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    The Immigrant is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy short written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin's Tramp character as an immigrant...
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    been added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry: Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), The Immigrant (1917), The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925)...
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    Charlie Chaplin (redirect from The Freak)
    controversial issues: immigration (The Immigrant, 1917); illegitimacy (The Kid, 1921); and drug use (Easy Street, 1917). He often explored these topics...
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  • or variants may also refer to: The Immigrant (1915 film), a feature film produced by Jesse Lasky The Immigrant (1917 film), a comedy short written and...
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  • heard at the beginning and end of the film. Also included are vintage clips dealing with the Statue of Liberty from the films The Immigrant (1917), Mr. Smith...
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    British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine...
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  • The Japanese immigrant village in Taiwan was established during the Japanese colonial period between 1895 and 1945. The purpose of establishing this village...
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    theme include The Immigrant (1917), The Strong Man (1926), Ellis Island (1936), Paddy O'Day (1936), Gateway (1938), Secret Service of the Air (1939), Exile...
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  • The Thieving Hand (1908) Regeneration (1915) Lights of New York (1916) Coney Island (1917) The Immigrant (1917) The Delicious Little Devil (1919) The...
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    Zalibra) The Cure (1917 short) (with George C. Zalibra) The Immigrant (1917 short) (with George C. Zalibra) The Adventurer (1917 short) (with George...
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    English immigrant Louisa Wright Davey and American vintner to the western mining camps Madison (Matt) Gates Purviance. When she was three, the family moved...
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    Children (1914) The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder Cases (1915) Mental Tests and the Immigrant (1917) Psychology of the Normal and...
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  • 1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the...
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    Eric Campbell (actor) (category 1917 deaths)
    Alfred Eric Campbell (26 April 1879 – 20 December 1917) was an English actor. He was a key member of Charlie Chaplin's film ensemble, invariably playing...
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    Constitution of 1917 is the legal triumph of the Mexican Revolution. To some it is the revolution." The current Constitution of 1917 is the first such document...
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    The Man Who Disappeared (1914) Children of Eve (1915) Slander (1916) The Snowbird (1916) Infidelity (1917) The Whip (1917) The Undying Flame (1917) Seven...
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    Pawnshop (1916) Behind the Screen (1916) The Adventurer (1917) The Cure (1917) Easy Street (1917) The Immigrant (1917) The Tenderfoot (1917) A High Diver’s Last...
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  • United States. The Naturalization Act of 1906, required immigrants to learn English in order to become citizens. The Immigration Act of 1917 defined aliens...
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    The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act or the Burnett Act and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) was a United States Act that...
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    Immigrant health care in the United States refers to the collective systems in the United States that deliver health care services to immigrants. The...
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  • ordered the U.S. Justice Department to launch the Palmer Raids (1919–21). He deported 249 Russian immigrants on the "Soviet Ark", formed the General Intelligence...
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  • Arizona) 1917: Anti-Greek riots occurred in Salt Lake City which "almost resulted" in lynching of a Greek immigrant. 1917: El Paso, Texas. The 1917 Bath riots...
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  • HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) is a Jewish American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees...
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    William Gillespie (actor) (category Scottish emigrants to the United States)
    Lloyd in 60 films. The Cure (1917) Easy Street (1917) The Immigrant (1917) The Big Idea (1917) Look Pleasant, Please (1918) Here Come the Girls (1918) Swing...
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    one third of the total population of people of German ancestry in the world. The first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies...
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  • Photoplay Productions (category Film production companies of the United Kingdom)
    Constance Talmadge The Adventures of Dollie (1908) directed by D. W. Griffith starring Lillian and Dorothy Gish The Immigrant (1917) directed by Charles...
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    The 1917 Bath Riots occurred in January 1917 at the Santa Fe Street Bridge between El Paso, Texas, United States, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico...
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    United States has by far the highest number of immigrants in the world, with 50,661,149 people as of 2019. This represents 19.1% of the 244 million international...
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    Suratt. Her paternal grandparents were French immigrants and her maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from England. She had one stepsister...
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  • Biography. 1878. Retrieved 30 April 2016. Meigs, William Montgomery (1917). The Life of John Caldwell Calhoun. New York: G.E. Stechert & Co. p. 488. "Calhoun...
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