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The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose ... and commercial interests in the Oregon country as well as residual ...

Pioneers traveled in wagons across the Oregon Trail, one of the main ... establishing a fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River at Fort ...

Boysenberry is the common name for a hybrid plant of the blackberry/raspberry ... (which work as antioxidants), and a source of iron. The boysenberry is a ...

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activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...

State University (1951-1964), the University of Iowa (1964-1970), and Oregon ... In addition to his wins, he was known for devising a system of full ...

The Klamath are a Native American tribe of the Plateau culture area ... With the loss of their resources and federal support services, as ...

in the Cascade Volcanoes Arc in northern Oregon state, in the Pacific Northwest ... over 4,600 acres (7.2 mi² or 18.6 km²) of ski-able terrain; Timberline ...

California and central Southern Oregon. They are currently divided ... American education and recommended use of Indian reservations to protect ...

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...

consider a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of ... The Cuckoo's Nest. Despite the success of Cuckoo's Nest, his next ...

a significant role during the Modoc War of 1872-1873. Born near southern ... After learning of a Modoc plot to assassinate a group of government ...

The Great Basin is a huge heart-shaped area that covers parts of six ... square km) intermontane plateau covers most of Nevada and over half of Utah ...

States National Park located in southern Oregon; the only national park in ... ties to the area and the natural habitat of the plant and animal life found ...

The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America ... The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes ...

The Snake River is the largest tributary of the Columbia River in ... and its tributaries, mainly for purposes of providing irrigation water ...

spanning fifty years, she made a total of seventy-three films. musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and ...

Brautigan wrote ten novels, two collections of short stories and over 500 ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...

June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... for the largest expansion in total land area of the nation's boundaries ...

American millionaire. He was the creator of the first Trust in America ... in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born to butcher ...

officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed ... Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office ...

park with the exception that the President of the United States can quickly ... monument and national park is the amount of diversity in what is being ...

the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Since the ... The region encompasses some of the Louisiana Purchase, most of the ...

Chief Joseph (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904) was the chief ... Until his death, he would put this image of himself to use in an attempt ...

movement occurring in the last years of the nineteenth century and ... even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude ...

American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress ... and for making this stance the centerpiece of 1968 presidential campaign ...

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 ...

Blackberry is the common name for any of the various perennial plants ... although in raspberries and other species of the subgenus Idaeobatus, the ...

off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British ... it is the largest island on the western side of the Americas and is Canada ...

social worker and reformer. She was one of the "ladies of Halsted ... in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of U.S. congressman William Darrah ...

river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It stretches ... The taming of the river for human use, and the industrial waste that ...

North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...

The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... Part of a submerged mountain chain, the archipelago has more than ...

California, United States, in the vicinity of Mount Shasta, specifically ... trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their traditional ...

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 ...

Carnegie earned the nickname Patron Saint of Libraries. The first of Carnegie's public libraries opened in his hometown ...

organization dedicated to the public purpose of furthering access to the world ... eContent provider, in 2002 and owns 100% of the shares of OCLC PICA, a ...

Thomas Jefferson following the acquisition of vast western territories from ... with the Native Americans with the help of the Shoshone Indian woman Sacajawea ...

mile (499 km) long river in the U.S. states of Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming ... , with a drainage basin of some 86000|sqmi|km2|0|sp=us , a large portion ...

is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered ... advocate for greatly increased consumption of vitamin C and other nutrients ...

Alden Partridge originated this novel system of education which combined civilian ... In the United States, ROTC produces officers in all branches of the ...

The Achomawi (also Achumawi, Ajumawi, and Ahjumawi) were one of several ... trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their traditional ...

Fisheries management refers to a governmental system of management ... and technology are still at an early stage of development and the development ...

the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in ... who shared her husband's strong love of nature and had perhaps a more ...

which included sexual and personal freedom of expression and for amassing ... a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India ...

Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States. They speak ... ancestral homeland in Wallowa Valley in Oregon, promised to them at an earlier ...

best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during ... collected in 1923 under the title Mirrors of Moscow. Later that year she ...

Skateboarding is the act of riding on or performing tricks with a ... media as an extreme sport—can be a form of art, a hobby, or a method of ...

Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty ...

in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. News of his death caused worldwide ... to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ...

civil engineer, and known slave trader, of the Elizabethan age. He became ... courage in battle, he was not liked by some of his peers. His legendary exploits ...

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 ...

1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known as a founder ... The discovery of gold on January 24, 1848, by Sutter's carpenter ...

Fe2O3 (hematite). Magnetite is one of several types of iron oxide ... tectonics. Changes in the oxygen content of the Earth's atmosphere ...

painter and printmaker. Rothko was one of the most highly-regarded painters ... Between the mid-1920s and the end of the 1940s, Rothko's paintings ...

