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- for writing a sophisticated diary describing the American Civil War and her ... As the daughter of a governor and senator from South Carolina and ...16 KB (2,536 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- - February 23, 1915) was a mulatto slave in the United States who freed himself ... His actions as a Navy ship captain helped to bolster support for the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- Hall was a strong believer in the scientific method and its application ... Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- Olympic Peninsula, was originally created as the Olympic National Monument ... a World Heritage Site. In 1988, almost all of the Olympic Peninsula was designated ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- von Taaffe; 11th Viscount Taaffe and Baron of Ballymote, in the peerage of ... Taaffe contributed significantly to the democratization process in ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- Mongkut (Rama IV of Siam) (October 18, 1804 – October 1, 1868), ... In 1851 Mongkut ascended the throne and immediately instituted modern ...12 KB (1,824 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- 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
- American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American ... manufacturing, others regard him as a hero of the Industrial Revolution in ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 03:02, 23 December 2022
- studies on Pueblo Indians are regarded as the most comprehensive work on ... on November 27, 1875, in New York City, as the eldest of three children of ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- votes for President and Vice President of the United States. The Constitution ... The election of both the President and Vice President of the United ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired ... In San Francisco, California, following the civil war, he obtained ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 04:50, 14 June 2023
- 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
- John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 – March 26, 1649) led a group of ... that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary ... In the latter part of the twentieth century opposition to Columbus ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- 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
- educator, diplomat, and politician during the Meiji and Taishō periods ... intellectuals and students. He was critical of the increasing militarism in ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- He is best known as a part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company ... Over the course of his life, Rosenwald and his fund donated over ...10 KB (1,544 words) - 09:56, 12 May 2024
- The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham ...20 KB (3,093 words) - 04:41, 3 May 2024
- #039;s Youngest Ambassador" in the United States and the "Goodwill ... She became famous in these two nations and well-known around the world ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- 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
- The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg was established ... The scope of the European Court of Human Rights and the legally binding ...17 KB (2,642 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda ... quot; or "Usama bin Ladin," both of which are abbreviated to UBL. ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ... Overcoming the odds of poverty, racism and the loss of her father ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 23:31, 1 September 2023
- )—January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973)—was the de facto military ... Growing resistance to his government included most of the coalition ...18 KB (2,625 words) - 11:10, 20 September 2023
- LaGuardia, often spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... March 8, 1930), was the 27th President of the United States, the 10th Chief ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 by the industrialist Jonas Clark ... contrary to Jonas Clark's vision for the institution. Later, Clark ...22 KB (3,029 words) - 10:50, 19 December 2023
- During the Viking period, between the eighth and eleventh centuries ... The only remaining vestige of this empire, and its only substantial ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- abolitionist. Anthony invested fifty years of her life advocating for the ... Anthony's lifelong efforts were rewarded posthumously with the ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate ... many practical applications and for works of art. In particular, it is used ...8 KB (1,054 words) - 21:52, 28 July 2023
- The Chicago Tribune, founded in 1847, is a major daily newspaper based ... Since its founding, the Chicago Tribune has maintained political allegiance ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) led the Radio ... Sarnoff was the eldest son of Abraham and Leah Sarnoff. He was born ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... A proponent of realpolitik (or the realist school of international ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- - April 21, 2022) was a Kenyan politician, the third President of Kenya, ... December 30, 2007, for his second term as president of the Republic of Kenya ...24 KB (3,416 words) - 18:22, 8 December 2022
- | order=4th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1809 ... Thomas Jefferson, and fourth president of the United States. Sometimes called ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- educator, and author, widely recognized as the founder of Reform Judaism ... #039;s Czech Republic before emigrating to the United States in 1846. An ...16 KB (2,521 words) - 18:59, 7 March 2024
- politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... distinguished scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- Typhoid fever (or enteric fever) is an illness caused by the bacterium ... Once ingested, the bacteria are ingested by macrophages (cells in ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- Building or "Castle" on the National Mall serves as the ... The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest educational ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- a French center-right politician who was President of the French Republic ... He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose ... Both the United Kingdom and the United States had territorial and ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... * Grover Cleveland, former President of the United States (1885-89 ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson ...20 KB (3,091 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- and journalist. She was a co-founder of numerous social organizations ... 25, 1881 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, into the family of Samuel Eastman and ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:32, 11 January 2024
