1900 1920 facts
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Prostitution was widely legal in the United States up until the early 1900's, when the Woman's Christian Temperance Union lobbied against it. This was the same union that was a driving force behind Prohibition in the 1920's.
Joseph Conrad's first novel was Almayer's Folly (1895). He followed this novel with An Outcast of the Islands (1896), The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1897), Tales of Unrest (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Typhoon (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), Victory (1915), The Shadow Line (1917), The Arrow of Gold (1919), The Rescue (1920), and The Rover (1923).
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Tug of war used to be an Olympic event and was at every Olympiad from 1900 to 1920.
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Violet Brown, born 1900 on Jamaica, the second-oldest living person. She is the last surviving former subject of Queen Victoria. Her oldest son, Harold Fairweather, born 1920, is believed to be the oldest person ever with a living parent.
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The Summer Olympics had tug of war as an event from 1900 to 1920.
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Diabetes deaths have increased as much as 15-fold since the Civil War years, and that deaths increased as much as fourfold in some U.S. cities between 1900 and 1920 alone coinciding with the growth of the candy and soft-drink industries.
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There were more inhabitants of The City of Chicago in 1920 than in 2010. And that it was the 5th largest city in the world in 1900 (1,698,575 people).
