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4 unusual facts about Interwar period


High Ruchill

The properties were built during the Interwar period as council managed homes, but many have subsequently been bought by their tenants under "right to buy" agreements.

Hoxton Gang

The Hoxton Mob was an independent street gang based in London's Soho district during the interwar years.

Prague Quartet

Along with the Ševčík Quartet and Bohemian Quartet, it was one of the most important chamber ensembles of the interwar years.

The Casuarina Tree

The author contrasts outward appearances with inner passions in Singapore between the Wars through the characters of a suave lawyer, Mr Joyce, and the rustic rubber planter, Robert Crosbie.


Ballets suédois

The collaboration of the choreography of Jean Börlin, the artistic direction of Mare, and the aesthetic framework of Léger, provided a rich intercultural cross-section of avant-garde performance in inter-war Europe.

Bernard Mond

Bernard Stanisław Mond (Spanier) (November 14, 1887 in Stanisławów – July 5, 1957 in Kraków) was a Jewish general of Polish Army in the interwar period.

Entre Deux Guerres

L'Entre Deux Guerres is a French expression (~ between two wars) which refers to the interwar period between World War I and World War II (1918 - 1939).

France–Poland relations

Poles were allies of Napoleon; a large Polish community settled in France in the 19th century, and Poles and French were also allies during the interwar period.

Krynica-Zdrój

Due to its convenient location, infrastructure and rail connections with major cities in Europe, Krynica-Zdrój (Zdrój means mineral spring in Polish) was the location of winter sports tournaments already in the interwar period, including the 1931 World Ice Hockey Championships, the 1958 and 1962 FIL World Luge Championships, the 1935 FIL European Luge Championships and the 2004 Euro Ice Hockey Challenge played in the town.

Light in August

Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers around two strangers who arrive at different times in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a fictional county based on Faulkner's home, Lafayette County, Mississippi.

Polish YMCA

Interwar period there was time of activity of supply organization, growth of amount of members, as well as stockpiling of property- solid headquarters of organization emerged in Kraków, Łódź, Warsaw and Gdynia.

Slavin Cindrić

Cindrić was one of the few players who had spells with all three Zagreb-based clubs which were prominent in the interwar period - Concordia, Građanski and HAŠK.

The Romanian: Story of an Obsession

The plot is intertwined with a travelogue of Romania and references to Romanian history and culture, such as the life of the artist Constantin Brâncuși, the writer Panait Istrati and the love affair between Romania's interbellum king, Carol II, and his mistress, Magda Lupescu.

Vilnius Dungeons

The first uncovering of and expeditions into the abandoned dungeons were organised in the interwar period by students of Vilnius University.

Warsaw Barbican

During the interwar period, in 1937–1938, Jan Zachwatowicz reconstructed part of the walls and the western part of the bridge, demolishing one of the newer buildings in the reconstruction process.


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Amphibious aircraft

These evolved throughout the interwar period to ultimately culminate in the post World War 2 Supermarine Seagull, which was to have replaced the wartime Walrus and the Sea Otter but was overtaken by advances in helicopters.

Bolesław Habowski

Bolesław Józef Habowski (September 13, 1914 in Kraków - May 21, 1979 in Wendover, England) was a Polish football player from interwar period, representing Wisła Kraków and Polish national football team.

Harry J. Boyle

Boyle's writing was primarily autobiographical fiction dealing with life in rural southern Ontario during the interwar period.

History of the University of North Alabama

The Pulitzer prize-winning novelist and author also outsold contemporaries William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway during the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s.

Jutrzenka

Jutrzenka Kraków, a Jewish minority Polish football club during the interwar period

Karlsplatz

In the interwar period occurred on the Karlsplatz mainly temporary buildings (such as a shopping center on the site of today's Vienna Museum), after 1945 was dominated by considerations of transport planning (although it did not come to the by George Lippert other and proposed elevated highway solutions).

Leonard Piontek

Leonard Franciszek Piątek (born Leonard Franz Piontek, October 13, 1913 in Królewska Huta - July 1, 1967) was a Polish football player of Upper Silesian origin who played in the interwar period.

Opus Dei and politics

Opus Dei's history parallels that of Francisco Franco's conservative dictatorship in Spain, and was first developed during the troublesome years of the interwar period, along with the dictatorships of António de Oliveira Salazar and Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini's fascist regime.

University of Ljubljana

In 1941, Jože Plečnik's National and University Library was completed, as one of the major infrastructure projects of the University in the interwar period.