- was an Egyptian statesman who served as the third president of Egypt from ... Sadat was a soldier who became a man of peace. Egypt and Israel had ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 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
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... Born in Minnesota to a leftist family, Hall joined the American Communist ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- who gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant ... Znaniecki, together with Thomas, were the first researchers to use ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- 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
- 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
- charities, dedicating her life to improving the lives of the under-privileged ... and become involved in their communities. The Shaw family had strong Unitarian ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
- The term felony is a term used in common law systems for very serious ... a crime is still an act in violation of a public law for which a punishment ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 16:11, 5 April 2017
- Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) president of the United States ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- tennis player who was ranked No. 1 in the world from 1920-25, and No ... to ask Calvin Coolidge, then president of the United States, to allow Tilden ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
- [[Image:Greeley-Horace-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|Photographic portrait of ... and politician. His New York Tribune was one of America's most influential ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024
- The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as The ... begun by the President of the United States." This criticism ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- The Rhodes Scholarship is an international award for study at the ... in 1968, he served as 42nd President of the United States from 1993-2001. ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... The Republic of Palau consists of eight principal islands and more ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge in northeastern ... on Alaska's North Slope. It extends from the Beaufort Sea on ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- [[Image:UnitedPressInternational.jpg|right|thumb|400 px|Front of UPI ... United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency, headquartered ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 11:51, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Main Library of ... is a position appointed by the president of the United States with the consent ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- Prohibition In the United States (1920-1933) was the era during which ... Many social problems have been attributed to the Prohibition era. ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 23:11, 30 November 2022
- |vice-president = Sydney H. Evans Jr. |provost = Richard ... |country = United States |coor = ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- Physical fitness is used in the context of two meanings: General fitness ... Physical fitness is the capacity of the heart, blood vessels, lungs ...19 KB (2,829 words) - 05:08, 24 November 2022
- teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- The New York Daily News is the sixth largest daily newspaper in the ... The Daily News was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and ...9 KB (1,384 words) - 21:48, 14 November 2022
- 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
- Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles northwest of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn ... Bryn Mawr College is one of the nation's premier liberal arts ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 16:50, 22 November 2023
- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between ... The crisis started on October 16, 1962, when U.S. reconnaissance was ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- | order=38th President of the United States | date1=August 9, 1974 ... | order2=40th Vice President of the United States | term_start2=December ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2021
- evangelist and publisher who founded the Moody Church, the Mount Hermon ... Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- and economist, famous for his analysis of British Parliament and money ... 3, 1826, in Langport, Somerset, England, the son of a local banker. He ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- leader. He retired as a general from the United States Army, where ... After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. Early ... much criticism by some historians after the American Civil War claiming ...15 KB (2,251 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya ... His father, Leopold, was also partly of Belarusian-Polish noble descent. ...17 KB (2,362 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- 25, 1974) was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of ... As a devout Buddhist and practitioner of meditation, Thant brought ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in ... Present concerns include large-scale unemployment, overfishing, the ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- who made important early contributions to the development of radar. He served ... Not only did radar greatly assist the Allies in the world war, but ...7 KB (1,005 words) - 05:01, 17 June 2023
- , (1867–1871), and (1871–1872), as President of Mexico.For resisting ... and adoption of a federalist constitution. ==Early life== ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 09:15, 27 September 2023
- main_interests = Democracy, Race, Philosophy of religion, Ethics| ... Harvard University, West became a professor of Religion and director of African ...19 KB (2,834 words) - 03:31, 8 January 2024
- treason by selling nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union; the couple was ... In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- North Korea claims to possess nuclear weapons, and the CIA asserts ... The world community left the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) world ...25 KB (3,635 words) - 06:33, 16 November 2022
- was an American journalist whose career at The Wall Street Journal spanned ... reflected these influences. He tackled the issues that affected people ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- Thomas Lynch, Jr. (August 5, 1749 – 1779) was a signer of the United ... Thomas Lynch (1675-1738) served in the First Royal Assembly (1721 ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- (April 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was President of Tanzania (previously ... He also battled the International Monetary Fund over the issue of ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 09:54, 12 May 2024
