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  • 1821) was a Chilean general, considered one of the founders of independent ... After the Spanish Reconquista ("Reconquest"), he continued ...
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  • Independence Hall is a United States national landmark located in ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...
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  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther ... King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil ...
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  • The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the ... This compromise was viewed in its day as one of the most important ...
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  • The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... policy in a vastly improved climate from the authoritarian South Korean ...
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  • issues that are generally shocking to the public. Generally, muckraking ... Given their name by Theodore Roosevelt when he likened their work ...
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  • with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The Cold War ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...
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  • (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney ... Unlike Marshall, who had supported a broad role for the federal government ...
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  • American nurse and social worker, active in the late nineteenth and early ... German-Jewish middle-class family. She was the third of four children born ...
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  • Mexico CityWhig candidate for President of the United States, 1852 ... passed over its own incumbent President of the United States, Millard Fillmore ...
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  • was a Seychellois politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...
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  • and oceanography. He was influential in the development of modern systematic ... His name is honored with the Alexander Agassiz Medal established in ...
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  • The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ...
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  • (November 10, 1878 - June 14, 1946) was President of Guatemala from February ... his post when he was forced to resign, but the regime replacing him was short ...
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  • Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was a United ... The tragic death of her only daughter marked a turning point that ...
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  • Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...
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  • ; ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...
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  • and a women's rights activist, and the first woman in the United ... Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children ...
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  • The White House is the residence and official office of the president of the United States. The White House is located on 18 acres of land at ...
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  • was an American social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work ... on April 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of ...
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