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- the "Upper South" as being the states that were most dependent ... River primarily consisting of five states, South Carolina, Georgia ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 08:36, 15 January 2023
- #039;s term. In the October 2007 general election, Fernández ran for President ... a considerable influence over their presidential husbands and enjoyed considerable ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- Order of Merit (OM), Privy Council of the United Kingdom (PC) (born October ... seats at Leicester South East (1957 by-election) and Peterborough (1959 ...16 KB (2,349 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- #039;s origins are usually traced to the United States in the 1820s. In the ... in 1838. Various countries, colonies, and states granted restricted women ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- was the longest serving female senator in United States history. She rose ... in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 ... It has been said that in his post-Vice-Presidential career, having apparently ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- as the 23rd President in the 2005 presidential election, taking office ... was an Assistant General-Secretary of the United Nations, working with the ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- in international law. He tried to join the United States Army during World ... appointed Dulles as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- point for the Cold War contest between the United States and the Soviet Union. journalist of La Prensa, in the 1990 presidential election, but he remained ...27 KB (3,871 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- of his term, and he failed to secure re-election in 1981. He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- the Democratic Party and contested the presidential election. Moi won. On ... controversially emerging winner of an election that was marked by accusations ...24 KB (3,416 words) - 18:22, 8 December 2022
- 1967 until 1971, and an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1979 and ... splitting the large reasons into smaller states. Nigeria has since created ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- The Teapot Dome scandal became a parlor issue in the presidential ... President Harding to appoint Fall as United States Secretary of the Interior ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- on charges of treason and spying for the United States, and sentenced to ... Embassy Row. It had a major influence on United States president, George ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for his taciturn ... Coolidge attempted to secure the Republican presidential nomination ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley was one ... gain control of Cuba. After the war, the United States annexed the Philippines ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- independence, the alliance won the 1962 election. He became Prime Minister ... National Resistance Army. In 1985, as a presidential election approached, he ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- entry on lobbying.] Retrieved November 5, 2008.BBC, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk ... has received particular attention in the United States, where numerous laws ...27 KB (3,879 words) - 07:47, 9 March 2023
- of the country. It also provided for election of the President by 80,000 ... === Presidential Elections === In 1964, Ayub confident in his apparent ...18 KB (2,831 words) - 14:50, 7 February 2023
- In the election of December 2008, Khaleda lost to Hasina's Awami ... victory in February 15, 1996, general election to the sixth Jatiya Sangsad ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative ... now. In this address, which preceded the election-year party conventions, ...28 KB (4,129 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Claims of massive ... reports from several domestic and foreign election monitors as well as the ...52 KB (6,953 words) - 10:39, 11 March 2023
- , is a landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise ... In the Presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson defeated John ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- success in the 1912 National Assembly election by mobilizing massive support ... the parliamentary body in making presidential decisions. On March 20 ...28 KB (4,106 words) - 16:48, 30 March 2024
- and a former four-star general in the United States Army. He was the sixty ... who was not a collegiate graduate of a United States Service academy. ...38 KB (5,777 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- members joined the cabinet, and in the presidential elections of 1999 the ... the PND withdrew, claiming that the election was rigged. In the election ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- daily newspaper of the Midwestern United States and one of the largest ... of 1919. Another was its revelation of United States war plans on the eve ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- of Representatives. In the midst of a presidential election campaign, she ... The daughter of Colombia's former ambassador to the United Nations ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 22:51, 5 February 2023
- The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the ... The U.S. Capitol is also the site of Presidential inaugurations and notable ...23 KB (3,473 words) - 01:21, 3 May 2023
- the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, and it gave its name ... nonetheless highly influential both in the United States and worldwide, the ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 15:40, 30 April 2023
- of this kingdom were various important states. Ndongo was the most significant ... but also the Americas, including the United States. By the end of the ...17 KB (2,316 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, ... between the federal government and the states. As such, it has a direct ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- Chinese Methodist, had studied in the United States, and sent her to Wellesley ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- serving from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner ... to take up her post as delegate in the United Nations. She was succeeded ...34 KB (5,329 words) - 08:42, 10 March 2023