- 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
- The Andersonville prison, located at Camp Sumter, was the largest ... Early in the American Civil War, prisoners were commonly paroled and ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 19:58, 26 July 2023
- 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the twentieth century, founder ... and 26 Pulitzer Prize winners. He was the first publisher to use photographs ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- African teacher and politician. He was president of the African National ... He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the ANC ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- was an American birth control activist, and the founder of the American Birth ... she gradually won support from both the public and from the courts ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- in Parliament as well as his essays gave the followers of William Pitt ... As a result of his charisma and promise, Canning early on drew to ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 08:08, 13 December 2023
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... Adams, Sr., Samuel was their tenth child. President John Adams was one of his ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- 9, 1906) was a seminal American poet in the late nineteenth and early ... Dunbar largely failed to convince white critics and patrons of his ...8 KB (1,360 words) - 17:08, 21 November 2022
- usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title "King of ... approach and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- Saccharin is a synthetic organic compound that tastes hundreds of ... took the office of the President of the United States, an intense debate ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 00:18, 22 August 2022
- he was a divinity student, and a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity ... birth, Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States and the country ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 17:21, 26 July 2023
- 28, 1925 - October 10, 2005), Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and ... While attending a meeting of the British Commonwealth in 1971, he ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- A national park is a reserve of land, usually, but not always, declared ... The first national park to be established in the world was Yellowstone ...17 KB (2,403 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red ... all I had, even with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... Cambridge. Upon graduation he joined the family business. He proved ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- boxing champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man then to have ... Patterson was also the first heavyweight to win the world championship ...10 KB (1,626 words) - 17:44, 28 March 2024
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President ...32 KB (4,916 words) - 21:09, 7 February 2024
- of Honor is presented by the President of the United States on behalf of ... ranking officers up to the President of the United States—who are not ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace - Psalms ... Female Seminary on November 8, 1837, it is the "first of the Seven Sisters ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- as a women's college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven ... For Vassar graduates, both men and women, to advance the world of ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 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
- The Helsinki Final Act, Helsinki Accords, or Helsinki Declaration ... On the other hand, by signing the document, the Soviet Union had also ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed ... The results for Eastern Europe were disastrous as they were held hostage ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... Debate continues about whether the Civil War and all its bloodshed ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
- a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived of the nuclear chain reaction ... Szilárd was born in Budapest at the time of the Austro-Hungarian ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering ... The CIA is restricted from operating inside the United States, although ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from ... The Korean War (1950-1953) and its Armistice Agreement left the two ...20 KB (2,911 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- intelligence officer who coordinated the Central Intelligence Agency ... Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- The Jeju Uprising or Jeju Massacre (old spelling, "Cheju" ... The detested Japanese occupation of Korea, which began in 1910, finally ...12 KB (1,861 words) - 04:44, 31 July 2022
- 1873) was an American educator who created the McGuffey Readers, one of America ... County, Pennsylvania on September 23, 1800. The McGuffey family had immigrated ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- executive officer (from 1971), and chairman of the board (from 1976–1994 ... from third grade he was groomed to become the successor of the family business ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- and archaeologist, famous for his discovery of "Turkana Boy." The ... Richard Leakey was the second of the three sons of the archaeologists ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 23:02, 4 January 2024
- The Gabonese Republic or Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- 1999), a renowned U.S. media executive, was the founder and first president ... made him less publicly acknowledged than the more flamboyant figures of ...8 KB (1,119 words) - 20:12, 25 October 2022
- Anne Bradstreet (circa 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the first ... Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in Northhampton England. She was the ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
- Major general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces ... Although convinced that the airborne attack he led against Japan in ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests ... not be considered such in another. However, the basic effort on the part of ...16 KB (2,401 words) - 23:59, 24 March 2024
- The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- human rights activist, former Prisoner of Zion, Israeli politician and author. As a refusenik and dissident, he became a member of the Moscow Helsinki ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- |name = University of Bridgeport |image = [[File:University of Bridgeport Cortright Hall.jpg|250px]] ...30 KB (4,093 words) - 17:06, 15 September 2023
