Decade - 1940s

Some famous basketball players from the 1940s include George Mikan, who is often regarded as the first dominant big man in the NBA, playing for the Minneapolis Lakers. Other notable players of that era include Bob Cousy, known for his exceptional playmaking skills, and Dolph Schayes, a versatile forward who was a key player for the Syracuse Nationals. These athletes helped shape the early years of professional basketball and contributed to the sport's growing popularity.

Shel Silverstein was too young to participate in World War 2, but he did serve in the military later during the Korean War. His experiences in the military influenced some of his work, such as his book "The Giving Tree."

I can only really tell you about my grandmother (loved her a great deal.) She was my mother's mother and would visit often staying over-night.

Grandmothers back in the 40s usually wore dark clothing, longer dresses, wore a cardigan sweater and black Cuban heeled shoes that laced up the front and always a hat when you went out anywhere. They usually had grey hair and wore it in a bun at the nape of their neck and at night take the bun out and brush and put it in one long braid and I was mezmerized by this. Grandmothers usually had full, cushy breasts and I can remember feeling so safe when my grandmother held me on her knee and let me rest my head on her.

When I was 4 she moved into my bedroom (2 single beds) and each night I would watch her brush her long silver grey hair 100 strokes and then put it in one long braid. She would tell me a story, then read a little from the Bible, but she read it so I could understand it. Then we said our prayers (actually kneeling side-by-side with elbows on the bed) and I would always include my grandmother in my prayers and I'd see one blue eye twinkle my way.

During the day in a 1940s life women cleaned the house, prepared meals for the men in the house (only my father at the time) and there were no fast foods and during this time food was rationed up until the mid-40s. My grandmother would use brown butcher paper and a nub of a lead pencil to make her grocery list. I can still see her touching her tongue to the end of the lead pencil to make it write darker. It wasn't off to a huge grocery store to do shopping, but driving out to a farm for chickens and eggs. Thankfully the chickens were already butchered and plucked, but when we got home I helped my grandmother clean out the chickens and I thought it was the greatest thing (you couldn't get me to do that yukky job now! LOL) She would make sausage and grind up meat and allow me to blow-up the gut that came in long links (I wouldn't press my lips to those again either) and make sausages. Since there is Irish and Scottish in our family my grandmother spoke fluent Gaelic and she would often tease her own daughter (my mother) by teaching me a few bad words (not too bad)in Gaelic and have me go over and tell my mother who would get red faced and angry at my grandmother. Heck, I thought I had learned another language!

Grandma left her deceased husband's bagpipes in my closet in the bedroom and my mother told me I was never to touch them. Well of course I did! I would sneak into the closet and blow so hard on those things (not realizing you had to blow to put wind in the darn thing) and I would have bulging eyes and felt like my lungs had been sucked through my throat. I never got as much of a peep out of those bagpipes. My grandmother would take me to the Scottish dances and I learned many of the dances and danced very well "Sword Dance", etc.

I remember my grandmother once a month would say, "I'm off to Auntie Maggie's to meet Captain Morgan." By then I was 6 - 7 years old and would raise my eyebrow thinking my grandmother (of ALL people had a boyfriend!) Off my grandmother would go in her black coat, straw hat with large fake roses in it and her bun sticking out the back and those black Cuban heels clicking down the stairs as fast as they could not to mention the big grin on her face. I was thoroughly disgusted to think my grandmother was sharing a boyfriend with Auntie Maggie. My grandmother would be home around 8 PM and I was still up doing my homework. Her coat would be buttoned up wrong and her hat would be lop-sided with the roses looking wilted and worn and those little tiny Cuban heeled shoes weren't doing the "fast click" like they use too.

My grandmother finally came to live with us permanently (I didn't really know why and it was natural) and we had an extremely close bond. She was soft-spoken, always smiling with a twinkle in her eye and teaching me THAT Gaelic! There were many fond memories. Then my grandmother was bed-ridden and my mother told me I could no longer sleep in the same room "grandma was ill." I thought she had a cold, but unfortunately she had stomach cancer and in those days the patients were sent home to die. When she passed away she left a large hole in my heart and I felt that the one safe place I had for security had been snatched from my life. It wasn't until I was in my late teens I began to understand about life in general ... being born and dying and I came to peace with it.

Oh, by the way, Old Captain Morgan that was seeing my dear grandmother and Auntie Maggie was none other than a large bottle of Captain Morgan rum and grandma got smashed! LOL

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Penicillin,Streptomycin,DPT and Pertussis Vacccine

The kids went to school and when they got home the boys helped their father work. While the girls helped their mother in the kitchen.

The best. Easter morning we woke up to find our Easter baskets full of candy to the top. We would dress up in our new Easter clothes, dress, hat, purse.shoes and gloves. Off to Easter Sunday Mass, Home for lunch with a big Easter Family dinner and then outside for an Easter Egg hunt. Such fond memories.

In April, German troops seized Denmark and Norway; In May, GB: Neville Chemberlain resigned and Winston Churcill became prime minister; evacuation of the French and British troops from Dunkirk started; June: Italy declared war on France; German troops entered Paris; Marshal Pétain asked for an armistice, France was occupied by the Germans; Soviet troops invaded Romania; July: General de Gaulle formed the Free French government in Britain; August: September: the Axis was created which joined Germany, Italy and Japan together for 10 years; October: German U-boats sank the British ship , the Empress of Britain; December: the Italian troops were stopped by the British general Wavell in North Africa.

