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Academy Awards (Oscars), 1928-2007, best actor: 1928 Emil Jannings (The Last Command; The Way of All Flesh) 1929 Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona) 1930 George Arliss (Disraeli) 1931 Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul) 1932 Wallace Beery (The Champ); Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) (tied) 1933 Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII) 1934 Clark Gable (It Happened One Night) 1935 Victor McLaglen (The Informer) 1936 Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur) 1937 Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous) 1938 Spencer Tracy (Boys Town) 1939 Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) 1940 James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story) 1941 Gary Cooper (Sergeant York) 1942 James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy) 1943 Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine) 1944 Bing Crosby (Going My Way) 1945 Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend) 1946 Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives) 1947 Ronald Colman (A Double Life) 1948 Laurence Olivier (Hamlet) 1949 Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men) 1950 José Ferrer (C...

Academy Awards (Oscars), 1928-2007, best picture: 1928 Wings. 1929 The Broadway Melody. 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front. 1931 Cimarron. 1932 Grand Hotel. 1933 Cavalcade. 1934 It Happened One Night. 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty. 1936 The Great Ziegfeld. 1937 The Life of Emile Zola. 1938 You Can’t Take It with You. 1939 Gone with the Wind 1940 Rebecca. 1941 How Green Was My Valley. 1942 Mrs. Miniver. 1943 Casablanca. 1944 Going My Way. 1945 The Lost Weekend. 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives. 1947 Gentleman’s Agreement. 1948 Hamlet. 1949 All the King’s Men. 1950 All About Eve. 1951 An American in Paris. 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth. 1953 From Here to Eternity. 1954 On the Waterfront. 1955 Marty. 1956 Around the World in 80 Days. 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai. 1958 Gigi. 1959 Ben-Hur. 1960 The Apartment. 1961 West Side Story. 1962 Lawrence of Arabia. 1963 Tom Jones. 1964 My Fair Lady. 1965 The Sound of Music. 1966 A Man for All Seasons. 1967 ...

From this time till the American Revolution New York continued a province of the Crown. Royal governor succeeded royal governor, some of them better, some worse. Of the entire line Bellomont was the most worthy official, Cornbury the least so. One of the problems which chiefly worried all of them was how to execute the navigation acts, which, evaded everywhere, were here unscrupulously defied. Another care of the governors, in which they succeeded but very imperfectly, was to establish the English Church in the colony. A third was the disfranchisement of Catholics. This they accomplished, the legislature concurring, and the disability continued during the entire colonial period. Hottest struggle of all occurred over the question of the colony's right of self-taxation. The democracy stood for this with the utmost firmness, and even the higher classes favored rather than opposed. The governors, Cornbury and Lovelace, most frantically, but in vain, expostulated, scolded, threatened,...

The English conquest of New Netherland from the Dutch speedily followed the Stuarts' return to the throne. Cromwell had mooted an attack on Dutch America; Connecticut's charter of 1662 extended that colony to include the Dutch lands. England based her claim to the territory on alleged priority of discovery, but the real motives were the value of the Hudson as an avenue for trade, and the desire to range her colonies along the Atlantic coast in one unbroken line. The victory was not bloody, nor was it offensive to the Dutch themselves, who in the matter of liberties could not lose. King Charles had granted the conquered tract to his brother, the Duke of York, subsequently James II., and it was in his honor christened with its present name of New York. The Duke's government was not popular, especially as it ordered the Dutch land-patents to be renewed--for money, of course; and in 1673, war again existing between England and Holland, the Dutch recovered their old possession...