- chemist and industrialist who emmigrated to the United States in 1799 and ... has had a major impact on American affairs. The DuPont Company was a major ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 21:44, 29 December 2021
- Bogardus and propelled her to become one of the first American female superstars ... put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground. ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 05:10, 31 July 2023
- elected positions as a representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives ... Benjamin was born a British subject in Christiansted, Saint Croix ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 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
- 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
- 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
- from Boston, who, at 24 years old, became the chief artillery officer of ... who died in 1759. Henry left school at the age of 12, and became a clerk ...13 KB (1,896 words) - 15:24, 25 January 2023
- 1851) was an acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He ... those he perceived to be in greater need, the deaf. His care and concern ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Spain ... Following four centuries of colonization of the Western Hemisphere ...25 KB (4,004 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- |motto=Veritas vos liberabit(The truth shall make you free) ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution ...28 KB (4,118 words) - 19:30, 4 May 2024
- a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... women and even though she was once hailed as the most influential Black woman ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit ... other international honors, including the ITU World Information Society ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- and manufacturer. He is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin ... Whitney saw that a machine to clean the seed from cotton could make ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- work in human instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology ... McDougall was born on June 22, 1871 in Lancashire, England, as the ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- on various days in many places around the world. Officially recognized ... in Europe commonly celebrated a forerunner of today's holiday, the contemporary ...22 KB (3,311 words) - 17:00, 10 November 2022
- Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 - January 1, 1787) was one of the ... The son of Henry Middleton, one of South Carolina's representatives ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- mentally handicapped children in France and the United States. He was a student ... Seguin's approach was influenced by utopian ideas, such as those ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 01:33, 16 January 2023
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... to appoint justices to the president of the United States (acting with ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- The Royal Ballet is Great Britain's most prestigious ballet company ... The Royal Ballet was founded as the Vic-Wells Ballet by Dame Ninette ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 20:54, 21 December 2022
- statesman, and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and ... Frederick Douglass was a key figure in the abolition of slavery in ...23 KB (3,597 words) - 10:27, 11 April 2024
- [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- and politician, elected three times as president of Argentina. He served ... Perón and his wife Eva were immensely popular among a portion of ...17 KB (2,640 words) - 06:03, 10 May 2024
- in New York City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was ... of New York in 1959, and Vice-President of the United States in the Ford administration ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- |faculty = 285[http://www.smith.edu/about_justthefacts.php Just ... located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- Political asylum is the granting of refuge to an alien in a foreign ... Each year, the President of the United States sends a proposal to ...14 KB (2,186 words) - 00:16, 12 April 2023
- of Commerce, and later as President of the United States. Construction ... Lake Mead, the reservoir created behind the dam, is named after Elwood ...19 KB (3,049 words) - 13:41, 2 February 2024
- The Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa. Though ... stemming mostly from tensions between the mainly Arab-Muslim north and ...18 KB (2,543 words) - 11:58, 13 May 2024
- a German naval leader, who was in command of the Kriegsmarine during World ... After the war, he was charged and convicted of "crimes against ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 07:15, 5 October 2022
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- United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 was a measure adopted ... The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
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- The Djiboutian Civil War (also known as the Afar Insurgency) was a ... However, the war and the flow of Somalian refugees from the Somali ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- |motto = Terras irradient (Let Them Give Light to the World) ... |nickname = The Singing College, The Fairest College, Lord Jeffs, Jeffs ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- patriot who died a hero's death in the American Revolutionary War ... teacher and then a doctor. An active member of the Sons of Liberty, he began ...7 KB (1,126 words) - 05:02, 7 May 2024
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- family in Poland, he was deeply affected by the injustice of discrimination ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...17 KB (2,401 words) - 22:23, 27 June 2023
- Jogging is a form of trotting or running which is conducted at a slow ... Running may be considered more of a competitive sport, while jogging ...12 KB (1,901 words) - 06:42, 5 April 2024
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- The United States Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments ... The Bill of Rights also restricts Congress' power by prohibiting ...36 KB (5,472 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
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- The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic ... arts, cabinet making, crafts, and even the "cottage" garden ...15 KB (2,276 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
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- The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA ... The first BAFTA Awards ceremony was held in 1949, and the ceremony ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
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- Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was the third Vice-President of the United States (1801–1805) and one of the most ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
