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- The Common Rule is a federal policy governing the protection of human ... Initially fifteen Federal departments adopted the regulations in 1991 ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 18:58, 25 July 2021
- Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth)Leada Gore, [https://www ... – is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been ...32 KB (4,394 words) - 10:18, 12 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- and briefly a politician who became the first woman to serve in the ... At 87 years of age, Felton is also the oldest freshman senator to ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- Federal Reserve System is headquartered in the Eccles Building on Constitution ... The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve; informally ...32 KB (4,861 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July ... Different groups at different times have turned to the founding documents ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 09:46, 26 January 2023
- :This article refers to the South Korean private university. For the ... South Korea, has earned recognition as one of the leading universities in ...28 KB (3,704 words) - 21:29, 4 June 2023
- was a well-known mime. He performed all over the world in order to spread the ... hat topped with a red flower. Marceau showed the world every emotion imaginable ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 03:05, 6 November 2022
- Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park located ... The park, which lies along the northwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 22:09, 25 November 2023
- musicologist, author, and producer, and one of the most important field collectors ... Lomax was a long-time advocate for the civil rights and cultural recognition ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the mentally ... Her idea for a newspaper story chronicling her round-the-world trip ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- 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
- 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
- Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (September 2, 1924 - February 4, 2020) was ... philosophy," which means following the leader and is, he claimed ...24 KB (3,582 words) - 06:24, 15 January 2023
- 1935) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United ... and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 00:24, 18 November 2022
- He conducted significant research in the sociology of education which ... research, were unable to bring about the social changes he anticipated. ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- (June 4, 1867 – January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland ... Mannerheim is given much of the credit for successfully steering the ...26 KB (4,032 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- The Modoc are a Native American people who originally lived in the ... Historically, the Modoc are most known for the Modoc War between a ...23 KB (3,542 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- The Cannes Film Festival ( link=no|Festival de Cannes ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ( fr|Festival ...31 KB (4,402 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- Muir Woods National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service ... While much of California's forests have been used for commercial ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1946. SNU, the first national university ... Seoul National University's history presents a cross-section ...21 KB (2,854 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah ... Hatch chaired the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ...48 KB (6,423 words) - 21:40, 4 December 2022
- Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) ... 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 Battle of Yorktown or Siege of Yorktown was fought from April ... On April 5, the IV Corps of Brigadier General Erasmus D. Keyes was ...15 KB (2,213 words) - 01:43, 26 September 2023
- 1920) was a Russian jeweler, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs he designed ... he felt his unique creations, especially the eggs representative of Easter ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from ... The Congress also called for another Continental Congress in the event ...14 KB (1,859 words) - 19:55, 26 March 2024
- generally in undergraduate studies. Although the genesis for what is known ... as educated adults. Originally designed for the elite of society, the thinkers ...23 KB (3,427 words) - 11:01, 7 March 2023
- abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is ... Mott's Philadelphia home was a stop on the Underground Railroad ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- most famous for his successful development of the gyrocompass. He also developed ... His mother died in childbirth, and in the absence of his father, Sperry ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- | deathplace = Los Angeles, California, United States | yearsactive ... was a pioneering film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures. ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 06:05, 15 June 2023
- The Iran hostage crisis lasted from November 4, 1979 until January ... The hostage-takers released several captives, leaving 53 hostages ...27 KB (3,935 words) - 13:01, 6 March 2024
- characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia ... landing a position as a crime reporter on the Bridgeport Post. There he ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:09, 3 May 2023
- affiliations = United Methodist Church| website=[http://www.drew.edu/ ... New Jersey. Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- director. He is widely credited with being the first to realize and develop ... Legendary actress Lillian Gish called Griffith "the father of ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 07:36, 12 January 2024
- |Caption=The statue of Art Rooney outside Heinz Field. |Color=black ... Arthur Joseph Rooney Sr. (January 27, 1901 - August 25, 1988) was ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- [[Image:Schilling abuse.jpg|thumb|200 px|Kidnapping (depicted in the ... Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 04:00, 6 October 2022