This article is part of the branches of CAM series. CAM Classifications ... Naturopathic medicine (also known as naturopathy) is a school of medical ...

The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the ... The City of Rocks is an extraordinary granite encirclement of rock ...

June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861 ... Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear as the second of ten children. The Buchanan ...

written Piute) refers to two related groups of Native Americans — the Northern ... The Paiute are particularly well-known through the work of Wovoka ...

The State of Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... and Clark Expedition in 1805. It was part of the disputed Oregon Country ...

structure based on the regular gathering of small groups. Rather than focus ... ==The Essence of a Cell Church== Any viable community, including cell ...

known for his large realistic landscapes of the American West. In obtaining ... Bierstadt's was a second-generation member of the Hudson River ...

Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory ...

stretch along the northern Pacific coast of California south of the Oregon ... The park system preserves nearly 45 percent of all Coastal Redwood ...

Agate is a type of quartz (silica), chiefly chalcedony, characterized ... Agates have been used in history to make both ornamental objects and ...

Hoover Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the ... Elwood Mead who oversaw the construction of the dam. Listed on the National ...

The Three Kingdoms Period of Korea (hangul: 삼국시대) featured ... Kingdoms." Founded soon after the fall of Gojoseon, the three city-states ...

Siskiyou County, and has an estimated volume of 108 cubic miles (450 cubic ... mountain and rising abruptly from miles of level ground which encircle ...

colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...

fell ill and died in Russia during the fall of 1920. He was given a state ... in what is now the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. His grandmother ...

and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of ... with popular belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States ultimately ...

Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major ... the New York Giants, who denied them the use of their shared field at the Polo ...

States, England and Wales, or other parts of the world, a brief is a road ... The brief was probably so called from its at first being only a copy ...

rights activist who served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. After ... including issues surrounding command of the military. However, Poland ...

The idea of a Geographical zone was first hypothesized by the ancient ... the geographic distribution and interactions of existing climatic elements ...

(the energy that determines the temperature of matter) generated and stored ... In terms of alternative energy, geothermal energy is the energy that ...

which the seed grows. Pisum sativum was one of the first plants cultivated ... bacteria, peas play a role in the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into a ...

in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus of the heath family Ericaceae ... Several other plants of the genus Vaccinium also produce blue berries ...

Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights ... The commemoration began in 1978 as "Women's History day ...

The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia ... The fact that Russia was aware that the terms of the Treaty would ...

the common and scientific name for a taxon of medium-sized wild cats of North ... There are four extant species of lynx: The Canadian lynx (Lynx canadensis ...

large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any wild terrestrial mammal ... predator, the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey. Primary food sources ...

been interchanged or merged over the course of time. Sometimes, however, dockyards ... regulations have resulted in movement of the industry to developing regions. ...

States presidency in the disputed election of 1876, the most controversial ... (then officially named the University of the City of New York), earning ...

strives to remain "A national network of like-minded state and territorial ... Despite the urgency of environmental issues, nations are not taking ...

called the Panamint. The Idaho groups of Western Shoshone were called ... Possibly the most famous member of the Shoshone tribe was Sacagawea ...

was coined around a loosely connected group of landscape painters, whose aesthetic ... Hudson River School artists believed that nature in the form of the ...

the economic and social contributions of workers. It was first nationally ... viewed as a time for barbeques and the end of summer vacations as most schools ...

carnivorous mammal, Martes pennanti, of the marten genus (Martes) and ... predator that captures a wide diversity of prey: Rabbits, hares, squirrels ...

Muir Woods National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service ... While much of California's forests have been used for commercial ...

of forest formed from a patchwork of public lands in the northwestern ... The forest is located in one of the largest and most rugged wilderness ...

compounds and is miscible in a wide range of organic solvents as well as ... DMSO is a by-product of wood pulping. It was first synthesized in ...

Tulip is the common name for any member of the thousands of varieties ... While the flowers advance the tulip species' individual purpose ...

gas (LPG or LP-gas) and can be a mixture of propane with smaller amounts ... in gasoline by Dr. Walter O. Snelling of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in ...

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1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ... Invited to join anthropological expeditions as a photographer of native ...

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a subgenre ... Grunge became commercially successful in the first half of the 1990s ...

by habit and repute is, historically, a form of interpersonal status in which ... However, common-law marriage is becoming a thing of the past. It is ...

and genus name for a large and diverse group of woody shrubs and small (rarely ... plants, such as around the foundations of houses or in woodland gardens ...

American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...

arguably the most iconic motorbike stuntman of all time. Knievel's nationally ... His achievements and failures got him into the Guinness Book of World ...

