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- The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States and is bestowed by the President of the United States. It ...9 KB (1,283 words) - 22:24, 30 November 2022
- The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency ... During the beginning of his term, Jackson was forced to confront the ...7 KB (1,113 words) - 00:42, 17 November 2022
- the distinguished office of President of the United States. ... president), as well as of the President of the United States seems to be properly ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 17:11, 8 October 2023
- nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States in 1848. His political position endorsed a Jeffersonian political philosophy. He believed ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... The Radical Republicans took a hard line against the Confederacy early ...11 KB (1,485 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was one of the most prominent social reformers ... Mary Thompson Hill Willard. She spent most of her childhood on a farm in ...7 KB (1,021 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium ... Great Britain message from the President of the United States, transmitting ...5 KB (803 words) - 14:55, 2 May 2023
- April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve years ... Perkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts. The family moved to Worcester ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United ... Free Soil candidates ran on the platform declaring "...we inscribe ...6 KB (913 words) - 10:35, 11 April 2024
- The Truman Doctrine was a proclamation by United States President ... Aid was agreed by the United States government to be given to both ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 18:28, 2 May 2023
- The Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United States ...11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- reformer and social activist, leader of the women's suffrage movement ... Woodlake, Kentucky and grew up at Ashland, the farm established by her great ...7 KB (1,006 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- filled by the wife of the president of the United States, the title is sometimes taken to apply only to the wife of a sitting president, however ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, ... business dealings; acquiring great wealth at the misery of others, mainly convict ...6 KB (817 words) - 07:21, 10 August 2022
- The Fulbright Program including the Fulbright-Hays Program is a program ... Fulbright alumni around the world recognize the importance of continued ...11 KB (1,431 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States, and therefore is seen as the first First Lady of the United States although that ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:57, 6 December 2023
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria. His family emigrated to the ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing ... The WCTU perceived alcoholism as a consequence of larger social problems ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 23:22, 17 May 2023
- | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ... (November 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia for more than ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States. As the first vice president to succeed to the ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 07:59, 3 August 2022
- and educator. Serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University ... in determining economic activity and the consequent health and prosperity ...7 KB (1,057 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- 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
- A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States ... is personally awarded by the President of the United States (executive branch ...10 KB (1,549 words) - 19:21, 15 May 2020
- politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first official Secretary-General ... organize multinational troops to respond to the invasion of Korea in 1950 ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- historical materials of every President of the United States since Herbert Hoover. Presidential libraries began with the thirty-second U.S. President ...19 KB (2,492 words) - 22:38, 30 November 2022
- October 24, 1830 – May 19, 1917) was among the first female attorneys in ... Victoria Woodhull) to run for President of the United States. Additionally ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Abraham Lincoln. He was a staunch supporter of the Union and of the emancipation ... Hay was born in 1838, in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, raised ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served as the twenty-first President. Arthur ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States (1841). He served as the first governor of the Indiana Territory and later as a U.S ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 10:57, 9 May 2023
- 1987) was an American soldier and diplomat of the mid-twentieth century. ... in Kansas City as a youth and graduated from the United States Military Academy ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:07, 9 November 2022
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- have succeeded Johnson as president of the United States upon Johnson ... Andrew Johnson became President of the United States following the ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 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
- Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving one term from 1889 to 1893 ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States, who was born on February 22, 1732 (by the Gregorian calendar). Since the Uniform ...19 KB (2,531 words) - 23:00, 3 May 2023
- Albion Woodbury Small (May 11, 1854 – March 24, 1926) founded the ... Albion Woodbury Small was born in Buckfield, Maine, the son of Reverend ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 17:49, 19 December 2022
- The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military ... The award recognizes acts of heroism performed in ground combat if ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- The American Colonization Society was founded in Liberia 1816 by Robert ... The society held close control over the development of Liberia until ...11 KB (1,715 words) - 03:32, 24 July 2023
- | order=7th Vice President of the United States | term_start=March 4, 1825 ... 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- The Labor-Management Relations Act, commonly known as the Taft-Hartley ... The act forbade jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. Employers ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 02:51, 27 February 2023
