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- 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
- newspaper publisher, and former owner of The New York Times. Under his ... at the Knoxville Chronicle. At the age of 19, he borrowed $800 to purchase ...10 KB (1,585 words) - 06:04, 15 June 2023
- iconic American actress, comedian, and star of the landmark sitcom I Love ... Lucille, known as the "Queen of Comedy," was also responsible ...14 KB (2,249 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- was a British general and commander in chief of the British North American ... Gage was born in Firle, England the second son of the first Viscount ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- | order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... | date of birth=October 4, 1822 | place of birth=Delaware, Ohio ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...17 KB (2,707 words) - 09:04, 18 November 2022
- problems in governing the the United States of America, which had been operating ... The convention failed to resolve successfully the question of slavery ...26 KB (3,802 words) - 03:12, 24 November 2022
- and newspaper publisher, who left a gift of $500,000 to Columbia University ... He thus sought to establish the school of journalism at Columbia University ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 2022
- Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas; she was the tenth of thirteen ... fields, Coleman assumed the responsibilities of housekeeping. She looked after ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 17:27, 29 September 2023
- and engineer now best known for the brand of electrical goods that bear ... in connection with the development of the alternating current system ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 00:24, 24 November 2022
- between the Reformation and the closure of the theaters in 1642, after ... such as the mystery plays that formed a part of religious festivals in England ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 07:42, 5 February 2022
- November 16, 1272) was the son and successor of John Lackland as King of England ... He assumed the crown under the regency of the popular William Marshal ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 22:21, 8 February 2022
- one novel, one play, and only a small volume of poems—his intellectual breadth ... Johnson's hatred of slavery and the abuses of colonialism, his ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- changed to Baumfree) in the Dutch settlement of Hurley in upstate New York ... The painful experiences of being a child, wife, and mother who had ...14 KB (2,065 words) - 22:05, 30 January 2023
- in a longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)]] Human Beings"), is the name of a Native American tribe, and ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 00:30, 12 April 2023
- ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third ... In his biography of Xenocrates, Diogenes Laertius recounts several ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:16, 20 May 2023
- Maury County, Tennessee, and a third cousin of President James K. Polk. He ... Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1806 to Sarah and William ...10 KB (1,572 words) - 08:03, 6 March 2023
- most famous for being a founding member of a major literary movement and ... , an epic poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation ...22 KB (3,314 words) - 18:29, 21 July 2023
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ... speech represented a milestone in his work of turning the United States away ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... but instead narrowly defined the powers of the government. Opponents of ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- quot; that would lead to the development of nutrition as a science. His ... Born on a farm in Oneida County, New York, Babcock earned degrees ...8 KB (1,193 words) - 20:03, 9 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
- Michael Faraday was one of the pioneers of modern electromagnetic ... It can also be argued that his discoveries resulted in some of the ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 16:54, 9 November 2022
- and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy ... Bosanquet’s major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines, officially ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century ... Finchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was ...11 KB (1,580 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Huddie William Ledbetter (January 23, 1888 - December 6, 1949), better ... Lead Belly was one of the most colorful, albeit notorious figures ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- jpg|thumb|right|200px|A Hamadryad, by John William Waterhouse]] In Greek mythology, a nymph, from the Latin word nympha, is any member ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- December 7, 1985) was a major English poet of the twentieth century. Graves ... In addition to poetry, Graves also wrote a number of novels and works ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- a leading scholastic theologian and bishop of the twelfth century. His philosophical ... Peter Lombard upheld the use of reason in interpreting dogma, while ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
- various unions to fight against exploitation of children and women in factory ... efforts brought fruit both in the passage of laws and in the education of ...7 KB (992 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- [[Image:Greeley-Horace-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|Photographic portrait of ... editor, reformer, and politician. His New York Tribune was one of America ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024
- and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties ... MacNeice was born in Belfast, the youngest son of John Frederick and ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869 ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764) was an English ... In his illustrated 1753 treatise "The Analysis of Beauty," ...25 KB (3,851 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- general. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina ... After the war he spoke in favor of civil and voting rights for the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2022
- either males or females (the female version of the incubus is called a succubus ... in, which in this case means "on top of," and cubo, which is Latin ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 19:43, 28 February 2018
- naturalistic, and mechanistic account of the world and of human beings ... Wang Chong deplored the degeneration of Confucianism and Daoism into ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- Knauth, was an American philosopher of art, a writer, and an educator ... but her doctrine has become an integral part of the "collective unconsciousness” ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant ... Often references to mastodons are limited to members of the genus ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- 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
