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  • 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...
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  • Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...
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  • philosopher who advocated a reconstruction of society based on idea that ... in units called “phalanxes” composed of male and female representatives ...
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  • an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...
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  • is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely ... on artificial turf, with a goal at each end of the field. The object of the ...
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  • American suffragist, vocal advocate of gender equality, the wife of ... 039;s Massachusetts farm. She was the eighth of nine children. She became upset ...
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  • and U.S. Senator. In the Senate, he was one of the leaders of a group known ... Wade gained his reputation as a strong and outspoken opponent of slavery ...
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  • represent its content or origins. The act of creating a counterfeit is called ... This is especially true of digital recordings of music and movies ...
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  • The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in ... The Glorious Revolution also saw a partnership of husband and wife ...
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  • The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, ... The main theme running through the Book of Numbers is the people& ...
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  • with police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.]] Riots occur when crowds or even small groups of people gather to commit ...
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  • The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...
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  • A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... who settled among the Jews. The Book of Leviticus thus commands: "The ...
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  • in all the ancient civilizations of the world, particularly in ... Stelae have provided invaluable evidence to archaeologists of the ...
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  • The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... After World War II, Japan was occupied by a foreign power for the ...
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  • The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... As a genre of law which is based on custom, tradition, and/or precedent ...
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  • The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...
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  • and physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded ... Le Bon's thesis that the behavior of crowds was based on emotion ...
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  • American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...
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  • Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1278 – March 22 1322) was one of the ... Thomas Plantagenet upheld the principles of Parliamentary oversight ...
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  • by habit and repute is, historically, a form of interpersonal status in which ... However, common-law marriage is becoming a thing of the past. It is ...
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  • Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering ... incorporates elements from a wide range of disciplines, including chemistry ...
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  • Tripitaka") is a Korean collection of the Tripitaka (Buddhist scriptures ... preserved and most complete extant version of Buddhist canon in Chinese script ...
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  • writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... Throughout his adult life, Hancock gave of himself tirelessly to the cause ...
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  • abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is ... the Underground Railroad prior to the Civil War and her views on abolition ...
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  • The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...
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  • or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist Papers. It was ... Titled, "The Apportionment of Members Among the States" ...
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  • labor are collective terms for a variety of work relations in which people ... The institution of the corveé was and remains an accepted form of ...
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  • with two sections from the Torah's Book of Deuteronomy (6:4-9 and 11:13 ... Jewish law (Halakha) prescribes in detail the affixing of mezuzot ...
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  • The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations ... in the United States for the first half of the twentieth century, even ...
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  • chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...
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  • Felton filled the vacancy left by the death of Thomas E. Watson, serving just ... At 87 years of age, Felton is also the oldest freshman senator to ...
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  • Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...
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  • during the French Revolution for the trial of political offenders. It was ... revolutionary factions, with the passage of the Law of Suspects and the ...
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  • activity involving the buying and selling of merchandise or services illegally ... Goods acquired illegally can take one of two price levels. They may ...
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  • as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ... Einstein postulated that the speed of light is the same for all observers ...
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  • Self defense refers to acts of violence committed for the purpose ... Self defense and defense of others (in the United States called alter ...
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  • remains are buried, usually with some form of marker to establish their identity ... A cemetery is generally a place of respect for the dead where the ...
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  • July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869 ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...
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  • from August 1, 527 until his death. One of the most important rulers of ... and was the emperor who reconquered the city of Rome from the Ostrogoths. He ...
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  • The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic ... The Deep South is a belt stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to west ...
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  • Aerodynamics is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with studying ... it plays an important role in the design of automobiles, large buildings ...
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  • has been used by economists since in defense of free trade. The main underlying ... years old, he was orphaned and became a ward of his father's parents. ...
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  • There exists a fierce debate over the use of factories that have come to ... to improving the opportunities, and standard of living, of those otherwise ...
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  • Norse: Jarizleifr) was thrice Grand Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, uniting ... His patronage of learning and his forging international ties helped ...
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  • |Caption=The statue of Art Rooney outside Heinz Field. |Color=black ... - August 25, 1988) was the founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise ...
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  • renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the mentally ... up to the task and worried about the amount of luggage she would carry. In ...
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  • philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States. After 150 ... and to subdue it and that the pursuit of knowledge—in the arts as ...
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  • event. Villaraigosa is a former director of the ACLU Southern California ... in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." ...
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  • under its current name since 1788. For much of its history it has been regarded ... John Walter also served as the first editor of the paper. He resigned in 1803 ...
