* The World Almanac and Book of Facts

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. included William Harvey in a list of " The Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium " in the World Almanac & Book of Facts.

As recently as 2009, this erroneous information appeared in the World Almanac section on " Original Names of Selected Entertainers " ( p. 278 ).

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The World Almanac and Book of Facts is an American-published reference work and is the bestselling almanac conveying information about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, sports feats, etc.

The first edition of The World Almanac was published by The New York World newspaper in 1868 ( the name of the publication comes from the newspaper itself, which was known as " The World ").

Publication was suspended in 1876, but in 1886 famed newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased The New York World and quickly transformed it into one of the most influential newspapers in the country, revived The World Almanac with the intention of making it " a compendium of universal knowledge.

" The World Almanac has been published annually ever since.

In 1894, when it claimed more than a half-million " habitual users ," The World Almanac changed its name to The World Almanac and Encyclopedia.

This was the title it kept until 1923, when it became The World Almanac and Book of Facts, the name it bears today.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1987, beside a Tea Kettle, Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts | TIPA, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh | Dharamsala, India

In 1923, the name changed to its current name, The World Almanac and Book of Facts.

Calvin Coolidge's father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office.

Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource.

During World War II, The World Almanac could boast that it was read by GIs all over the world: between 1944 and 1946, at the request of the U. S. Government, The World Almanac had special print runs of 100, 000 to 150, 000 copies for distribution to the armed forces.

Soon he was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as well.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

In addition Rep. Frelinghuysen's brother Harry was on the Korean desk of the State Department in World War 2.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

During World War 2,, he was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Prior to World War 2, there was a higher percentage of endogamous marriages than after World War 2.

In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.

Most of the mechanical clocks are now sold as antiquities as many factories were shut down after First World War and after Second World War.

They then won back to back World Series titles in 1907 – 08 In 1902, Spalding, who by this time had revamped the roster to boast what would soon be one of the best teams of the early century, sold the club to Jim Hart, and the franchise became known as the Chicago Cubs.

In 2001 Banks sold his World Cup Winners medal at Christie's auction house in London.

During World War II, to raise money for war bonds, Cagney took part in racing exhibitions at the Roosevelt Raceway and sold seats for the premiere of Yankee Doodle Dandy.

During World War I, she promoted the sale of Liberty Bonds, through an exhausting series of fund-raising speeches that kicked off in Washington, D. C., where she sold bonds alongside Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Theda Bara, and Marie Dressler.

Weapons supplies were made available to the Mujahideen through numerous countries ; the United States purchased all of Israel's captured Soviet weapons clandestinely, and then funnelled the weapons to the Mujahideen, while Egypt upgraded their own army's weapons, and sent the older weapons to the militants, Turkey sold their World War II stockpiles to the warlords, and the British and Swiss provided Blowpipe missiles and Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns respectively, after they were found to be poor models for their own forces.

In the First World War, the Welsh Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, unveiled a statue to him in Cardiff City Hall and a postcard showing Owain at the Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen was sold to raise money for wounded Welsh soldiers.

The King Quail, an of the Old World quail, is often sold in the pet trade and is commonly referred to there as a " button quail ".

When he was 20, he sold the company to Harcourt, Brace & World for $ 100, 000 ( roughly $ 500, 000 in 2006 dollars ) plus royalties.

On 21 July 2004, in the Delivering Security in a Changing World review of defence spending, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon announced that three frigates of the fleet of sixteen would be paid off as part of a continuous cost-cutting strategy, and these were subsequently sold to Chile.

However, as Ferrary was an Austrian citizen, the collection was broken up and sold by the French government after the First World War, as war reparations.

During World War Two, the Swiss franc was the only remaining major freely convertible currency in the world, and both the Allies and the Germans sold large amounts of gold to the Swiss National Bank.

The Antrobus family sold the site after their last heir was killed serving in France during the First World War.

First sold in Canada, it was such a commercial success it became available year round and, apart from the duration of the Second World War, has been produced ever since.

In 2001, under AOL Time Warner, it was sold to the World Wrestling Federation.

The following recordings by the Seekers were each certified as having sold over one million copies: " I'll Never Find Another You ", " A World of Our Own ", " The Carnival is Over " and " Georgy Girl ".

She was not sunk during World War II and was sold for scrap in 1946.

In 1930, Volvo sold 639 cars, and the export of trucks to Europe started soon after ; the cars did not become well-known outside Sweden until after World War II.

In 2004, Harrah's Entertainment ( now Caesars Entertainment ) purchased Binion's Horseshoe, retained the rights to the Horseshoe and World Series of Poker brands, sold the hotel and casino to MTR Gaming Group, and announced that the 2005 Series events would be held at the Harrah's-owned Rio Hotel and Casino, located just off the Las Vegas Strip.

The discount retailer named Job Lot used to be located at the World Trade Center but moved to Church Street ; merchants bought extra unsold items at steep prices and sold them as a discount to consumers and shoppers included " thrifty homemakers and browsing retirees " who " rubbed elbows with City Hall workers and Wall Street executives "; but the firm went bust in 1993.

Unlike the Magic Kingdom, which as of September 22, 2012 does not serve alcohol, many stores and restaurants in the World Showcase do serve or sell alcoholic beverages from their respective countries, and beer is sold at refreshment stands throughout the park.

Most of the World War II fleet was sold for scrap metal during the early 1960s.

Williams was entered in The Guinness Book of World Records when, after he announced his World Tour for 2006, 1. 6 million tickets were sold in one single day.