- William Frank Buckley Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 28, 2008 ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- A crystallite is a domain of solid-state matter that has the same ... are polycrystalline—that is, they are made of a large number of single crystals ...11 KB (1,643 words) - 23:09, 9 May 2020
- best known for works, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story ... Albee was one of the early American contributors to Theatre of the ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed ... Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a ... He was the first of a series of eight presidents between Andrew Jackson ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- 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
- 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile ... Billy Wilder is sometimes confused with director William Wyler. This ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born ... His writing on Islam pioneered, in the English-speaking world, use ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under President Lyndon ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- Civil War. He was "an old friend" of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whom ... In May 1861 Adolph raised a volunteer regiment in New York City, the ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:10, 15 June 2023
- and the informal name for the London firm of Christie, Manson & Woods ... for several years, netting global sales of $4.67 billion in 2006. Despite ...9 KB (1,246 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- Margaret Beaufort (May 31, 1443 – June 29, 1509) was the mother ... Beaufort was a descendant of Edward III through John of Gaunt, Duke ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the ... Born to a wealthy New York family long involved in Republican politics ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- with a psychic ability to produce phenomena of a mental or physical nature ... ==History of mediumship== Human beings have attempted to contact spirits ...19 KB (2,785 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been ... Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- The Caduceus, also known as the wand of Hermes, was a symbol of the ... with the traditional medical symbol, the Rod of Asclepius, which has only a ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- oral route, which incorporates ingestion of food or water contaminated ... There is a significant element of personal and social responsibility ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- Danelagen), is a name given to a part of Great Britain, now northern ... held predominance over those of the Anglo-Saxons. Its origins lie ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- 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
- award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA ... Academy Awards. The awards are in the form of a theatrical mask. ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
- they are unsightly, or they limit the growth of other plants by blocking light ... " This reflects the principle of dual purposes, whereby every ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 22:25, 11 June 2020
- William III of England (The Hague, November 14, 1650 – Kensington ... Born a member of the House of Orange-Nassau, William III won the English ...49 KB (7,679 words) - 11:02, 9 May 2023
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... the war would lead directly to a series of taxation fights with the colonists ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- John LaFarge (March 31, 1835 – November 14, 1910) was one of the ... A founder and leader of the American watercolor movement by the late ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from ... administrator, who enjoyed the respect of his men. Most of those whom ...25 KB (3,839 words) - 16:21, 9 August 2023
- sewn the first American flag. Three members of a secret committee from the ... She was the eighth of 17 children, of whom only nine survived childhood. ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 18:00, 29 September 2023
- William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 – June 5, 1953) was born ... was among the most famous American athletes of his generation, which included ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
- government administrator during the reign of Napoleon who is best known ... Fourier was born at Auxerre in the Yonne département of France, the ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 00:38, 11 August 2022
- (an artist) and the critic and writer, William Michael Rossetti. The two ... Although Rossetti's poetry was largely overlooked in the wake ...11 KB (1,551 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- during the American Civil War. The site of the prison is now Andersonville ... Forrest's troops executed a group of black Union troops after their ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 19:58, 26 July 2023
- The Curse of Ham (also called the curse of Canaan) refers to the curse ... The "curse of Ham" had been used by some members of Abrahamic ...14 KB (2,307 words) - 02:17, 15 January 2023
- 4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish author and one of the most versatile English ... Although a good portion of Goldsmith's vast oeuvre is considered ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- executive who served as the president of Columbia Broadcasting System ... Stanton was decisive and passionate in his pursuit of the development ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- inventions and discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism and magnetic ... Joseph Henry was born on December 17, 1799, in Albany, New York, the ...17 KB (2,654 words) - 04:14, 7 May 2024
- Merritt Ives (1824–1895), and based in New York City. It was founded in New York, in 1835, by Nathaniel T. Currier (1813 ...14 KB (2,141 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- specialist curators research the background of the collection, interpret the ... contexts. Curators have the unique role of building a culture of peace ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers ... the United States was restored at the end of the Civil War, not all Northerners ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the ... The Seven Days Battles began with a Union attack in the minor Battle ...23 KB (3,550 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
- Gothic fiction began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto ... Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (psychological ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... twelve years old in 1894. They lived in New York City's Lower East Side ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Marie of Orange-Nassau) (August ... was as capable as men in the daunting task of leading her nation through ...26 KB (3,973 words) - 12:30, 2 October 2020
