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- – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...39 KB (5,970 words) - 04:07, 18 April 2024
- Respectfully dubbed as "The Wizard of Tuskegee," Washington ... In the decades after the war, millions of Southern freedmen needed ...32 KB (5,107 words) - 19:08, 20 November 2023
- This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... by Nikita Khrushchev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- Advertising is the business of drawing public attention to goods and ... self-regulation as intrusion of their freedom of speech or a necessary evil ...19 KB (2,738 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- the Enlightenment, and the editor-in-chief of the famous, Encyclopédie, ... The Encyclopédie, conceived as a compendium of all available knowledge ...21 KB (3,274 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder ... Goldman advocated free speech, birth control, women’s equality and ...22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
- ) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations ... go on to devote the most productive years of his life to opposing Macedon ...80 KB (11,861 words) - 09:32, 28 January 2024
- The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States ... right to free exercise of religion), freedom of speech, freedom of the press ...45 KB (6,615 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- The River Gambia flows through the center of the country and empties into ... Like its neighbor, The Gambia relies heavily on the export of groundnuts ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- ) was established immediately following the abdication of Nicholas ... of fundamental civil rights (such as freedom of speech, press, and assembly ...44 KB (5,965 words) - 22:22, 29 May 2022
- Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers ... the United States was restored at the end of the Civil War, not all Northerners ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of President of the United States ... roadside areas. She was also an advocate of the Head Start program. ...20 KB (3,091 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- in northwestern Guyana founded by Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple, mostly ... about seven miles (11 km) southwest of the small town of Port Kaituma ...26 KB (4,078 words) - 19:51, 4 May 2024
- James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... but instead narrowly defined the powers of the government. Opponents of ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
- in society that are deemed to be the objects of discrimination. ... * Freedom of Speech * Censorship * Cancel culture * Newspeak ...38 KB (4,999 words) - 19:46, 31 October 2022
- wing causes, she was a vigorous proponent of social justice and critic of ... Louisiana into a Jewish family. During most of her childhood she spent half ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- material, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity ... mid-twentieth century that it became a part of western mainstream culture ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying ... arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of ... actor, contributing not just to the world of entertainment but influencing ...42 KB (5,991 words) - 14:35, 27 January 2023
- Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025) was one of India's great literary ... had attained enlightenment, is one of the great accomplishments in ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was the unsuccessful ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- and scientist who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, ... brave and bold move for the cause of freedom of speech. ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- African American literature is the body of literature produced in ... over the centuries, so, too, have the foci of African American literature ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- known as a tank tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored ... His strong advocacy of France's role in world affairs ensured ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... Khrushchev is remembered for his rejection of the “personality cult” ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- An American abolitionist, she was most famous as the author of The ... Howe was a woman of great religious conviction whose belief in "deed ...13 KB (2,163 words) - 09:30, 12 May 2024
- The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ...42 KB (6,087 words) - 00:57, 30 December 2022
- have the same civil rights—freedom of speech, freedom of religious ... speech be encompassed within freedom of speech protections, as granted ...55 KB (8,456 words) - 18:51, 22 November 2023
- The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Bernhard ... have been honored more than once, a total of 813 different individuals and ...34 KB (5,294 words) - 02:33, 16 November 2022
- 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916) was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目金之助 ... just one year and a half before the start of the Meiji Reformation, in Edo ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 18:25, 21 July 2023
- " and he is credited as Francis on some of his early albums. His real ... and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of ...27 KB (4,049 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- | order=16th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1861 ... | date of birth=February 12, 1809 | place of birth=Hardin County, Kentucky ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917. It was originally patterned ... Assembly in a more timely fashion is one of the reasons for the failure ...40 KB (5,691 words) - 16:00, 22 July 2022
- centuries that sought to end the practice of slavery and the worldwide slave ... are created equal, apparent to the framers of the U.S. Constitution, has ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- /ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full ...30 KB (4,264 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- lady during an era when the Golden Years of Hollywood were evolving into ... left her unable to cope with the rigors of dance so she chose a career ...27 KB (4,189 words) - 18:28, 21 August 2023
- Tacitus (c. 56 C.E. – c. 117 C.E.) was one of the important historians of ... has been most influential outside the field of history. While recognizing ...43 KB (6,444 words) - 02:48, 27 February 2023
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield PC (March 2, 1705 – March ... that slavery was immoral. This is an example of how a slavish adherence to ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 2022
- He led France during World War I and was one of the major voices behind the ... in New York. He was impressed by the freedom of speech and expression which ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 15:12, 21 May 2024
- It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,676 words) - 17:16, 20 May 2024
- The grey girders are the original structure of the works.]] ... have expanded the right of freedom of speech to ensure that speakers ...16 KB (2,407 words) - 01:55, 15 December 2022
- from the word "gram," means "of the village." The bank ... The origin of Grameen Bank traces back to 1976. Muhammad Yunus, a ...25 KB (3,568 words) - 12:15, 24 January 2023
