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"Edelweiss" - Rodgers and Hammerstein
Arts · 1959
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- 1900s · 272
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L Frank Baum
Arts · 1900
Washington (Senators)
Arts · 1901
Napoleon Lajoie, Philadelphia Atheletics
Arts · 1901
Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington
Arts · 1901
Blue Nude - Pablo Picasso
Arts · 1902
The Thinker - Rodin
Arts · 1902
"The Monkey's Paw" - W.W. Jacobs
Arts · 1902
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arts · 1902
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
Arts · 1903
Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, NC
Arts · 1903
Baltimore Orioles to New York (Highlanders/Yankees)
Arts · 1903
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Arts · 1903
Belmont Park (Elmont, NY)
Arts · 1905
The Kiss - Gustav Klimt
Arts · 1907
Wasserschlangen II (Water Serpents II) - Gustav Klimt
Arts · 1907
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon - Pablo Picasso
Arts · 1907
A Horse's Tale
Arts · 1907
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" - Ada Habershon/Charles Gabriel
Arts · 1907
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk - Claude Monet
Arts · 1908
Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers
Arts · 1909
1st Indianapolis 500 (Racing)
Arts · 1911
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Marcel Duchamp
Arts · 1912
Jim Thorpe wins gold in the pentathion & decathlon
Arts · 1912
Paramount Pictures
Arts · 1912
Universal Pictures
Arts · 1912
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Arts · 1913
The Rite of Spring - Igor Stravinsky
Arts · 1913
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” - T. S. Eliot
Arts · 1915
The Birth of a Nation
Arts · 1915
The Valley of Fear
Arts · 1915
“In Flanders Fields“ - John McCrae
Arts · 1915
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Arts · 1916
The Mysterious Stranger
Arts · 1916
Nu couché (Red Nude) - Amedeo Modigilani
Arts · 1917
Columbia Pictures (formerly CBC)
Arts · 1918
United Artists Corporation
Arts · 1919
Montreal Canadiens
Arts · 1919
This Side of Paradise
Arts · 1920
Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspends eight "Black Sox" players
Arts · 1921
Ulysses - James Joyce.
Arts · 1922
Rogers Hornsby, St Louis Cardinals
Arts · 1922
The Beautiful and Damned
Arts · 1922
Time
Arts · 1923
Warner Bros. Pictures
Arts · 1923
Beau Geste - P. C. Wren
Arts · 1924
MGM Pictures
Arts · 1924
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arts · 1925
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
Arts · 1925
W.O. McGeehan wrote Babe Ruth's illness was "the bellyache heard 'round the world"
Arts · 1925
The Great Gatsby
Arts · 1925
The Sun Also Rises
Arts · 1926
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Arts · 1927
"Hills Like White Elephants" - Ernest Hemingway
Arts · 1927
RKO Pictures
Arts · 1928
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Arts · 1929
Boston Bruins
Arts · 1929
A Farewell to Arms
Arts · 1929
Composition with Red Blue and Yellow - Piet Mondrian
Arts · 1930
As I Lay Dying
Arts · 1930
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali
Arts · 1931
The Persistence Of Memory - Salvador Dali
Arts · 1931
Le Rêve - Pablo Picasso
Arts · 1932
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Arts · 1932
Light in August
Arts · 1932
Little House in the Big Woods
Arts · 1932
Chuck Klein, Philadelphia Phillies
Arts · 1933
The Victory of Faith
Arts · 1933
The Pilgrim's Regress
Arts · 1933
The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror - Munzenberg, Siemsen, Regler
Arts · 1933
1st Masters (Golf)
Arts · 1934
Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees
Arts · 1934
Chicago Blackhawks
Arts · 1934
The Life of Our Lord - Charles Dickens (published)
Arts · 1934
Tender is the Night
Arts · 1934
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Arts · 1935
Triumph of the Will
Arts · 1935
The 39 Steps
Arts · 1935
20th Century-Fox Film Corporation
Arts · 1935
Little House on the Prairie (novel)
Arts · 1935
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Arts · 1936