- churchman, poet, and teacher from York, England. He was born around ... He was made abbot of the monastery of Saint Martin of Tours in 796 ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 05:08, 17 June 2023
- Near East. Budge was was a strong proponent of liberal Christianity and was ... came to hold arguably the best collection of Ancient Near East artifacts ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- editor. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education ... Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 02:32, 16 November 2022
- a philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford-based British ordinary ... his father, eventually the first Bishop of Liverpool, had raised him." ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
- necessary to correctly determine the state of the law. The processes of legal research vary according to the country and ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2023
- 19, 1888 - November 15, 1963) was one of the great international conductors ... He was born to a secular Jewish family in the Pest section of Budapest ...5 KB (713 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- was a prolific and popular American writer of the early nineteenth century ... but he successfully captured the spirit of "rugged individualism ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 01:33, 8 February 2023
- English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a ... The origins of what has come to be known as Ockham's razor are ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
- 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... betrayal" was coined in several of these countries to describe ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21, 1471) was King of England from ... One consequence of the fluidity of the political situation, with Henry ...21 KB (3,320 words) - 23:17, 8 February 2022
- and 24th (1893–1897) president of the United States, and the ... As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- 1772 – September 27, 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the ... movement that has given birth to a number of leaders of the Bengali social ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion ... Transcendentalism began as a protest against the general state of ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 01:03, 2 May 2023
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century Romanticism ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early nineteenth century ... His famous home of Sunnyside just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- journalist who is now considered to be one of the most important writers ... In addition to his fiction, Crane was also the author of some of the ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States. After 150 ... and to subdue it and that the pursuit of knowledge—in the arts as ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- first to quantify the change in frequency of a wave motion experienced by ... Christian Doppler was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a well ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:59, 10 December 2023
- Stream of consciousness is a literary technique, used primarily in ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- journalist in the country during much of his life. He had a brilliant ... Dana spent months with Grant on the field of battle. The close association ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), based in New York City, was one ... Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope ...8 KB (1,230 words) - 02:53, 24 July 2023
- CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United ... One of the pioneer radio networks, from its earliest days CBS established ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 22:42, 7 January 2024
- described by John Stuart Mill as one of the seminal minds of his age ... Coleridge's close friendship with the poet William Wordsworth ...13 KB (2,014 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- his pamphlet Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, which called for ... The son of a slave father and a free black mother, Walker was born ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 08:33, 28 January 2024
- history that coincides with the reign of King James I (1603-1625). The ... James I was caught up in this situation of flux. He was, however, a committed ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 08:05, 18 March 2024
- March 15, 1966) was the founder and coach of the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters ... Saperstein is also an unsung hero in the area of civil rights. He ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- | awards = Hollywood Walk of Fame7030 Hollywood Boulevard ... 1947, appeared mostly, with varying degrees of success, in stylish New York ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 20:43, 3 May 2023
- The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western ... The Atlanta Campaign followed the Union victory at the Battle of Chattanooga ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 11:49, 14 November 2021
- Centrifugation is a process that involves the use of the centrifugal ... acceleration is used to separate substances of greater and lesser density ...7 KB (963 words) - 23:56, 3 December 2023
- movement and is regarded as the father of Irish Republicans. Tone himself ... Tone was born in Dublin, the son of a Church of Ireland, Protestant ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- and the United States. He was a student of French physician Jean Marc ... Seguin's approach was influenced by utopian ideas, such as those ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 01:33, 16 January 2023
- The Niagara Escarpment is a long, precipitous, cliff-like ridge of ... The Niagara Escarpment is the most prominent of several escarpments ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
- Taft, William Howard {{Infobox_President | name=William Howard Taft ... | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- and close sweatshops, and was co-founder of the National Association for ... Mary White Ovington was born on April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminum inosilicate ... This mineral is an important source of lithium, which in turn has ...8 KB (1,146 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
- socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin ... where, together which such writers as William Butler Yeats and John Millington ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... on natural law, which equated the authority of the king over his subjects ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- most famous for his successful development of the gyrocompass. He also developed ... Sperry was born in Cortland, New York, to Stephen Decatur and Mary ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- helped to bolster support for the entrance of blacks into the military. They ... longed for a world free from the cruelties of slavery which surrounded him. ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- Bogardus and propelled her to become one of the first American female superstars ... "a cabin less than two miles northwest of Woodland, now Willowdell, in ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 05:10, 31 July 2023