- [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... territorial or political agreements among states and international organizations ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States of America (1989–1993). Prior to ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- from 1948 until he became the President of the United States in 1953, although ... who also served as a Vice-President of the United States. ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country of ... and having sparse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict ...23 KB (3,228 words) - 18:48, 22 November 2023
- The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... of the Senate (the Vice President of the United States) to preside. ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 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
- (August 12, 1924 – August 17, 1988) was the president and military ruler ... succeeded Jimmy Carter as President of the United States of America. Reagan ...33 KB (4,947 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- essayist, Biblical scholar, and founder of the Nonchurch Movement (Mukyōkai ... enough ("worshiping") before the portrait of Emperor Meiji ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- The Contras is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing ... The term "Contra" comes from the Spanish la contra, short ...20 KB (2,936 words) - 02:50, 8 January 2024
- The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the ... offshore reserves has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy, which ...23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
- Armadillo is the common name for any of the small, placental, Old ... For one, armadillos are often used in the study of leprosy, since they ...11 KB (1,442 words) - 03:47, 15 August 2023
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- publisher best known for establishing the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes ... His father was a wealthy grain merchant of Magyar-Jewish descent and his ...20 KB (2,932 words) - 04:55, 7 May 2024
- Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status ... It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- | order=7th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1829 ... Democratic Party, and seventh president of the United States. A strong proponent ...39 KB (5,930 words) - 17:50, 27 July 2023
- – February 1, 1922) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and ... Sent to Europe in 1869 by the government to research European military ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- it carried a message from the President of the United States to the Emperor ... an official letter from the President of the United States, Millard Fillmore ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health ... Head Start was established to address the problem that children from ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 15:08, 25 January 2023
- He was responsible for thrusting awareness of the Gulag on the non-Soviet ... Solzhenitsyn's significance in helping to strip away the legitimacy ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 14:40, 18 July 2023
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... Despite its natural resources, East Timor has the lowest per capita ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- The Republic of Bolivia (or Bulibiya in the Quechua language; Wuliwya ... Spain built its empire in great part upon the silver that was extracted ...29 KB (4,244 words) - 23:38, 20 March 2024
- – August 27, 1988, Ithaca, New York, United States) was a distinguished ... Cambridge where he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- )(born 11 November 1945), who served as Nicaragua's president ... After a popular rebellion resulted in the overthrow and exile of dictator ...27 KB (3,871 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... Dating from 1885, the city has had a brief, somewhat turbulent history ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- | leader_name1 = Barack ObamaAs President of the United ... The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 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
- and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee ... She later was promoted officially to the position. During her 28-year ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- Chief Joseph (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904) was the chief ... Chief Joseph would become a mythical figure in the United States, ...16 KB (2,627 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- and measurement instruments. Nikon is the world's largest manufacturer ... "Japan Optical Industries"). When the Japanese Navy lost its laboratory ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association ... In 1994, César Estrada Chávez was posthumously awarded the Presidential ...25 KB (4,024 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its ... The National Memorial was established on October 9, 1997, through ...19 KB (2,893 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... The islands were named by the Spanish Francisco Eliza who explored ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- African American scientist and a champion of civil rights and world peace. ... City, Maryland, on November 9, 1731. He was the first of three children to ...14 KB (2,221 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... installed a multiparty democracy. Most of the people live by subsistence ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the South Asian earthquake or ... In response to the catastrophe, India and Pakistan dropped their hostility ...24 KB (3,487 words) - 06:41, 13 June 2023