- and anthropologist, who developed two of the nation's most notable ... whose ancestors could be tracked down to the first settlers of America ...9 KB (1,359 words) - 10:26, 11 April 2024
- Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements ... Perjury is the giving of false testimony under oath. The word comes ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868), was a member ... to hold a steady job and who abandoned the family before dying in the ...9 KB (1,431 words) - 02:49, 19 April 2023
- | order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... military leader, and the 19th President of the United States (1877 – 1881 ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- Teapot Dome was an oil reserve scandal that began during the administration ... The Teapot Dome oil field received its name because of a rock resembling ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- writer, political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the ... Born to privilege and wealth, Hancock used his money to foster the ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 05:15, 3 August 2022
- government official. Dana was in many ways the most brilliant journalist ... criticism of his abilities as President of the United States. Dana was in ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations assists ... ==Organizational Structure and Pattern of Work== ECOSOC has 54 members ...13 KB (1,735 words) - 11:44, 3 May 2023
- diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was ... During his tenure as president, Roberts pushed for European and United ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who long ... and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in ... quot; on the side at [[President of the United States|President]] Andrew ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the ... society that afforded many contacts for the rest of his life. He graduated ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- 1955) was an American newspaper baron, owner of the Chicago Tribune, and popularly ... A leading opponent of United States entry into World War II and of ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The measures, designed by Whig Senator Henry Clay (who failed to get ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- A United States National Monument is a protected area that is similar to a U.S. national park with the exception that the President of the United ...19 KB (2,589 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- She is known for her work to improve the living and working conditions ... In 1886, she joined the Women's Educational and Industrial Union ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 16:13, 7 November 2022
- American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was ... Landon was born in 1887, to John Manuel and Anne Mossman Landon. The ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol. He ... interest and discernible talent in "the arts of design," to employ ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to in history as Bloody Kansas ... In all, approximately 63 people died in Bleeding Kansas. The term ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- War I and World War II (finally supporting the latter conflict only after ... He believed steadfastly in the principles that he attested to. He ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- executive, and philanthropist. He introduced the concept of “salesmanship” ... money for cancer research and promoting the federal government’s role ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- secretary of state, and fifth president of the United States. He was the last ... began his term as the new president of the United States. ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- philosopher, and diplomat, an advocate of peace through education. The ... L. Butler and Mary Murray Butler, daughter of Nicholas Murray, a clergyman ...14 KB (2,044 words) - 23:32, 14 November 2022
- The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration that can ... It ranks fifth in the precedence of military awards behind the Medal ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- 20, 1893), was a Louisiana-born general for the Confederate Army during the ... Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2022
- Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869), succeeding to the presidency ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917 ... it would prove to be eventful. She was the last monarch of the Kingdom ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 15:42, 7 December 2022
- The Burning of Washington is the name given to the burning of Washington ... The White House was burned. Only the exterior walls remained, and ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor had ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- broadcasting executive who served as the president of Columbia Broadcasting ... Stanton was decisive and passionate in his pursuit of the development ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- his 1980 campaign, she was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United ... Jeane Duane Jordan was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the daughter of an ...14 KB (1,976 words) - 01:05, 9 February 2023
- Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which ... Investigations conducted by the FBI, Senate Watergate Committee, House ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 14:08, 31 May 2022
- Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth ... celebrated in a religious fashion. In the Catholic tradition, it is ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 12:56, 21 January 2023
- (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849), was the wife of President James Madison ... North Carolina, on May 20, 1768, a daughter of John Payne, farmer and starch ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- a political sociologist, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the ... was born on March 18, 1922, in New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the ... New York University (then officially named the University of the City of ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 20:20, 1 December 2023
- Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under President ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- 1, 1918) was an American educator and one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... and at a young age became familiar with the work of Friedrich Froebel ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 04:10, 6 November 2022
- was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State ... his speech on U.S. policy toward Asia before the National Press Club in January ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- The Monroe Doctrine is a United States doctrine which, on December ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and together ... and then Senator, was elected President of the United States in 1960, and ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:16, 16 December 2022
- Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the ... inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States on March 4, 1861. ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:14, 7 November 2022
- 16, 2016) was an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth secretary-general of ... for not responding quickly enough in the face of tragedies like the ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 19:59, 20 November 2023
- [[Image:Eisenhower in the Oval Office.jpg|thumb|300px|President Dwight ... was first used publicly by President of the United States (and former General ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in United States created the territories ... each selected a candidate for president of the United States. ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 02:44, 5 October 2022
- John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for his taciturn New England ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) became the first ... class family in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... In September, 1949, when the Communists founded the People’s Republic ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American lawyer, diplomat, congressman, and sixth president of the United States ...17 KB (2,542 words) - 07:07, 3 August 2022
- Carl Robert Byoir (June 24, 1888 – February 3, 1957) was one of ... Before he was 18 years old, Byoir became the editor of the Waterloo Times ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 00:54, 13 January 2023
- The Fourteen Points were listed in a speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States to a Joint session of the Congress on ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- was an American journalist and publisher, the grandson of publisher Joseph ... Patterson inherited wealth, experience, and the ability to succeed in the ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 00:44, 11 August 2022
- is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to ... The commemoration began in 1978 as "Women's History day ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther ... King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- Independence Hall is a United States national landmark located in ... The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... policy in a vastly improved climate from the authoritarian South Korean ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- issues that are generally shocking to the public. Generally, muckraking ... Given their name by Theodore Roosevelt when he likened their work ...11 KB (1,585 words) - 17:31, 11 May 2020
- The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the ... This compromise was viewed in its day as one of the most important ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 19:18, 9 November 2022
- with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The Cold War ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- was a Seychellois politician. Committed to the principles of democracy, he ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney ... Unlike Marshall, who had supported a broad role for the federal government ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- American nurse and social worker, active in the late nineteenth and early ... German-Jewish middle-class family. She was the third of four children born ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- Mexico CityWhig candidate for President of the United States, 1852 ... passed over its own incumbent President of the United States, Millard Fillmore ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- and oceanography. He was influential in the development of modern systematic ... His name is honored with the Alexander Agassiz Medal established in ...9 KB (1,298 words) - 09:40, 15 May 2021
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was a United ... The tragic death of her only daughter marked a turning point that ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...17 KB (2,707 words) - 09:04, 18 November 2022
- ; ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- The White House is the residence and official office of the president of the United States. The White House is located on 18 acres of land at ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- quot; in David Merrick's production of Hello Dolly!—a part first ... She was born in Newport News, Virginia, (also the birth place of legendary ...10 KB (1,596 words) - 07:09, 23 November 2022
- 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
- and a women's rights activist, and the first woman in the United ... Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- The Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA, French ... The need for a single body to oversee the worldwide game became apparent ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- was an American social worker and reformer, the pioneer of the social work ... on April 1, 1866 in Lexington, Kentucky, the second of seven children of ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 19:20, 14 February 2023
- Labor Day, or Labour Day in Canada, is a an annual holiday in the ... Today, in both countries, the holiday is generally viewed as a time ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- The Taif Agreement was negotiated in Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving ... On May 11, 2004, President of the United States George W. Bush signed ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- The HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership ... HJI offers professional training in the ministry, serving a wide spectrum ...14 KB (2,005 words) - 18:06, 1 December 2023
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He was elected ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861). He was the only bachelor president ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States ... Although Lincoln won the Republican presidential nomination over Seward ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1923 ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the ... traditionally hosted by the President of the United States and the First ...22 KB (2,997 words) - 16:12, 20 July 2023
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... resolution calling on the President of the United States to issue a proclamation ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (identified on ... Designed by famed New York architect Edward Durell Stone, the Kennedy ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 23:38, 5 July 2023
