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- 1946 to 1952 he was the first official Secretary-General of the United Nations ... A very significant role that Lie played as Secretary General was through ...8 KB (1,239 words) - 18:30, 2 May 2023
- 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
- | title=United States Secretary of War | term_start=August 1, 1831 ... | title=United States Secretary of War | before=John Henry Eaton ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham ... Hay was born in 1838, in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, raised ...10 KB (1,420 words) - 06:55, 8 April 2024
- The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... easy" terms for reuniting the United States following the end ...11 KB (1,485 words) - 22:44, 7 December 2022
- The Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Belgium ... The war had become a stalemate and the treaty returned the two countries ...5 KB (803 words) - 14:55, 2 May 2023
- | title=United States Secretary of War | term_start=September 12, 1789 ... assumed the same duties as the United States Secretary of War in Washington ...13 KB (1,896 words) - 15:24, 25 January 2023
- | order=45th United States Secretary of War | title=54th United States Secretary of War | order2=46th ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations ... not responding quickly enough in the face of tragedies like the genocide ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 19:59, 20 November 2023
- U.S. political figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States ... It ranks fifth in the precedence of military awards behind the Medal ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States ... The Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are generally ...10 KB (1,549 words) - 19:21, 15 May 2020
- | title2=United States Secretary of War | term_start2=January 20, 1862 ... title= United States Secretary of War | years= January 20, 1862 – ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- journalist in the country during much of his life. He had a brilliant ... Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War and his aggressive political ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- 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
- February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Austria. His family emigrated to the United States when he was twelve ...8 KB (1,184 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2024
- was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations ... As a devout Buddhist and practitioner of meditation, Thant brought ...14 KB (2,150 words) - 01:24, 3 May 2023
- leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States (1841). He ... When Harrison took office in 1841 at the age of 68, he was the oldest ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 10:57, 9 May 2023
- was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State ... ruler Joseph Stalin to conclude that the United States would not intervene ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known ... 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
- :This article is about the publisher and soldier. For the United States ... mogul, the owner and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Harrison ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... | title=United States Secretary of War | before=John Armstrong, Jr. ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- as a representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives, U.S. Senator ... South Carolina. In 1824, his father was one of the founders of the first Reform ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States ... which meant he opposed the expansion of slavery and was pro-free soil ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- | order3=10th United States Secretary of War | term_start3=October 8, 1817 ... 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of the United Nations ... As secretary-general, Hammarskjöld took the stance that he was not ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- League contributed significantly to the work of the League of Nations. During ... Balch was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an ...10 KB (1,611 words) - 18:17, 13 February 2024
- 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving ... for the dramatic geographical expansion of the United States. The large ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- | order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... | date of birth=October 4, 1822 | place of birth=Delaware, Ohio ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving ... While Fillmore is considered by many as one of the lesser United States ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... Both the United Kingdom and the United States had territorial and ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- the Fulbright-Hays Program is a program of grants for international educational ... Fulbright alumni around the world recognize the importance of continued ...11 KB (1,431 words) - 07:18, 15 April 2024
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... organizer in his 20s, helping to found the United Steelworkers of America. ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor had ... on November 24, 1784. He was the third of nine children of Richard and ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States. As the first ... his party's platform and vetoed several of their proposals. As a result ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 07:59, 3 August 2022
- and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister ... As a result of his charisma and promise, Canning early on drew to ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 08:08, 13 December 2023
- diplomat, congressman, and sixth president of the United States. The son ... As secretary of state in the administration of James Monroe, Adams ...17 KB (2,542 words) - 07:07, 3 August 2022
- | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... | key_people = Mary Ellen McNish, General Secretary ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served ... Before entering national politics, Arthur had been Collector of Customs ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... to be very adept at the family business of iron manufacturing, and acquired ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869 ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- 1987) was an American soldier and diplomat of the mid-twentieth century. ... City as a youth and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922. ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:07, 9 November 2022
- January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for ... in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the ... UN had the courage to do what the old League of Nations had failed to do, to ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 82 was a measure adopted ... The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
- ; 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
- 23, 1915) was a mulatto slave in the United States who freed himself ... helped to bolster support for the entrance of blacks into the military. They ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving ... Pierce served in the House of Representatives and Senate as a Democrat ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving ... presidential campaign, held in the aftermath of World War I, he promised a ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- executive who served as the president of Columbia Broadcasting System ... Stanton was decisive and passionate in his pursuit of the development ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- governor best known for his administration of Germany immediately after World ... Clay supported and lobbied for this change of policy, fearing that an impoverished ...11 KB (1,629 words) - 02:26, 5 November 2022
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. He was also one of ... Johnson was a prominent figure of the latter part of the Harlem Renaissance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 14:28, 24 March 2023
- Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States ... The noted states rights advocate John C. Calhoun was born just outside ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- famous for serving as the only president of the Confederate States of America ... Before the Civil War, Davis served in the Mississippi legislature ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice ... played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... but instead narrowly defined the powers of the government. Opponents of ...20 KB (2,961 words) - 00:56, 7 November 2023