Robert Muller was the founder of UNESCO

Gay actors of the 1930s and 1940s included Montgomery Clift, Raymond Burr, and Laurence Olivier. Others included Ramon Navarro and Randolph Scott.

Anyone could own a dog. No, you did not have to be wealthy. Almost every poor family had a dog or cat. You could take your dog anywhere.

There were between 16,000 and 18,000 cases of diphtheria in the United States in 1940. By 1952 the number of cases per year had dropped significantly and they continued to drop. Widespread use of the DPT vaccine began in 1940.

For more information visit http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/06-dip.pdf

it wasnt common because back then u could beat your child and people wouldn't care...that was the time when teachers could beat students

. During the 1940s during WWII you had the victory roll which was rolled the opposite way. Maybe this is a play on that based on Japanese kamikazes during WWII who were considered by some as suicide airmen.

They were far stricter than they are today. The children only spoke when spoken to. The teacher was addressed as Mister, Miss or Miss's. Assembly was always held before classes were started, and whoa betide anyone who spoke. Teachers were kind but stricked and would think nothing of giving a boy or girl the cane (Between four and six strokes on the plam of the hand) if they misbehaved. Homework had to be completed by the next school morning. There were no computers back then, everything had to be written in longhand. The working out of mathematical questions had to be shown in the margin of your book. We had a quarter pint of milk each morning which cost one penny (About one cent). We often had to stay behind if we misbehaved. For all their strictness we enjoyed school.

I believe you are referring to Nursing Nuns at St.Vincent"s hospital in the Village. They were probably of the Sisters of Charity ( co founded by Vincent!) but there may be another order involved. There was a predominatley French order of Sisters of Ste Jeanne D"arc and these WERE associated with Saint Vincent"s Church- which is patterned in part on the famed French Madeleine- the Veterans of Foreign Wars chapel is well worth a visit! There is, of course a neat statue of the Maid-at-arms on the altar wich was brought over from France on the Normandie steamship in l935. So it is quite a famous church and a French language parish- in MANHATTAN.

Panoramic Way, near the stadium

No

The 1940's was a decade of many scientific and drug related discoveries

Long before the time of Christ there had been a Jewish diaspora in Egypt and other countries of the Middle East, as well as Rome and elsewhere. The Jewish wars of c 70 and 132 CE also resulted in the Jews being expelled from Jerusalem and neighbouring regions. Many of these migrated to Galilee, Egypt and neighbouring countries. Eventually, a large Jewish diaspora community grew up in Rome, as well as in other major European centres. Christian persecution later resulted in the majority of the Roman Jews migrating to then-Islamic Spain, from which they subsequently emigrated to the Middle East. Over the centuries, Judaism has sought converts from among the pagans and, later, Christians of Europe. In one case, the conversion to Judaism of a Russian tribal chief led to the entire tribe converting. The fair-skinned, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews did not 'end up' in Europe in the 1940s, they were the descendants of immigrant Jews and European converts to Judaism, from early in the common era.

It's about a blind boy named Tito and his only friend bimbo which is a wise dog. Bimbo is a mother to Tito. He goes out into the city to steal food for them. He never let's Tito starve. Until one day when Tito wakes up from Caesar's party, Pompeii looks very different. But bimbo also starts acting different and unsual. Tito starts to worry. Something is wrong. People of Pompeii start running all over the town because the volcano starts to explode. Tito gets pushed to a fountain where the water is so hot and people agonize. All of a sudden, Tito can't find bimbo. He screams out his name but no answer replied. Tito is saved thanks to bimbo. But bimbo dies..

Most Hungarians took with them the skills or jobs that they had in the motherland. Hungarian Men, Women, and Children also worked in factories

Prior to 1952, all commercial international flights were propeller-driven aircraft. The Douglas DC-4, a commercial aviation workhorse, had a range of 4,250 miles. Before 1946, transatlantic flights to and from the US typically required a stop in Gander, Newfoundland. In 1946, the first non-stop transatlantic flights were inaugurated, using Lockheed Constellation aircraft.

The B-29 Stratofortress, a propeller-driven long-range bomber, has a maximum range (unloaded) of 5,600 miles. The distance record for a B-29 is 7,916 miles.

He is a naval officer in the British Royal Navy, he performed active service for six years aboard various vessels, from 1940 to 1946, saw much action during WW2, and then took up a post as an instructor at HMS Royal Arthur.

He was also appointed to the Order of the Garter, England's highest order of chivalry, has been appointed multiple honorary posts and titles both by the Queen herself and by members of the Commonwealth.

No they did not

I would say that were responsible for the mechanical aspects of Aircraft maintenance including the test running of engines (on the ground), lubrication and coolant issues, My uncle was a fitter 2E an he told me that a 2E was the only person (other than the pilot) permitted to run up the engine/s and Taxi the Aircraft. Other ground crew members were to see to armament, and others to airframe .not sure about radio