- civil-rights activist, a field secretary of the National Association for ... July 2, 1925, near Decatur, Mississippi, as the third of four children of ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... human beings as essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- and candidate for President of the United States. After 150 years, Cooper's legacy of Cooper Union still provides scholarship for those ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- and sociologist, and first president of the American Sociological ... Lester Frank Ward was born in Joliet, Illinois, into the family of ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- and educator, most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism ... Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ...13 KB (1,934 words) - 01:02, 4 February 2023
- 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, the leading exponent of the music ... a devout Baptist. After moving to Chicago in the late 1920s, she worked with ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- Stephen Arnold Douglas nicknamed the "Little Giant" (April ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
- is a lawyer and Argentine politician from the Justicialist Party and the ... She is Argentina's second female president (after Isabel Martínez ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a key ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- Jewish-American sociologist. He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology ... As a member of the Jewish immigrant minority, Wirth understood first ...10 KB (1,432 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed ... Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... A hero to some and a villain to others, Gompers founded the American ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained ... The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- well-known American jurist and a justice on the United States Supreme Court ... The decisions of past jurists and legislators may or may not have ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and ... While never rising to the presidency, Clay became perhaps the most ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States ... secretary of state, and Vice President of the United States. He was an outspoken ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- March 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and ... Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831–September 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He was a strong opponent of slavery ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- Francis Amasa Walker (July 2, 1840 – January 5, 1897) was a United ... in his beliefs, particularly regarding the issue of immigration. He feared ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- volunteer, French Intervention hero, and President. He ruled Mexico from 1876 ... tackle racial divides, but it was a period of relative political stability ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 05:38, 30 November 2022
- Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (b. June 29, 1945) was the fifth ... elected leaders when Kumaratunga became President. In power, she pursued ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- | image =Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon 1960 (cropped ... | order =Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | term_start = | term_end = ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians ... Margaret Chase was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1897 ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- role in Philippine independence during the Philippine Revolution against ... In the Philippines, Aguinaldo is considered to be the country's ...20 KB (2,922 words) - 18:15, 13 February 2024
- ) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at ... Solidarity was the first non-communist trade union in a Communist ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the ... The building was originally designed by William Thornton. This plan ...23 KB (3,473 words) - 01:21, 3 May 2023
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- 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was Vice President of the Confederate States ... The causes of the Civil War remain the subject of debate and it is ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 21:02, 28 November 2023
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- William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley was one of the most popular ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
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- The Battle of Buena Vista (February 23, 1847), also known as the Battle ... helped him win election as President of the United States in 1848. Santa ...9 KB (1,403 words) - 03:51, 2 January 2022
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- The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty ... Moscow on May 26, 1972, by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
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- Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United ... In February 1926, Carter G. Woodson launched the celebration of "Negro ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
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- and politician who was for many years the voice of the young nation ... Born in South Africa, he excelled as a student of foreign languages ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
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- community organizer. Mother Jones was one of the founders of the Industrial ... Mary was born on the north side of Cork City, Ireland. When she was ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 16:02, 7 November 2022
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- The Ten Years' War, (Guerra de los Diez Años) (also known as ... The Ten Years' War (1868-1878) was the first of three wars that ...12 KB (1,919 words) - 05:40, 27 February 2023
- work in economics, especially his criticism of the railroad system, helped ... 13, 1867, in Medford, Massachusetts, into the family of Nathaniel L. Ripley ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- 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 ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 16:52, 21 January 2024
- The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known ... The bureau was put into effect to protect the best interests of former ...13 KB (1,911 words) - 10:37, 11 April 2024
