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  • Wovoka prophesied an end to white American expansion while preaching ... Wovoka prophesied an end to white American expansion while preaching ...
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  • of the U.S. government, including the White House, were largely destroyed ... The White House was burned. Only the exterior walls remained, and ...
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  • White, E.B. [[image:EB White and his dog Minnie.png|thumb|250px]] Elwyn Brooks ...
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  • – November 28, 1960) was an African-American novelist and short story ... about a change in racial attitudes in American society and his works, which ...
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  • 10, 1895 – February 25, 1963) was an American anthropologist and pioneer ... University, under the great German-American anthropologist Franz Boas ...
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  • Ovington, Mary White [[Image:W.E.B. DuBois Mary White Ovington (168549224).jpg|thumb|right ...
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  • Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American ... recognized as a major figure in the American tradition. ...
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  • ceremonial and treaty purposes by some American indigenous people. A contraction ... restored back to its original role in Native American life. ...
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  • , Cercibis (sharp-tailed ibis), Eudocimus (white and scarlet ibises), Geronticus ... is an open question. The South American Checklist Committee's ...
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  • *Populus tremuloides - Quaking aspen, trembling aspen, or American ... *Populus alba - White poplar (northwest Africa, southern Europe, east ...
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  • name for either of two species of North American freshwater fish comprising ... crappie, with the former being called the white crappie and the later the ...
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  • Its color commonly ranges from white through pale apple green to deep ... translucent varieties, though traditionally white has been considered the most ...
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  • Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early American ... United States. Bounties offered by American manufacturers for information ...
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  • Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American ... Bourke-White was born in the Bronx, New York, to Joseph White and ...
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  • He is often depicted as a serious elderly man with white hair and ... upon some teenagers who burned the American Flag on his grave. ...
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  • Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American ... Mills" The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes, ...
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  • 1872 – February 9, 1906) was a seminal American poet in the late nineteenth ... Dunbar largely failed to convince white critics and patrons of his ...
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  • was notable for being the first Native American woman to secure a copyright ... being a collaborator with the U.S. Army and white government reservation officers ...
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  • it was the worst epidemic to strike any American city at that time. A great ... a widower, to serve as his hostess at White House social functions. Her ...
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  • 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) was an American civil rights leader, journalist ... was killed while resisting three local white men who were attempting to ...
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  • to thousands of women, both black and white, while traveling and preaching ... churches congregations are almost entirely white or almost entirely black ...
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  • crystals that are typically colorless to white, but may also be light blue ... htm An Unusual Occurrence of Halite.] American Mineralogist. 22:931-33 ...
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  • 12, 1926 – died March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, a pioneer in ... that this method was failing due to "white flight" from areas into ...
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  • diplomats awaited orders from London. The American delegates, however, included ... to return captured sailors and other American citizens, but instead a ...
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  • from a blue ribbon featuring a five-pointed white star set against a red pentagon ... right shoulder, with its rosette (blue with white edge, bearing the central ...
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  • With an advance notice of six weeks, U.S. citizens can request a White ... to provide a cultural equivalent of the American sweet sixteen party, the ...
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  • He provided opportunities for African-American players that were excluded ... with the Giles Post of the Negro American Legion League. The Giles ...
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  • However, this is not unusual since Native American history was passed down ... what many credit as the model for later American political planning. ...
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  • The American Colonization Society was founded in Liberia 1816 by Robert ... be an independent republic. By 1867, the American Colonization Society helped ...
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  • a short, wide, conical bill, which may be white or colored depending on the ... long, and is largely black except for the white facial shield (which gave ...
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  • After the end of the American Civil War in 1865, during the period ... " Concerned, several black and white citizens in New Orleans formed ...
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  • to live in peace, and to adapt to the white men’s ways while retaining ... Paiute. Wovoka prophesied an end to white American expansion while preaching ...
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  • comprising the genus Makaira and the white and striped marlins in the ... to comprise the genus Makaira and the white and striped marlins as being ...
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  • by a creative flourish among African-American artists in Harlem. As a ... sometimes criticized for selling out to white bohemians who associated ...
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  • 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an African-American scholar and writer who is ... quot; because the majority of white American society seems to pretend ...
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  • room dwelling used by certain Native American tribes. The term wickiup ... to refer to many distinct types of Native American structures regardless of ...
