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- General. He also was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864, and was the first Roman Catholic ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, ... and eventually Georgia state Supreme Court justice. While his public life mirrored ...6 KB (819 words) - 21:23, 6 May 2024
- Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, ... The use of the Commerce Clause by Congress to justify its legislative ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- writings on British common law served as the definitive legal texts for ... Coke's works served not only as the definitive legal texts of ...10 KB (1,545 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- 1957), older sister to Grace Abbott, both of Grand Island, Nebraska, began ... Edith Abbott was born into a family that believed in the ideals of ...7 KB (1,082 words) - 18:12, 12 February 2024
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark United States ... 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
- === Second Chief Justice of the United States === [[Image:John Rutledge ... In 1795, the Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay, was elected ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- 17, 1858) was born in Virginia as a slave to the Peter Blow family. He was ... The U.S. Supreme Court decision on March 6, 1857, was historic as ...9 KB (1,416 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- is a well-known American jurist and a justice on the United States Supreme ... The decisions of past jurists and legislators may or may not have ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- She is known for her work to improve the living and working conditions ... In 1886, she joined the Women's Educational and Industrial Union ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 16:13, 7 November 2022
- The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... The Radical Republicans took a hard line against the Confederacy early ...11 KB (1,485 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- | title=Chief Justice of the United States | term_start=February 4, 1801 ... of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements ... Perjury is the giving of false testimony under oath. The word comes ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 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
- The Bill of Rights 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the full ... The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, part ... As a body of qualified individuals who hear complaints of an offense ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 12:16, 24 January 2023
- lawyer who played a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and outlawing ... in Washington, D.C., just blocks away from the Supreme Court building. His ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- Supreme Court as the first Chief Justice of the United States from 1789 to ... nominated Jay as the first Chief Justice of the United States. Serving from ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- , is a landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise ... though recently appointed Chief Justice of the United States, continued ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... The Libray has been guided by the "belief that universal access ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary team ... The cost of enforcing prohibition was high, and the lack of tax revenues ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 16:13, 13 February 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 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
- the United States, the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of ... | title=Chief Justice of the United States | before=Edward Douglass White ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- Constitutional law is the foundational body of law of nation states ... These foundational or basic laws of states or organizations, guided ...11 KB (1,572 words) - 16:59, 21 April 2021
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The court consists of nine justices: chief justice of the United States ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in ... Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the eldest of the four children ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- religion established by Felix Adler in 1876. The Ethical Culture Movement is ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- The Doctors' Trial is the unofficial name for the particular ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- 1935) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United ... and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 00:24, 18 November 2022
- December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man. He is notable ... Sitting Bull was born around 1831 near the Grand River in present ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 22:40, 29 January 2023
- [[Image:Old Bailey Microcosm edited.jpg|250px|thumb|A trial at the ... civil, labor, administrative, and criminal justice under its laws. In common ...21 KB (3,221 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the ANC ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- Dred Scott v. Sandford,John Vishneski, "What the Court Decided ... also known as the "Dred Scott Case" or "Dred Scott ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that ... The decision in Roe v. Wade prompted a still-continuing national debate ...34 KB (5,154 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- social worker who specifically focused on the advancement of child welfare ... One of four children, Grace Abbott was raised in a home environment ...7 KB (998 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
- American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 05:14, 3 August 2022
- Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which ... Investigations conducted by the FBI, Senate Watergate Committee, House ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 14:08, 31 May 2022
- official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor General of the United ... The contentious confirmation battle that led to the Senate rejecting ...35 KB (4,931 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from ... During her period in office, the leader of the official opposition ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- judges, and their law clerks in finding the legal resources necessary ... The processes of legal research vary according to the country and ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2023