A national park is a reserve of land, usually, but not always, declared ... National Park in 1872, which covers parts of the U.S. states of Wyoming ...

on Easter Sunday, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington ... Overcoming the odds of poverty, racism and the loss of her father ...

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was an iconic American actor, voted King of Hollywood by an adoring public ... His most iconic role was that of Rhett Butler in the 1930 epic film ...

Nebraska is a state located on the Great Plains of the United States ... Originally home to the Plains Indians, the area was part of Louisiana ...

music student in Canada, for the creation of a virtual library of public ... since multiple and historical editions of a single composition can be ...

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1968), also called "RFK," was one of two younger brothers of President ... RFK's resounding legacy is in the domain of civil rights. Along ...

The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... to receive the necessary two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States ...

around fourth century B.C.E. in the basins of the Liao and Taedong Rivers ... Dynasty, also romanized as Chosŏn. See also: Names of Korea. ...

Grebe is the common name for any of the swimming and diving birds ... and behaviors add to the aesthetic beauty of the aquatic environment for ...

Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... together in a community that is created out of the village, clan, and region ...

[[Image:Salishan_langs.png|thumb|222px|Pre-contact distribution of ... The Coast Salish tribe consists of three geographically divided areas ...

small invertebrates are important members of the zooplankton, particularly ... As this taxonomic group advances in its individual need of growth ...

Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes ... transitions from print to electronic formats of publication; publications on ...

Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses ... Kansas City was founded in 1838 as the "Town of Kansas" ...

- 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... three years studying English, mathematics, history, geography, navigation, ...

Native American belief systems. At the core of the movement was the visionary ... the Ghost Dance is built on the foundation of the traditional circle dance ...

There are several configurations of fire engines relating to the position ... The primary purpose of the engines is for direct fire suppression ...

Cholera is transmitted and spread to humans through consumption of ... cholerae most often occurs due to a lack of proper sanitation (clean water ...

as the “First Teacher”) because of his extensive commentaries ... ideal society based on a Neoplatonic concept of the Divine, in which the responsibility ...

owner who became infamous in the final years of his life, when he lived as ... a giant, eight-engined, flying boat made of wood that flew only once, in 1947. ...

born Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods ... married into), military service in the War of 1812, and subsequent successful ...

Physical fitness is used in the context of two meanings: General fitness ... Physical fitness is the capacity of the heart, blood vessels, lungs ...

an American college football coach and owner of 323 victories. He was best ... large part because he instilled the virtues of self-sacrifice, hard work and ...

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National ... area. The National Park Service portions of the expanded Monument were ...

Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the ... Sheridan prosecuted the latter years of the Indian Wars of the Great ...

energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ... World War I soon established the importance of a reliable national oil supply ...

) was established immediately following the abdication of Nicholas ... For most of the life of the Provisional Government, the status of ...

The potato plant (Solanum tuberosum) is a member of the Solanaceae ... crop, and the fourth largest crop in terms of fresh produce (after rice, ...

9, 1952) was a chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization ... #039;s dream was realized for this champion of his people's right to ...

It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy ... For some Christians and Pagans the religious origins of the holiday ...

Nevada is a state located in the western region of the United States ... largest state. Slightly more than 86 percent of its land is owned by the United ...

The State of Wyoming is a state in the western region of the United ... Wyoming has the distinction of being a state that provided several ...

Public libraries exist in most nations of the world and are often ... well as educational and nonfiction materials of interest to the general public; ...

The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ... The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Outside of California ...

rural area. It usually has a broad selection of merchandise in a relatively ... The general store was dominated and pushed out by the competition ...

is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan and northern Guangdong ...

Magnolia is the common name and genus name for a large group of deciduous ... east and southeast Asia. Today, many species of Magnolia and an ever increasing ...

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perhaps the best known representative of nineteenth century child advocacy ... whose best known works were The Best Method of Disposing of Our Pauper and ...

States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ... After several weeks of tension, during which the United States and ...

to refer to the loaded combination of bullet, cartridge case, gunpowder ... but nowadays bullets are sometimes made of materials other than lead ...

range") is a major mountain range of the western United States. ... 5,300 square miles (13,700 km²) of protected wilderness areas ...

California. The dominant feature of the park is Lassen Peak; the ... wind. It was the most powerful series of eruptions from 1914 through ...

typically Western Redcedar, by a number of Indigenous cultures along the ... After the movement of European settlers to the region, cultural and ...

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the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized ... became a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He fought ...

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California is a state on the West Coast of the United States, along ... changed California, sparking a large influx of people and a sustained economic ...

“The Sea Around Us”, and “The Edge of the Sea” were immense successes ... our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the ...

