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Following the War of the Thousand Days ( 1899 1902 ), Colombia experienced a coffee boom that catapulted the country into the modern period, bringing the attendant benefits of transportation, particularly railroads, communications infrastructure, and the first major attempts at manufacturing.
* 1900 Thousand Days ' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt convinced U. S. Congress to take on the abandoned works in 1902, while Colombia was in the midst of the Thousand Days War.
The story of Turandot was taken from a Persian collection of stories called The Book of One Thousand and One Days ( 1722 French translation Les Mille et un jours by François Pétis de la Croix — not to be confused with its sister work The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ), where the character of " Turandokht " as a cold princess was found.
Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 costume drama made by Hal Wallis Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.
The play Anne of the Thousand Days, the film's basis, was first enacted on Broadway in the Shubert Theatre on 8 December 1948 ; staged by H. C. Potter, with Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman as Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn respectively, running 288 performances ; Harrison won a Tony Award for his performance.
Cinematically, Anne of the Thousand Days took twenty years to reach the screen because its themes — adultery, illegitimacy, incest — were then unacceptable to the U. S. motion picture production code.
* Anne of the Thousand Days depicts Anne as innocent of the charges ; considered historically correct, per the biographies by Eric W. Ives, Retha Warnicke, Joanna Denny, and Tudor historian David Starkey which all state her innocence of adultery, incest, and witchcraft.
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He did enjoy a final commercial blockbuster with Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare in 1968 but his last film of the decade, Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 ), was a commercial and critical disappointment.
* 1969 Best Actor, Anne of the Thousand Days
* 1970 Best Actor Motion Picture Drama, Anne of the Thousand Days
* Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1948 )
John Fisher was portrayed by veteran actor Joseph O ' Conor in the film Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 ), by Bosco Hogan in the miniseries The Tudors, and by Geoffrey Lewis in the 1971 miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
* 1966: A Thousand Days by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Every August, 10 days are devoted to " Bill Johnston's Pirate Days ", a town-wide festival that features professional performers acting out pirate battles and a " siege " of the town by none-other than the " Pirate of the Thousand Islands ," Bill Johnston ( pirate ), whom the festival is named after.
His account of the expedition was published under the title of A Thousand Days in the Arctic ( 1899 ).
Always a very selective actress, Christie turned down many high-caliber film roles, including Anne of the Thousand Days, They Shoot Horses, Don't They ?, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Reds, all of which earned Best Actress Oscar nominations for the actresses who played them.
** Jules Verne-Vingt mille lieues sous les mers ( Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ), Voyage au centre de la Terre ( A Journey to the Center of the Earth ), Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ( Around the World in Eighty Days )
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House.
It was later rearranged in territory and administration and renamed as " Department of Boyaca " after a series of civil wars like the Colombian Civil War ( 1860-1862 ) and the Thousand Days War that struggled over a centralist or federalist system and political instability that changed to many constitutions ( such as the Constitution of 1886 ), Boyaca finally acquired its current definition as territory.
* Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. A Thousand Days
She became a stalwart nostalgia feature of TV variety shows such as The Night Of A Thousand Stars and The Good Old Days.

Thousand and War
* A Thousand Lakes of Red Blood on White Snow, a brief history of the subarctic origins of the Molotov cocktail in the Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939 40
The city is near the site of the 1760 Battle of the Thousand Islands between British and French forces during the Seven Years War ( also known in the US as the French and Indian War.
Then it lived and experienced the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1700 1715 ), the Peninsular War against France ( 1808 1814 ), the Invasion of Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis in 1823 ( that was the fastest and least of all the bloody wars ).
During World War II, Reischauer was the Japan expert for the U. S. Army Intelligence Service, and a myth developed that he prevented the bombing of Kyoto during the war, as explained by Robert Jungk in Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A personal history of the atomic scientists:
* HMS Mohawk was a 16-gun snow, constructed in 1759, that participated in the Battle of the Thousand Islands, during the French and Indian War.
** Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War ( 1980, mini ) Overview from IMDb
Author Robert Jungk recounted in his book Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, the first published account of the Manhattan Project, that Slotin " had volunteered for service in the Spanish Civil War, more for the sake of the thrill of it than on political grounds.
Popular insurrections were often influential and repressed: 100, 000 were killed during the suppression of a Colombian revolt between 1899 and 1902 during the Thousand Days War.
In AD 2015 the old world was destroyed in a nuclear war, known in the books variously as ' The Holocaust ' and ' The War of a Thousand Suns '.
As a metaphoric, critical interpretation of Colombian history, from foundation to contemporary nation, One Hundred Years of Solitude presents different national myths through the story of the Buendía Family, whose spirit of adventure places them amidst the important actions of Colombian historical events — such as the nineteenth-century arguments for and against the Liberal political reformation of a colonial way of life ; the arrival of the railway to a mountainous country ; the Thousand Days War ( Guerra de los Mil Días, 1899 1902 ); the corporate hegemony of the United Fruit Company (" American Fruit Company " in the story ); the cinema ; the automobile ; and the military massacre of striking workers as government labour relations policy.
In March 1900, the Bolívar park was the scene of the first battle of the " Thousand Days ' War ", between liberals and conservatives.
The region ( although not the city itself ) was devastated by the civil war of 1899-1902-commonly known as the Thousand Days War and Bucaramanga grew only modestly in the first half of the 20th century.
Ospina was a General of the Army during the civil war of the Thousand Days War.
During the events of the Thousand Days War and following her mother's death, Maria sought out the protection of her mother's friend, General Rafael Uribe Uribe, to escape Colombia.
Olaya Herrera grew up in an intellectual environment full of inconformism and erudism and had to live in through the Thousand Days War.
The novel, written between 1956 1957 and first published in 1961, is the story of an impoverished, retired colonel, a veteran of the Thousand Days War, who still hopes to receive the pension he was promised some fifteen years earlier.
She agreed to produce three more burlesques by Byron, but he agreed to write his first prose comedies, War to the Knife ( a success in 1865 ) and A Hundred Thousand Pounds ( 1866 ).

Thousand and 1899
Although the region was not affected directly by the Thousand Days War ( 1899 1902 ), it produced one of the main characters: General Rafael Uribe Uribe at the side of the Liberal Party rebels.

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