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- Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, ... Racial segregation is characterized by separation of people of different ...23 KB (3,411 words) - 22:42, 7 December 2022
- by Herbert Spencer's application of the evolution theory of Charles ... American history, promoting the concept of the United States as the climax ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- the greatest of China's Legalist philosophers. Along with Li ... work is collected in the 55 chapters of Han Feizi, which is also important ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- for combatants as defined in laws of war. In the history of war (which ... have conducted operations according to the laws of war To be entitled ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a law passed ... on January 1, 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- clearly formulate the fundamental principles of thermodynamics. He also placed ... Clausius was born in Köslin in the Province of Pomerania, the son ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War he was the first black man ... helped to bolster support for the entrance of blacks into the military. They ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- Carl Robert Byoir (June 24, 1888 – February 3, 1957) was one of ... he was 18 years old, Byoir became the editor of the Waterloo Times-Tribune ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 00:54, 13 January 2023
- Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and ... to the U.S. and the first popularizer of blackface performance, which ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation." ... + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races, especially ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- 27, 1963) was an American economist, the son of John Bates Clark. He was one ... Clark recognized that there were aspects of human nature that influenced ...11 KB (1,541 words) - 06:33, 3 August 2022
- against religious sites, and the seizure of church property. mere secularism or the French tradition of laïcité, which advocates ...18 KB (2,564 words) - 23:52, 27 April 2022
- General. He also was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding ... role for the federal government in the area of economic regulation, Taney ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public ... they are not bound by the competition of the business sector. In this ...18 KB (2,646 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... on natural law, which equated the authority of the king over his subjects ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- affairs, particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, ... Andrew Carnegie, like other leading internationalists of his day, ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
- Prize. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963 ... He improved pensions, and waged a "war on poverty." He pursued ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- Conflicts: The Selected Works on the Laws of War by the late professor ... Conflicts: The Selected Works on the Laws of War by the Late Professor ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 15:30, 28 January 2023
- The Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)Benjamin. A. Valentino, Final Solutions: ... those displaced by the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. This may qualify as a war ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- reformer and social activist, leader of the women's suffrage movement ... grandfather, Henry Clay. She was a cousin of Ephraim McDowell and American ...7 KB (1,006 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... that year was the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The compromise was possible after the death of President Zachary Taylor, who ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- was an Argentine intellectual and author of highly experimental novels ... Along with Borges, Cortazar is often considered to be one of the most ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- violations of international law and the laws of war. Because the court was ... treaty obligations and the customary laws of war. For example at the trial ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun ... Calhoun began his career as a staunch nationalist, favoring war with ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... He became an important critic of the anti-democratic tendencies of ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 10:45, 28 February 2023
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories ... This compromise was viewed in its day as one of the most important ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 19:18, 9 November 2022
- gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- who opposed U.S. involvement in both World War I and World War II (finally ... that he attested to. He was a stalwart of socialism who opposed communism ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was one of ... by his own existence within the restrictions of time and space, and by the ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the ... Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding ... The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1, with the majority ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress ... candidate to speak out against the Vietnam War, and for making this stance ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 04:13, 23 March 2024
- reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... India, on March 5, 1879, the eldest son of a judge in the Indian Civil ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes ... Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- woman ever allowed to practice at the bar of the United States Supreme Court ... Until her death in 1917, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Catherine Booth (January 17, 1829 – October 4, 1890) was the wife ... Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, the daughter of John Mumford and Sarah Milward ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 16:14, 3 December 2023
- the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... with Russia and Spain. By Article III of the Anglo-American Convention ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ... As humankind becomes more aware of the need to recognize all people ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 04:00, 6 October 2022
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- Pacis (“On the Law (and Rights and Wrongs) of War and Peace,” 1625) secured ... *De iure belli ac pacis (On the laws of war and peace) - 1625 ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Gwangjong (광종 光宗) (949 – 975) was the fourth Emperor of ... Gwangjong eliminated many of his powerful rivals by sending them to ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 02:33, 28 July 2023
- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- colonists against against the imposition of a British tax on tea and to ... sentiment against various restrictive laws imposed by Great Britain on ...9 KB (1,449 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
- Along with Roberto Bellarmine, he was one of the leading thinkers who defended ... was the first systematic and extensive work of metaphysics composed in the ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... Laws guaranteeing civil rights may be written down, derived from custom ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- As a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded on ... Many of Kepler's writings reflect his deep desire to understand ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... of international law. For example, laws of war were long a matter of ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- and German-controlled lands as a part of Hitler's anti-Semitic policy. ... diplomat died and Germany was in the grip of skillfully orchestrated anti ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in ... revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely that ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- #039;s work advanced economics in a number of aspects: He formalized production ... He was the creator of much of the nomenclature used in the world of ...13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- where conflict occurs between groups of people, for a variety of reasons ... The history of conflict theory can be traced back to thinkers such ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Petersburg. In 1925, to mark the centennial of the event, the square was renamed ... The Decembrists represented the elite of the military officers whose ...14 KB (2,074 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- and close sweatshops, and was co-founder of the National Association for ... just three days before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- ) was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from October 1, 1791 ... in July 1789 after the Estates General of 1789 failed to reach an agreement ...23 KB (3,164 words) - 20:20, 30 September 2023
- anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... he soon became interested in the work of W. H. R. Rivers, Alfred North ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Army and the third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member ... Japanese army and instituting a system of conscription, and in organizing ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- His stories, especially his treatment of the Cossacks in the war with ... Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ ... In terms of politics, ‘absolutism’ refers to a type of government ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- Who Holds Firm the Good"), was the son of Hystaspes and Persian Emperor ... that the Greeks and Persians were members of kindred peoples. He employed ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain ... [[Image:Midge potts arrested.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An anti-war activist ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... intelligence can bring about the betterment of society. It is usually characterized ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 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
- was the first woman appointed to the board of Edmonton Hospital. In 1916 ... #039;s role in winning legal recognition of the "person-hood" ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 09:28, 28 September 2023
- old) is a collectible item desirable because of its age, rarity, condition ... == Definition of antique == [[Image:Kepler-world.jpg|thumb|200 px|left ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- philosopher who advocated a reconstruction of society based on idea that ... in units called “phalanxes” composed of male and female representatives ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- 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 ...38 KB (6,157 words) - 21:43, 30 January 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- American suffragist, vocal advocate of gender equality, the wife of ... 039;s Massachusetts farm. She was the eighth of nine children. She became upset ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 02:36, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 2023
- represent its content or origins. The act of creating a counterfeit is called ... This is especially true of digital recordings of music and movies ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:32, 10 January 2024
- The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in ... The Glorious Revolution also saw a partnership of husband and wife ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 18:55, 31 December 2023
- 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& ...28 KB (4,576 words) - 20:04, 17 May 2023
- with police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.]] Riots occur when crowds or even small groups of people gather to commit ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- 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 ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- in all the ancient civilizations of the world, particularly in ... Stelae have provided invaluable evidence to archaeologists of the ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- 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 ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- 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 ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 12:46, 24 January 2023
- American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
- Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1278 – March 22 1322) was one of the ... Thomas Plantagenet upheld the principles of Parliamentary oversight ...17 KB (2,615 words) - 20:54, 31 October 2022