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  • A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, most commonly white sage ... Age movements owes a great deal to Native American history and rituals. In ...
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  • widely considered one of the best grades of white tea]] White Tea is the least processed form of tea, made only from buds ...
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  • The White House is the residence and official office of the president ... The White House is well known throughout the world as a symbol of ...
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  • Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ... Army was part of the wider so-called White Russian resistance movement ...
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  • Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was an American ... Burnham and Root were the architects of one of the first American ...
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  • 1862 - March 25, 1931), was an African-American journalist, civil rights ... She helped develop numerous African American women's and reform ...
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  • better known pieces made in only black and white. When the viewer looks at ... made up entirely of curvilinear black and white stripes that are not contained ...
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  • Mary Jemison (1743 – 1833) was an American frontier girl who was ... land and lived her later years among the white settlers there. She told ...
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  • Following encounters with white settlers moving into their lands during ... Americans in the United States|Native American]] plankhouse constructed ...
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  • her late teens she married Frank Riddle, a white settler, who had emigrated ... awareness to the plight of the Native American. When these travels were ...
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  • being destroyed by the westward expansion of white settlers. One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States ...
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  • DC. The museum's main focus is American art. of the most comprehensive collections of American art in the world. Corcoran ...
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  • music stylism and the robust sounds of American jazz, Gershwin created a ... of Western notated music with the African-American principle of improvised ...
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  • (July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter ... with the Southern cause during the American Civil War remains unclear. ...
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  • as a captain in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War he was the first ... father (rumored to have been a prominent white man). As a slave, Robert ...
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  • cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. Historically, it ... that were among the original thirteen American colonies. Another frequently ...
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  • 1930 - January 12, 1965) was the first American playwright to create a realistic ... was a respected member of the African American community on Chicago's ...
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  • 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an African-American anthropologist, novelist ... and deeply historical novels of black and white Southern life were too apolitical ...
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  • Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was a black American ... murder of a black man for talking back to a white woman. Evers walked 12 miles ...
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  • – November 25, 1949) was a pioneer and pre-eminent African-American ... circuit, Robinson would not dance for white audiences until he was 50 ...
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  • – October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist. ... and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with ...
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  • 1785 – June 28, 1830) was an African-American abolitionist, most famous ... with the nation's first African-American newspaper, the Freedom& ...
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  • the significance of the massacre in American history, and its ongoing ... and painful incidents in the history of White-Indian relations in North ...
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  • The Omaha tribe is a Native American tribe that currently reside in ... an extensive trade network with early white explorers and voyageurs. ...
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  • Ellen Gould White (née Harmon) (November 26, 1827 - July 16, 1915 ... Joseph Smith, Jr. (founder of Mormonism), White's prophetic ministry ...
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  • as one of the most important African-American writers of the mid twentieth ... Baldwin, like many American authors of the time, left to live in Europe ...
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  • |finalteam=Chicago White Sox |stat1label=Batting average ... * Chicago White Sox (1956-1957, 1959) * Detroit Tigers (1959) ...
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  • 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician ... Wayne alongside George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. From ...
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  • region, and males that are black with a white strip above the eyes. Also ... are black or blackish in color, with a white strip above their eyes. Females ...
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  • 12, 1859 – February 17, 1932) was an American social worker and reformer ... for women’s suffrage and African-American civil rights. She helped ...
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  • Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American ... he was 11, he was abused and punched by a white police officer, for not getting ...
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  • *The American bison (Bison bison), the most famous bison, formerly ... There are two extant subspecies of the American bison, the Plains ...
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  • basis of a critical political question in American politics in the nineteenth ... Paris, the Ohio Country had been closed to white settlement by the Proclamation ...
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  • Amiri Baraka (October 7, 1934 - January 9, 2014) was an American ... the prism of a brief flirtation between a white woman and black man on a ...
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  • of the Verdigris River in Oklahoma and the White River in Arkansas. It includes ... in his journal of 1673. In 1806 the American explorer Zebulon Pike traveled ...
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  • in contrast to the Junior Circuit of the American League, established as a ... While club president of the Chicago White Stockings baseball club ...
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  • and named many fossils found in the American West. He was the first American ... and those of his workers, which harmed American paleontology, damaged fossil ...