- South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together with ... Influenced by the ideals of the United States Declaration of Independence ...15 KB (2,196 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- April 19, 1974) was a Field Marshal during the mid-1960s, and the President ... Ayub Khan was born in the village of Rehana in Haripur District to ...18 KB (2,831 words) - 14:50, 7 February 2023
- leader in colonial Virginia's House of Burgesses, delegate to the ... Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he was one of the most radical advocates ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2022
- John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the ... Coolidge was re-sworn by Chief Justice of the United States William Howard ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Case citation 347 U.S. 483 ... A companion case dealt with the constitutionality of segregation in ...25 KB (3,783 words) - 04:40, 22 November 2023
- for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic ... At the close of his life, Stevenson was respected by people of all ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- 10, 1878 - June 14, 1946) was President of Guatemala from February 14 ... 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
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- literary fame at age 17, after writing the poem, "Thanatopsis." ... shaped American thought and politics in the nineteenth century. He was ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African-American to ... ideas took many years to come to any sort of fruition, his tenure as the ...24 KB (3,985 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- Building or "Castle" on the National Mall serves as the ... been held by the current Chief Justice of the United States. The affairs ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- Federalist No. 3, titled "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning ... law when he served as Chief Justice of the United States two years later ...17 KB (2,445 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- 2023) was an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice ... moderate political views, O'Connor was the crucial swing vote of the ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth ... to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear as the second of ten children. The ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- The term Christus Victor (meaning "Victorious Christ") is ... This particular doctrine of the atonement attempts to explain why ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 21:44, 10 December 2023
- and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism ... Godwin held the optimistic view that every individual, as a rational ...22 KB (3,378 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was ... to maintain national unity or to resolve the ongoing dispute with India ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- crime and its penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was ... His political leanings were conservative, which enabled him to become ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- In United States law, adopted from the Magna Carta, due process (more ... proceedings, in order for judges instead of legislators to guarantee fundamental ...45 KB (7,039 words) - 01:13, 16 January 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
- and politician, who, in 1957, became the first Canadian to receive ... universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan and Canada ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated ... The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen ...17 KB (2,377 words) - 02:43, 11 March 2023
- – June 11, 1970) served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian ... In the aftermath of the collapse of the autocracy, hastened by Russian ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- The Cook Islands (Cook Islands Maori: Kūki 'Āirani) are a self ... National defense is the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation ...16 KB (2,204 words) - 02:53, 8 January 2024
- housing, or education—but also to redress the effects of past discrimination ... admissions, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination|right ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- The Republic of Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa, ... Liberia has recently been afflicted by two civil wars, the Liberian ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- Washington's Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated ... Colloquially, the day is also now widely known as Presidents' ...19 KB (2,531 words) - 23:00, 3 May 2023
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward ... The islands' proximity to South America has influenced its culture ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted ... 12, 1859 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of U.S. congressman ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- a Nigerian politician and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and native of Ikenne in ... Awolowo was well aware that the challenge of holding Nigeria's ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- is a lawyer and Argentine politician from the Justicialist Party and the ... Isabel Martínez de Perón, or Eva), but the first to be elected. Sworn ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- lawyer but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery ... As a Radical Republican leader in the Senate during Reconstruction ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles arguing for the ... Jay would become the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court ...32 KB (4,993 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- – February 1, 1922) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and ... Sent to Europe in 1869 by the government to research European military ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was the business ... of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the United States, and Edwin ...26 KB (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
- ) is the world's fourth-largest non-government energy company ... Chevron originated as the Pacific Coast Oil Company, founded in 1879 ...26 KB (3,656 words) - 18:40, 8 December 2023
