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- Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights ... The commemoration began in 1978 as "Women's History day ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- From 1913 to 1915, Breckinridge served as vice president of the National ... in the November 1920 election, dying that month at the age of 48. ...7 KB (1,006 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United ... launched the celebration of "Negro History Week," the precursor ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- Sunday in February for the observance of National Women's Day. Following ... IWD. The United States designates the whole month of March as "Women& ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- well. The umbrella organization, the National Consumers League, became ... a year after they were married and only one month before their daughter was born. ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
- 20, she won the first of ten consecutive national championships run by the ... to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History ...19 KB (2,597 words) - 08:38, 23 July 2023
- for 57 years; the longest editorship of a national newspaper anywhere in the ... Guardian to reflect its prominence as a national paper. ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- was the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York ... covering most of those workers after a four-month strike, Triangle Shirtwaist ...8 KB (1,360 words) - 05:05, 5 November 2022
- for three years, and are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam. Vietnam ... two different chapters of Hou Han Shu, the history for the Eastern Han Dynasty ...14 KB (2,364 words) - 23:51, 5 November 2022
- mistresses. When she became a prominent national figure, her enemies falsely ... held in the Ludlow Street Jail for the next month, a place normally reserved ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 06:00, 8 May 2020
- difficult to reach, requiring a two month hike. During that time, only ... importance of the circuit for most of its history. Accessible until recent ...11 KB (1,617 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
- the face of modernization. Reciting their history orally, lacking written ... == History == Written records of the history of the Apatani tribe have ...11 KB (1,672 words) - 05:57, 11 August 2023
- Diwali is celebrated for five consecutive days at the end of Hindu ... Calendar has been adopted as the Indian national calendar. According to this ...17 KB (2,633 words) - 15:51, 29 January 2024
- the Civil War. At 14, her parents and nine-month-old brother died of yellow ... From 1898 to 1902, Wells served as secretary of the National Afro ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 15:32, 12 February 2024
- an orphan, with no knowledge of her family history or record of her birth, ... which she won. That year, she also set national speed record, from New York ...19 KB (3,058 words) - 08:12, 18 March 2024
- all, including Katherine Fry, who wrote a History of the Parishes of East ... system. They also celebrate and promote a National Elizabeth Fry Week in Canada ...14 KB (2,286 words) - 16:17, 13 February 2024
- for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first ... launching the celebration of "Negro History Week," the precursor ...27 KB (3,964 words) - 00:40, 29 November 2023
- hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 with the German signing ... hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month." While this official ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- In 1995 Eddy was elected to the National Women’s Hall of Fame and ... A crucial turning point in Eddy's life occurred one month after ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- is celebrated on the 15th day of the eight month of the lunar calendar on ... Ssireum is assumed to have 5000 years of history; scholars have found evidence ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- to establishing Mother's Day as a national, and later an international ... but this is a recent development, and its history is quite different. ...22 KB (3,311 words) - 17:00, 10 November 2022
- became politically active and joined the National Union of Women's Suffrage ... the only female cabinet minister in Irish history until 1979, when Máire ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 17:49, 16 May 2020
- quot; after Riddle, including the Winema National Forest. Winema Riddle was ... It was one of the most pivotal eras in the history of the Pacific Coast Indians ...16 KB (2,613 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2023
- Ramadan (also spelled Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth ... and especially at the conclusion of the month with the celebration of Eid ...25 KB (3,551 words) - 00:32, 8 December 2022
- ensure she would not end up a flavor of the month, but instead keep her stardom ... Craze")] Exhibit at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. ...20 KB (3,016 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm The History of Labor Day] United States ... rush legislation that made Labor Day a national holiday; President Grover ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- and altered the course of modern Chinese history. Raised and educated as ... Hong died in June of 1864, one month before Nanking fell to imperial ...20 KB (3,050 words) - 13:03, 2 February 2024
- is one of only three Americans to have a national holiday in their honor, ... Congress to make King's birthday a national holiday. The bill first ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- as a student rabbi one weekend a month or interning at a larger ... functions. Orthodox Judaism's National Council of Young Israel ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- In 1973 her novel Sula was nominated for the National Book Award. ... When the novel failed to win the National Book Award as well as the ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- also devoted herself to the study of art history and undertook research for ... In 2003, Greer published The Beautiful Boy, an art history book about ...21 KB (3,238 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
- lost his job and entered a sanatorium for a month in an effort to conquer his ... * Fall 1929- Elected as an official for National Aeronautic Association ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- The Church of Scotland (known informally as The Kirk) is the national ... spread across Scotland. In early 1638 the National Covenant was signed by large ...20 KB (2,987 words) - 22:00, 10 December 2023