- American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was ... in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, at the time of Landon's birth. Later ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 16:52, 20 July 2023
- Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States ... A national hero after the Mexican-American War, he served as military ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a ... He was the first of a series of eight presidents between Andrew Jackson ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- best known as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- 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
- in Kiowa County, Colorado near the towns of Eads and Chivington, commemorating ... The Sand Creek Massacre was one of the most horrific atrocities committed ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:11, 23 December 2022
- 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. ... role for the federal government in the area of economic regulation, Taney ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- 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 Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese ... Japan also received the southern half of the island of Sakhalin from Russia. ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- Peking Man (sometimes called Beijing Man), is a prominent example ... Fossils of Homo erectus also have been found in Africa, Indonesia ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 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
- (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the ... game became apparent at the beginning of the twentieth century with ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... in American history. He served as Speaker of the House longer than any man ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1818-1887, was a ... He was known as one of Britain's kindest politicians, owing much ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2022
- September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- contribution to peace was his analysis of the issues surrounding disarmament ... the London County Council and in the House of Commons. Initially educated ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 19:44, 14 August 2021
- for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic ... At the close of his life, Stevenson was respected by people of all ...19 KB (2,784 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- a Protestant, medical missionary from the United States, who later also served ... appointed on a mission to Korea by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian ...8 KB (1,205 words) - 15:02, 2 February 2024
- 19, 1881) was the twentieth President of the United States. He was a ... Garfield is the only person in United States history to be a Representative ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- Union general in the American Civil War, and diplomat serving at various ... He received the Medal of Honor, although very late in his career. ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... Some had wanted to place oversight of progress towards independence ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... A proponent of realpolitik (or the realist school of international ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... ancestors. Raoul Wallenberg, Sr., died of cancer three months before ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States. After 150 ... and to subdue it and that the pursuit of knowledge—in the arts as ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 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
- South Korean diplomat who was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations ... On October 13, 2006, he was elected as the eighth Secretary-General ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- England. He left school at the age of 16 to become a free-lance journalist ... they would publish answers on every question of general interest sent in by ...9 KB (1,294 words) - 07:18, 20 July 2023
- would quickly renounce these views in favor of a life-long, if sometimes cynical ... French) and graduated after only three years of study. While at Harvard, Lippmann ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 22:27, 3 May 2023
- He is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. Whitney also ... the South prosperity, but the unwillingness of planters to pay for its use ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- and close sweatshops, and was co-founder of the National Association for ... just three days before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... |align="left"|United States Secretary of War||align="left ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- The Eritrean War of Independence (September 1, 1961 – May 29, 1991 ... energy and resources they used in a 30 year war on education and development ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2024
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- 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
- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... the West would be an ally in the process of liberalization and democratization ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The Cold War became ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- #039;s Youngest Ambassador" in the United States and the "Goodwill ... around the world through the simple act of writing a letter to the leader ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- active international engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910 by ... affairs, particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
- freedom to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a ... on January 1, 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- Red Cloud (Lakota: Makhpiya Luta), (1822 – December 10, 1909) was ... One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States ...13 KB (2,097 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- leader. He retired as a general from the United States Army, where he served ... After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (February 10 ... an increase in unemployment and his policy of wage rise restraints led to ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 09:22, 19 January 2024
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | title=United States Secretary of War | before=Elihu Root ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- and U.S. Senator. In the Senate, he was one of the leaders of a group known ... Wade gained his reputation as a strong and outspoken opponent of slavery ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 2023
- that occurred during the American Civil War. On November 8, 1861, the ... The initial reaction in the United States was enthusiastically in ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the ... Members of all branches of the U.S. military are eligible to receive ...32 KB (4,854 words) - 23:23, 14 June 2023
- Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving members of Lebanon's 1972 parliament—fathered ... The background to the Taif Agreement consists of both the Lebanese ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- and a former four-star general in the United States Army. He was the sixty ... in telling the world that the invasion of Iraq was justified and legal ...38 KB (5,777 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians ... Maine, on December 14, 1897, the daughter of Carrie Murray and George Emery ...14 KB (2,161 words) - 08:31, 10 March 2023
- who became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, filling an ... At 87 years of age, Felton is also the oldest freshman senator to ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... Communists founded the People’s Republic of China, Soong was elected the ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under President Lyndon ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the ... are purely designed to protect the citizens of the Russian capital. The U ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 06:19, 31 July 2023
- 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
- The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the ... There was a second set of trials of lesser war criminals that was ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- 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
- from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln ... Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member ...20 KB (3,092 words) - 08:05, 3 August 2022
- or Helsinki Declaration, was the Final Act of the Conference on Security ... human rights and to non-violent resolution of disputes. Analysts identify ...14 KB (2,090 words) - 17:19, 6 February 2022
- Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (March ... Callaghan was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967 during ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution ... that impress all visitors. The glory of aviation and space technology ...18 KB (2,632 words) - 01:35, 11 November 2022
- leader, nurse, and fundraiser, all as part of her efforts to end slavery ... her a mission. She transcended barriers of both race and gender at a time ...11 KB (1,943 words) - 13:30, 24 January 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
- organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 ... Union rejects aggression as a way for states to resolve disputes. With ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- and 24th (1893–1897) president of the United States, and the ... As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- | order=38th President of the United States | date1=August 9, 1974 ... | date of birth=July 14, 1913 | place of birth=Omaha, Nebraska ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2021
- 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
- political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state ... Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... second recipient that year was the former Secretary-General of the United Nations ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- American civil-rights activist, a field secretary of the National Association ... near Decatur, Mississippi, as the third of four children of a small farm ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 03:55, 9 November 2022
- as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing. In her day ... deep anguish. Eventually she shook free of her family's expectations ...17 KB (2,605 words) - 17:41, 28 March 2024
- 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red Cross. As ... with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason, he had me ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...47 KB (6,417 words) - 08:10, 23 January 2023
- general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during ... face court-martial upon his return to the United States, Doolittle was awarded ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- The Allegheny River is located in the Northeastern United States and ... of Lake Erie in southwestern New York. The river is approximately ...19 KB (2,637 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... Khrushchev is remembered for his rejection of the “personality cult” ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- | order=General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ... | order2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 22:47, 18 October 2021
- [[Image:Us_declaration_independence.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration ... The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen ...24 KB (3,622 words) - 09:03, 28 January 2024
- – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American ... At the time, the Navy was not as well developed as the United States ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- The Communist Party USA, formally known as the Communist Party United ... It faced another crisis leading up to World War II as the newly formed Soviet ...34 KB (5,007 words) - 00:16, 8 January 2024
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 Housing Act ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- It was initially created as the Badge of Military Merit by General George ... Designed by Washington in the form of a purple heart, it was intended ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- Patriots' Day (so punctuated in several U.S. states, but Patriot ... The day is observed by re-enactments of the battles and the famous ...16 KB (2,205 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International ... for denouncing U.S. participation in World War I. His health suffered in ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... Hall, leading to the resignation of Eleanor Roosevelt from the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- The National Park Service is the United States federal agency that ... It is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior, which ...24 KB (3,262 words) - 14:57, 11 November 2022
- and was the first appointed professor of sociology in a British university ... England, into the prominent Anglican family of Rev. Reginald Hobhouse and ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- 17, 1933 – May 12, 2003), served as United Nations High Commissioner ... Born in Paris, France, he was the son of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- America. They originally inhabited the areas of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky ... against the British during the conflicts of the French and Indian Wars ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 13:23, 27 January 2023
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- and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock ... who led the opposition. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution ...16 KB (2,440 words) - 22:33, 3 March 2023
- that first aired in 1980. The purpose of the network is to make information ... and Reese Schonfeld. The founding purpose of the network was to make information ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 10:13, 25 November 2023
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- Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ... Geopolitics attempts to explain international politics in terms of ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during the American ... Sherman's attack on civilian infrastructure and displacement ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- The Battle of Inchon (also Romanized as "Incheon;" ... invasion and battle during the Korean War, conceived and commanded by ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- 1934 and 1953, while he was General Secretary of the Central Committee ... Kaganovich. Although he tolerated the use of the term by associates and ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- 1919) was an American pioneer in the areas of feminism, abolitionism, prohibition ... One of the first women in the country to be awarded a medical degree ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 16:01, 7 November 2022
- 23, 1953) was a Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police ... Beria is now remembered chiefly as the executor of the final stages ...19 KB (2,858 words) - 17:56, 25 October 2022
- American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
- in every pulse-beat," and he is one of the most indubitably American ... was raised in a relatively poor family of Swedish immigrants in a rural ...10 KB (1,491 words) - 12:48, 27 November 2023
- Omar Nelson Bradley KCB (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- for his contribution to the development of the modern theory of social ... to continue to study at the University of Michigan. Lack of money, however ...10 KB (1,368 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... President Andrew Jackson after the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ...36 KB (5,257 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- refuge in northeastern Alaska. The refuge consists of 19300000|acre|km2 largest protected Wilderness area in the United States. ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- historian, best known as "the father of containment" and was a ... Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- Ocean, located 300 miles from the coast of Argentina, 671 miles west ... are a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, but have ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... disputes occurred between Canada and the United States. The border was established ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- executive. As the general manager of the BBC, he established the ... Reith was the youngest, by ten years, of the seven children of the Reverend ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917 ... to be eventful. She was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii as Hawaii ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 15:42, 7 December 2022
- The Cuban Revolution overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista by ... In the context of the Cold War between the Western world, led by the ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 19:27, 5 June 2020
- 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
- award for study at the University of Oxford. This scholarship program ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