- Eastern Europe. He narrowly lost the 1995 election. Wałęsa stood unsuccessfully ... of state to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress on November ...29 KB (4,198 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... foreign affairs and alliances."Safire (2008), 360. Many argue that this ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- he desired to create a cooperative in the United States that would incorporate ... In 1856, Gardner and his family moved to the United States. Learning ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- his victory in the California presidential primary at the Ambassador ... Robert Francis Kennedy] Retrieved January 26, 2008. The year after ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- domino effect in Southeast Asia, the United States and Australia did ... Following a United Nations sponsored agreement between Indonesia, ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- Guinea is roughly the size of the United Kingdom and slightly smaller ... internal problems weakened it, and its states seized power in the fifteenth ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... Party, and seventh president of the United States. A strong proponent ...39 KB (5,930 words) - 17:50, 27 July 2023
- political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state ... Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives ... With her election as Speaker, Pelosi became the first female Speaker ...46 KB (6,718 words) - 20:14, 3 January 2023
- attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah ... 2005. On January 3, 2015, after the 114th United States Congress was sworn ...48 KB (6,423 words) - 21:40, 4 December 2022
- (later) Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election. In 1873, she ... Works about Native Americans in the United States by Lewis Henry Morgan ...19 KB (2,944 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- the New England region of the Northeastern United States. The state is known ... city and town in the 48 contiguous states. Maine's Moosehead Lake ...36 KB (5,276 words) - 05:31, 5 November 2022
- Less than three months after his election as pope, John XXIII gave ... rights and world peace, hoping that the United Nations will prove to be ...21 KB (3,310 words) - 08:07, 3 August 2022
- Rivers of Southern Africa in the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique ... Shaka Zulu--Really?] Retrieved November 30, 2008. When the railway arrived ...23 KB (3,136 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States of America (1989–1993 ... and Eastern Europe from being communist states to becoming liberal democracies ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 ... to transition from the Cold War, and the United States experienced the longest ...54 KB (7,922 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives ... to end legalized racial segregation in the United States. He was one of the ...59 KB (8,105 words) - 02:31, 9 February 2023
- was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States ... for the territorial expansion of the United States across North America. ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- The Communist Party USA, formally known as the Communist Party United ... transition to socialism" in the United States. ==History== ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- from Mauritania into the neighboring states of Senegal and Mali. Likewise ... which set up an authoritarian presidential regime. Daddah's ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America ... four years because it holds the first presidential caucuses, gatherings of ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- in 1889 after an agreement between the United Kingdom and France. The Gambia ... north bank, which was finally ceded to the United Kingdom in 1857. ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- Burma's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, and was ... in New York, where she worked for the United Nations. In 1972, she married ...32 KB (4,792 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- 'remakes' of feature films. The Election 2004 collection is a non ... well as many special collections. As of May 2008, the Internet Archive operated ...28 KB (4,060 words) - 10:40, 6 March 2024
- commercial interests, and all the city-states along the East African coast ... coasts brought the once independent city-states under closer foreign domination ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- Federal Parliament in 1952, winning a by-election for the Division of Werriwa ... Britain, Canada and with several other states. It is not theoretically ...39 KB (5,698 words) - 00:11, 3 January 2024
- and the Member of Parliament (MP) of the United Kingdom for Sedgefield from ... the party to three consecutive general election victories. Gordon Brown ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017 ... #039;s mother] TIME Magazine, April 9, 2008. Retrieved February 18, 2021 ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- | order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... " was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969). After ...44 KB (6,749 words) - 03:18, 5 November 2022
- Once one of the most prosperous of the tropical West African states ... English country name registered with the United Nations and adopted by ISO ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 ... Nixon was elected to the United States House of Representatives in ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... English speaking settlement in the United States west of the Rocky ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States annexed the Republic ... James Polk over Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election had caught the ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- to the laissez-faire policies of the United Kingdom, which Chirac famously ... when he applied for his first visa to the United States. In 1953, after graduating ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- In June 2005, presidential elections were held for the first time ... of arms in the weeks leading up to the election and reports of some "disturbances ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 03:07, 12 July 2023