- 14, 1917 – October 26, 1979) stands as the dominant figure in the Republic ... An austere and frugal man, Park was president from 1961 to 1979. He ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July or July 4th) is ... other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions ...20 KB (2,843 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of government involvement in solving ... on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally ... Originally called News-Week, the weekly magazine Newsweek was founded ...10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... The Second World War's opposing alliances pitted strong democracies ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- sociologist, and reformer, known in United States as the "mother ... A committed pacifist and early feminist, Addams actively supported ...13 KB (2,111 words) - 08:58, 1 April 2024
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- Tammany Hall was the Democratic Party political machine that played ... War hero and third vice president of the United States, emerged as the ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 03:59, 27 February 2023
- American Founding Father and the third president of the United States. The neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope and completed ...9 KB (1,344 words) - 04:39, 31 July 2022
- in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ... As one of the "Seven Sisters," Wellesley has been and continues ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 23:29, 3 May 2023
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- The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential order in 1863 that ... It was a declaration by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
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- pedagogue and historian, better known as the “Father of the Olympics ... He was the primary force in the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- diplomat, and jurist, best known as the first Chief Justice of the ... Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political ... returned to Colombia and served as President from 1833 until 1837, then ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- 21, 1919) was an American pioneer in the areas of feminism, abolitionism ... One of the first women in the country to be awarded a medical degree ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 16:01, 7 November 2022
- Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- – February 17, 1966) was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... He guarded information about his private life and instead focused ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Party of America candidate for President of the United States. ... He was a candidate for President of the United States in 1900 as a ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- ice hockey coach, best known for coaching the United States hockey team ... On November 13, 2006, Brooks was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. ...18 KB (2,744 words) - 14:09, 9 February 2022
- The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television ... CNN was founded in 1979, by Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld. The founding ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 10:13, 25 November 2023
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- 17, 1927) was an American youth leader and the founder of the Girl Scouts ... and Eleanor Kinzie Gordon shortly before the beginning of the Civil War ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
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- - February 23, 1915) was a mulatto slave in the United States who freed himself ... His actions as a Navy ship captain helped to bolster support for the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- Olympic Peninsula, was originally created as the Olympic National Monument ... a World Heritage Site. In 1988, almost all of the Olympic Peninsula was designated ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
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- lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support ... a headscarf and for allegedly shaking the hand of a man. Defending her ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
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- John Winthrop (January 12, 1588 – March 26, 1649) led a group of ... that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- literary fame at age 17, after writing the poem, "Thanatopsis." ... shaped American thought and politics in the nineteenth century. He was ...13 KB (1,996 words) - 15:56, 7 May 2023
- educator, diplomat, and politician during the Meiji and Taishō periods ... intellectuals and students. He was critical of the increasing militarism in ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary ... In the latter part of the twentieth century opposition to Columbus ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham ...20 KB (3,092 words) - 08:05, 3 August 2022
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- The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities ... The term "Commission" can mean either the college of Commissioners ...35 KB (5,142 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- )—January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973)—was the de facto military ... Growing resistance to his government included most of the coalition ...18 KB (2,625 words) - 11:10, 20 September 2023
- The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg was established ... The scope of the European Court of Human Rights and the legally binding ...17 KB (2,642 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
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- (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda ... quot; or "Usama bin Ladin," both of which are abbreviated to UBL. ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ... Overcoming the odds of poverty, racism and the loss of her father ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 23:31, 1 September 2023
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... March 8, 1930), was the 27th President of the United States, the 10th Chief ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- LaGuardia, often spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
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- abolitionist. Anthony invested fifty years of her life advocating for the ... Anthony's lifelong efforts were rewarded posthumously with the ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
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- David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) led the Radio ... Sarnoff was the eldest son of Abraham and Leah Sarnoff. He was born ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
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- The Chicago Tribune, founded in 1847, is a major daily newspaper based ... Since its founding, the Chicago Tribune has maintained political allegiance ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate ... many practical applications and for works of art. In particular, it is used ...8 KB (1,054 words) - 21:52, 28 July 2023