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- institution that teaches an inclusive range of subjects across the academic ... While some continue to support the idea of selective education, with ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been ... Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which ... press revealed that this burglary was one of several illegal activities ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 14:08, 31 May 2022
- the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... many, he believed in progress prior to World War I but the war served to disillusion ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- armaments manufacturer, and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, ... and Caroline Andrietta Ahlsell. By the time of his birth, his family already ...8 KB (1,208 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2023
- she succeeded in bringing to the attention of the British public the appalling ... in Great Britain. She was the daughter of an Anglican rector, and sister ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 10:22, 21 January 2023
- March 2, 1931 - August 30, 2022) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 ... Gorbachev was wildly popular in the West, largely because of the way ...27 KB (3,969 words) - 17:52, 9 November 2022
- soldier, geologist and the second director of United States Geological Survey ... an American soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He earned ...11 KB (1,704 words) - 01:23, 10 February 2023
- [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Main Library of ... The Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is the national ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- Japanese army's brothels during World War II. Historians and researchers ... throughout the Japanese theater during World War II lay in the desire to meet ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- 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
- and politician. Having risen to the rank of brigadier-general after distinguishing ... to support a pro-Western ally in their Cold War opposition to communism. However ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- 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
- – October 4, 1944) was elected Governor of New York four times, and was ... grew up in the multiethnic Lower East Side of Manhattan, on Oliver Street ...19 KB (2,817 words) - 07:17, 20 July 2023
- and historian, better known as the “Father of the Olympics." Coubertin ... He was the primary force in the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896 ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- – December 6, 1996) was the commissioner of the National Football League ... in huge forward leaps for the business of football. Rozelle's accomplishments ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:05, 24 November 2022
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President ... minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- influenced the philosophy and public life of Britain during the late eighteenth ... in 1771, Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the National Debt and Observations ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- was the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper ... as a British citizen by nativity. At the age of nine, he and his family traveled ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 00:43, 11 August 2022
- spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate ... An image of the west front of Monticello was featured on the reverse ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- scandal revealed in 1986 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan ... While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause, ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- 1943) was an American economist, a pioneer of Christian socialism in America ... Richard Theodore Ely was born in Ripley, New York, as the eldest of ...15 KB (2,225 words) - 20:55, 16 April 2023
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- The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between ... is regarded as the moment when the Cold War came closest to escalating ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... |significance = Commemorates war dead Honors military veterans (U.S.) ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The State of Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region ... Arizona is a crossroad of culture and heritage intertwining many different ...21 KB (2,995 words) - 02:46, 15 August 2023
- inventions and discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism and magnetic ... 17, 1799, in Albany, New York, the son of Ann Alexander Henry and William ...17 KB (2,674 words) - 00:41, 11 August 2022
- regarded as China's most important of the twentieth century. Some ... (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a career ... Bragg was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, the younger brother of ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 13:25, 11 February 2022
- 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of President of the United States ... roadside areas. She was also an advocate of the Head Start program. ...20 KB (3,091 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
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- in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov. She has been credited as one of the main inspirations in encouraging ...13 KB (1,796 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- Arlington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located ... . Veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty ... The peace as a whole is often used by historians to mark the beginning ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 19:34, 15 August 2023
- Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964) was a ... York kept a diary of his years just before the war and all during ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 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
- high governmental posts including Minister of Trade. He made several key ... denounced Stalin's "cult of personality." He helped ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- Program (ERP)), was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding ... The reconstruction plan was developed at a meeting of participating ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
- Army and the third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member ... Japanese army and instituting a system of conscription, and in organizing ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- was an American poet, writer, Librarian of Congress, and three-time winner ... supported Mussolini during the Second World War and would be tried for treason ...13 KB (2,029 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- and Second Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence ... Adams was the author of the Massachusetts constitution, the new nation ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 07:33, 5 April 2024
- The Seven Days Battles was a series of six major battles over the ... The Seven Days Battles began with a Union attack in the minor Battle ...23 KB (3,550 words) - 10:06, 26 January 2023
- electrical engineer and inventor. He was one of the most prolific inventors ... ==Overview of his life== Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in Chelsea ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- meaning "island") are a chain of more than 150 mostly volcanic ... The islands, including their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 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
- and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and native of Ikenne in the Ogun State of ... Awolowo was well aware that the challenge of holding Nigeria's ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... | date of birth= March 15, 1767 | place of birth= Waxhaw, South Carolina ...39 KB (5,930 words) - 17:50, 27 July 2023
- The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... was unsuccessful in halting enforcement of the Intolerable Acts. Their ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one ... Böll's novels are part of modern Germany's attempt to come ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- Prize. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963 ... He improved pensions, and waged a "war on poverty." He pursued ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- The Aro Confederacy was a large slave trading network and league of ... This Confederacy owed its origin to the rise of the slave trade in ...15 KB (2,314 words) - 03:57, 15 August 2023