Life
Arts · 1936
Jesse Owens wins four gold in track & field
Arts · 1936
Detroit Red Wings
Arts · 1936
Guernica - Pablo Picasso
Arts · 1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Arts · 1937
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Arts · 1937
Of Mice and Men
Arts · 1937
To Have and Have Not
Arts · 1937
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Arts · 1937
Tragic Prelude - John Steuart Curry
Arts · 1937
Olympia
Arts · 1938
Inaugural Class Baseball Hall of Fame
Arts · 1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Arts · 1939
Gone With the Wind
Arts · 1939
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Arts · 1939
Stagecoach
Arts · 1939
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Arts · 1939
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Arts · 1939
Lou Gehrig says, "Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
Arts · 1939
Gone with the Wind
Arts · 1939
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Arts · 1940
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
Arts · 1940
The Philadelphia Story
Arts · 1940
Pinocchio
Arts · 1940
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Arts · 1940
The Long Winter
Arts · 1940
The Problem of Pain
Arts · 1940
Lassie Come-Home - Eric Knight
Arts · 1940
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" - The Andrews Sisters
Arts · 1941
Little Town on the Prairie
Arts · 1941
The Screwtape Letters
Arts · 1941
The Black Stallion - Walter Farley
Arts · 1941
Nighthawks - Edward Hopper
Arts · 1942
Casablanca
Arts · 1942
Bambi
Arts · 1942
These Happy Golden Years - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Arts · 1943
These Happy Golden Years
Arts · 1943
Angelo Bertelli
Arts · 1943
The Kiss, Times Square, VJ Day
Arts · 1945
Cannery Row
Arts · 1945
Stuart Little - E.B. White
Arts · 1945
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Arts · 1945
Doc Blanchard, Army
Arts · 1945
It's A Wonderful Life
Arts · 1946
Notorious
Arts · 1946
Glenn Davis, Army
Arts · 1946
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Arts · 1947
Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox
Arts · 1947
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Arts · 1947
Johnny Lujack
Arts · 1947
Number 17A - Jackson Pollock
Arts · 1948
"The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson
Arts · 1948
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Arts · 1949
Leon Hart
Arts · 1949
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" - Hank Williams
Arts · 1949
Sunset Boulevard
Arts · 1950
La Mariée ("The Bride") - Marc Chagall
Arts · 1950
No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) - Mark Rothko
Arts · 1951
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Arts · 1951
From Here to Eternity - James Jones
Arts · 1951
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Arts · 1951
A Streetcar Named Desire
Arts · 1951
"Rocket "88"" - Jackie Brenston
Arts · 1951
The King and I
Arts · 1951
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Arts · 1952
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Arts · 1952
The Quiet Man
Arts · 1952
East of Eden
Arts · 1952
Mere Christianity
Arts · 1952
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Arts · 1952
Singin' in the Rain
Arts · 1952
Woman III - Willem de Kooning
Arts · 1953
Braves Boston to Milwaukee
Arts · 1953
Milwaukee (Braves)
Arts · 1953
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" - Flannery O'Connor
Arts · 1953
Johnny Lattner
Arts · 1953
The Searchers - Alan Le May
Arts · 1954
"Rock Around the Clock" - Bill Haley and His Comets
Arts · 1954
Rear Window
Arts · 1954
Sabrina
Arts · 1954
Dial M for Murder
Arts · 1954
A Fable
Arts · 1954
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Arts · 1954
Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O") - Pablo Picasso
Arts · 1955
Interchange - Willem de Kooning
Arts · 1955
Atheletics Philadelphia to Kansas City
Arts · 1955
Kansas City (Atheletics)
Arts · 1955
The Seven Year Itch
Arts · 1955
Lady and the Tramp
Arts · 1955
Philadelphia Athletics to Kansas City
Arts · 1955
Guys and Dolls
Arts · 1955
Oklahoma!