- === History === Wu Nu Shan has a long history of human habitation. Recently archaeologists ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- exams to become a judge. After a six-month internship period, she officially ... justified, it has become a cause of national pride for an old nation ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- resulted in the creation of the National Institutes of Health and ... spend went from $15,000 a year to $30,000 a month and within six months were ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- hours at the British Museum of Natural History where she drew highly detailed ... Lake District. He would later found the National Trust in 1895, to help protect ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:21, 26 September 2023
- Points" outlining the right of national self-determination proclaimed ... a "Petition for a Call of the National Congress" in Japanese ...28 KB (4,439 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- is still used generically in English. The history of rape, and the alterations ... of the crime's presence throughout history. ===Modern World=== ...32 KB (4,983 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- Bryn Mawr College, receiving a degree in history and philosophy in 1928, ... honors 50 women who helped shape world history and culture: ...23 KB (3,401 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- ==Brief History of Korean Buddhism== :See Korean Buddhism for more ... of the king. Buddhism soon became the national religion of the Goguryeo ...21 KB (3,080 words) - 04:34, 4 March 2023
- playing the game. These matches between national teams are called "Test ... withdrew from the FA, just over a month after the initial meeting ...32 KB (5,080 words) - 20:33, 17 April 2023
- == History == [[Image:Mosobrazza.png|thumb|275px|Mausoleum of Pierre ... quot;) to resist. Thus began a four-month conflict that destroyed or ...23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
- Silver Bough: Calendar of Scottish National Festivals, Vol. 1–4. ... Ronald Hutton, Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain ...20 KB (3,131 words) - 15:26, 4 February 2023
- The history of kimchi traces back to ancient times. References to ... international visitors about Kimchi’s history, varieties, and value. Open ...18 KB (2,571 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- well educated in geography, politics, history, philosophy, and the arts ... of Spring, on the seventh day of the month of Bysios, his birthday. ...24 KB (3,809 words) - 21:08, 14 April 2023
- The delegation stayed in the city for a month, during which time Fukuzawa ... circulation, encouraged acceptance of a national assembly as the form for ...17 KB (2,582 words) - 07:16, 15 April 2024
- like Georges Danton. In the single month before it ended, 1,300 executions ... war and the advance of foreign armies on national territory produced a political ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 09:38, 29 July 2022
- has been a part of human custom since pre-history. The practice is mentioned ... sunrise to sunset during the Bahá'í month of `Ala' (between March ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- and filled it full of photographs. Within a month, sales had dramatically increased. ... successful journalistic empires in British history and started popular journalism ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- He was president of the African National Congress, at the time an ... In 1944 Lutuli joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1945 ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- 1998 Ingrid Betancourt collected within one month the required 50,000 signatures ... FARC seventeen thousand square miles of national territory to be used as ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 22:51, 5 February 2023
- the Parliament of Northern Ireland had one month (dubbed the Ulster month ... “when the 6th of December is passed the month begins in which we will have ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- work through the activities of 37 National Committees for UNICEF. These ... contribute the rest through the National Committees. Guiding and monitoring ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 11:42, 3 May 2023
- Jacques Gernet. A History of Chinese Civilization. 2. (New York: Cambridge ... During the entire ninth month of the Hui calendar, men older than ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- == History == Guizhou was well known by the Chinese for thousands of ... reserve accounts to 44 percent of the national total while the mercury ...15 KB (2,085 words) - 08:18, 8 January 2024
- lecturers and authors in American history. Frederick Douglass was a ... #039;s Hundred Conventions project, a six-month tour of meeting halls throughout ...23 KB (3,597 words) - 10:27, 11 April 2024
- quot;central to New Zealand's unique national identity." She signed ... father, George, a farmer, supported the National Party at the 1981 election ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
- by both South Korea and North Korea as a national heritage. North Korea claims ... bound together by culture, religion, and history. Choe, the son of a yangban ...18 KB (2,900 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- supplied two tons of the crystals each month, and Degesch of Dessau, which ... in most cases the departure from the history is minor, and is clearly ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- It is left on overnight and will last one month or more depending on the ... for at least 5,000 years, but a long history of migration and cultural ...26 KB (4,222 words) - 09:39, 10 March 2023
- took much less resources than waging a month of war during the American ... Developments in the Thirty Years War,] History Learning Site. Retrieved ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- == Early history == The beginnings of Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual ... quot;), as president.Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Celibacy (James Clarke ...28 KB (3,991 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- to 27 C). February is typically the hottest month. Rainfall is steady throughout ... from Santiago. A well-organized Chilean national park system provides guided ...24 KB (3,502 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- inning home runs. Mays is one of four National League players to have eight ... first all-black outfield in major league history, along with Hall of Famer ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 15:22, 14 May 2023