- Edward Lee, as a U.S. Army Colonel before the war]] army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- 23, 1800), South Carolina statesman, was one of four signers of the Declaration ... Rutledge, he was later appointed a member of the first Board of War in 1776 ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
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- Carpetbaggers in the United States were Northerners who moved to the ... Beginning in 1862, thousands of Northern abolitionists and other reformers ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving ... China, and his efforts to end the Vietnam War. He is also noted for his ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and ... by American unreadiness drove United States Secretary of War William Eustis ...42 KB (6,479 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from ... During her period in office, the leader of the official opposition ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns ... general to take the field during the Civil War, but he, more than anyone ...27 KB (4,163 words) - 02:49, 24 July 2023
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument preserves the site of ... For over 100 years this site served as a memorial to the U.S. soldiers ...20 KB (3,068 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
- The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...42 KB (6,144 words) - 08:27, 10 January 2024
- against Spain and the Philippine-American War to resist American occupation ... The seventh of eight children of Crispulo Aguinaldo and Trinidad Famy ...20 KB (2,922 words) - 18:15, 13 February 2024
- The Suez Crisis (known as the Suez War or 1956 War, commonly known ... The Suez Canal had been important in Iran and the colonial penetration ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
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- Normandes/Îles de la Manche) are a group of islands in the English Channel ... These islands represent the last remnants of the medieval Dukedom ...23 KB (3,402 words) - 01:43, 4 December 2023
- 29, 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-twentieth century New York ... region's development. During the height of his powers, New York City participated ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- The Laotian Civil War (1962-1975) was an internal fight between the ... victory in Indochina that year. One of the poorer countries in South ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- and Taishō periods in Japan. Born the son of a samurai of the Morioka Clan ... intellectuals and students. He was critical of the increasing militarism in ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933 ... a successful engineer, and a dynamic Secretary of Commerce. He was highly ...41 KB (6,027 words) - 14:27, 9 February 2022
- The United Nations (or simply UN) is an international organization ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- June 17, 2021) served as the first president of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991. ... banning all parties except his own United National Independence Party ...24 KB (3,642 words) - 16:28, 24 August 2023
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... British, as the debt it incurred winning the war would lead directly to a series ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
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- The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created ... to its failure to avoid, with accusations of contributing to, the Great ...32 KB (4,861 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- theoretician and politician, member of the SPD, and founder of evolutionary ... With the passing of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels, Eduard ...9 KB (1,198 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- to address problems in governing the the United States of America, which ... The convention failed to resolve successfully the question of slavery ...26 KB (3,802 words) - 03:12, 24 November 2022
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- The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major European ... The war lasted over a decade, and was marked by the military leadership ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United ... Thurmond holds the record for the longest serving Dean of the United ...27 KB (3,778 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- was an American engineer, early advocate of scientific management and a ... The Gilbreths are considered the founders of modern industrial management ...16 KB (2,285 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
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- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Group ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 23:05, 31 October 2023
- 1917 – August 10, 1980) was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971 ... Awami League won the largest number of seats, the result was quashed ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- statesman who served as the third president of Egypt from October 15, 1970 ... Sadat was a soldier who became a man of peace. Egypt and Israel had ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- after 1780, was a Native American of the Seneca tribe's Wolf ... Red Jacket urged neutrality during the American Revolutionary War ...21 KB (3,357 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- 1742 – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the ... The son of a Quaker farmer and smith, he was born at Potowomut in ...24 KB (3,805 words) - 01:32, 11 November 2022
- Perry began his United States naval career when he was only 15 years ... However, it did lead to the rest of the world gaining much from ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia. He came to power ... and in some respects, colonial view of Australia and of Australian ...31 KB (4,378 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage ... in Bombay (now Mumbai), in 1909. He was one of two sons. His father was a ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 11:24, 2 February 2024
- and concluding it as a Liberal. He was Secretary for War 1809 to 1828. He ... Some of his aggressive actions, now termed liberal interventionist ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
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- 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 Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted ... Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on the Vietnam War choked ...28 KB (4,129 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
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- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- a marked mathematician and a loyal statesman of his native France. As did Marquis ... Bougainville saw human rights as the property of all. All people ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- |observedby=Canada, United States |date=2nd Monday in October (Canada ... is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. While ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...27 KB (4,017 words) - 07:41, 27 February 2023
- 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the twentieth century, founder ... most exclusive tailors; was a connoisseur of music, food, and wine; nurtured ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 06:54, 20 July 2023
- American Samoa is an unorganized, incorporated territory of the United ... It is a destination spot of many vacationers due to its seasonally ...18 KB (2,598 words) - 06:47, 25 July 2023
- eighty countries. WFP is the food aid branch of the United Nations. From its ... instability. It is an executive member of the United Nations Development ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 00:02, 18 May 2023
- abolitionist. Anthony invested fifty years of her life advocating for the ... rewarded posthumously with the ratification of the Nineteenth amendment to ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American ... One of the United States' most popular nineteenth century poets ...15 KB (2,269 words) - 10:32, 11 March 2023
- 27, 2020) was an American minister in the United Methodist Church and leader ... Known as the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement," Lowery ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- society was not based on market principles of exchange but rather on relationships ... Polanyi, chemist and philosopher. The son of a prominent member of a Hungarian ...16 KB (2,415 words) - 07:19, 5 October 2022
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- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- computing, his role in the development of the atomic bomb and other weapons ... Through his public career, Bush was a proponent of technological innovation ...25 KB (3,736 words) - 14:34, 3 May 2023
