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- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun ... Calhoun began his career as a staunch nationalist, favoring war with ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... He became an important critic of the anti-democratic tendencies of ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 10:45, 28 February 2023
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories ... This compromise was viewed in its day as one of the most important ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 19:18, 9 November 2022
- gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- who opposed U.S. involvement in both World War I and World War II (finally ... that he attested to. He was a stalwart of socialism who opposed communism ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was one of ... by his own existence within the restrictions of time and space, and by the ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the ... Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding ... The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1, with the majority ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress ... candidate to speak out against the Vietnam War, and for making this stance ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 04:13, 23 March 2024
- reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... India, on March 5, 1879, the eldest son of a judge in the Indian Civil ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes ... Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- woman ever allowed to practice at the bar of the United States Supreme Court ... Until her death in 1917, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Catherine Booth (January 17, 1829 – October 4, 1890) was the wife ... Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, the daughter of John Mumford and Sarah Milward ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 16:14, 3 December 2023
- the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... with Russia and Spain. By Article III of the Anglo-American Convention ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ... As humankind becomes more aware of the need to recognize all people ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 04:00, 6 October 2022
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- Pacis (“On the Law (and Rights and Wrongs) of War and Peace,” 1625) secured ... *De iure belli ac pacis (On the laws of war and peace) - 1625 ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Gwangjong (광종 光宗) (949 – 975) was the fourth Emperor of ... Gwangjong eliminated many of his powerful rivals by sending them to ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 02:33, 28 July 2023
- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- colonists against against the imposition of a British tax on tea and to ... sentiment against various restrictive laws imposed by Great Britain on ...9 KB (1,449 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
- Along with Roberto Bellarmine, he was one of the leading thinkers who defended ... was the first systematic and extensive work of metaphysics composed in the ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... Laws guaranteeing civil rights may be written down, derived from custom ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- As a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded on ... Many of Kepler's writings reflect his deep desire to understand ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... of international law. For example, laws of war were long a matter of ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- and German-controlled lands as a part of Hitler's anti-Semitic policy. ... diplomat died and Germany was in the grip of skillfully orchestrated anti ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in ... revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- 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
- #039;s work advanced economics in a number of aspects: He formalized production ... He was the creator of much of the nomenclature used in the world of ...13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- where conflict occurs between groups of people, for a variety of reasons ... The history of conflict theory can be traced back to thinkers such ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Petersburg. In 1925, to mark the centennial of the event, the square was renamed ... The Decembrists represented the elite of the military officers whose ...14 KB (2,074 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- and close sweatshops, and was co-founder of the National Association for ... just three days before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- ) was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from October 1, 1791 ... in July 1789 after the Estates General of 1789 failed to reach an agreement ...23 KB (3,164 words) - 20:20, 30 September 2023
- anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... he soon became interested in the work of W. H. R. Rivers, Alfred North ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Army and the third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member ... Japanese army and instituting a system of conscription, and in organizing ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- His stories, especially his treatment of the Cossacks in the war with ... Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ ... In terms of politics, ‘absolutism’ refers to a type of government ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- Who Holds Firm the Good"), was the son of Hystaspes and Persian Emperor ... that the Greeks and Persians were members of kindred peoples. He employed ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain ... [[Image:Midge potts arrested.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An anti-war activist ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... intelligence can bring about the betterment of society. It is usually characterized ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation in 1838, of the ... This was caused by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Cherokee Trail ...16 KB (2,520 words) - 04:56, 1 May 2023
- was the first woman appointed to the board of Edmonton Hospital. In 1916 ... #039;s role in winning legal recognition of the "person-hood" ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 09:28, 28 September 2023
- old) is a collectible item desirable because of its age, rarity, condition ... == Definition of antique == [[Image:Kepler-world.jpg|thumb|200 px|left ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
