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- Independence Hall is a United States national landmark located in ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther ... King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the ... This compromise was viewed in its day as one of the most important ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 19:18, 9 November 2022
- The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... policy in a vastly improved climate from the authoritarian South Korean ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- issues that are generally shocking to the public. Generally, muckraking ... Given their name by Theodore Roosevelt when he likened their work ...11 KB (1,585 words) - 17:31, 11 May 2020
- with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The Cold War ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney ... Unlike Marshall, who had supported a broad role for the federal government ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- American nurse and social worker, active in the late nineteenth and early ... German-Jewish middle-class family. She was the third of four children born ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- Mexico CityWhig candidate for President of the United States, 1852 ... passed over its own incumbent President of the United States, Millard Fillmore ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- was a Seychellois politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- and oceanography. He was influential in the development of modern systematic ... His name is honored with the Alexander Agassiz Medal established in ...9 KB (1,298 words) - 09:40, 15 May 2021
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- (November 10, 1878 - June 14, 1946) was President of Guatemala from February ... his post when he was forced to resign, but the regime replacing him was short ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 06:28, 6 May 2024
- Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was a United ... The tragic death of her only daughter marked a turning point that ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...17 KB (2,707 words) - 09:04, 18 November 2022
- ; ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- and a women's rights activist, and the first woman in the United ... Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- The White House is the residence and official office of the president of the United States. The White House is located on 18 acres of land at ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- was an American social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work ... on April 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 19:20, 14 February 2023
- The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation in 1838, of the ... This was caused by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Cherokee Trail ...16 KB (2,520 words) - 04:56, 1 May 2023
- quot; in David Merrick's production of Hello Dolly!—a part first ... She was born in Newport News, Virginia, (also the birth place of legendary ...10 KB (1,596 words) - 07:09, 23 November 2022
- Labor Day, or Labour Day in Canada, is a an annual holiday in the ... Today, in both countries, the holiday is generally viewed as a time ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- The Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA, French ... The need for a single body to oversee the worldwide game became apparent ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- The Taif Agreement was negotiated in Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving ... On May 11, 2004, President of the United States George W. Bush signed ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- 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
- The HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership ... HJI offers professional training in the ministry, serving a wide spectrum ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States ... Although Lincoln won the Republican presidential nomination over Seward ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861). He was the only bachelor president ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923 ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the ... traditionally hosted by the President of the United States and the First ...22 KB (2,997 words) - 16:12, 20 July 2023
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... resolution calling on the President of the United States to issue a proclamation ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- and candidate for President of the United States. After 150 years, Cooper's legacy of Cooper Union still provides scholarship for those ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... human beings as essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (identified on ... Designed by famed New York architect Edward Durell Stone, the Kennedy ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 23:38, 5 July 2023
- and sociologist, and first president of the American Sociological ... Lester Frank Ward was born in Joliet, Illinois, into the family of ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- civil-rights activist, a field secretary of the National Association for ... July 2, 1925, near Decatur, Mississippi, as the third of four children of ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- and educator, most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism ... Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 2023
- Stephen Arnold Douglas nicknamed the "Little Giant" (April ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
- 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, the leading exponent of the music ... a devout Baptist. After moving to Chicago in the late 1920s, she worked with ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed ... Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained ... The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a key ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- is a lawyer and Argentine politician from the Justicialist Party and the ... She is Argentina's second female president (after Isabel Martínez ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... A hero to some and a villain to others, Gompers founded the American ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- well-known American jurist and a justice on the United States Supreme Court ... The decisions of past jurists and legislators may or may not have ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and ... While never rising to the presidency, Clay became perhaps the most ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States ... secretary of state, and Vice President of the United States. He was an outspoken ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and ... Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831–September 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He was a strong opponent of slavery ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- Francis Amasa Walker (July 2, 1840 – January 5, 1897) was a United ... in his beliefs, particularly regarding the issue of immigration. He feared ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians ... Margaret Chase was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1897 ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- volunteer, French Intervention hero, and President. He ruled Mexico from 1876 ... tackle racial divides, but it was a period of relative political stability ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 05:38, 30 November 2022
- Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (b. June 29, 1945) was the fifth ... elected leaders when Kumaratunga became President. In power, she pursued ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... | order =Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | term_start = | term_end = ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- role in Philippine independence during the Philippine Revolution against ... In the Philippines, Aguinaldo is considered to be the country's ...20 KB (2,922 words) - 18:15, 13 February 2024
- ) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at ... Solidarity was the first non-communist trade union in a Communist ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of ... the government as fully as the President of the United States stood for the ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the ... The building was originally designed by William Thornton. This plan ...23 KB (3,473 words) - 01:21, 3 May 2023
- an American anthropologist, who pioneered the ethnohistorical research technique ... In 1900, Swanton received his Ph.D. and started his fieldwork on the ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- , located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, is one of the most prestigious universities ... Today Keio Gijuku Daigaku includes undergraduate faculties of Business ...12 KB (1,563 words) - 17:19, 5 October 2022
- 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
- Maury County, Tennessee, and a third cousin of President James K. Polk. He ... His father was a well known figure during the American Revolution, who enjoyed ...10 KB (1,572 words) - 08:03, 6 March 2023
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... The organization faced controversy on several occasions over its discriminatory ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with ... a goatee, with a strong resemblance to President Abraham Lincoln, and dressed ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- governor best known for his administration of Germany immediately after World ... The Allies policy on restructuring the German economy kept changing ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- Thomas Heyward, Jr. (July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809), was a signer ... He served in the last four Royal Assemblies in the colony and in its ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- statesman, politician, and soldier. The Virginia-born Houston was ... emigration to Tennessee, time spent with the Cherokee Nation (into which ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 01:57, 23 December 2022
- politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 09:28, 28 September 2023
- jobs and helped elect politicians during the Great Depression, becoming ... and had nine brothers and sisters. In the 1890s, he worked in his brother ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 22:46, 30 April 2023
- for slavery, most famous for serving as the only president of the Confederate ... Before the Civil War, Davis served in the Mississippi legislature ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- A former Portuguese colony, Angola, known formally as the Republic ... reserves. Angolan culture reflects centuries of Portuguese influence, namely ...17 KB (2,316 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- the Democratic nomination for president of the United States to succeed incumbent ... He unsuccessfully sought the presidency five times. In 1980, McCarthy ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 04:13, 23 March 2024
- 1, 1745 - December 15, 1796), was a United States Army general and statesman ... father's tannery. In 1775, he served in the provincial assembly. The following ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 05:54, 31 July 2023
- American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ... became a candidate for President of the United States on the third ...27 KB (3,778 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- |observedby=United States |date=Last Monday in May | |observances=visiting ... |longtype=Federal (and most U.S. states) |type=national ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- an American social reformer, a pioneer in the fields of child welfare and ... born on June 29, 1858 in Rockford, Illinois, the first of five children of ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 21:08, 4 October 2022
- 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was Vice President of the Confederate States ... The causes of the Civil War remain the subject of debate and it is ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 21:02, 28 November 2023
- Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, prince and landgrave of the House ... His election as king of Finland resulted from the temporary ascendancy ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA ... holdings to make them easily accessible to the public. Since 2006, NARA collaborated ...18 KB (2,561 words) - 01:36, 11 November 2022
- and then becoming its chief general and president at various times over a ... replaced by rule by an wealthy elite while the majority of Mexicans, and ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 05:42, 11 August 2023
- William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley was one of the most popular ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was United States politician who was ... days, then went directly to law school at the University of Alabama in 1937 ...23 KB (3,280 words) - 07:33, 15 May 2024
- an American statesman and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- A philanthropic foundation is a legal categorization of nonprofit ... A philanthropic foundation is a way to live for the sake of others ...18 KB (2,622 words) - 14:49, 28 March 2023
- was a French jurist and judge. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 ... In addition to his intimate involvement in producing the UDHR, Cassin ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- Arlington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located ... grave of John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States.]] ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- socialist, and journalist. She worked with the National Consumers League ... Brooklyn, New York, just three days before the assassination of President ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- , is a landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise ... The case resulted from a petition to the Court by William Marbury ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- Records and made a major contribution to the record industry. He also co ... The son of a distinguished Turkish diplomat, Ertegun co-founded Atlantic ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- 27, 1926 – December 9, 2009) served as President of Costa Rica from May ... in efforts to educate peacemakers. He was the founder of the University ...13 KB (1,884 words) - 14:31, 28 June 2023
- that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... is lost; this does not necessarily mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin and Khrushchev years ... Anastas Mikoyan joined the Bolshevik Party and fought in Baku during ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- economist. Tobin advocated and developed the ideas of Keynesian economics ... Outside of academia, Tobin became widely known for his suggestion ...10 KB (1,470 words) - 08:52, 1 April 2024
- :This article is about the publisher and soldier. For the United States ... 30, 1917) was an American newspaper mogul, the owner and editor-in-chief ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic ... was named for, had been vice president of the United States. His father, ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by ... located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda ...13 KB (1,876 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- American politician, Union general in the American Civil War, and diplomat ... He received the Medal of Honor, although very late in his career. ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