- "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... The concept was adopted by a number of French, British and American ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- The Battle of Plassey (Pâlāshīr Juddha) was a battle that took ... The battle was between Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- to be regarded alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two great American poets ... personae, so she didn't write as part of any school or movement. She ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- involves uncertainty, distrust, or lack of sureness of an alleged fact ... Human beings generally live with beliefs in various degrees of certainty ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- Josiah (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ, Yošiyyáhuv, "supported of ... reform that centralized the worship of the Hebrew God Yahweh in Jerusalem ...13 KB (2,117 words) - 05:07, 7 May 2024
- William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was ... II, particularly his work with the leaders of Japanese industry. Many in ...24 KB (3,501 words) - 22:00, 3 May 2023
- located in Bourges, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Bourges. The cathedral is noted for its unique feats of architecture, impressive sculptures ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- Jewish theologian to address the impact of the events of the Holocaust ... thought. He argued that the experience of the Holocaust shattered the ...16 KB (2,308 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
- from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln ... Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member ...20 KB (3,093 words) - 04:41, 3 May 2024
- social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted ... in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of U.S. congressman William Darrah ...11 KB (1,660 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... site became famous as the original source of oracle bones and oracle bone ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- brilliant chief, warrior, orator, and leader of the Shawnee Nation, who advocated ... Tecumseh's warnings about the erosion of traditional tribal values ...19 KB (2,963 words) - 04:39, 27 February 2023
- Philippa of Hainault (June 24, 1311 – August 15, 1369) was the queen ... who persuaded her husband to spare the lives of the Burghers of Calais after ...14 KB (2,233 words) - 03:56, 24 November 2022
- :This article is about the Algonquin of Quebec and the Ottawa Valley ... the powerful Iroquois, historically enemies of the Algonquins. Aided by the ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 18:12, 21 July 2023
- [[File:JohnnyAppleseedHowe.gif|thumb|250px|right| Drawing of John ... a self-appointed missionary for the Church of the New Jerusalem, a Christian ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 08:14, 3 August 2022
- 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the twentieth century, founder ... most exclusive tailors; was a connoisseur of music, food, and wine; nurtured ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) ... Sherman's attack on civilian infrastructure and displacement ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- Alain de Lille (älăN' də lēl) , (Also called Alain of Lille ... which took place during the second half of the twelfth century. His philosophy ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- famous for serving as the only president of the Confederate States of America ... the Mississippi legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- as a British general in the American War of Independence. As a member of ... administrative systems. As Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he argued for Catholic ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:57, 4 December 2023
- right| Hershey, Pennsylvania, named in honor of Milton Hershey and his Hershey ... Hershey Chocolate Company, which became one of the largest and most famous ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- 19, 1987) was born in Bronxville, New York. He served as a professor ... After his service in the war he applied to the University of Chicago ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 19:19, 23 May 2023
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from ... The primary aspect of the art of conducting can be said to be bringing ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- and currently works as a choreographer in New York City. ... Thornburg, the "Pig Princess" of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between July 2-6, 1777 ... The uncontested surrender of Ticonderoga caused an uproar in the American ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 21:10, 28 March 2024
- chemist who contributed to the development of spectroscopy as a powerful ... Bunsen was the youngest of four sons of Christian Bunsen (1770–1837 ...8 KB (1,189 words) - 20:25, 11 August 2022
- social reformer, a pioneer in the fields of child welfare and public welfare ... 29, 1858 in Rockford, Illinois, the first of five children of William Lathrop ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 21:08, 4 October 2022
- – July 2, 1963) was the founder and editor of Newsday, one of the most successful ... time. Her influential Newsday remained one of the most popular newspapers ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely that ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
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- The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng ... ) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built ...14 KB (2,322 words) - 07:41, 4 January 2024
- [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration ... The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
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- ) was a co-recipient, with Mairead Corrigan, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 ... Williams led a women's movement for peace that consisted of ordinary ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 23:29, 11 January 2023
- and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock ... who led the opposition. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King were best of friends, partners ... Ralph David Abernathy was the tenth child of William and Louivery ...18 KB (3,027 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- 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