- 23, 1800), South Carolina statesman, was one of four signers of the Declaration ... A delegate at both the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- Irish Civil Rights protesters were shot by the soldiers of the British Parachute ... that those shot at were all unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- | location = New York, New York, United States | origins = ... The Ford Foundation is a charitable foundation incorporated in Michigan ...17 KB (2,437 words) - 06:20, 1 April 2024
- those empowered to use force and other forms of coercion and legal means to ... The responsibilities of police include fighting crime, but more generally ...30 KB (4,393 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2023
- O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter ... Among his more famous offerings are "The Ransom of Red Chief ...22 KB (3,541 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:BLAKE12.JPG|thumb|"A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to ... Lynching is a form of violence, usually murder, considered by its ...23 KB (3,493 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- [[image:Robert_F._Kennedy_1964.jpg|thumb|right|Robert F. Kennedy in ... 1968), also called "RFK," was one of two younger brothers of President ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- who later became the first Chief Justice of the United States; Alexander ... Father, diplomat and First Chief Justice of the United States]] More recent ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- D (January 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891), was the first Prime Minister of Canada ... met his mother, Helen Shaw, in 1811. After the failure of his father's ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- |Caption=The statue of Art Rooney outside Heinz Field. |Color=black ... Arthur Joseph Rooney Sr. (January 27, 1901 - August 25, 1988) was ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support ... a headscarf and for allegedly shaking the hand of a man. Defending her ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife ... During the Civil Rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s she worked ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... unopposed for a second term in 1820. With the opposition Federalist Party ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ... Although a staunch Protestant and member of the Orange Order, Trimble was ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 08:32, 28 January 2024
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... down, derived from custom or implied. In the United States and most continental ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso ...15 KB (2,110 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- [[Image:Chiefs wife.jpg|right|thumb|200 px|Nuer woman, second wife ... The Nuer are a people located primarily in southern Sudan along the ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the ... The parliamentary system was the first form of representative government ...32 KB (4,950 words) - 13:21, 11 March 2023
- Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political ... as President from 1833 until 1837, then in the Senate until his death. Considered ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- | order=38th President of the United States | date1=August 9, 1974 ... | date of birth=July 14, 1913 | place of birth=Omaha, Nebraska ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2021
- was a Pakistani politician who served as the President of Pakistan from ... Bhutto was executed in 1979 for allegedly authorizing the murder of ...37 KB (5,508 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- Carpetbaggers in the United States were Northerners who moved to the ... "Carpetbagger" was a term originated to describe the luggage ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a captain in ... Widely considered America's first spy, a copy of Frederick MacMonnies ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:31, 11 November 2022
- The Washington Monument is a large white-colored obelisk at the west ... The monument is made of marble, granite, and sandstone. It was designed ...23 KB (3,484 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- 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
- an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau ... administrations, encompassed Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War ...27 KB (3,966 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2024
- ; born June 13, 1944) is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth ... On October 13, 2006, he was elected as the eighth Secretary-General ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- |popplace=United States (Oklahoma, Montana) |rels=Christianity, other ... The Cheyenne are a Native American tribe that originally lived in ...31 KB (4,746 words) - 20:56, 9 December 2023
- Calvinism is a system of Christian theology advanced by John Calvin ... John Calvin's international influence on the development of the ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 18:38, 25 November 2023
- The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal revealed in 1986 as ... While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause, ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- |flag_caption = Oklahoma Choctaw Battalion Flag during the American ... |regions = United States(Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama) ...38 KB (5,802 words) - 17:09, 10 December 2023
- American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ... Abe Fortas to the post of chief justice of the United States. Thurmond& ...27 KB (3,778 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- The Commonwealth of Virginia is a Southeastern state considered part ... The Virginia Colony was the first part of the Americas to be continuously ...41 KB (5,879 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- Helen Elizabeth Clark (born February 26, 1950) was the 37th Prime ... Loosing the 2008 election, she was appointed foreign affairs spokeswoman. ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
- Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short stories and novels ... by Jews near Warsaw in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, probably ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831–September 19, 1881) was ... Garfield is the only person in United States history to be a Representative ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- Nauru (pronounced “now-roo”), officially the Republic of Nauru ... economic activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... Scalia, John Roberts ([[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief]]), Anthony ...85 KB (12,298 words) - 05:39, 11 August 2023
- Robin Hood. He gained this reputation (and the nickname "Jackrabbit ... and stolen over $300,000, an enormous sum in the Depression era, totaling nearly ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa ... It was inhabited in pre-colonial times by a number of ancient kingdoms ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the highest ranking American military ... Governor Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States was "the ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- ISBN 978-0415200493). A modern Hindu sect, the Brahma Kumaris articulate ... Lawrence A. Babb, Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the ...28 KB (3,991 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- 17, 1933 – May 12, 2003), served as United Nations High Commissioner ... Born in Paris, France, he was the son of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of ... Criminal punishment, depending on the offense and jurisdiction, may ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- patriot, Massachusetts delegate to the First and Second Continental ... and his long tenure as Chief Justice of the United States represents ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1946. SNU, the first national university ... Seoul National University's history presents a cross-section ...21 KB (2,854 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- The Delaware Crossing was declared to be the moment of George Washington’s ... General Washington was faced with overwhelming military odds and the ...16 KB (2,582 words) - 23:10, 3 May 2023
- April 2, 1872) was an American, a painter of portraits and historic scenes ... Samuel Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 12:03, 6 September 2022
- historian, and political activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South ... During the time when predominantly black-white civil rights issues ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- The Igbo, sometimes referred to as Ibo, are one of the largest single ... The Igbo share linguistic ties with their neighbors the Bini, Igala ...21 KB (3,253 words) - 16:00, 12 February 2024
- Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the ... As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- 000 (McLean & Elkind, 2003) and was one of the world's leading electricity ... At the end of 2001 it was revealed that Enron’s reports of high ...31 KB (4,550 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the commanding ... Called to Washington to assume command of the Union armies after his ...47 KB (7,335 words) - 03:32, 17 November 2023
- The Arab-Israeli conflict ( الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي ... ) spans nearly a century of political tensions and open hostilities ...29 KB (4,317 words) - 20:21, 11 August 2023
- The Almoravids, was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over ... The exact meaning of "Murabit" (from which Almoravid is ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities ... The term "Commission" can mean either the college of Commissioners ...35 KB (5,142 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- former Communist Party member, testified to the House Un-American Activities ... During the pretrial discovery process, Chambers produced new evidence ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- 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
- |country = United States |coor = ... |free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- The Russian Provisional Government ( Временное правительство ... ) was established immediately following the abdication of Nicholas ...44 KB (5,965 words) - 22:22, 29 May 2022
- The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... From its headquarters in Independence, Missouri, the church places ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- town in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was ... Wounded Knee Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the Pine Ridge ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth ... Alternative spellings of his first and last names include Saïd, Syed ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- An ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly, held on the July 22 ... The flag displays a horizontal tricolour of "deep saffron" ...33 KB (5,237 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- , a euphemism for the up to 200,000 women who were forced to serve ... in military Comfort Stations throughout the Japanese theater during World ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... upon the 1835 death of the Chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall ...54 KB (8,496 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特別行政區 ... (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- The Contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing ... The term "Contra" comes from the Spanish la contra, short ...20 KB (2,936 words) - 02:50, 8 January 2024
- and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of ... Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender ...79 KB (11,056 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- [[File:President John F. Kennedy Meets with National Association for ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 23:05, 31 October 2023
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- August 16, 2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary ... At the height of its power in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely ...43 KB (6,718 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the ... The Jay Treaty—named after Chief Justice of the United States John ...58 KB (9,004 words) - 11:02, 13 December 2023
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972), officially titled "The ... Numerous unethical actions -- including lack of informed consent, ...41 KB (6,364 words) - 00:19, 27 December 2021
