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from 1936 to 1939 , Alexander Monkman led a volunteer effort to build a road through the Monkman Pass into British Columbia ?
the 1939 planned encyclical of Pope Pius XI , Humani Generis Unitas , which condemned racism and persecution of Jews , became known as "The Hidden Encyclical" or "The Lost Encyclical," because it was never promulgated?
the American Thanksgiving holiday was moved a week earlier from 1939 —1941 because of The Great Depression and was referred to as Franksgiving after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
during the 1939 Battle of Wizna in Poland , German planes dropped leaflets asking the Poles to surrender?
Sofia Petrovna , a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939 -1940 , and published in the West in 1960s , was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988 ?
Ferrellgas , the largest propane retail distributor in the United States , started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas ?
Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński was a high-ranking commander of the Polish Army , a veteran of World War I , Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Soviet War , and was executed by the Soviets during the Polish Defensive War of 1939 ?
school bus yellow is a specific shade of yellow formally adopted as the standard color for school buses in the United States in 1939 , following a conference funded by the Rockefeller Foundation ?
Birger Dahlerus was a Swedish businessman and friend of Hermann Göring , who made numerous trips between Germany and England in 1939 in a attempt to avert the Second World War ?
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