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  • December 5, 1784) was the first African American female writer to be published ... The white elite of Boston found it hard to believe that a Negro woman ...
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  • about 1879 near the tiny settlement of White Plains, west of Stony Point ... * Genth, F. A. 1883. Hiddenite. American Journal of Science 23:68. ...
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  • Jay contends that conflict between American confederacies would prevent ... any confederacy would individually.Morton White, [https://archive.org/details/phil ...
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  • May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best ... Starr wrote, "He was the first American composer to be hailed ...
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  • wife Helen Pitts Douglass (sitting) who was white, a famous nineteenth century ... referred to in the context of black and white people, miscegenation occurs ...
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  • James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American ... which marked a turning point for African American literature. Prior to this ...
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  • chief who negotiated a treaty with the white American settlers. Due to his ... Mexican forces, often with the help of American and Native American mercenaries ...
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  • characterized by a large, fleshy root and white to purple hermaphrodite flowers ... capsule named siliqua (plural siliquae, American English silique/siliques ...
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  • 5, 1951), nicknamed Shoeless Joe, was an American baseball player who played ... Scandal, when members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox participated in a conspiracy ...
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  • Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American ... that brought “Knickerbocker” into the American lexicon, and then wider ...
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  • From the first settlers who came to our shores, from the first American ... Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History to consider how ...
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  • for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. They have been ... have made significant contributions to American culture, bringing the highest ...
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  • in the mid 1950s based mainly in the American south, and several of its ... While usually thought of as a white southern genre, rockabilly's ...
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  • The Hudson River School was a mid-nineteenth century American art ... believed that nature in the form of the American landscape was an "ineffable ...
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  • The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... The Daughters of the American Revolution or DAR is a female volunteer ...
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  • 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist ... cultures and deeply admired Native American Indians. He joined a young ...
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  • the unofficial title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position ... would presumably serve as the host of the White House. There have been many ...
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  • at the end, webbed feet, and normally white or gray plumage with gray ... of Laridae (van Tuinen et al. 2004). The American Ornithologists' Union ...
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  • African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... African American genres are the most important ethnic vernacular tradition ...
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  • Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author ... combining it with the vernacular of black American English and with the struggle ...
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  • – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer ... York City in a class taught by Clarence H. White of the Photo-Secession group ...
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  • the separation of African-Americans from white Americans in public facilities ... Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, a white English migrant to the U ...
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  • The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the ... National League (the Senior Circuit). The American League champion plays in ...
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  • of a Seneca (Indian) mother and a Dutch-American father. He was born at Canawagus ... Cornplanter urged neutrality during the American Revolutionary War ...
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  • 8, 1982) was one of the most popular American country and western singers ... having listened to stories of the American West told by his maternal ...
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  • The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, and ... speaking Muskogees, and escaped African American slaves, and to a lesser ...
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  • black, gray, or brownish, often with white markings on hands, feet, ... Gibbon species include the siamang, the white-handed or lar gibbon, and ...
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  • in the city. His ideas helped lead to the American Civil War a decade after ... gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml American FactFinder] United States ...
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  • Gospel music is a genre of mostly American music characterized by ... Gospel music has played an anomalous role in American race relations ...
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  • The origin of the name, preferred by the American Chemical Society ... is unknown, but it is likely to be silvery-white or gray and metallic. If ...
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  • of the Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War—passed laws ... a period known as the "nadir of American race relations." This ...
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  • man show, which consisted of his black-and-white enamel compositions, at the ... #039; pigments, he turned to black and white household enamels to paint ...
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  • Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. of books written mainly by "dead white European males," and ...
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  • In 1910, Mott, an American Methodist layperson, presided at the Edinburgh ... #039;s auspices. By 1900, there were more American missionaries in the field ...
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  • Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American abolitionist ... a consensual lover, Samuel Sawyer, a free white man and a lawyer who eventually ...
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  • Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American ... immigrants in a rural region of the American Midwest. Sandburg's ...
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  • sought to distance themselves from the troubled White House. ... Department, the FBI, the CIA, and the White House itself. Rather than ...
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  • Betsy Ross (January 1, 1752 - January 30, 1836) was an American woman ... Washington's family pew. When the American Revolution began, John joined ...
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  • Chicago American Giants (incomplete list) Major Leagues ... by pitching batting practice for the local white minor league team. By 1925 ...
