Search results for "President of the United States" - New World Encyclopedia
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- enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary team ... The cost of enforcing prohibition was high, and the lack of tax revenues ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally ... Originally called News-Week, the weekly magazine Newsweek was founded ...10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- sociologist, and reformer, known in United States as the "mother ... A committed pacifist and early feminist, Addams actively supported ...13 KB (2,111 words) - 08:58, 1 April 2024
- American Founding Father and the third president of the United States. The neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope and completed ...9 KB (1,344 words) - 04:39, 31 July 2022
- Tammany Hall was the Democratic Party political machine that played ... War hero and third vice president of the United States, emerged as the ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 03:59, 27 February 2023
- The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential order in 1863 that ... It was a declaration by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ... As one of the "Seven Sisters," Wellesley has been and continues ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 23:29, 3 May 2023
- election, and became the 35th President of the United States in 1961. Jackie ... to which a widow of a president of the United States is entitled, ...21 KB (3,354 words) - 08:15, 18 March 2024
- #039;s newspaper, reporting instances of racism in the community. She ... as most people in town made a living at the sawmill, rented houses owned ...13 KB (1,959 words) - 07:47, 12 January 2024
- who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War and ... As Mathew Brady's leading photographer during the early days ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- diplomat, and jurist, best known as the first Chief Justice of the ... Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- pedagogue and historian, better known as the “Father of the Olympics ... He was the primary force in the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- 21, 1919) was an American pioneer in the areas of feminism, abolitionism ... One of the first women in the country to be awarded a medical degree ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 16:01, 7 November 2022
- Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political ... returned to Colombia and served as President from 1833 until 1837, then ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- ice hockey coach, best known for coaching the United States hockey team ... On November 13, 2006, Brooks was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. ...18 KB (2,744 words) - 14:09, 9 February 2022
- Party of America candidate for President of the United States. ... He was a candidate for President of the United States in 1900 as a ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- – February 17, 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... He guarded information about his private life and instead focused ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television ... CNN was founded in 1979, by Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld. The founding ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 10:13, 25 November 2023