- who organized and led a resistance to the United States' occupation of ... which eventually began to receive strong United States backing), and establish ...51 KB (7,226 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- New Jersey is one of the Mid-Atlantic states located in the Northeastern ... was the eleventh-most populous of the 50 states, and is the most densely ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- War and the eighteenth President of the United States. Grant has been described ... urged to run for president in the 1864 election. But Grant turned aside ...47 KB (7,335 words) - 03:32, 17 November 2023
- Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006 ... the world. In 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- for five and a half years. He served as a United States Senator from Arizona ... graduates and both became four-star United States Navy admirals.Dan ...89 KB (12,407 words) - 00:34, 10 February 2023
- Alabama is a state located in the southern region of the United States ... Like other states in the South, Alabama is burdened by the legacy ...36 KB (5,209 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- In 2008, Angelou's family history was profiled on the PBS series ... age 17 to 19. As feminist Mary Jane Lupton states, this book "depicts ...37 KB (5,309 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the ... Major's leadership, lost the general election to Tony Blair's Labour ...49 KB (7,421 words) - 00:34, 10 February 2023
- part of the Southern region of the United States of America. It is ... American Revolution, helping to form the United States of America. ...41 KB (5,879 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- Vidal'], Los Angeles Times (June 18, 2008). Retrieved October 2, 2012 ... love child] The Independent, (May 25, 2008). Retrieved October 5, 2012. ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio ... pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the United States' first astronauts ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- support and unofficial cooperation of the United States government. Liberia’s ... occurred during World War II, when the United States began providing technical ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- is a state located in the East Central United States of America. Kentucky ... and streams in the continental 48 states. Kentucky features the two ...39 KB (5,531 words) - 22:12, 3 March 2023
- cannot be used for construction. The Presidential Palace and the country ... #039;s first democratic, multiparty presidential election. Upon his re ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... quot; seats are apportioned among the states by population. The 100 Senators ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 2023
- Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... War, Mississippi became one of the poorest states. Lacking opportunity at home ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- longest-continuously-serving senator in United States history. Kennedy was ... Senate following a November 1962 special election in Massachusetts to fill ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- Europe populated by Slavic people or the states that occupied the area. The ... land. According to a 1994 estimate by the United Nations Food and Agricultural ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- guilty of the original crime. Thus, in the United States, someone who is guilty ... #039;] Religious Intelligence. February 15, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2009 ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- of Vespucci and de Ojeda's crew, states in his work Summa de Geografía ... to remain in office. Chávez won the presidential elections on December ...35 KB (5,081 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
- studied at several Universities in the United States earning degrees in ... for Africa had created many artificial states; pan-Africanism would allow ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- at 481 Eighth Avenue in New York City, United States. The 43-story Art ... was the largest private power plant in the United States. The hotel's ...16 KB (2,157 words) - 21:59, 14 November 2022
- served four terms as president. In the presidential election of 2000, opposition ... president Abdoulaye Wade lost the presidential election and Macky Sall ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- leader. He retired as a general from the United States Army, where he served ... in August 1974. He also served as the United States Secretary of State ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- black Ford Motor Company dealer in the United States, and made an unsuccessful ... about people."David Haugh, "Presidential honor has Mr. Cub singing ...48 KB (7,068 words) - 20:11, 27 April 2024
- 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal ... , having placed second in the presidential race against John Adams. ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- of Nations mandates, administered by the United Kingdom and France. After ... later. The opposition claimed that the election was fraudulent. The developments ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981) and ... a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946 ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- Kishinev Pogroms.] Retrieved September 18, 2008. anti-Jewish articles in ... cutting ties with Russia. Bessarabia united with the Kingdom of Romania ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- weeks of war, and under pressure by the United States and several Latin ... place and remained in office until the presidential election of 2006, which ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