- that temperatures are very constant from month to month. The temperature ... a state, with a charter endorsed by the national government. The Mayor has ...20 KB (2,986 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- out is celebrated to this day as "National Day." Two-hundred years ... out. This event is commemorated as National Day. In the mid-seventeenth ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- Throughout Chinese history, the term “Miao” has been applied inconsistently ... groups in order to clarify their role in national government, including the ...23 KB (3,462 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- the twelfth day of Dhul Hijjah, the twelfth month of the Islamic calendar. ... ul-Adha.Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History (New York: Modern Library ...29 KB (4,558 words) - 16:54, 21 January 2024
- controversial, some hailing him as a national and African hero, some denouncing ... Mrs. Corinna Saunders. He majored in history, graduating with a B Phil ...24 KB (3,748 words) - 08:44, 20 January 2024
- == History == The first inhabitants of Fiji arrived from Southeast ... following the failure of the winning National Federation Party to put ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- played a major role in South African History during the nineteenth and ... Cetshwayo was captured a month after his defeat, and then exiled to ...23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- States, where it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy. Sea Around Us" remaining on the national best-seller lists for eighty ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- cm (169 in) per year. April is the hottest month; July and August are the ... == History == The land today's Guinea occupies has been part of ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- other works in celebration of the Czech history and language. Along with ... Prague, he worked as a conductor at the National Theater, the center of Czech ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- had spent much time in the area. The five-month journey, made with 25 men ... Republicans and Democrats to form a new National Union Party (in convention ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- in later centuries.Stephen Neill, A History of Christianity in India: ... well represented, in various spheres of national life. They currently serve ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- to finish her bachelor's degree in history, graduating in early 1909 ... After spending the month of September 1916 in a cottage they bought ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- In July 1794 the National Convention pushed the administration of ... == History == === Foundation === When the Estates General of 1789 convened ...43 KB (6,105 words) - 17:02, 30 September 2023
- gazelles, buffaloes, and warthogs are in Keran National Park. == History == ===Pre-colonial era=== The population of the central ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- many of Hollywood's top names. Every month or so, Hope would host a ... so hard, and can be so effective. He works month after month at a pace that ...28 KB (4,249 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- Medicine and Care of the Dying: A Modern History (Oxford University Press ... heard Saunders speak in America, spent a month working with Saunders there ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 20:47, 25 September 2020
- His name has largely been erased from the history of Abomey and to this day ... that Adandozan is not included in Abomey's history. ...28 KB (4,382 words) - 17:35, 27 December 2022
- ocelot and deer. Honduras created several national parks to protect its natural ... In the Pacific lowlands, April, the last month of the dry season, brings ...34 KB (4,896 words) - 12:36, 2 February 2024
- countries, the government has developed a National Guard (U.S.), Army Reserve ... soldiers, also called an Army Reserve, National Guard, or State Defense Forces. ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955 ... on the morning of November 10, 2007, a month after undergoing lung surgery ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- recognized it as an Institute of National Importance. Regarded as ... Act declaring it an Institute of National Importance. The mission ...32 KB (4,594 words) - 21:31, 11 November 2021
- civilization, and an Africa-centered, national sovereignty all their own ... less, integration—within the same national borders. This attitude was ...30 KB (4,654 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- became known as "The Shortest War in History." 1963 as a constitutional monarchy. A month later, the bloody Zanzibar ...19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
- in Kazakhstan, along with Maya's seven-month old brotherKatherine Bliss ... from her proper place in British ballet history. Her first stop after the ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- smaller animals are found in the Kiang West National Park, == History == [[Image:Gambia Map.png|right|thumb|300px|Map of The Gambia]] ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- The Joint Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug ... Alcohol has a long history of use and misuse throughout recorded history ...57 KB (7,925 words) - 23:36, 28 December 2023
- a Kennedy delegate at the 1960 Democratic National Convention. ... all of his time to trying to formulate national policy for what would become ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- and a free market and making national and municipal elections ... == History == Mozambique's first inhabitants were San hunters ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- Islam's holiest month, Ramadan, is observed through many events ... report receiving non-Muslim visitors every month.Ihsan Bagby, Paul M. Perl ...42 KB (6,416 words) - 12:31, 7 May 2024
- == History == Human remains and artifacts from more than 100,000 years ... must remain in strict mourning for one month, during which she cannot ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- the mail in early air mail flights. The National Press Club dubbed him "Ambassador ... One of Oklahoma's two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- foreign powers. The shogunate conducted a national survey, calling for solutions ... settled with the Choshu men within one month. If I'm not back by ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 17:15, 5 October 2022
- These symptoms last for more than a month after the event. ... Australia (HDA), and the British National Health Service (NHS). ...49 KB (6,562 words) - 21:38, 13 October 2023