- William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...27 KB (3,892 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- in official matters as x-rated material, is the explicit representation of ... Though mass-distributed pornography is as old as the printing press ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- The word deacon is derived from the Greek word diakonos (διάκονος ... Among the more prominent deacons in history are Saint Stephen, Philip ...20 KB (3,190 words) - 19:56, 22 May 2020
- best known for his pioneering work in the use of radio wave transmissions ... Marconi's mastery of long-distance signal transmission by radio ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
- in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ... As one of the "Seven Sisters," Wellesley has been and continues ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 23:29, 3 May 2023
- The Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental ... to its citizens and the duties of the citizens to the State. Those ...44 KB (6,390 words) - 07:20, 15 April 2024
- |caption =Keating Hall with Edwards Parade in the foreground ... |country = United States |undergrad = 8,430 |postgrad = 7,579 ...33 KB (4,668 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- known for his home-bred screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred ... He first pursued a career as an architect before being drawn to the ...25 KB (3,865 words) - 16:36, 30 January 2023
- |image_caption = Opothleyahola, Muscogee Creek Chief, 1830s ... |popplace=United States (Oklahoma, Alabama) |rels=Protestantism, other ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an English-speaking archipelagic ... The original native inhabitants of the Islands at the time of Columbus ...26 KB (3,773 words) - 15:29, 30 April 2023
- The Partition of Bengal in 1947 divided Bengal into the two separate ... The government of Bengal supported a unified, independent Bengal as ...19 KB (2,769 words) - 23:04, 28 June 2023
- (August 12, 1924 – August 17, 1988) was the president and military ruler ... During his tenure, he advanced the Islamization of Pakistan and carried ...33 KB (4,947 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- The 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident, sometimes referred to as the ... A subsequent USAF investigation blamed the accident on several factors ...67 KB (10,179 words) - 23:19, 30 March 2024
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- | motto = Utraque Unum("Both into One")From ... | affiliations = Association of Jesuit Colleges | fightsong ...40 KB (5,605 words) - 08:22, 23 January 2023
- He is best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger ... The Chambers-Hiss saga was an important case in the 1950s "Red ...35 KB (5,145 words) - 18:42, 4 May 2023
- New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
- George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... The Bush family has a significant history in United States politics ...61 KB (9,229 words) - 08:20, 23 January 2023
- Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation ... The earliest settlers were probably Tamils from southern India. Today ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- |affiliations = Association of American Universities |website ... university in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. Founded in ...32 KB (4,475 words) - 14:20, 3 May 2023
- licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing ... Originally founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the ...49 KB (6,708 words) - 10:40, 10 March 2023
- 1917 – September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to ... Marcos initially had laudable intentions: to improve the economy, ...51 KB (7,579 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... As an Islamist identified with the Salafi movement, Zarqawi opposed ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was the ... The trial, presided over by Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
- colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the ... be by a King at least, and not by a parcel of upstart lawless Committeemen ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 04:14, 4 November 2022
- or individual journalists. Coined in the 1890s to describe the sensationalist ... However, the era of yellow journalism was influential both in galvanizing ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 09:56, 23 May 2023
- The United Nations (or simply UN) is an international organization ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases ... He was the youngest son of General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 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
- jpg|250 px|Sketch by Samuel de Champlain of a Huron deer hunt using a large ... United States – Ohio, Oklahoma, Michigan, Kansas |langs= Wendat, ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary ... Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from ... in surgery. He became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan ... Niger was an important economic crossroad, and the empires of Songhai ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
- , and (1871–1872), as President of Mexico.For resisting the French ... and adoption of a federalist constitution. ==Early life== ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 09:15, 27 September 2023
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- ; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives ... Lewis fulfilled many critical roles in the civil rights movement and ...59 KB (8,081 words) - 20:53, 1 May 2024
- The United States House of Representatives is the larger of the two ... The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol. The ...85 KB (12,273 words) - 00:47, 30 December 2023
- The political integration of India established a united nation for ... When the Indian independence movement succeeded in ending the British ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country ... From 1991 to 2002, the country suffered greatly under the devastating ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- BP p.l.c., previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest ... BP began as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd., registered in 1909 ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- and Bahujan political leader who was the chief architect of the Constitution ... community he spent his life fighting against the system of Hindu untouchability ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- and nineteenth centuries that sought to end the practice of slavery and the ... The truth, self-evident, that all men are created equal, apparent ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... United States is tried, the chief justice of the United States presides over ...71 KB (10,564 words) - 21:06, 30 December 2023