- | order=4th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1809 ... Thomas Jefferson, and fourth president of the United States. Sometimes called ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- a French center-right politician who was President of the French Republic ... He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... distinguished scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
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- Typhoid fever (or enteric fever) is an illness caused by the bacterium ... Once ingested, the bacteria are ingested by macrophages (cells in ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a sparsely populated ... The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen ...17 KB (2,377 words) - 02:43, 11 March 2023
- Building or "Castle" on the National Mall serves as the ... The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest educational ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
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- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... * Grover Cleveland, former President of the United States (1885-89 ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- was an Egyptian statesman who served as the third president of Egypt from ... Sadat was a soldier who became a man of peace. Egypt and Israel had ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was ... to maintain national unity or to resolve the ongoing dispute with India ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose ... Both the United Kingdom and the United States had territorial and ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson ...20 KB (3,091 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- and journalist. She was a co-founder of numerous social organizations ... 25, 1881 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, into the family of Samuel Eastman and ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:32, 11 January 2024
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... Born in Minnesota to a leftist family, Hall joined the American Communist ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- who gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant ... Znaniecki, together with Thomas, were the first researchers to use ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
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- Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) president of the United States ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- charities, dedicating her life to improving the lives of the under-privileged ... and become involved in their communities. The Shaw family had strong Unitarian ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 19:42, 7 September 2022
- lawyer who played a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and outlawing ... in Washington, D.C., just blocks away from the Supreme Court building. His ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
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- The term felony is a term used in common law systems for very serious ... a crime is still an act in violation of a public law for which a punishment ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 16:11, 5 April 2017
- The Rhodes Scholarship is an international award for study at the ... in 1968, he served as 42nd President of the United States from 1993-2001. ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... The Republic of Palau consists of eight principal islands and more ...19 KB (2,897 words) - 10:59, 11 March 2023
- The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge in northeastern ... on Alaska's North Slope. It extends from the Beaufort Sea on ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
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- cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya ... His father, Leopold, was also partly of Belarusian-Polish noble descent. ...17 KB (2,362 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
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- Thomas Lynch, Jr. (August 5, 1749 – 1779) was a signer of the United ... Thomas Lynch (1675-1738) served in the First Royal Assembly (1721 ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
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- 28, 1925 - October 10, 2005), Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and ... While attending a meeting of the British Commonwealth in 1971, he ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
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- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... Cambridge. Upon graduation he joined the family business. He proved ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red ... all I had, even with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
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- Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President ...32 KB (4,916 words) - 21:09, 7 February 2024
- A national park is a reserve of land, usually, but not always, declared ... The first national park to be established in the world was Yellowstone ...17 KB (2,403 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
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- The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal revealed in 1986 as ... While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause, ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- as a women's college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven ... For Vassar graduates, both men and women, to advance the world of ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 2023
- The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed ... The results for Eastern Europe were disastrous as they were held hostage ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 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
- The Helsinki Final Act, Helsinki Accords, or Helsinki Declaration ... On the other hand, by signing the document, the Soviet Union had also ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering ... The CIA is restricted from operating inside the United States, although ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
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- The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... Debate continues about whether the Civil War and all its bloodshed ...19 KB (2,857 words) - 02:59, 8 January 2024
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- The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from ... The Korean War (1950-1953) and its Armistice Agreement left the two ...20 KB (2,911 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- The Gabonese Republic or Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
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- and archaeologist, famous for his discovery of "Turkana Boy." The ... Richard Leakey was the second of the three sons of the archaeologists ...14 KB (1,980 words) - 23:02, 4 January 2024