Arts · 1955
"Tutti Frutti" - Little Richard
Arts · 1955
“Heartbreak Hotel”
Arts · 1956
"Hound Dog" - Elvis Presley
Arts · 1956
"I Walk the Line" - Johnny Cash
Arts · 1956
Betty Cuthbert, Australian, wins three track gold medals
Arts · 1956
The Searchers
Arts · 1956
Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
Arts · 1956
Carousel
Arts · 1956
Giant
Arts · 1956
"Blueberry Hill" - Fats Domino
Arts · 1956
“Jailhouse Rock”
Arts · 1957
"Great Balls of Fire" - Jerry Lee Lewis
Arts · 1957
“Meditations in an Emergency“ - Frank O’Hara
Arts · 1957
Dodgers New York to Los Angeles
Arts · 1958
Vertigo
Arts · 1958
Pete Dawkins, Army
Arts · 1958
South Pacific
Arts · 1958
"Johnny B. Goode" - Chuck Berry
Arts · 1958
"Mack the Knife" - Bobby Darin
Arts · 1959
North by Northwest
Arts · 1959
"There Goes My Baby" (#2)
Arts · 1959
Some Like It Hot
Arts · 1959
Ben Hur
Arts · 1959
Sleeping Beauty
Arts · 1959
"Peter Gunn"
Arts · 1959
The Sound of Music
Arts · 1959
"Edelweiss" - Rodgers and Hammerstein
Arts · 1959
Dallas Cowboys
Arts · 1960
“Are You Lonesome Tonight”
Arts · 1960
"Save the Last Dance for Me" (#1)
Arts · 1960
Psycho
Arts · 1960
Born Free - Joy Adamson
Arts · 1960
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Arts · 1961
Minnesota Vikings
Arts · 1961
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
Arts · 1961
Washington Sentors to Minnesota (Twins)
Arts · 1961
The Winter of Our Discontent
Arts · 1961
"Moon River"
Arts · 1961
"Crazy" - Willie Nelson
Arts · 1961
“Love Me Do”
Arts · 1962
Surfin' Safari
Arts · 1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Arts · 1962
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Arts · 1962
The Reivers
Arts · 1962
"Ring of Fire" - June Carter/Merle Kilgore
Arts · 1962
With the Beatles
Arts · 1963
The Birds
Arts · 1963
"On Broadway" (#9)
Arts · 1963
Sword in the Stone
Arts · 1963
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”
Arts · 1963
Please Please Me
Arts · 1963
Little Deuce Coupe
Arts · 1963
"The Pink Panther Theme"
Arts · 1963
Shot Sage Blue Marilyn - Andy Worhol
Arts · 1964
The Son of Man - René Magritte
Arts · 1964
"My Girl" - The Temptations
Arts · 1964
Nurse - Roy Lichtestein
Arts · 1964
"Under the Boardwalk" (#4)
Arts · 1964
Goldfinger
Arts · 1964
“Can’t Buy Me Love”
Arts · 1964
A Hard Day's Night
Arts · 1964
Beatles for Sale
Arts · 1964
Help!
Arts · 1965
“Eight Days A Week”
Arts · 1965
Rubber Soul
Arts · 1965
"We Can Work it Out"
Arts · 1965
Gentle Ben - Walt Morey
Arts · 1965
Atlanta Falcons
Arts · 1966
Revolver
Arts · 1966
Pet Sounds
Arts · 1966
Frank Robinson, Baltimore Orioles
Arts · 1966
Lawrence Ritter, writer of The Glory of Their Times, travels 75,000 miles to interview former players
Arts · 1966
The Motherland Calls (Russia)
Arts · 1967
New Orleans Saints
Arts · 1967
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Arts · 1967
The Jungle Book
Arts · 1967
"Hello, Goodbye"
Arts · 1967
"Two for the Road"
Arts · 1967
Gary Beban, UCLA
Arts · 1967
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Marvin Gaye
Arts · 1968
"Susie Q."
Arts · 1968
Bob Beamon breaks world long-jump record
Arts · 1968
The Beatles (also known as "The White Album")
Arts · 1968
"Hey Jude"
Arts · 1968
“Suspicious Minds”
Arts · 1969
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Arts · 1969
Seattle (Pilots)
Arts · 1969
First Footprint on the Moon
Arts · 1969
Yellow Submarine
Arts · 1969
"Proud Mary"
Arts · 1969
Abbey Road
Arts · 1969
"Get Back"
Arts · 1969
Brewers Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee
Arts · 1970
"Up Around the Bend"
Arts · 1970
Let It Be
Arts · 1970
Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee (Brewers)
Arts · 1970
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"
Arts · 1971
Surf's Up
Arts · 1971
The First Four Years
Arts · 1971
“This Be The Verse“ - Philip Larkin
Arts · 1971