- and playwright. He has been called, “the conscience of his generation” ... for his satirical portrayals of American cultural manners and mores ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- The Washington Times is an American daily newspaper. Published as ... Founded on May 17, 1982, by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon ...31 KB (4,327 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private ... The term "Ivy League" is now most commonly used to refer ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- educator and philosopher and a leader of the school of new realism in ... In 1910, along with five colleagues, Perry helped to formulate The ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was also ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- and human rights activist who served as President of Poland from 1990 to ... His term as President was marred by internal rivalries including issues ...29 KB (4,198 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- The First Battle of Bull Run (named after the closest creek), also ... The Second Battle of Bull Run, or the Battle of Second Manassas, was ...22 KB (3,387 words) - 02:45, 26 September 2023
- an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau ... administrations, encompassed Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War ...27 KB (3,966 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2024
- The Prague Linguistic Circle (French: Cercle linguistique de Prague; ... Along with its first president, Vilém Mathesius, they included Russian ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- New York City, bringing newsworthy items to the public in a format designed ... Since 1927, every president of the United States has been a “Person ...20 KB (2,824 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife ... During the Civil Rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s she worked ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- 23, 1945 – July 30, 2005), a Dinka, was the vice president of Sudan and ... The Dinka are a group of tribes of south Sudan, inhabiting the swamplands ...14 KB (2,232 words) - 15:22, 29 January 2024
- [[image:Robert_F._Kennedy_1964.jpg|thumb|right|Robert F. Kennedy in ... 1968), also called "RFK," was one of two younger brothers of President ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- private, non-profit membership organization of public radio stations in the ... NPR was incorporated in 1970, taking over the National Educational ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 14:58, 11 November 2022
- , Hanyu Pinyin: bào'ēnsì, English: Temple of Thanksgiving ... were added. In addition, features making the temple convenient and safe ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- University, Frost rose to prominence in the UK when he was chosen to host ... Frost was one of the "Famous Five" who were behind the launch ...34 KB (4,795 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America ... 2008, national primaries for president of the United States, Iowa voters ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- 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
- for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology ... The Yerkes National Primate Research Center, which he established ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- Robert Edward Lee, as a U.S. Army Colonel before the war]] 12, 1870) was a career army officer and the most successful general of ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- He emigrated to Canada in 1870 and then to the United States in 1871. Bell is widely acclaimed for inventing and developing the telephone ...26 KB (4,070 words) - 13:48, 18 July 2023
- Health insurance is a type of insurance that covers costs incurred ... There are many types of health insurance plans. Some are high-deductible ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 09:24, 20 January 2024
- 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
- 1976) was a Vietnamese politician who was the first Prime Minister of South ... The son of a wealthy landowner, Tho rose through the ranks as a low ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 23:35, 15 December 2022
- He is famous for his portraits of important figures in colonial ... From about 1760 until 1774, Copley painted the finest portraits of ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 04:03, 3 May 2024
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... When Yucatán became a state in 1824 it occupied the entire peninsula ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations ... The AFL was the largest union grouping in the United States for the ...21 KB (3,149 words) - 03:34, 24 July 2023
- 2, 1990) was an American classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental ... Much of the greatness of Copland's art is due to the ways he ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- William Lee Shoemaker (August 19, 1931 – October 12, 2003) was one ... Shoemaker became the most successful jockey in history by winning ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
- 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... the Attorney General, and the President of the United States advised of the ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- - ) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United ... Steny Hoyer meeting with [[President of the United States|President]] George ...46 KB (6,718 words) - 20:14, 3 January 2023
- Montevideo is the largest city, capital, and chief port of Uruguay ... Montevideo is the commercial, political, and intellectual center of ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- The Somali Revolution started in 1986, when President Siad Barre began ... The United Nations was involved on the ground in Somalia from 1992 ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 01:10, 4 February 2023
- The Republic of Guatemala ( República de Guatemala , re'puβlika ... ), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the northwest ...37 KB (5,339 words) - 23:54, 8 March 2024
- The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations ... successfully in some areas. By convention, the United States nominates the ...25 KB (3,686 words) - 00:01, 18 May 2023
- remains are buried, usually with some form of marker to establish their identity ... service, Presidents or former President of the United States, and any former ...16 KB (2,305 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- (August 13, 1913 – August 3, 1977) was the archbishop and primate of ... In 1956, the British exiled him for what in their view was sedition ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- politics. Following a long career with the news magazine Newsweek, covering ... De Borchgrave interviewed many heads of state, heads of government ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 03:52, 15 August 2023
- officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service ...38 KB (5,623 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- June 27, 1963) was an American economist, the son of John Bates Clark. He ... Clark recognized that there were aspects of human nature that influenced ...11 KB (1,541 words) - 06:33, 3 August 2022
- Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso ...15 KB (2,110 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- [[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
- , Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).Dinitia Smith ... Vonnegut worked on the nation's first daily high school newspaper ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 04:39, 4 March 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
- Polish-Jewish Rabbi, theologian, historian of religion and a leader of Progressive ... During World War I, Baeck served as an army chaplain in the German ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- Sukarno (June 6, 1901 – June 21, 1970) was the first President of ... The spelling "Sukarno" has been official in Indonesia since ...25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago ... to rule, dominating politics by its control of every aspect of the society ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- | awards = Hollywood Walk of Fame7030 Hollywood Boulevard ... for her role as sidekick Ethel Mertz on the landmark American television ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 20:43, 3 May 2023
- statesman, writer, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most ... Hamilton put the new United States of America onto a sound economic ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked nation ... The original inhabitants of southern Africa were the Bushmen (San ...20 KB (2,852 words) - 19:53, 20 November 2023
- The European Community (EC) was originally founded on March 25, 1957 ... While the founders' hopes for supranational identity and for ...13 KB (1,869 words) - 04:30, 23 March 2024
- American neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution ... Clark sought to discover economic relationships, such as the relationship ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious ... Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... The Libray has been guided by the "belief that universal access ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- 1822 – December 10, 1909) was a war leader of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). ... One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States ...13 KB (2,097 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- The Order of the Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Roman ... only Catholic to be elected president of the United States, was a fourth ...33 KB (5,125 words) - 23:21, 3 March 2023
- The Actors Studio is a non-profit organization for professional actors ... The Studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method ...16 KB (2,349 words) - 05:42, 15 June 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
- The Battle of the Alamo was a nineteenth century battle between the ... The battle took place at a turning point in the Texas Revolution, ...19 KB (3,079 words) - 23:51, 30 October 2023
- Federalist No. 78 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth ... Titled "The Judiciary Department", Federalist No. 78 was ...16 KB (2,527 words) - 18:47, 4 October 2023
- right|thumb|Ebenezer Howard, Garden Cities of To-morrow.]] prominent British urban planner. He founded the English Garden City Movement ...10 KB (1,579 words) - 17:59, 12 February 2024
- called Ivory Coast (in English, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire ... Once one of the most prosperous of the tropical West African states ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was the business ... Canada as a British citizen by nativity. At the age of nine, he and his family ...26 KB (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
- during World War II and the 34th President of the United States. During the war he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe with the ...38 KB (5,775 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... From its headquarters in Independence, Missouri, the church places ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- known locally as Guatemala or Guate) is the capital, largest city, and ... The area of Guatemala City was the location of Kaminaljuyu, a Mayan ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according ... for a second time, and in 1941, it entered the Second World War with the ...23 KB (3,453 words) - 18:28, 13 February 2024
- and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary ... Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1896 - November 25, 1997) was the leader of ... state, and a special assembly stripped him of his title. Banda ran for president ...24 KB (3,748 words) - 08:44, 20 January 2024
- 2006) was a Pashtun freedom fighter against the British Raj, a senior politician ... Khan Abdul Wali Khan had the rare distinction to suffer from both ...27 KB (3,941 words) - 22:56, 3 March 2023
- Kigali has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda ... The settlement began as a small colonial outpost and functioned as ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 23:00, 3 March 2023
- – July 17, 1887) was an activist on behalf of the indigent insane. She created ... Dorothea Lynde Dix was born in the tiny frontier village of Hampden ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 09:38, 15 January 2023
- Carpetbaggers in the United States were Northerners who moved to the ... "Carpetbagger" was a term originated to describe the luggage ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 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
- Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- Arkansas (are-can-saw) is a state located in the southern region of ... Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was born in ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 02:49, 15 August 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
