland front, Bulgarian: Отечествен фронт ) was set up in August 1942 by the Communist Party, the Zveno movement and a number of other parties to oppose the elected government, after a number of Allied victories indicated that the Axis might lose the War.

Bombardier Inc. () is a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

Worker at carbon black plant in Sunray, Texas ( photo by John Vachon, 1942 ) Pure carbon has extremely low toxicity to humans and can be handled and even ingested safely in the form of graphite or charcoal.

It may be an echo of a statement in a 1942 story by Leigh Brackett: " Witchcraft to the ignorant, ....

For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.