- The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Tzu ("Master Sun"), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted ...35 KB (5,067 words) - 15:13, 30 April 2023
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- Yerushalmi, was born August 1, 1932 (29th of Tamuz) – and assassinated ... Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (2,631 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- George Balanchine (January 22, 1904 — April 30, 1983) was one of ... the celebrated New York City Ballet. His United States staging of The Nutcracker ...14 KB (1,953 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
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- San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino Repubblica di San Marino , also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, is a country ...26 KB (3,871 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
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- The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
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- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
- , officially titled "The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro ... Numerous unethical actions -- including lack of informed consent, ...41 KB (6,364 words) - 00:19, 27 December 2021
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- 1916 – July 17, 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 ... Although he refused appointment as Ambassador to the United States ...28 KB (4,351 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was a leader ... In his book, Soul on Fire, he renounced many of his former attitudes ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 00:10, 13 February 2024
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- |Caption=The statue of Art Rooney outside Heinz Field. |Color=black ... - August 25, 1988) was the founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
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- a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader ... Margaret Thatcher. He served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary ...49 KB (7,394 words) - 02:27, 2 May 2024
- |motto = Vox clamantis in deserto(The voice of one crying ... located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. It is a member of ...29 KB (4,327 words) - 22:24, 25 January 2024
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- The State of Maine is a state in the northernmost portion of the New ... The original inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine were Algonquian ...36 KB (5,276 words) - 05:31, 5 November 2022
- 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
- designates the National Flag Carrier of Bangladesh, with its main hub ... Biman Bangladesh Airlines has a history that mirrors the formation ...23 KB (3,204 words) - 17:42, 31 October 2023
- mystic who influenced the latter days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II ... Rasputin's influence at court, coupled with reports of his corrupt ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 20:15, 31 January 2023
- served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the ... Burke was taken up by the literary and artistic circles of London ...23 KB (3,559 words) - 18:14, 12 February 2024
- which supported the general allegations of espionage by Julius, though ... (Suffolk County), New York. In the Cold War, as both sides desperately ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield PC (March 2, 1705 – March ... that slavery was immoral. This is an example of how a slavish adherence to ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 20:02, 24 November 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
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- George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a ... has been tarnished by a re-evaluation of the Indian Wars, in which he ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- history who served as the Prime Minister of IranMike Thomson, [http://www ... t/041600iran-cia-index.html Secrets of History: The C.I.A. in Iran ...33 KB (4,921 words) - 19:30, 9 November 2022
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- on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States, serving ... world continued to transition from the Cold War, and the United States experienced ...54 KB (7,922 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... agreement providing such a high degree of individual protection. State ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- Halaby on August 23, 1951)) is the widow of the late King Hussein bin Talal ... Elizabeth (Lisa) Najeeb Halaby was born in Washington, DC, of Arab ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
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- Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short stories and novels ... by Jews near Warsaw in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, probably ...18 KB (2,895 words) - 18:52, 7 March 2024
- – April 23, 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving ... Yeltsin was blamed for many of the problems of this period. By the ...42 KB (6,205 words) - 19:43, 20 November 2023
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- often called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- July 23, 1885) was the commanding general of the combined Union armies during ... Grant's tenacity in war was matched by his discretion and magnanimity ...47 KB (7,335 words) - 03:32, 17 November 2023
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- [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle ... was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst of the Freudian school. He contributed ...11 KB (1,522 words) - 01:05, 7 September 2023
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- a major general during the American Civil War. While not necessarily a supporter ... McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862 ended in failure, retreating ...67 KB (10,321 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- - November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States of America ... During the final days of the Cold War, he was responsible for managing ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for ... Sheridan prosecuted the latter years of the Indian Wars of the Great ...46 KB (7,083 words) - 03:18, 24 November 2022
- and a noted writer. After the formation of Pakistan, Khan became a controversial ... was raised under the tutelage and example of his father, Khan Abdul Gaffar ...27 KB (3,941 words) - 22:56, 3 March 2023
- The Somali Civil War is an armed conflict in Somalia that started ... The failure of the UN mission in Somalia, which withdrew having completed ...29 KB (4,403 words) - 15:11, 27 April 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
- 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 ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 17:21, 5 October 2022
- Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King were best of friends, partners ... Ralph David Abernathy was the tenth child of William and Louivery ...18 KB (3,027 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss. Chambers was largely vilified by members of the liberal and socialist intelligentsia ...35 KB (5,145 words) - 18:42, 4 May 2023
- for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...64 KB (9,588 words) - 20:56, 5 May 2021
- in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami ... East Pakistani politics and within the ranks of the Awami League as a charismatic ...37 KB (5,519 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was an effective ... corvette ARA Guerrico. Military occupation of the Falklands followed on April ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- , represents the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ ... between North and South Korea and a source of incidents. The truce that called ...29 KB (4,546 words) - 06:45, 27 February 2023
- and occasional film producer, one of the best known émigrés from ... Austria-Hungary. He was born into a family of wealth, to Anton Lang (August ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of ... With her election as Speaker, Pelosi became the first female Speaker ...46 KB (6,718 words) - 20:14, 3 January 2023
- Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was ... He rose to power on the foundation of his absolute loyalty to Hitler ...22 KB (3,391 words) - 22:49, 3 February 2022
- The United Nations Children's Fund (or UNICEF) was created by ... to promote the health and well being of children. UNICEF was awarded ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 11:42, 3 May 2023
