1900–1919 Popular Music: Ragtime, Broadway Songs, Patriotic Music, Irish Ballads, Early Blues, Tin Pan Alley, and Songs Before Radio Took OverPopular music from 1900 to 1919 lived in a different world than the hit songs that came later. Before commercial radio became part of everyday American life in the 1920s, most people heard songs through […]
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1917 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1917 Other World-Changing Event: The Russian Revolution of 1917 overthrew Czar Nicholas II in February and then, in October, brought Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks to power, creating the Soviet Union and permanently dividing the world’s political map for the next 70 yearsMust-See Movies: The Poor Little Rich Girl with
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Siegfried Sassoon’s statement of willful defiance July 17(?), 1917 I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
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