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A statutory amendment that introduced for the first time copyright protection to the works of foreign authors in the United States. The commentary briefly explores the ideological positions and the lobbying efforts of various interest groups during the second part of the campaign for international copyright that took place after the Civil War.
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In 1895, a young Italian named Gugliemo Marconi invented what he called “the wireless telegraph” while experimenting in his parents’ attic. He used radio waves to transmit Morse code and the instrument he used became known as the radio.
https://www.knowitall.org/document/history-radio-kids-work#:~:text=In%201895%2C%20a%20young%20Italian,became%20known%20as%20the%20radio. -
Fitzgerald, named for his ancestor Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star Spangled Banner,” was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to a once well-to-do family that had descended in wealth and influence.
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Willis Haviland Carrier, a skilled engineer who began experimenting with the laws of humidity control to solve an application problem. Carrier’s system sent air through coils filled with cold water, cooling the air while simultaneously removing moisture to control room humidity.
https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/global-cooling-the-history-of-air-conditioning#:~:text=The%20first%20modern%20air%20conditioner,printing%20plant%20in%20Brooklyn%2C%20NY. -
Fitzgerald enters Princeton University and writes for The Princeton Tiger, the school’s humor magazine. At Princeton he becomes a leading figure in literary life and writes scripts for the Triangle Club, a drama club at the university.
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World War I pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. New military technology resulted in unprecedented carnage.
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When First Lieutenant F. Scott Fitzgerald met Southern socialite Zelda Sayre while stationed in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, he was instantly smitten with the Charleston-dancing beauty (whom he would later dub "the first American flapper").
https://www.marthastewart.com/7919132/f-scott-fitzgerald-marries-first-american-flapper-95-years-ago-today#:~:text=Scott%20and%20Zelda%20became%20husband,Cathedral%20in%20New%20York%20City.&text=Was%20this%20page%20helpful%3F -
On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I.
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/armistice#:~:text=On%20Nov.,to%20ending%20World%20War%20I. -
The treaty was one of several that officially ended five years of conflict known as the Great War—World War I. The Treaty of Versailles outlined the conditions of peace between Germany and the victorious Allies, led by the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.
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Young woman known for wearing short dresses and bobbed hair. Flappers did not adhere to the traditional social constraints and instead pushed boundaries.
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Banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors, went into effect with the passage of the Volstead Act. Despite the new legislation, Prohibition was difficult to enforce.
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His first book, This Side of Paradise, is published. The novel brings him fame and money.
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With the novel a success, F. Scott and Zelda became husband and wife on April 3, 1920, inviting eight attendees to join them for an intimate ceremony at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
https://www.marthastewart.com/7919132/f-scott-fitzgerald-marries-first-american-flapper-95-years-ago-today#:~:text=Scott%20and%20Zelda%20became%20husband,Cathedral%20in%20New%20York%20City.&text=Was%20this%20page%20helpful%3F -
She was treated at Prangins clinic in Switzerland until September 1931, while Fitzgerald lived in Swiss hotels. Work on the novel was again suspended as he wrote short stories to pay for psychiatric treatment.
https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/irvin_dept_special_collections/collections/matthew_arlyn_bruccoli_collection_of_f_scott_fitzgerald/life_of_fitzgerald/index.php -
The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/19th-amendment#:~:text=Passed%20by%20Congress%20June%204,decades%20of%20agitation%20and%20protest. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald with only daughter, "Scottie." Scottie with her mother, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Born to the most famous and celebrated couple of the 20th century, during the Jazz Age.
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Frances-Scott-Scottie-Fitzgerald-1921-1986#:~:text=F.,only%20daughter%2C%20%22Scottie.%22&text=Scottie%20with%20her%20mother%2C%20Zelda%20Sayre%20Fitzgerald.&text=Born%20to%20the%20most%20famous,born%20in%201921%20in%20St. -
Third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
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The Great Depression, which began in the United States in 1929 and spread worldwide, was the longest and most severe economic downturn in modern history. It was marked by steep declines in industrial production and in prices (deflation), mass unemployment, banking panics, and sharp increases in rates of poverty and homelessness.
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Stock prices collapsed completely and 16,410,030 shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors, and stock tickers ran hours behind because the machinery could not handle the tremendous volume of trading.
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By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first “hundred days,” he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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The Dust Bowl was the name given to an area of the Great Plains (southwestern Kansas, Oklahoma panhandle, Texas panhandle, northeastern New Mexico, and southeastern Colorado) that was devastated by nearly a decade of drought and soil erosion during the 1930s. The huge dust storms that ravaged the area destroyed crops and made living there untenable.
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Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack in Hollywood on December. The Last Tycoon is published in the year after his death. -
On December 7, 1941, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan. Three days later, after Germany and Italy declared war on it, the United States became fully engaged in the Second World War.
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/world-war-ii/ -
In 1939 Fitzgerald began writing a novel about Hollywood, describing the story of a studio executive who works obsessively and loses control of the studio and his life. It was Fitzgerald’s final attempt to portray his dream of the promises of American life and the man who could realize them. -
Nations were in ruins, and the world wanted peace. For the next two months, they proceeded to draft and then sign the UN Charter, which created a new international organization, the United Nations, which, it was hoped, would prevent another world war like the one they had just lived through.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/history-of-the-un