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- New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer ... One of the foremost dance companies in the world, the New York City ...8 KB (1,196 words) - 00:09, 1 July 2025
- Americans at their best, living lives of carefree bliss in a blessed ... middle-class family in Indianapolis, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- Marshall Field (August 18, 1834 - January 16, 1906) was founder of ... *Marshall Field was also the former name of the University of Chicago ...3 KB (406 words) - 08:15, 29 April 2025
- spirit and public mission to be a vital part of the life around it, not an ... regarded as a powerful force in the freeing of education from the strictures ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a musical genre of Latin ... piano or by the horn section. The presence of vocals, especially a catchy ...5 KB (835 words) - 16:13, 15 March 2023
- Huế (化 in chữ Nôm), the capital city of Thừa Thiên-Huế ... from the fifteenth century during the reign of Le Thanh Thong, one of the ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 16:39, 19 July 2024
- Acamapichtli (which means "Handful of Arrows" or "Handful ... The culture of the Aztecs was warlike and expanding the empire was ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- 1, 1918) was an American educator and one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... at a young age became familiar with the work of Friedrich Froebel. She became ...7 KB (1,070 words) - 07:52, 29 April 2025
- [[Image:New_York_Public_Library_030616.jpg|300px|thumb|New York Public ... The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading libraries ...12 KB (1,840 words) - 00:10, 1 July 2025
- talents to help the less fortunate in New York City, which was the subject ... better living conditions for the thousands of people living in poorhouses ...11 KB (1,754 words) - 22:53, 13 December 2024
- American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America ... in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born to butcher ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 22:01, 30 January 2025
- in the American Civil Liberties Union, of which he was a founding member ... Hays was born in Rochester, New York. His father and mother, both ...9 KB (1,434 words) - 05:44, 9 January 2023
- to provide standardized health care to New York City’s Lower East Side ... middle-class family. She was the third of four children born to parents ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted ... in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of U.S. congressman William Darrah ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:34, 15 March 2025
- an important twentieth-century philosopher of science. Born in Prague, he ... The Structure of Science (1961), an examination of the logical structure ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- preeminent architect in America at the turn of the twentieth century, Burnham ... incorporating his own personal style. Much of his career work modeled the ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- was an American artist during the period of the American Revolutionary ... to Jonathan Trumbull, who was Governor of Connecticut from 1769 to 1784 ...13 KB (1,804 words) - 03:48, 31 January 2025
- poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. ... schools. Toomer attended six institutions of higher education between 1914 ...7 KB (1,007 words) - 09:15, 23 December 2024
- educator, dedicated to the education of young children. After meeting ... Susan Blow was born in St. Louis, Missouri, as the oldest of six children ...9 KB (1,286 words) - 23:57, 26 February 2023