- The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which ... committed against its own people, 20 percent of whom perished, reached almost ...47 KB (7,141 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- He is widely considered to be one of the greatest cellists of the ... His father, Leopold, was also partly of Belarusian-Polish noble descent. ...17 KB (2,362 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- The Battle of Hampton Roads, often called the Battle of Monitor and ... arrived and initiated the famous duel of the ironclads. The battle, ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- The Cold War was the protracted ideological, geopolitical, and economic ... and communism was popularly termed The Cold War because direct hostilities ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous ... A commercial, financial, and cultural center of the city, Manhattan ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was one of the ... During the Chinese Civil War (1926–1949), Chiang attempted to eradicate ...31 KB (4,795 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company ... Scott, the Assistant United States Secretary of War, to the front ...35 KB (5,539 words) - 20:11, 26 July 2023
- radio and the Internet. The mission of the BBC is to inform, educate ... Its first transmission was on November 14th of that year. ...29 KB (4,446 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- that involves the design and manufacture of ceramic products. Ceramics ... prepared and are being used for a wide range of applications, including components ...14 KB (1,948 words) - 23:58, 3 December 2023
- The Commonwealth of Virginia is a Southeastern state considered part ... The Virginia Colony was the first part of the Americas to be continuously ...41 KB (5,879 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands ... from the sea. Located 575 miles southeast of Miami, the Turks and Caicos ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- Österreichs, was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Greater Germany ... The events of March 12, 1938, marked the culmination of historical ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest ... Order 9066 which ordered United States secretary of war and military ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- 60-year history, SNU has grown to the level of most competitive, belonging ... Seoul National University's history presents a cross-section ...21 KB (2,854 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... American involvement in the war between the communist North Vietnamese ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809 ... lawyer, inventor, violinist, and the founder of the University of Virginia ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- , earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... 1970s, Pol Pot became the prime minister of "Democratic Kampuchea ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- poet, and playwright. He was a key figure of the Renaissance, best known ... saw popes leading armies, the wealthy city-states of Italy falling one after ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- to hold the office as Executive president) of Sri Lanka (November 12, 1994 ... President. In power, she pursued a policy of economic liberation and emphasized ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), statistics and ... Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- the most well-known North American Native of his generation, meeting and ... spent attempting to rectify the injustice of the Iroquois lands being handed ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government ...73 KB (10,504 words) - 12:26, 4 February 2023
- Disaster relief (or emergency management) refers to the process of ... While disasters are by definition tragic, resulting in great loss ...28 KB (4,048 words) - 15:27, 29 January 2024
- American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall ... ideas took many years to come to any sort of fruition, his tenure as the ...24 KB (3,985 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- :For the history of Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The history of North Korea formally begins with the establishment ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
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- politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- and journalist. He led France during World War I and was one of the major ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland ... It was during George III's reign that Great Britain lost many ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
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- politician who was the first Prime Minister of South Vietnam, serving from ... The son of a wealthy landowner, Tho rose through the ranks as a low ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 23:35, 15 December 2022
- as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army ... Born in Woolwich, the son of Major-General Henry William Gordon (1786 ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... and powers like those exercised by the United States' Central Intelligence ...41 KB (6,060 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- 26, 1950) was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand serving three terms ... refused to take part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq without an explicit United ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
- town in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was ... Wounded Knee Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the Pine Ridge ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Wayne is most famous for his work in one of America's greatest native ... In the last decades of his career, Wayne transformed into an American ...21 KB (3,062 words) - 16:07, 1 October 2022
- was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier ... During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Kosygin was a member ...60 KB (8,496 words) - 22:35, 29 April 2023
- membership, known as Salvationists, of over 1 million consisting of ... The theology of the Salvation Army is derived from that of Methodism ...30 KB (4,473 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations ... Finally, after massive swings in favor of both the North and the South ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- – November 18, 1969) was a prominent United States businessman and political ... He served briefly as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 00:44, 11 August 2022
- New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern ... both to its geology and to its tradition of self-sufficiency. Several other ...33 KB (4,724 words) - 09:19, 11 March 2023
- to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying ... [[Image:Midge potts arrested.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An anti-war activist ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi ... With the genocide, and the resurgence in the civil war, Rwanda's ...45 KB (6,822 words) - 18:26, 22 December 2022
- theatre director who was co-founder and secretary of the American Theatre ... The Tony Awards are the U.S. equivalent of the United Kingdom's Laurence ...32 KB (4,813 words) - 19:02, 14 May 2023
- 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- Immediately following the truce ending the Korean war, South Korea ... country, because the People's Republic of China has refused to grant ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- - December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- advocating independence from the kingdom of Great Britain which influenced ... and the French Revolution. In Rights of Man, written in reply to Edmund ...26 KB (4,114 words) - 22:45, 30 April 2023
- who served as the second Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 ... become the heir apparent for the leadership of the Democratic People's ...64 KB (9,034 words) - 23:07, 3 March 2023
- played a pivotal role in the establishment of the oil industry and defined ... He was bitterly attacked by the media of his day, newspapers and the ...24 KB (3,700 words) - 18:48, 5 April 2024
- grand jury indicted Hiss on two counts of perjury; Chambers admitted ... 1950, he was found guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, Companion of Honour (CH), ... she shared Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews and dislike of Catholics ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 ... Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Case citation 347 U.S. 483 ... A companion case dealt with the constitutionality of segregation in ...25 KB (3,783 words) - 04:40, 22 November 2023
