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  • (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849), was the wife of President James Madison ... North Carolina, on May 20, 1768, a daughter of John Payne, farmer and starch ...
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  • Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the ... New York University (then officially named the University of the City of ...
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  • renowned American folk artist. Moses was one of the most successful and famous ... She was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, New York and was one ...
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  • was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State ... his speech on U.S. policy toward Asia before the National Press Club in January ...
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  • The Monroe Doctrine is a United States doctrine which, on December ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...
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  • Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under President ...
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  • Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the ... inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States on March 4, 1861. ...
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  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in United States created the territories ... each selected a candidate for president of the United States. ...
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  • 16, 2016) was an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth secretary-general of ... for not responding quickly enough in the face of tragedies like the ...
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  • 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and together ... and then Senator, was elected President of the United States in 1960, and ...
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  • [[Image:Eisenhower in the Oval Office.jpg|thumb|300px|President Dwight ... was first used publicly by President of the United States (and former General ...
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  • John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) became the first ... class family in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born ...
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  • John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for his taciturn New England ...
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  • John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American lawyer, diplomat, congressman, and sixth president of the United States ...
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  • Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...
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  • The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States to a Joint session of the Congress on ...
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  • Carl Robert Byoir (June 24, 1888 – February 3, 1957) was one of ... Before he was 18 years old, Byoir became the editor of the Waterloo Times ...
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  • , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... In September, 1949, when the Communists founded the People’s Republic ...
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  • was an American journalist and publisher, the grandson of publisher Joseph ... Patterson inherited wealth, experience, and the ability to succeed in the ...
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  • is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to ... The commemoration began in 1978 as "Women's History day ...
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