- colonial history that led to the execution of 14 women and 6 men, in 1692 ... Although the Salem Witch Trials are conventionally cited as an example ...24 KB (3,678 words) - 01:48, 23 December 2022
- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker ... W. Ross and his wife, Jane Grant, a New York Times reporter. Ross wanted ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
- vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety ... == Usage of sonata == The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- who made a transition from the golden age of American live television in ... Chayefsky worked in the media of radio, television and film but is ...21 KB (3,165 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- spanning fifty years, she made a total of seventy-three films. musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and ...15 KB (2,082 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- – August 27, 1988, Ithaca, New York, United States) was a distinguished ... he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell, Ludwig ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 ... needed to be tamed, settled and made part of the American dream, where life ...27 KB (4,199 words) - 12:10, 8 May 2023
- Sir William Petty (May 27, 1623 – December 16, 1687) was an English ... He was Member of the Parliament of England briefly and was also a ...28 KB (4,406 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2023
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- and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 18:25, 21 July 2023
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- Hooker was influenced by the guitar style of his stepfather, a local blues ... to play with him. Thus, during most of his career, he remained a solo ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 20:45, 1 May 2024
- she was for her actual poetry. During much of her career she lived the life ... Millay lived and wrote during the early decades of the twentieth-century ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- November 1683 – October 25, 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, ... He was the last British monarch to have been born outside of Great ...28 KB (4,125 words) - 12:22, 10 November 2022
- the most well-known North American Native of his generation, meeting and ... spent attempting to rectify the injustice of the Iroquois lands being handed ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the Truman Administration ... Korea. Such a Soviet-supported invasion of South Korea did occur in June ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- celebrated African-American drummer, one of the most influential in the ... At the height of the swing era, Jones introduced a regular, lightly ...6 KB (967 words) - 13:25, 1 August 2022
- He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was ... grew up in the multiethnic Lower East Side of Manhattan, on Oliver Street ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- He is viewed by some art historians as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism ... He was a painter of heroic, literary, and surreal themes that often ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
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- States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ... After several weeks of tension, during which the United States and ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- and theologian who is considered one of the most important philosophers ... Pennsylvania, in 1897, as the son of a minister, Francis Cope Hartshorne ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- Review, were instrumental in the development of early twentieth century English ... Born Ford Hermann Hueffer, the son of Francis Hueffer, he was Ford ...15 KB (2,279 words) - 06:21, 1 April 2024
- Courtly love was a medieval European conception of ennobling love ... It can be seen as a combination of complex factors: Philosophical ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 06:12, 11 January 2024
- and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after helping lead ... world leaders to see to the realization of such. His diplomatic skills ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- the United States providing for the return of escaped slaves to their owners ... The Articles of Confederation of the New England Confederation of ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 07:11, 15 April 2024
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- school, and kindergarten teacher, one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... March 27, 1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky, one of six children of William and ...9 KB (1,385 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
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- William Langland is the conjectured author of the fourteenth-century ... too archaic to be understood without the aid of a glossary or translation. ...19 KB (3,143 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of ... There is a degree of belief and certainty. While faith often includes ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- The term Huguenot refers to a member of the Protestant Reformed Church ... Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Harry Truman, Gerald ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- expressionism, Action painting, and the New York School. Like all Modern art ... Neo-expressionism, and the other movements of the sixties and seventies and ...10 KB (1,460 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- French chemist and physicist whose discovery of the law of combining volumes ... Gay-Lussac was born at Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in the department ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 07:30, 2 April 2008
- religious dissenter and nonconforming critic of the Puritan leadership of Massachusetts ... They first settled the island of Aquidneck, which is now part of Rhode ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- financier, public official, and publisher of the Washington Post newspaper ... agent, Meyer also served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. In 1946 ...9 KB (1,262 words) - 04:14, 23 March 2024
- 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
- The Treaty of Utrecht that established the Peace of Utrecht, rather ... The treaties were concluded between the representatives of Louis XIV ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- In chemistry, chemical synthesis is the purposeful execution of one ... A chemical synthesis begins by selection of compounds that are known ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 14:47, 5 December 2023
- Fiberglass or glass fiber is material made from extremely fine fibers ... Glass fiber is formed when thin strands of silica-based or other formulation ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- and photographic supplies, and made the art of photography accessible to the ... Eastman was born in Waterville, Oneida County, New York. He was the ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 07:36, 15 May 2024