- in his writings, particularly the absurdity of existence in a brutal and apparently ... Though Camus’ work is often associated with that of another important ...25 KB (3,796 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- attitudes towards minorities. Kipling, of course, was a man of his times ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... thought." She said "freedom of speech is not what it used ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 2023
- assembly, religious tolerance, freedom of speech (in the form of language ... previously unheard of tone. The freedom of speech also opened the floodgates ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 04:25, 24 May 2024
- (January 31, 1938 - ) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until ... so Beatrix followed in the footsteps of four remarkable women. The ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- (أبو عمّار). Arafat was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ... of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004). Arafat ...34 KB (5,106 words) - 09:50, 23 May 2023
- and shares on a computer screen instead of by telephone or on a trading ... Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world along with ...17 KB (2,456 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- novelist, editor, and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian ... as a powerful act in support of the freedom of speech, in 1939 passed largely ...40 KB (5,765 words) - 22:46, 29 June 2023
- right|frame|Official White House photograph of Vice President Rockefeller, 1975]] Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), of ...23 KB (3,392 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper ... racism and the degrading conditions of blacks undermined the recognition ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- According to the teachings of the Buddha, a proper understanding of ... *Form—in terms of an external object (such as a sound) and its associated ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement and ... , an epic poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for ... Despite being diagnosed with a rare early-onset slow-progressing form ...67 KB (9,596 words) - 04:41, 28 April 2023
- statesman Pericles. She was born in the city of Miletus in Asia Minor, and ... Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon, Aeschines ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... *Freedom of speech—the right to hold and espouse any opinion without ...74 KB (11,141 words) - 21:10, 25 May 2024
- The history of Solidarity begins in September 1980, at the Gdańsk ... 2004, ISBN 0415933978), 114. to members of the anti-communist Left. Solidarity ...34 KB (5,074 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- together to challenge the immoral system of racial segregation. The movement ... The founding fathers of the United States had written of humanity ...74 KB (11,453 words) - 06:02, 16 June 2023
- was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth ... also had their heroes from the long history of Irish revolt against the British ...44 KB (6,781 words) - 18:16, 24 January 2024
- December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves ... In addition to poetry, Graves also wrote a number of novels and works ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- he was posthumously made an Honorary Citizen of the United States; there are ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 12:41, 22 May 2024
- |affiliations = Association of American Universities |website ... initial $1 million endowment in the hopes of making a contribution to the ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian ... between cause and effect in the events of history. History of the Peloponnesian ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- thumb|200px|Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper ... and politician. After leading the overthrow of the British monarchy, he ruled ...31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
- who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...35 KB (5,253 words) - 23:47, 29 May 2024
- political leader who was the chief architect of the Constitution of India. spent his life fighting against the system of Hindu untouchability and the ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- , meaning "non-absolutism," is one of the basic principles of Jainism ... modern judicial systems, democracy, freedom of speech, secularism, all implicitly ...30 KB (4,673 words) - 18:01, 27 July 2023
- adversaries into friends and resolve issues of injustice and oppression. Gandhi ... Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha also had a profound impact ...17 KB (2,735 words) - 22:38, 3 April 2020
- in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral ... Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative ...51 KB (7,336 words) - 04:32, 11 March 2023
- poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ... independent intellectuals, demanding freedom of speech instead. ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox ... sedition. While reluctant to lose control of the island, it was clear to ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. A third of the country is forested, and ... Government restrictions on freedom of speech, press and religion ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual (that of ... freedom to assemble or to gather, freedom of speech, freedom of scientific ...36 KB (5,334 words) - 18:41, 22 August 2023
- He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the twentieth century on the ... In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- Sudetenland Crisis among the major powers of Europe after a conference held ... The Sudetenland was an area of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans ...18 KB (2,719 words) - 18:57, 10 November 2022
- and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, he was also known as Badshah Khan ... was a land owner, farmer, and the chief of the Mohammedzais ("sons ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States. They speak ... became famous for their "Flight" of over 1,000 miles from Idaho ...36 KB (5,544 words) - 23:25, 14 November 2022
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role ... Sardār), which means Chief in many languages of India. ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, and a major ... The city of Freetown was founded in 1787, by Great Britain as a settlement ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- She was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and Harriet ... to further the above causes, as well as that of the Christian Temperance Movement ...24 KB (3,721 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- journalist and novelist, who was one of the leading literary figures ... death, as Dreiser did not live to see many of his novels published in their ...16 KB (2,526 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- | order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... | date of birth=August 27, 1908 | place of birth=Stonewall, Texas ...44 KB (6,749 words) - 03:18, 5 November 2022
- January 28, 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She ... nature." She was a member of the freedom of speech-promoting, anti-imperialist ...33 KB (4,278 words) - 23:35, 30 October 2023