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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which ...

ever inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987. He was named ... and was named The Sporting News’ player of the year in 1970, and received ...

– October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933 ... successful engineer, and a dynamic Secretary of Commerce. He was highly regarded ...

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and the United States, that is composed of multiple far-left, autonomous ... Antifaschistische Aktion inspired a variety of different movements, groups ...

unbroken herbaceous layer consisting primarily of C4 grasses. There are three basic subcategories of savanna-wet, dry, and thornbush—depending ...

Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural ... An absolute requirement for life is an energy source, and the notion ...

an internal wick rising through the center of a column of solid fuel. Prior ... With the advent of kerosene lamps and electric lights, candles are ...

writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and ... Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors ...

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Life, may be considered by some as a type of virtual reality. virtual artifact (VA) either through the use of standard input devices such ...

Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...

from other developed nations because of its national credo, historical ... also be used in a negative sense by critics of American policies to refer ...

state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce ... in the lower 48 states at 35 square miles of snow and glaciers. It also ...

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Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public ... interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified ...

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politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under President Lyndon ...

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Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...

largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... south of the Canada – United States border in King County, of which ...

Salmon is the common name for several species of large food and game ... in freshwater lakes—probably as a legacy of the last period of glaciation—salmon ...

Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music ... As the world is increasingly globalized, preservation of traditional ...

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22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...

George Fox (July 1624 – January 13, 1691), founder of the Religious ... Fox's teachings opposed the the rationalism common in religion ...

explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions ... economic growth and emergence as centers of technological innovation, and ...

of USA Basketball, which is recognized by the International Basketball ... June 6, 1946 as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The league adopted ...

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The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is the second largest species ... Some cultures revere the elk as a spiritual force. In parts of Asia ...

Scorpion is the common name for any of the carnivorous arthropods ... Scorpions are widely distributed south of about 49° N, with the notable ...

he was only 15 years old, under the command of his older brother Oliver Hazard ... However, it did lead to the rest of the world gaining much from ...

The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are known as Quakers ... with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. Historians generally ...

The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme ...

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Redwood is a common name used for three species of trees with red ... The term is also used for the wood of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris ...

English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...

was the lead singer and predominant lyricist of the Doors, and is considered ... Of Scottish and Irish ancestry, Jim Morrison was the son of United ...

thanatos, "death") is the practice of terminating the life of a human ... Of related note is the fact that suicide, or attempted suicide, is ...

Adoption is the legal act of permanently placing a child with a parent ... possibly the culture and even ethnic group of an individual has implications ...

The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...

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Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...

American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from United ... Football League in 1922. The NFL is one of the most popular sports leagues ...

ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ... term has been understood to refer to a place of mistreatment, starvation, forced ...

2.5 million acres (10,000 km²) in the state of Wyoming. Originally a part ... property, lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Wind ...

Alaska and all but the northernmost parts of Canada, south through the continental ... carnivores, they help control populations of animals such as rodents, rabbits ...

Ammonia is a chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, with the ... several important roles, serving as a source of nitrogen for plants and helping ...

to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population, known ... incredible geological diversity in the form of snowcapped mountains to well ...

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The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the ... the entire law, including the legislative history of the provisions covered herein. ...

by one or more horizontal rotors—each of which comprises two or more ... Their range is subject only to availability of a refueling site and limitations ...

mines increasingly financed a long series of European and North African ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...

Bobcat is the common name for a medium-sized wild cat of North America ... swampland environments. It persists in much of its original range and populations ...

Kansas is a Midwestern state located in the geographic center of the ... Originally, home to large numbers of nomadic Native Americans that ...

his personal philosophy on world history, religion, nature, science ... Several of Messiaen's early works are especially notable in that ...

known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. At the time of his ... Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer ...

played as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all ... in football and for his outspoken support of policies that improve the social ...

World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United ... Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear ...

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... War in 1866. It was founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, with ...

leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia ... segregation in the United States. He was one of the "Big Six" leaders ...

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) is a range of traditional medical practices originating in China ... TCM theory asserts that processes of the human body are interrelated ...

The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... As the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate has several powers of ...

Christianity. Not content to be a member of the religious "flock, ... #039;s largest cities, preaching to tens of thousands and (not incidentally ...

bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham ... Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct action culminated ...

Snake is any of the numerous elongate, limbless, scaled, carnivorous ... The more than 2,900 species of snakes are spread across every continent ...

or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ... During World War I, a force of Japanese destroyers supported the Allies ...

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that is essential for all known forms of life. Laurence D. Barron, ... gaseous state, water vapor. About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is ...

The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ... to concentration camps and executions of between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews. ...

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...