- 1903 – December 22, 1940) was the pen name of U.S. author, screenwriter, ... spiritually and materially, in the years of this economic depression. His ...8 KB (1,339 words) - 01:32, 11 November 2022
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of ... The Book of Micah is also notable for its more hopeful passages, portraying ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- 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
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... in 1626. He was under the patronage of William Laud, Archbishop of ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led ... figure, and Mary Allyne. He was the second of thirteen children. His older ...7 KB (1,046 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- [[Image:UnitedPressInternational.jpg|right|thumb|400 px|Front of UPI ... for several decades, with a large number of well respected "Unipresser ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 11:51, 3 May 2023
- dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was a key figure ... writings are mainly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic peasants ...12 KB (2,002 words) - 02:59, 2 May 2024
- |opposed = William Godwin, Marquis de Condorcet, Jean-Jacques ... Malthus is widely regarded as the founder of modern demography. He made ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- a German chemist who ushered in a new age of organic chemistry when he demonstrated ... Eschersheim, near Frankfurt am Main, the son of August Anton Wöhler, who was ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:37, 17 October 2022
- and distinguish between two different kinds of meanings or extensions of a ... ==The meaning of denotation and connotation== *In media-studies terminology ...7 KB (986 words) - 09:46, 29 January 2024
- ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the ... with the imperial project in India freed her of the obligation to value everything ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent ... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the first poem in the volume; ...18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023
- Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions that ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- twentieth century American composer of classical music who was best ... He was among several notable American composers (Aaron Copland, William ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- in the self, particularly the development of the self within the context ... his death: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and Of Time and River (1935); and ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As ... with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he had me ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- preeminent architect in America at the turn of the twentieth century, Burnham ... incorporating his own personal style. Much of his career work modeled the ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- Noguchi was born into poverty and became handicapped when, at the ... Noguchi received a number of awards during his lifetime and after ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- a modernist composer to influence the likes of Arnold Schoenberg, Bela Bartok ... Riemann. In 1901, he settled briefly in New York, where he taught organ and ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- Hubert Walter (c. 1160-1205 C.E.) was the Archbishop of Canterbury ... a precursor for the modern "Justice of the Peace," based on selecting ...34 KB (5,307 words) - 23:24, 17 January 2024
- Field Marshal William Joseph "Bill" Hastings (2008), 68. Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Order of the Garter (KG), Order of the Bath ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary ... degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He then studied theology ...25 KB (3,694 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- William Ewart Gladstone (December 29, 1809 – May 19, 1898) was a ... Gladstone was famously at odds with Queen Victoria for much of his ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
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- revolutionary, infamous as the founder of the Bolshevik secret police ... Square in Moscow, was toppled as part of the celebration of the collapse ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- the subject is asked and answers a series of questions, on the basis that ... . Several other technologies are also used in the field of lie detection ...34 KB (5,091 words) - 00:19, 12 April 2023
- ) was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He was the eighth of the twelve ... In addition to the general importance of the text for Christian and ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was ... Williams, Faulkner is often considered one of the most important writers ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
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- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He became ... #039;s interest turned to the spiritual side of life, with investigations of ...23 KB (3,410 words) - 08:45, 23 July 2023
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- affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated ... Louis was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and ...12 KB (1,758 words) - 02:52, 4 November 2022
- 29, 1973) was an English poet and one of the most influential poets ... Auden was a poet of prodigious talent and output, living at a time ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 22:02, 3 May 2023
- Bauxite is an important ore of aluminum, composed mainly of aluminum ... Bauxite consists predominantly of minerals such as gibbsite (Al(OH ...6 KB (660 words) - 03:09, 26 September 2023
- Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows" by William Blake.]] Lynching is a form of violence, usually murder, considered by its ...23 KB (3,493 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau ... Hoover has frequently been accused of exceeding and abusing his authority ...27 KB (3,966 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2024
- Although he received no formal education of any sort, Carter became one ... a new trend in archaeological practices of preservation, which together ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- Isabella of France (c. 1295 – August 22, 1358), later referred to ... With Mortimer, Isabella plotted an invasion of England to depose Edward ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe ... During the War of 1812 he fought on the side of the British. Later ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 19:44, 14 August 2021
- William Wycherley (c. 1640 – January 1, 1716) was an English dramatist ... values, or simply a response to the years of violence and bloodshed that ...21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
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