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    The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "'50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January...
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  • Afrikan tähti (1951) Yahtzee (1954) Tactics (1954) Careers (1955) Jotto (1955) Perquackey (1955) Risk (1957, in French as La Conquête du Monde) Gettysburg...
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  • For music from a year in the 1950s, go to 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 This article includes an overview of the major events and trends...
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  • The decade of the 1950s in film involved many significant films. Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television...
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  • A list of films produced in the Philippines in the 1950s. For an A-Z see Category:Philippine films. Olivares, Rick (2019-11-20). "Classic Filipino strip...
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    In the Western world, the 1950s were a decade known for experimentation with new styles and culture. Following World War II and the austerity years of...
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  • The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1950s. Theodor Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality is published. George Homans's The Human...
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  • During the 1950s, a couple of relatively new developments changed the world: World War II had only been over for five years when the 1950s began, and...
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  • the most popular given names in the United States for all years of the 1950s. Males John James Robert William Michael David Richard Thomas Charles Gary...
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  • originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly...
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  • See also: 1940s in comics, other events of the 1950s, 1960s in comics and the list of years in comics Publications: 1950 - 1951 - 1952 - 1953 - 1954 -...
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    1950s American automobile culture has had an enduring influence on the culture of the United States, as reflected in popular music, major trends from...
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    A list of comedy films released in the 1950s....
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    shoulders, which in turn gave way to an unfitted, structural look in the later 1950s. By 1947, the Paris fashion houses had reopened, and once again Paris resumed...
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  • The 1950s in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party: Valko Chervenkov (1949–1954) Todor Zhivkov (1954–1989)...
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    A list of science fiction films released in the 1950s. These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have...
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  • This is a list of horror films released in the 1950s. At the beginning of the 1950s, horror films were described by Kim Newman as being "out of fashion"...
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    the Alfred Hitchcock film Lifeboat. Ending her film career in the early 1950s, she occasionally acted on television, for example as Catherine Harrington...
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  • 1950s in Ghana details events of note that happened in Ghana in the years 1950 to 1959. Prime Minister: Kwame Nkrumah from 1957 to 1960 1957 March - Ghana...
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    Many musical styles flourished and combined in the 1940s and 1950s, most likely because of the influence the radio had in creating a mass market for music...
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    (3200n) north to Foster Avenue (5200n) in 1933, where it terminated until the 1950s when it was extended — first briefly to Bryn Mawr (5600n) and then in 1957...
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    Early 1950s women wore small hats over hair cut short, à la Audrey Hepburn. As the 1950s progressed, so too did fashion, until, by the end of the 1950s, the...
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    Frank Joseph Thomas Sr(June 11, 1929 – January 16, 2023) was an American outfielder and third baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for seven...
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  • Guy Mitchell and Elvis Presley were the most successful artists of the 1950s, having four singles reach the top spot. The longest duration of a single...
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  • Angola in the 1950s transitioned from colonial to provincial status. Angola had the status of a Portuguese colony from 1655 until the Assembly of the...
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    Greasers are a youth subculture that emerged in the 1950s and early 1960s from predominantly working class and lower-class teenagers and young adults...
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    number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music had contributed...
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    predominantly black bebop musicians, and it dominated jazz in the first half of the 1950s. The starting point were a series of singles on Capitol Records in 1949...
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  • New Politics was a term used in the United States in the 1950s to denote the ascending ideology of that country's Democratic Party during that decade...
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  • Skiffle (redirect from 1950s skiffle)
    20th century, it became extremely popular in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, where it was played by such artists as Lonnie Donegan, the Vipers Skiffle...
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