Search results for "District of Columbia" - New World Encyclopedia
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- American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall ... States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, well-known ...24 KB (3,985 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. Founded in 1831 ... 31 Nobel Prize winners; 9 National Medal of Science recipients; 12 Pulitzer ...33 KB (4,775 words) - 09:32, 11 March 2023
- Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, and its ... center. It plays host to a year round slate of world-class festivals, earning ...47 KB (6,763 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- Japan into the catastrophic Pacific theater of World War II. Unfortunately ... Some Japanese historians, using the diaries and testimony of military ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- . Historically, alimony arose as a result of the indissoluble nature of ... in all 50 U.S. states, and the District of Columbia. No-fault divorce ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 00:40, 9 January 2023
- Archives refer to a collection of records, and also refers to the ... NARA archives exist not only in the District of Columbia, but regionally as well. ...30 KB (4,298 words) - 06:20, 12 August 2023
- the economic and social contributions of workers. It was first nationally ... Day. Today, all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- according to an established standard of evaluation. There is a range ... established only within certain frameworks of thought and value perspectives ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Grants presidential electors to the District of Columbia. ... *The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was proposed by ...45 KB (6,615 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...33 KB (4,943 words) - 18:26, 26 February 2024
- Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a ... Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia without the consent ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its ... The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history ... Although women have always made up at least half of the world's ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia ... segregation in the United States. He was one of the "Big Six" leaders ...59 KB (8,081 words) - 20:53, 1 May 2024
- eighteenth century, from the pleasure houses of Japan where courtesans would ... are no distinct singular or plural variants of the term. The word consists ...30 KB (4,689 words) - 06:34, 18 April 2024
- largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... south of the Canada – United States border in King County, of which ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- eras. Ruskin is also known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism. ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 May 2024
- to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a law passed ... their slaves. All slaves in the District of Columbia were freed in this ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