- Anne Bradstreet (circa 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the first ... Bradstreet was born Anne Dudley in Northhampton England. She was the ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 01:58, 26 June 2021
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- The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
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- crime and its penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests ... not be considered such in another. However, the basic effort on the part of ...16 KB (2,401 words) - 23:59, 24 March 2024
- 23, 1800), South Carolina statesman, was one of four signers of the Declaration ... A delegate at both the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- chemist and industrialist who emmigrated to the United States in 1799 and ... has had a major impact on American affairs. The DuPont Company was a major ...10 KB (1,478 words) - 21:44, 29 December 2021
- elected positions as a representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives ... Benjamin was born a British subject in Christiansted, Saint Croix ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 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
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- 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
- 1851) was an acclaimed American pioneer in the education of the deaf. He ... those he perceived to be in greater need, the deaf. His care and concern ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
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- He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit ... other international honors, including the ITU World Information Society ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- work in human instinctual behavior and the development of social psychology ... McDougall was born on June 22, 1871 in Lancashire, England, as the ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- The Royal Ballet is Great Britain's most prestigious ballet company ... The Royal Ballet was founded as the Vic-Wells Ballet by Dame Ninette ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 20:54, 21 December 2022
- statesman, and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and ... Frederick Douglass was a key figure in the abolition of slavery in ...23 KB (3,597 words) - 10:27, 11 April 2024
- on various days in many places around the world. Officially recognized ... in Europe commonly celebrated a forerunner of today's holiday, the contemporary ...22 KB (3,311 words) - 17:00, 10 November 2022
- and manufacturer. He is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin ... Whitney saw that a machine to clean the seed from cotton could make ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
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- Arthur Middleton (June 26, 1742 - January 1, 1787) was one of the ... The son of Henry Middleton, one of South Carolina's representatives ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 11:12, 16 August 2023
- [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
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- ; born June 13, 1944) is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth ... On October 13, 2006, he was elected as the eighth Secretary-General ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
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- |motto=Veritas vos liberabit(The truth shall make you free) ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution ...29 KB (4,229 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
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- ) is the largest city, and the administrative, communications, and ... textiles and soap. Bujumbura, situated on the northeastern shore of Lake ...18 KB (2,590 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
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- April 19, 1974) was a Field Marshal during the mid-1960s, and the President ... Ayub Khan was born in the village of Rehana in Haripur District to ...18 KB (2,831 words) - 14:50, 7 February 2023
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- Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was the third Vice-President of the United States (1801–1805) and one of the most ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
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- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... Remembrance Day – also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day (the event ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
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- :For the province, see Sulu {{Infobox Former Country |native_name = Sulu ... The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
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- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... The Hawaiian Islands, once known as the Sandwich Islands, form an ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
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- George Washington, the first president of the United States and the leader ... unanimously elected the first president of the United States. ...23 KB (3,484 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- Matías Mella, and is widely considered the architect of the Dominican ... His vision for the country, formerly Spain's oldest colony, was ...13 KB (2,050 words) - 12:08, 30 September 2022
- was a clinical psychologist. Her main areas of research included schizophrenia ... Her research garnered the attention of respected psychological institutions ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
- poet, and playwright. She was known as the "Conscience of the American ... #039;s first female playwright. She was also the first woman to publish an ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:13, 9 November 2022
- Just War refers to the concept of warfare as being justified, typically ... The Just War tradition is, first of all, a set of criteria that act ...18 KB (2,937 words) - 06:46, 28 February 2023
- Kenneth David Kaunda, (April 28, 1924 - June 17, 2021) served as the ... From the time he became President until his fall from power in 1991 ...24 KB (3,642 words) - 16:28, 24 August 2023
- and politician. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the ... Europe as well as his homeland. His vision of founding a European army to ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... Strikes are suspensions of work against an employer, factory, industry ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 20:58, 26 February 2023