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  • – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was ... grew up in the multiethnic Lower East Side of Manhattan, on Oliver Street ...
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  • Carta, due process (more fully due process of law) is the principle that ... interpreted as placing limitations on laws and legal proceedings, in ...
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  • KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...
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  • in the late Roman Republic and a follower of the philosophy of Stoicism ... for dishonesty and illegal appropriation of funds. As governor of Cyprus ...
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  • Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... known as the Israelites, and revealed his laws and commandments to them in ...
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  • Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ... At the root of the non-biblical form of this principle is the belief ...
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  • from other developed nations because of its national credo, historical ... also be used in a negative sense by critics of American policies to refer ...
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  • or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. In some cases ... While humankind remains self-centered and unable to develop a world ...
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  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: La ... Along with the U.S. Declaration of Independence, it is considered ...
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  • William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) founded the Province ... colony a written constitution, and humane laws. At the time, Pennsylvania ...
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  • [[Image:Virgil Solis - Tereus Philomela.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Rape ... Rape is a form of assault involving the non-consensual use of the ...
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  • general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...
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  • The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... Debate continues about whether the Civil War and all its bloodshed ...
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  • 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...
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  • Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...
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  • and Toshisuke in his youth, was one of the Meiji Era’s most famous ... movement. In 1863, he was chosen to be one of the “Chōshū Five” who ...
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  • was the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper ... as a British citizen by nativity. At the age of nine, he and his family traveled ...
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  • who lived during the most brilliant era of Roman public life. An academic ... For Cicero, politics took precedence over philosophy. Most of his ...
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  • and human rights activist. The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, he ... evacuation in 1941 during the World War II, he graduated in Aşgabat ...
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  • as the sample pictured here, is one form of cybercrime]] networks are the tool, target, or place of criminal activity. These categories ...
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  • who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... in American history. He served as Speaker of the House longer than any man ...
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  • 1988) was the president and military ruler of Pakistan from July 1977 to ... During his tenure, he advanced the Islamization of Pakistan and carried ...
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  • a German naval leader, who was in command of the Kriegsmarine during World ... " and (3) "crimes against the laws of war." Among the war crimes ...
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  • Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader of Progressive ... During World War I, Baeck served as an army chaplain in the German ...
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  • other awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. insight, touching on the essentials of life. He had an unfailing faith ...
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  • Kon-Ska, which means meaning "Children of the Middle Waters." Today ... and be recognized as Osages, an identity of which they can remain proud. ...
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  • as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing. In her day ... deep anguish. Eventually she shook free of her family's expectations ...
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  • Luksemburg) was a Polish revolutionary of Jewish ancestry. She rose up ... and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party ...
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  • The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Tzu ("Master Sun"), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted ...
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  • especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...
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  • 275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution": Logo ... Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of ...
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  • anthropology, polygamy is the practice of marriage to more than one spouse ... other's needs and hopes in a relationship of true love. ...
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  • Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King were best of friends, partners ... Ralph David Abernathy was the tenth child of William and Louivery ...
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  • in debtor's prisons or the claiming of property by the state. The ... by unjust taxation was enough for citizens of the new state to expect not ...
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  • from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland—"Ashkenaz ... Although in the eleventh century they comprised only three percent ...
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  • The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme ...
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  • The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty ... The peace as a whole is often used by historians to mark the beginning ...
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  • The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...
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  • Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified ...
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  • The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical ... Common to all of these theories is the notion of a sovereign will ...
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  • end. Therefore history is not a series of accidents or merely the story ... ==The Goal of History== The goal of history is restoration or "re ...
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  • played a major role in shaping the fields of personality psychology and ... personality, recognizing that universal laws alone could never tell the ...
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  • around fourth century B.C.E. in the basins of the Liao and Taedong Rivers ... Dynasty, also romanized as Chosŏn. See also: Names of Korea. ...
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  • Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, "People" + Mapu, "of the ... so, they reorganized their traditional way of life, gathering together previously ...
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  • :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...
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  • , also called Haakon the Old, was king of Norway from 1217 to 1263. Under ... a single (rather than two co-rulers) king of legitimate birth succeeded ...
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  • The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... The Republic of Palau consists of eight principal islands and more ...
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  • African-Americans, or Black Americans, are citizens of the United ... Before the American Civil War, 3.5 million African-Americans lived ...
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  • Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...
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  • The Long Parliament is the name of the English Parliament called by ... dissolution until after the English Civil War and at the end of Interregnum ...
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