variety

Examples of variety in the following topics:

• Saloon Culture

  • The concert saloon was an American copy of the English music hall, and the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • The concert saloon, an American copy of the English music hall, was the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • It involved a mixture of contemporary songs, comedy, specialty acts and variety entertainment, much like the American vaudeville entertainment that surfaced in ensuing years.
  • As modern day variety shows became more and more popular, Music hall entertainment was deemed unfashionable.

• Labor and Domestic Tensions

  • During the Gilded Age, new labor unions, which used a wide variety of tactics, emerged.

• Social Classes in the Colonies

  • Early America was unique due to the wide variety of social classes who participated in its political systems.

• Mobilization and the Development of the West

  • Air WACs served in a large variety of jobs, including aerial photo interpretation, air traffic control, and weather forecasting.
  • Women worked in a large variety of jobs in communications, intelligence, supply, medicine, and administration.
  • Marine women served stateside as clerks, cooks, mechanics, drivers, and in a variety of other positions.
  • Nineteen million American women filled out the home front labor force, not only as "Rosie the Riveters" in war factory jobs, but in transportation, agricultural, and office work of every variety.

• Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms

  • The squash that was originally part of the complex was raised for edible seeds and to produce small containers (gourds), not for the thick flesh that is associated with modern varieties of squash.
  • The spread was so slow because the seeds and knowledge of techniques for tending them had to cross inhospitable deserts and mountains—and, possibly, because more productive varieties of maize had to be developed to compete with indigenous crops and to suit the cooler climates and shorter growing seasons of the northern regions of the continent.
  • The earliest maize known to have been grown in the Southwest was a popcorn variety with a cob only about one or two inches long.
  • More productive varieties were developed by Southwestern farmers or introduced from Mesoamerica.

• Changing Roles for Women

  • Before the war was over, 84 thousand WAVES filled shore billets in a large variety of jobs in communications, intelligence, supply, medicine, and administration.
  • Marine women served stateside as clerks, cooks, mechanics, drivers, and in a variety of other positions.
  • Nineteen million American women filled out the home front labor force, not only as "Rosie the Riveters" in war factory jobs, but also in transportation, agriculture, and office work of every variety.

• New Approaches to the Developing World

  • To counter Soviet influence in the developing world, Kennedy supported a variety of measures in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
  • To counter Soviet influence in the developing world (a policy known as containment), Kennedy supported a variety of measures in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.

• Early Lifestyles

  • Clothing was made from a variety of animal hides that were also used for shelter construction. 
  • Instead, they employed a mixed foraging strategy that included smaller terrestrial game, aquatic animals, and a variety of flora. 
  • These groups were efficient hunters and carried a variety of tools, which included highly efficient fluted style spear points, as well as microblades used for butchering and hide processing.

• Television

  • Comedy and variety shows were popular.
  • Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Lawrence Welk as well as other stars had popular weekly musical variety shows.
  • Children's programs included the 19-season, Emmy-winning CBS dramatic series Lassie (1954–1973), sci-fi series Adventures of Superman (1952), variety show The Mickey Mouse Club (1955), anthology series Disneyland (1955), and live-action fairy tale anthology series Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958).

• Southwestern Culture

  • More productive varieties were developed later by Southwestern farmers or introduced via Mesoamerica, though the drought-resistant tepary bean was native to the region.
  • During this time, the people of the Southwest developed a variety of subsistence strategies, all using their own specific techniques.
  • Although at present there are a variety of contemporary cultural traditions that exist in the greater Southwest, many of these traditions still incorporate similar religious aspects that are found in animism and shamanism.