- can also refer to proficiency in a number of fields, such as art or physical ... Literacy rates are a crucial measure of a region's human capital ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- The Kuomintang of China (abbreviation KMT), also often translated ... by advocating political and legal status quo of modern Taiwan. ...28 KB (4,106 words) - 16:48, 30 March 2024
- Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...55 KB (8,451 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- and distributed throughout the Western United States. Founded in 1881, ... quot;boosterism," extolling the virtues of Los Angeles and promoting its ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
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- from the 1920s onward. He served as Chairman of the Council of People's ... deeply implicated in the worst atrocities of the Stalin years – the forced ...67 KB (9,419 words) - 21:52, 3 May 2023
- Connecticut is one of the Unites States. It is located in the New ... early colonial times. Its Fundamental Orders of 1639 are considered to be the ...36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Hawaii is the 50th state of the United States, achieving statehood ... as the Sandwich Islands, form an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous ...23 KB (3,378 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2022
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- The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... The Union victory resulted in the abolition of slavery and consolidation ...63 KB (9,343 words) - 03:27, 24 July 2023
- Shekh Hasina Oajed) (born September 28, 1947) is the Prime Minister ... life. Comparison can be made with the career of Indonesia's former President ...39 KB (5,517 words) - 21:25, 20 December 2022
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- At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ... in part to bolster its efforts in the Korean War, as well as out of a larger ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...33 KB (5,048 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- known for his large realistic landscapes of the American West. In obtaining ... Bierstadt's was a second-generation member of the Hudson River ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- The Gulf War (August 28, 1990 – February 28, 1991) was a conflict ... led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations in order ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- 13, 2006) was the greatest Scottish novelist of modern times; however, she ... for a brief time and then worked as a secretary in a department store. ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,981 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- |name = Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational ...42 KB (5,941 words) - 09:17, 10 March 2023
- Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, and a major ... The city of Freetown was founded in 1787, by Great Britain as a settlement ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction ... Cheever's main themes include the duality of human nature: Sometimes ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 04:43, 3 August 2022
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- Brotherhood. There he adopted the teachings of Sayyed Qutb, most significantly ... sent out fatwa to resist the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, moving to Pakistan ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- [[Image:James I of England by Daniel Mytens in 1621.jpg|thumb|250px ... James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Ireland (Charles James ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel, serving from 2007 to ... and led Alignment and Labor. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he ...47 KB (6,756 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... plant that grew on the marshy shores of the bay. In the sixteenth century ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- , d. 154 B.C.E.) was a Chinese political adviser and official of the ... curtail or at least mitigate the Rebellion of the Seven States. ...20 KB (3,183 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1 ... . The major American city of Pittsburgh was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
- The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19, 1945 – March 26, 1945) was ... hidden artillery, and 18 kilometers (11 mi) of tunnels. ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- Rights protesters were shot by the soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment ... that those shot at were all unarmed. Five of those wounded were shot in the back. ...21 KB (3,395 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ( Bataille de Diên Biên Phu ... ) was the climactic battle of the First Indochina War between French ...46 KB (7,166 words) - 11:39, 20 September 2023
- main_interests = Democracy, Race, Philosophy of religion, Ethics| ... Harvard University, West became a professor of Religion and director of African ...19 KB (2,834 words) - 03:31, 8 January 2024
- the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. It was one of the ... Territory (now Oklahoma) known as the Trail of Tears. Today North Carolina ...37 KB (5,288 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- /ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full ...30 KB (4,264 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- Texas is a state located in the south-central United States. Austin ... and has a steadily growing population of 23.9 million. Houston is ...36 KB (5,158 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- , Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) (Alternative transliterations of ... musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the ...32 KB (4,755 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central ... The gorge is the greatest concentration of arches east of the Rocky Mountains ...39 KB (5,531 words) - 22:12, 3 March 2023
- The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... As the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate has several powers of ...71 KB (10,564 words) - 21:06, 30 December 2023
- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- the rule, and the period, from 1858 to 1947, of the British Empire on the Indian ... India") as well as the princely states ruled by individual rulers ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles arguing for the ... the pseudonym "Publius," in honor of Roman consul Publius Valerius ...32 KB (4,993 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... people for at least 30,000 years. The United Kingdom established a protectorate ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 15:10, 27 April 2023
- whose assassination led to the first of the Great Purges. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- twelve feet. Twain said he loved the sound of the river boat pilot calling ... on the literary scene during the period of Reconstruction, when America ...25 KB (3,843 words) - 02:57, 23 December 2022
- September 26, 2019) served as the President of France from May 17, 1995 until ... His internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...29 KB (4,299 words) - 07:54, 24 January 2023
- economic, social, and political development of developing countries. It may ... The Marshall Plan, in which the United States provided significant ...34 KB (5,026 words) - 10:14, 29 January 2024
- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- was a Swiss-born psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On ... Interest in death as a transition into a higher state of consciousness ...18 KB (2,757 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- center-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 ... He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- transfers; reducing the payment imbalances of its members; and providing ... The IMF has often been the subject of criticism from those nations ...32 KB (4,747 words) - 12:59, 7 February 2023
- a legally constituted, voluntary association of individuals or groups that ... The number of non-governmental organizations has exploded during the ...22 KB (3,066 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... The IWW contends that all workers should be united within a single ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- politician, elected three times as president of Argentina. He served from 1946 ... Perón and his wife Eva were immensely popular among a portion of ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 20:34, 4 October 2022
- that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
