The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.

The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.

A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.

Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.

On the batting-friendly wickets that prevailed in the late 1930s, most Tests up to the Second World War still gave results.

Australia recovered the Ashes in 1934 and held them until 1953, although no international cricket was possible during the Second World War.

Since the Second World War, both theoretical and experimental fields have advanced at a rapid pace.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.

Following the Second World War, far-reaching social, economic and political changes profoundly affected a number of areas where Ismāʿīlīs resided.

* 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

* 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.

At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.

This was during the Second World War, and he involved his students in designing low-cost, small-scale housing for the reconstruction of war-torn Finland.

Aerial armour has been used to protect pilots and aircraft systems since the Second World War.

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

With the development of effective anti-aircraft artillery in the period before the Second World War, military pilots, once the " knights of the air " during the First World War, became far more vulnerable to ground fire.

Tank armour has progressed from the Second World War armour forms, now incorporating not only harder composites, but also reactive armour designed to defeat shaped charges.

The light tanks that were the last descendants of the light cavalry during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared from the world's militaries due to increased lethality of the weapons available to the vehicle-mounted infantry.

The armoured personnel carrier ( APC ) is a relatively recent development, stemming from trials and experiences during the Second World War.

Naval armour has fundamentally changed from the Second World War doctrine of thicker plating to defend against shells, bombs and torpedos.

The Memorial Hall and Gymnasium honours students who had enlisted and died in the First World War, and in the Second World War.

They played their first-ever County Championship match there in 1921, competing there every season ( except while first-class cricket was suspended during the Second World War ), their last match being against Somerset County Cricket Club in August 1966.

After the Second World War, sports car racing emerged as a distinct form of racing with its own classic races, and, from 1953, its own FIA sanctioned World Championship.

This resulted in Dave Gilbert being promoted to the national squad, forcing him to forfeit his Esso scholarship, which allowed him to play Second XI cricket in the County Championship.

It is a thriving club with many successful teams including winning Second X1 Premiership Championship in the 2010 season.

This resulted in Dave Gilbert being promoted to the national squad, forcing him to forfeit his Esso scholarship, which allowed him to play Second XI cricket in the County Championship.

* Second High Speed Telegraphy World Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

* Second European High Speed Telegraphy Championship held in Hanover, Germany.

* Second Amateur Radio Direction Finding World Championship held in Oslo, Norway.

This season, Sevilla FC won the Second Division Championship.

The beginning of Sánchez Pizjuán was, however, complicated, due to the fact that in the season 1932 / 33 the Sevilla FC was almost relegated to Third Division, after being second to last in the Second Division Championship that season.

During the 1980s, Santa Cruz was demoted to the Second Division of the National Championship twice, in 1982 and 1989.

He led Liverpool to the Second Division Championship to gain promotion to the top-flight First Division in 1962, before going on to win three First Division Championships, two FA Cups, four Charity Shields and one UEFA Cup.

* FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 Second Round, Groningen, Topalov – Piket ( ½ – 1½ )

* Second Far Eastern Championship Games held in Shanghai, Republic of China

The First XV, Second XV and Third XV all play in the English Rugby Union South West Division Championship ; the First XV play in Southern Counties South, the Second XV in Dorset and Wilts One South and the Third XV in Dorset and Wilts Three West.

In October 2003, Sturrock had successfully taken Argyle back to the top of the Football League Second Division and left when Plymouth had just 12 games to play in what would prove to be another season when they would finish as divisional champions and return to the Football League Championship, formerly known as the First Division.

The great Yorkshire team of the 1930s had been broken up by the Second World War and a rebuilding phase was underway by the late 1940s, although Yorkshire had won the first post-war County Championship in 1946.

Trueman played in eight first-class matches in 1949, all for Yorkshire ; in five matches for the Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship ; and in one other match for Yorkshire's first team against an Army XI which included another up and coming fast bowler, Frank Tyson.

This marks the Glens Second Junior " B " Championship.

He made his debut in a match against Scotland on 2 April 1955 in the British Home Championship aged 18 years and 183 days, making him England's youngest debutant since the Second World War, a record which stood, until Michael Owen made his England debut in 1998.

* Football League Second Division / Football League First Division / Football League Championship: 1895

After five seasons in Division Three ( South ) and a few failed bids for promotion, the Swans reached the Second Division for the first time in 1925, beating Exeter City 2 – 1 at home on the final day of the season to beat perennial runners-up Plymouth Argyle to the Championship.

This earned Morecambe a Lancashire Derby in the Second Round against another Championship side, Burnley, where they lost 3 – 1.