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- Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was a leading American statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- James "Jim" Bowie (April 10, 1796 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth century American pioneer and soldier who took a prominent part ...34 KB (5,434 words) - 08:55, 18 March 2024
- Calcite is a carbonate mineral and is among the most widely distributed minerals on the Earth's surface. Chemically, it is known as calcium ...7 KB (1,007 words) - 18:20, 25 November 2023
- Cumin (IPA pronunciation [ˈkʌmɪn] The pronunciations /ˈkuːmɪn/ and /ˈkjuːmɪn/ are becoming increasingly common. sometimes spelled cummin ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. The capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Family therapy is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on the relationships among family ...24 KB (3,689 words) - 00:39, 25 March 2024
- Category:Public [[Image:Robert_E._Lee.jpg|thumb|250px|Robert Edward Lee, as a U.S. Army Colonel before the war]] Robert Edward Lee (January 19 ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography McCormick, Robert R. Robert Rutherford McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, and satirist, today best known ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- The term pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the Americas in the time before significant European influence. While technically ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 22:17, 30 November 2022
- The avocado (Persea americana) is a tree native to Mexico and Central America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae and widely ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:18, 23 August 2023
- Federalist No. 3, titled "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence," is a political essay by ...17 KB (2,445 words) - 01:54, 26 March 2024
- The World Heritage Site known as the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl consists of fourteen monasteries built on or near the Popocatépetl ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893), was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 04:50, 14 June 2023
- Category:Public Perry, Matthew C. [[Image:Matthew Calbraith Perry.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry|Matthew Calbraith Perry]]]] ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. These codices were written in Mayan hieroglyphic ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet who wrote during the period of literary Modernism. Crane is one of ...7 KB (1,109 words) - 20:59, 29 January 2022
- Agate is a type of quartz (silica), chiefly chalcedony, characterized by its fine grain and bright colors. Although agates may be found in various ...9 KB (1,311 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- Nellie Bly (May 5 Brooke Kroeger. Nellie Bly: daredevil, reporter, feminist. (New York: Times Books. 1994), 529, reports that although a birth ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- The Western United States—commonly referred to as the American West or simply The West—traditionally refers to the region comprising the ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the Communist Party USA and its five-time U.S. presidential candidate. ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- Edward Herbert Thompson (September 28, 1857 - May 18, 1935) Different sources give various years for his birth: 1956, 1957, and 1960. ...16 KB (2,447 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- Crayfish, or crawfish, is the common name for almost exclusively freshwater crustaceans comprising the arthropod families Astacidae, Cambaridae ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States had a mission to expand westward across the North American continent, ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- Acamapichtli (which means "Handful of Arrows" or "Handful of Reeds") was tlatoani (king, or Great Speaker) of the Aztecs ...7 KB (1,048 words) - 23:29, 30 September 2021
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Kluckhohn, Clyde Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn (January 11, 1905 – July 28, 1960 ...10 KB (1,350 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- Doroteo Arango Arámbula (June 5, 1878 – July 23, 1923), better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- The United Mexican States, or simply Mexico, is a country located in North America, bounded on the north by the United States; on the south and ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 11, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator and diplomat who ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 07:38, 15 April 2024
- Category:Psychologists Terman, Lewis Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 - December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, noted as a pioneer ...14 KB (2,037 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and advocate for slavery, most famous for serving as the only ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction based in Austin, the capital ...49 KB (7,650 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- Santa Fe ( Yootó ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed on a member of the U. S. Military ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. An ocean basin, it is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and the economic ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- Alcatraz Island, commonly referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally as The Rock, is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- Category:Sociologists Coleman, James S. James Samuel Coleman (born May 12, 1926 – died March 25, 1995) was an American sociologist, a pioneer ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. Early was trusted and ...15 KB (2,251 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (ca. 1510 – September 22, 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and Governor of New Galicia, Mexico who between 1540 ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:800px-Smithsonian Building NR.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The Smithsonian Institution ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- Prairie dogs is the common name for any of the social, burrowing, North American rodents comprising the genus Cynomys of the [squirrel]] family ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- In zoology, a turkey is any of the large birds comprising the subfamily Meleagridinae of Phasianidae, a family of birds that consists of the ...15 KB (2,323 words) - 18:52, 6 November 2022
- Category:Public color = lightgreen | name = Peanut image = [[Image:Koeh-163.jpg|240px]] | caption = Peanut (Arachis hypogea) color = lightgreen ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states ...22 KB (3,316 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Mlbretired |bgcolor1=#af0039 |bgcolor2=#0f437c |textcolor1=white |textcolor2=white |name=Warren Spahn |position=Starting ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 22:56, 3 May 2023
- Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe the nomadic and colorful horsemen and cowhands of the South American pampas ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
