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The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on November 11 (Armistice Day) and November 12, 1940.The intense early-season "panhandle hook" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan.
The Armistice of 22 June 1940, sometimes referred to as the Second Armistice at Compiègne, was an agreement signed at 18:36 on 22 June 1940 [1] near Compiègne, France by officials of Nazi Germany and the French Third Republic. It became effective at midnight on 25 June.
It was created by the Armistice of 22 June 1940 after the fall of France in May 1940. The path of the demarcation line was specified in the Articles of the Armistice. It was also called the green line because it was marked green on the joint map produced at the Armistice Convention. [1]
Armistice Day Parade in downtown Fort Worth on Nov. 11, 1938, marked 20 years after the end of World War I. The parade grand marshall, Haywood Davis, is followed by the Texas Christian University ...
The Armistice Army (French: Armée de l'Armistice) was the armed forces of Vichy France permitted under the terms of the Armistice of 22 June 1940. It was officially disbanded in 1942 after the German invasion of the " Free Zone " ( Zone libre ) which was directly ruled by the Vichy regime.
Mary. This classic name was the most popular name for girls of the 1940s.It has Biblical roots as the name of Jesus' mother Mary, as well as Mary Magdalene. There are multiple ideas about the ...
None of the top 10 girls' names from 2023 even made the top 40 list in the 1940s. Here are the 40 most popular baby boy and 40 most popular baby girl names of the 1940s, according to the Social ...
But President Hastings Banda, the founding President of Malawi, reported in interviews that in the 1940s he saw a "Lac Maravi" shown in "Bororo" country on an antique French map titled "La Basse Guinee Con[t]enant Les Royaumes de Loango, de Congo, d'Angola et de Benguela" and he liked the name "Malawi" better than "Nyasa" (or "Maravi").