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  • , is a landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise ... In the Presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson defeated John ...
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  • programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative ... now. In this address, which preceded the election-year party conventions, ...
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  • the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Claims of massive ... reports from several domestic and foreign election monitors as well as the ...
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  • success in the 1912 National Assembly election by mobilizing massive support ... the parliamentary body in making presidential decisions. On March 20 ...
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  • and a former four-star general in the United States Army. He was the sixty ... who was not a collegiate graduate of a United States Service academy. ...
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  • daily newspaper of the Midwestern United States and one of the largest ... of 1919. Another was its revelation of United States war plans on the eve ...
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  • members joined the cabinet, and in the presidential elections of 1999 the ... the PND withdrew, claiming that the election was rigged. In the election ...
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  • of Representatives. In the midst of a presidential election campaign, she ... The daughter of Colombia's former ambassador to the United Nations ...
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  • The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the ... The U.S. Capitol is also the site of Presidential inaugurations and notable ...
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  • the largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, and it gave its name ... nonetheless highly influential both in the United States and worldwide, the ...
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  • of this kingdom were various important states. Ndongo was the most significant ... but also the Americas, including the United States. By the end of the ...
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  • Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, ... between the federal government and the states. As such, it has a direct ...
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  • Chinese Methodist, had studied in the United States, and sent her to Wellesley ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...
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  • serving from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner ... to take up her post as delegate in the United Nations. She was succeeded ...
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  • Eastern Europe. He narrowly lost the 1995 election. Wałęsa stood unsuccessfully ... of state to address a joint meeting of the United States Congress on November ...
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  • The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... foreign affairs and alliances."Safire (2008), 360. Many argue that this ...
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  • he desired to create a cooperative in the United States that would incorporate ... In 1856, Gardner and his family moved to the United States. Learning ...
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  • his victory in the California presidential primary at the Ambassador ... Robert Francis Kennedy] Retrieved January 26, 2008. The year after ...
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  • domino effect in Southeast Asia, the United States and Australia did ... Following a United Nations sponsored agreement between Indonesia, ...
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  • Guinea is roughly the size of the United Kingdom and slightly smaller ... internal problems weakened it, and its states seized power in the fifteenth ...
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  • | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... Party, and seventh president of the United States. A strong proponent ...
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  • political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state ... Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United ...
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  • Less than three months after his election as pope, John XXIII gave ... rights and world peace, hoping that the United Nations will prove to be ...
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  • who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives ... With her election as Speaker, Pelosi became the first female Speaker ...
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  • attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah ... 2005. On January 3, 2015, after the 114th United States Congress was sworn ...
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  • (later) Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election. In 1873, she ... Works about Native Americans in the United States by Lewis Henry Morgan ...
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  • the New England region of the Northeastern United States. The state is known ... city and town in the 48 contiguous states. Maine's Moosehead Lake ...
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  • Rivers of Southern Africa in the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique ... Shaka Zulu--Really?] Retrieved November 30, 2008. When the railway arrived ...
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  • 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States of America (1989–1993 ... and Eastern Europe from being communist states to becoming liberal democracies ...
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  • 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 ... to transition from the Cold War, and the United States experienced the longest ...
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  • and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives ... to end legalized racial segregation in the United States. He was one of the ...
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  • was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...
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  • Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States ... for the territorial expansion of the United States across North America. ...
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  • The Communist Party USA, formally known as the Communist Party United ... transition to socialism" in the United States. ==History== ...
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  • from Mauritania into the neighboring states of Senegal and Mali. Likewise ... which set up an authoritarian presidential regime. Daddah's ...
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  • Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America ... four years because it holds the first presidential caucuses, gatherings of ...
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  • in 1889 after an agreement between the United Kingdom and France. The Gambia ... north bank, which was finally ceded to the United Kingdom in 1857. ...
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  • Burma's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, and was ... in New York, where she worked for the United Nations. In 1972, she married ...
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  • 'remakes' of feature films. The Election 2004 collection is a non ... well as many special collections. As of May 2008, the Internet Archive operated ...
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  • commercial interests, and all the city-states along the East African coast ... coasts brought the once independent city-states under closer foreign domination ...
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  • Federal Parliament in 1952, winning a by-election for the Division of Werriwa ... Britain, Canada and with several other states. It is not theoretically ...
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  • and the Member of Parliament (MP) of the United Kingdom for Sedgefield from ... the party to three consecutive general election victories. Gordon Brown ...
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  • 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017 ... #039;s mother] TIME Magazine, April 9, 2008. Retrieved February 18, 2021 ...
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  • | order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... " was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969). After ...
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  • Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... English speaking settlement in the United States west of the Rocky ...
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  • Once one of the most prosperous of the tropical West African states ... English country name registered with the United Nations and adopted by ISO ...
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  • 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 ... Nixon was elected to the United States House of Representatives in ...
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  • two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States annexed the Republic ... James Polk over Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election had caught the ...
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  • to the laissez-faire policies of the United Kingdom, which Chirac famously ... when he applied for his first visa to the United States. In 1953, after graduating ...
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  • who organized and led a resistance to the United States' occupation of ... which eventually began to receive strong United States backing), and establish ...
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