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- The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is a college-based ... In the United States, ROTC produces officers in all branches of the ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 19:43, 16 April 2023
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- American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... his work with mental patients, he discounted the unconscious postulated by ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- his work on analog computing, his role in the development of the atomic ... Through his public career, Bush was a proponent of technological innovation ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
- – October 26, 1990), coming from a family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants ... immigrant. When he was 12, William added the middle initial S. to his name ...12 KB (1,903 words) - 20:44, 24 November 2022
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
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- The Peace Corps is an independent United States federal agency. The ... interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified ...28 KB (4,023 words) - 23:51, 10 August 2023
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- Cantor dedicated much of his life for caring for others needs. He ... Cantor was born Israel Iskowitz in New York City, the son of Russian ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- and politician, who, in 1957, became the first Canadian to receive ... universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan and Canada ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... In this perspective, as the world community matures, diplomacy and ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- Dred Scott v. Sandford,John Vishneski, "What the Court Decided ... also known as the "Dred Scott Case" or "Dred Scott ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills in northeastern ... The Antiquities Act, granting the President authority to restrict ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- Associated Press Building in New York City. The AP left this building in 2004.]] The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the world ...15 KB (2,343 words) - 05:02, 18 August 2023
- statesman and a former four-star general in the United States Army. He was ... believe she's ready to be president of the United States, which is the ...38 KB (5,777 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- :This article refers to Medicare, a United States health insurance ... jpg|thumb|275px|President Johnson signing the Medicare amendment. [[Harry ...24 KB (3,461 words) - 03:58, 9 November 2022
- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... Texas by treaty had failed to receive the necessary two-thirds approval ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- with Frank Hyneman Knight he was one of the leading figures at the ... He made significant contributions to the theories of cost and production ...10 KB (1,485 words) - 01:12, 8 February 2023
- 88), who had been apprenticed as a youth to the Boston lithographic firm of ... Image:John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (trim ...14 KB (2,141 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- |observedby=Canada, United States |date=2nd Monday in October (Canada ... the practice of presenting the President of the United States with one live ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- The Republic of Costa Rica ("Rich Coast") is a country in ... Costa Rica is also at the forefront of conservation and environmental ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- 1961 - ) is a Colombian politician and one of the most outspoken and daring ... The daughter of Colombia's former ambassador to the United Nations ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 22:51, 5 February 2023
- an influential twentieth century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader ... As Ghana's leader and as an advocate of pan-Africanism, he continued ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during ... Sherman's attack on civilian infrastructure and displacement ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- his son, William Lawrence Bragg, pioneered the use of X-rays to determine ... Bragg was the eldest child of Robert John Bragg, a sea captain who ...13 KB (1,944 words) - 18:22, 17 April 2023
- Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa ... It was inhabited in pre-colonial times by a number of ancient kingdoms ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- [[File:President John F. Kennedy Meets with National Association for ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 23:05, 31 October 2023
- The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese ... In accordance with the treaty, both Japan and Russia agreed to evacuate ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- born American psychiatrist who became one of the most influential figures ... Meyer pioneered the application of Freudian ideas in American psychiatry ...9 KB (1,247 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 ... Roosevelt was a leader in forming the United Nations, the U.S. United ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:11, 13 February 2024
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... Although the three leaders arrived with differing objectives, the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by the President and the Secretary of State. Less formal foreign policy is conducted ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... Negotiations between the allied powers started on May 7, the anniversary ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of ... Most of the biggest supporters in all countries have been women, often ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- a play or movement exploration setting for the transmission of physical knowledge ... The purpose of physical education involves more than training the ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 05:07, 24 November 2022
- American sociologist. His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals ... Even though he recognized that there is an inter-relationship between ...13 KB (1,826 words) - 21:17, 24 November 2023
- campaigner for disarmament who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959 ... manufacturing business and himself served on the London County Council and ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous ... was inaugurated as the first [[President of the United States|U.S. President]].]] ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth)Leada Gore, [https://www ... – is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been ...32 KB (4,403 words) - 06:42, 28 February 2023
- Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... Kingdom; Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America; and ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
