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- The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as The Mexican War and in Mexico as la intervención norteamericana (the North American ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821), was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and Spanish colonial authorities, which started on ...15 KB (2,102 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
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- The Battle of Buena Vista (February 23, 1847), also known as the Battle of Angostura, in February 1847 saw the U.S. Army use heavy artillery ...9 KB (1,403 words) - 03:51, 2 January 2022
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (June 13, 1899 – August 2, 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, teacher, journalist, and the ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- Geronimo (Chiricahua, Goyaałé; “One Who Yawns”; often spelled Goyathlay in English) (June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821), was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and Spanish colonial authorities, which started on ...15 KB (2,102 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Yaqui indians.jpg|thumb|right|Yaqui people, c. 1910]] ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Cochise (A-da-tli-chi = "hardwood," also Cheis) (c. 1805 – June 9, 1874) was a chief (a nantan) of the Chokonen ("central" ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 22:17, 7 January 2024
- Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- The Battle of the Alamo was a nineteenth century battle between the Republic of Mexico and the rebel Texan forces during the latter's fight ...19 KB (3,079 words) - 23:51, 30 October 2023
- Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr (September 25, 1822 – February 25, 1877) was a Prussian army officer who emigrated to the ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:10, 15 June 2023
- The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as The Mexican War and in Mexico as la intervención norteamericana (the North American ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- David Crockett (David de Crocketagne, August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth-century American folk hero usually referred to as Davy ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- Ambrose Powell Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He gained early fame as the commander ...11 KB (1,694 words) - 06:51, 13 June 2023
- Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (February 21, 1794 – June 21, 1876), also known simply as Santa Anna ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 05:42, 11 August 2023
- Benito Pablo Juárez García (March 21, 1806 – July 18, 1872) was a Zapotec Amerindian who served five terms México - Presidencia de la República ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 09:15, 27 September 2023
- Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995), best known simply as Selena, was an iconic Mexican American singer who has been ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (September 15, 1830 – July 2, 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 05:38, 30 November 2022
- Known as the Rio Grande in the United States and as the Río Bravo (and more formally as Río Bravo del Norte) in Mexico. The river flows generally ...17 KB (2,584 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was a nineteenth century American statesman, politician, and soldier. The Virginia-born Houston ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 01:57, 23 December 2022
- The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Oregon Country ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor had ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He was elected ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón de Rivera, better known as Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 to July 13, 1954), was a Mexican painter of the ...18 KB (2,754 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was a self taught lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted Category:Media Professionals Category:Economists Category:Biography Barron, Clarence W. Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- category:Image wanted {{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = American Friends Service Committee | founded_date = 1917 | founder ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- Cuauhtémoc (also known as Cuauhtemotzin or Guatimozin; c. 1502 – February 28, 1525) was the last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and ...8 KB (1,234 words) - 19:34, 8 July 2016
- Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- Juan Manuel Fangio (June 24, 1911 – July 17, 1995) was a race-car driver from Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- The Baja California peninsula, (also Lower California peninsula) is a North American peninsula, politically a part of the nation of Mexico. Extending ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Public [[Image:Pocahontas original.jpg|thumb|260px|Pocahontas, in England ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
- James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1845, to March 3 ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated in many parts of the world, which directs honor and reverence towards ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- A cowboy is an animal herder, usually in charge of the horses and/or cattle, on cattle ranches, especially in the western United States and Canada ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:14, 11 January 2024
- Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mondarte Villaseñor (May 8, 1753 – July 30, 1811), also known as Cura Hidalgo ...16 KB (2,562 words) - 17:46, 9 November 2022
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is bound to the north by the Gulf of Mexico, to ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics A poll tax, or head tax, is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- Johann August Suter (February 28 1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known as a founder of California and for his association ...21 KB (3,406 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- Big Bend National Park is a National Park located in Texas, USA. For more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) the Rio Grande / Río Bravo forms the international ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 03:47, 1 October 2023
- Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum vulgare of the mint family (Lamiaceae), characterized by opposite, aromatic ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), better known as Ritchie Valens, was a pioneer of rock and roll and, as a Mexican ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- Axolotl (or ajolote) is the common name for the salamander Ambystoma mexicanum, which is the best-known of the Mexican neotenic mole salamanders ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 06:05, 10 January 2023
- Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard (pronounced IPA: /'boʊ.ɹɪ.ˌgɑɹd/ ) (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893), was a Louisiana-born ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2022
- Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) was born Thocmentony, a Paiute name that means "Shell Flower." She was a peacemaker, teacher, interpreter ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was a leading American statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- Calcite is a carbonate mineral and is among the most widely distributed minerals on the Earth's surface. Chemically, it is known as calcium ...7 KB (1,007 words) - 18:20, 25 November 2023
- James "Jim" Bowie (April 10, 1796 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth century American pioneer and soldier who took a prominent part ...34 KB (5,434 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- Cumin (IPA pronunciation [ˈkʌmɪn] The pronunciations /ˈkuːmɪn/ and /ˈkjuːmɪn/ are becoming increasingly common. sometimes spelled cummin ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Family therapy is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on the relationships among family ...24 KB (3,689 words) - 00:39, 25 March 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Robert_E._Lee.jpg|thumb|250px|Robert Edward Lee, as a U.S. Army Colonel before the war]] Robert Edward Lee (January 19 ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography McCormick, Robert R. Robert Rutherford McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, and satirist, today best known ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- The term pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the Americas in the time before significant European influence. While technically ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 22:17, 30 November 2022
- The avocado (Persea americana) is a tree native to Mexico and Central America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae and widely ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:18, 23 August 2023
- Federalist No. 3, titled "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence," is a political essay by ...17 KB (2,445 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl consists of fourteen monasteries built on or near the Popocatépetl ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- Category:Public Perry, Matthew C. [[Image:Matthew Calbraith Perry.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry|Matthew Calbraith Perry]]]] ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893), was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 04:50, 14 June 2023
- Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. These codices were written in Mayan hieroglyphic ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- Agate is a type of quartz (silica), chiefly chalcedony, characterized by its fine grain and bright colors. Although agates may be found in various ...9 KB (1,311 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet who wrote during the period of literary Modernism. Crane is one of ...7 KB (1,109 words) - 20:59, 29 January 2022
- Nellie Bly (May 5 Brooke Kroeger. Nellie Bly: daredevil, reporter, feminist. (New York: Times Books. 1994), 529, reports that although a birth ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- The Western United States—commonly referred to as the American West or simply The West—traditionally refers to the region comprising the ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the Communist Party USA and its five-time U.S. presidential candidate. ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- Crayfish, or crawfish, is the common name for almost exclusively freshwater crustaceans comprising the arthropod families Astacidae, Cambaridae ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- Edward Herbert Thompson (September 28, 1857 - May 18, 1935) Different sources give various years for his birth: 1956, 1957, and 1960. ...16 KB (2,447 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States had a mission to expand westward across the North American continent, ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- Acamapichtli (which means "Handful of Arrows" or "Handful of Reeds") was tlatoani (king, or Great Speaker) of the Aztecs ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Kluckhohn, Clyde Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn (January 11, 1905 – July 28, 1960 ...10 KB (1,350 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- Doroteo Arango Arámbula (June 5, 1878 – July 23, 1923), better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- The United Mexican States, or simply Mexico, is a country located in North America, bounded on the north by the United States; on the south and ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 11, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator and diplomat who ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 07:38, 15 April 2024
- Category:Psychologists Terman, Lewis Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 - December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, noted as a pioneer ...14 KB (2,037 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and advocate for slavery, most famous for serving as the only ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction based in Austin, the capital ...49 KB (7,650 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- Santa Fe ( Yootó ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed on a member of the U. S. Military ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. An ocean basin, it is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- Alcatraz Island, commonly referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally as The Rock, is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- Category:Sociologists Coleman, James S. James Samuel Coleman (born May 12, 1926 – died March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, a pioneer ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. Early was trusted and ...15 KB (2,251 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- Prairie dogs is the common name for any of the social, burrowing, North American rodents comprising the genus Cynomys of the [squirrel]] family ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:800px-Smithsonian Building NR.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The Smithsonian Institution ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- In zoology, a turkey is any of the large birds comprising the subfamily Meleagridinae of Phasianidae, a family of birds that consists of the ...15 KB (2,323 words) - 18:52, 6 November 2022
- Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (ca. 1510 – September 22, 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and Governor of New Galicia, Mexico who between 1540 ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states ...22 KB (3,316 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- Category:Public color = lightgreen | name = Peanut image = [[Image:Koeh-163.jpg|240px]] | caption = Peanut (Arachis hypogea) color = lightgreen ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Mlbretired |bgcolor1=#af0039 |bgcolor2=#0f437c |textcolor1=white |textcolor2=white |name=Warren Spahn |position=Starting ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe the nomadic and colorful horsemen and cowhands of the South American pampas ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
- See text Cotton can refer to members of the genus Gossypium of flowering plants or to the fiber produced from some species of these plants. ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