- |motto = Vox clamantis in deserto(The voice of one crying ... * Salmon P. Chase—Chief Justice of the United States * Robert Frost—poet ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
- South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United ... Located in the north-central United States, South Dakota is bisected ...41 KB (6,101 words) - 15:37, 4 February 2023
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- Wallis and Futuna, is a group of three volcanic tropical islands—Wallis ... The Wallis Archipelago is the most populated of the island group and ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- Shekh Hasina Oajed) (born September 28, 1947) is the Prime Minister ... The fact that Hasina is her father's daughter has played a significant ...39 KB (5,517 words) - 21:25, 20 December 2022
- , Hanyu Pinyin: bào'ēnsì, English: Temple of Thanksgiving ... were added. In addition, features making the temple convenient and safe ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid ... He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms"), is an English ... Magna Carta was originally created because of disagreements between ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- Edward II (April 25, 1284 – September 21, 1327), of Caernarfon, ... Edward II was the first monarch to establish colleges in the universities ...27 KB (4,277 words) - 18:25, 12 February 2024
- Alexander I also called Alexander I Karađorđević or Alexander the ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 14:24, 18 July 2023
- Maryland is a state located on the East Coast of the United States ... It was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution ...45 KB (6,596 words) - 08:44, 10 March 2023
- was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties ... Darrow remains notable for his oratory utilizing the wit, compassion ...21 KB (3,485 words) - 22:33, 10 December 2023
- North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions ... The Missouri River flows through the western part of the state and ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred ... The Articles set the rules for operations of the "United States ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
- McCarthyism is a term describing the intense anti-communist suspicion ... senator. Earl Warren, the Chief Justice of the United States, commented ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... | date of birth= March 15, 1767 | place of birth= Waxhaw, South Carolina ...39 KB (5,930 words) - 17:50, 27 July 2023
- The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación ... former FSLN allies as well as supporters of the former Somoza regime. More ...51 KB (7,226 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- Unit 731, short for Manshu Detachment 731, was a unit of the Imperial ... The heinous acts of torture committed by Unit 731 mirrored the inhumane ...57 KB (8,103 words) - 19:47, 9 February 2022
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed ... ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-nineteenth century. He ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers ... was founded in England in the seventeenth century as a Christian religious ...39 KB (6,129 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- The People's Republic of Bangladesh lies in a corner of South ... Bangladesh's rank among the most densely populated countries ...30 KB (4,435 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the ... against Darwinism, which culminated in the Scopes Trial in 1925. Like ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- Utah, a state located in the western United States, was the 45th state ... Utah's pivotal central western location makes the state a natural ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... For thirty-three years one of the great mysteries of American politics ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress ... As the son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- to publish and distribute leaflets under the group name of the White Rose ... http://www.shoaheducation.com/whiterose.html The White Rose.] Retrieved July ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- Brasília is the capital of Brazil, located in the central part of ... As the world's first capital city conceived by modern standards ...27 KB (4,135 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- , also Sikhim) - a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas ... ranking as the second-smallest in area after Goa. The thumb-shaped ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... When Yucatán became a state in 1824 it occupied the entire peninsula ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- :This article refers to the South Korean private university. For the ... South Korea, has earned recognition as one of the leading universities in ...28 KB (3,704 words) - 21:29, 4 June 2023
- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929–April 4, ... 's impact and legacy was not limited to the U.S., but was worldwide, including ...58 KB (9,123 words) - 17:52, 18 January 2023
- The Rastafari movement (or "Rasta" for short) is a Jamaican ... The movement is called Rastafarianism by scholars, although some Rastafari ...26 KB (4,200 words) - 17:24, 16 April 2023
- :This article covers the political aspects of the American Revolution ... The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half ...47 KB (6,905 words) - 06:45, 25 July 2023
- The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest Massacre, was a ... The massacre is of note for a number of reasons, but primarily due ...48 KB (7,094 words) - 22:04, 3 March 2023
- M. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow), was a socially and ... A Calvinist, Mather combined mystical recognition of an invisible ...26 KB (3,857 words) - 08:24, 10 January 2024
- George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018) was ... During the final days of the Cold War, he was responsible for managing ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President ... that day, shines brightly in history while the other speeches have long been ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... Mill formulated the “greatest happiness principle,” which held ...27 KB (4,047 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