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  • 20, 1908 - December 24, 2006) was an American broadcasting executive who ... one of the primary vehicles by which the American public makes their decisions ...
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  • census.gov/statab/www/sa04aian.pdf American Indian, Alaska Native Tables ... quot; or "land of the sun," are American Indians now living primarily ...
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  • Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer and choreographer ... Twyla Tharp Dance merged with American Ballet Theatre in 1988, where ...
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  • that existed there before. Later, in the White House, when the need for ... she was gone, the president would let the White House photographer Cecil ...
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  • 30, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who won acclaim ... East Side to James Cagney Sr., an Irish American bartender and amateur boxer ...
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  • a short, vital, and exciting period in American history. ... favorites among 25 New York towers. In an American Institute of Architects ...
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  • by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper ... were established by the Hungarian-born American journalist, Joseph Pulitzer ...
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  • entertainment, who developed the modern American circus. In addition, he ... P.T. Barnum's "American Museum," and later his circus ...
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  • and Sagoyewatha after 1780, was a Native American of the Seneca tribe's ... Red Jacket urged neutrality during the American Revolutionary War ...
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  • 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. He is widely ... urban working-class to presidents at the White House. His films became part ...
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  • (European mink) and Neovison vison (American mink; synonym Mustela vison ... American mink have found their way into the wild in Europe (including ...
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  • Indian Wars, as well as from the Spanish-American War, World War I, World ... battles of the Indian Wars. In Native American terms, it was known as the ...
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  • (P. rubens), black spruce (P. mariana), white spruce (P. glauca), and Engelmann ... :2a) Cones mostly with rounded scales; leaves flattened in section ...
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  • 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963), was an American poet, author, and playwright ... evokes a lucid, poetic vision of modern American life. In 1963 he was awarded ...
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  • Greek agate is a name given to pale white to tan-colored agate found ... occur in brownish tones interlayered with white and gray. Quartz forms within ...
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  • the federal government could not revoke a white slave owner's right ... This case was one of the major factors leading to the American Civil War. ...
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  • Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American folklorist ... traditions for the library’s Archive of American Folk Music, and seventeen ...
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  • Frank Hyneman Knight (November 7, 1885 - April 15, 1972) was an American ... school but was admitted in 1905 to the American University in Tennessee ...
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  • Balsa is the common name for a fast-growing, tropical American tree ... (CDS 2007). When the flower opens, the five white petals bend backward, covering ...
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  • foot originates in the system of African-American folk magic known as hoodoo ... originally used in a negative context by white slave traders and owners ...
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  • 16, 1886 – December 27, 1966) was an American sociologist, famous for ... Burgess served as the 24th president of the American Sociological ...
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  • In technical discourse, however, as in American usage, the term "weasel ... weasel (Poecilictus libyca), and the white-naped weasel (Poecilogale ...
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  • Paiute. Wovoka prophesied an end to white American expansion while preaching ... The practice swept throughout much of the American West, quickly reaching areas ...
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  • Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American ... work and dedication for the rights of American citizens. He worked not ...
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  • The bark on young trees is smooth, white to greenish or dark gray ... seeds surrounded by tufts of long, soft, white hairs that aid wind dispersal ...
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  • or reedmace (Sterry 2008), and in American English as cattail, punks ... *Typha angustifolia x T. latifolia--Hybrid or white cattail ...
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  • it from R. strigosus, which is called the American red raspberry. However, ... three or five and the undersides are silver-white in color. Blackberries have ...
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  • separate state militias, saying that an American militia could protect any ... to protect from foreign conflict.Morton White, [https://archive.org/details/phil ...
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  • buccinator) is the largest native North American bird if measured in terms ... The Northern Hemisphere species of swan have pure white plumage, but ...
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  • born Nathaniel Adams Coles, was a popular American jazz singer-songwriter and ... Alabama, he was attacked by three white men from a white-supremacist ...
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  • lookout towers in the eastern U.S., and White Top Mountain. ... with maples and pines also common. The American black bear is common enough ...
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  • in 1838, of the Cherokee Native American tribe to Indian Territory ... Act of 1830, which exchanged Native American land in the East for lands ...
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  • Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American ... of bucolic scenes from nineteenth century American farm life, his later work ...
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  • Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American ... "more than any other influential American of his epoch, Adams believed ...
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