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- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... Remembrance Day – also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day (the event ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests are combined ... More than one-third of the forest is actively used for timber harvesting ...15 KB (2,117 words) - 11:03, 13 December 2023
- :For the province, see Sulu {{Infobox Former Country |native_name = Sulu ... The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... The Hawaiian Islands, once known as the Sandwich Islands, form an ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
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- Lisa Najeeb Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein ... Elizabeth (Lisa) Najeeb Halaby was born in Washington, DC, of Arab ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... Whatever the motivation, deep state usually refers to a conspiracy ...29 KB (4,345 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
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- Just War refers to the concept of warfare as being justified, typically ... The Just War tradition is, first of all, a set of criteria that act ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
- was a clinical psychologist. Her main areas of research included schizophrenia ... Her research garnered the attention of respected psychological institutions ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
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- for Literature. She is considered to be one of the most prominent writers ... both southern Presbyterian missionaries. The family was sent to Zhenjiang ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is a college-based ... In the United States, ROTC produces officers in all branches of the ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
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- located in Houston, Texas. It is the fifth largest private sector ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- Kenneth David Kaunda, (April 28, 1924 - June 17, 2021) served as the ... From the time he became President until his fall from power in 1991 ...24 KB (3,642 words) - 16:28, 24 August 2023
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- [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle ... was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst of the Freudian school. He contributed ...11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
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- his work on analog computing, his role in the development of the atomic ... Through his public career, Bush was a proponent of technological innovation ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
- Louise Lang, and Yale Joel at a cafe in the Bois de Boulogne after World ... Chim (pronounced shim) was the pseudonym of David Seymour (November ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
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- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- – October 26, 1990), coming from a family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants ... immigrant. When he was 12, William added the middle initial S. to his name ...12 KB (1,903 words) - 20:44, 24 November 2022
- The Peace Corps is an independent United States federal agency. The ... interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified ...28 KB (4,023 words) - 23:51, 10 August 2023
- Cantor dedicated much of his life for caring for others needs. He ... Cantor was born Israel Iskowitz in New York City, the son of Russian ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
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- 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... In this perspective, as the world community matures, diplomacy and ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
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- :This article refers to Medicare, a United States health insurance ... jpg|thumb|275px|President Johnson signing the Medicare amendment. [[Harry ...24 KB (3,461 words) - 03:58, 9 November 2022
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- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... Texas by treaty had failed to receive the necessary two-thirds approval ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
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- The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese ... In accordance with the treaty, both Japan and Russia agreed to evacuate ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- The Republic of Costa Rica ("Rich Coast") is a country in ... Costa Rica is also at the forefront of conservation and environmental ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
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- an influential twentieth century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader ... As Ghana's leader and as an advocate of pan-Africanism, he continued ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- 1961 - ) is a Colombian politician and one of the most outspoken and daring ... The daughter of Colombia's former ambassador to the United Nations ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 22:51, 5 February 2023
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- [[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
- 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
- born American psychiatrist who became one of the most influential figures ... Meyer pioneered the application of Freudian ideas in American psychiatry ...9 KB (1,247 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by the President and the Secretary of State. Less formal foreign policy is conducted ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 ... Roosevelt was a leader in forming the United Nations, the U.S. United ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:11, 13 February 2024
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... Although the three leaders arrived with differing objectives, the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... Negotiations between the allied powers started on May 7, the anniversary ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of ... Most of the biggest supporters in all countries have been women, often ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- American sociologist. His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals ... Even though he recognized that there is an inter-relationship between ...13 KB (1,826 words) - 21:17, 24 November 2023
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- campaigner for disarmament who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959 ... manufacturing business and himself served on the London County Council and ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
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