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1923 is an American Western drama television series that premiered on December 18, 2022, on Paramount+. [1] The series is a prequel to the Paramount Network series Yellowstone and serves as a sequel to the series 1883 , with Isabel May reprising her role from the latter as narrator Elsa Dutton.
Political violence in Germany (1918–1933) The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, [ 1][ note 1] was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923 ...
500 or Five Hundred is a trick-taking game developed in the United States from Euchre. [1] Euchre was extended to a 10 card game with bidding and a Misère contract similar to Russian Preference, producing a cutthroat three-player game like Preference [2] and a four-player game played in partnerships like Whist which is the most popular modern form, although with special packs it can be played ...
1923 start. The 11th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Wednesday, May 30, 1923. After winning previously in 1921, Tommy Milton became the first multiple winner of the Indianapolis 500. Howdy Wilcox (the 1919 winner) drove relief for Milton in laps 103–151. During the break, Milton had to ...
The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [ 1][ 2] is considered black ( Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment ...
Queen Anne became monarch of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707. She had ruled England, Scotland, and the Kingdom of Ireland since 8 March 1702. She continued as queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death. Her total reign lasted 12 years and 147 days.
The 1935 series was the only Bank of Canada series to include a twenty-five-dollar note and a five-hundred-dollar note. The twenty-five-dollar note was a special commemorative note, for the twenty-fifth anniversary of George V's accession to the throne. [88] The five-hundred-dollar note was a carry-over from the former government notes, which ...
Farley was credited with a string of successful strikebreaking actions, employing hundreds, and sometimes thousands of strikebreakers. Farley was sometimes paid as much as three hundred thousand dollars for breaking a strike, and by 1914 he had taken in more than ten million dollars. Farley claimed that he had defeated thirty-five strikes in a row.