- 1851 – August 22, 1940) was a pioneer in the science and technology that ... Born in Penkull, Staffordshire, Lodge was the eldest of eight children ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- - January 10, 1961) was an American author of hardboiled detective novels ... distinguished by an unsentimental portrayal of crime, violence, and sex. Pioneered ...19 KB (2,838 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- in child development. Bronfenbrenner was one of the first psychologists to ... Bronfenbrenner emphasized the importance of the social environments ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2023
- artist, and daredevil who captivated much of the Western world with his ... a Jewish family; upon immigration to America the family name was changed to ...11 KB (1,684 words) - 20:47, 29 January 2022
- The term digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective ... Retrieved February 11, 2009. President of the United States Bill Clinton ...29 KB (4,205 words) - 14:35, 29 January 2024
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- Fiji, officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation ... In the Second World War, the people of Fiji co-operated with the Allies ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
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- Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, Order of the Nation (ON), Member of ... Miller has had a reputation as a voice for the poor and unemployed, as an ...21 KB (2,959 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
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- The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofit ... new institutions and international networks, the Endowment associates shape ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
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- The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was ... The initial reaction in the United States was enthusiastically in ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
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- Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado ... formal Chief of State is the President of the United States; however, most ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
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- 29, 1947) was an American economist, one of the early American neoclassical ... living and world peace, an early advocate of the League of Nations. ...18 KB (2,691 words) - 13:25, 6 March 2024
- The Doctors' Trial is the unofficial name for the particular ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ... The country consists of twenty-nine atolls and five isolated islands ...23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- and basketball player who played for the Cleveland Browns in both the ... He became the only athlete ever to win Professional Championships ...20 KB (3,076 words) - 04:46, 18 November 2022
- lawyer but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery ... As a Radical Republican leader in the Senate during Reconstruction ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain ... The Rocky Mountains are commonly defined to stretch from the Liard ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- :For the history of Korea before its division, see History of Korea. ... of George W. Bush as the President of the United States in 2000, North ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was one of the earliest ... His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 03:01, 2 May 2024
- Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration ...48 KB (6,926 words) - 21:19, 30 April 2023
- American singer who has been called "the queen of Tejano music" ... Selena was murdered at the age of 23 by Yolanda Saldívar, the president ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... The Chaebol originates from Korea's culture and society. Korean ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a ... as their candidate for President of the United States (there was no ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five ... Brooklyn is coterminous with Kings County, which is the most populous ...28 KB (4,109 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900, ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river ... The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 - July 29, 1981) was the "master ... Moses's projects were considered by many to be necessary for ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- Newly married and having recently accepted the call to pastor a Baptist church ... Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King were best of friends, partners ...18 KB (3,027 words) - 00:27, 8 December 2022
- | order=28th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1913 ... February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921 ...37 KB (5,512 words) - 23:30, 17 May 2023
- The territorial collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French: ... Originally settled in the seventeenth century due to the attraction ...22 KB (3,091 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- authority, is an entity responsible for the money of its country or of ... Bank is appointed by the President of the United States, then confirmed ...30 KB (4,733 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder ... and union organizing. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young ...22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
- He is best remembered for his work on the measurement of the speed of ... Michelson, the son of a Jewish merchant, was born in what is today ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2022
- Sharpe in 1990, for his pioneering work in the field of corporate finance ... The basic theorem states that the value of a firm is unaffected by ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2022
- The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located ... Its geographic position as a small, wedge-shaped country between the ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- Mexican Revolutionary general. As commander of the División del Norte (Division ... He robbed and commandeered trains, and, like the other Revolutionary generals ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more ... June 16, 1917, in New York City to a family of French and German heritage ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 17:10, 5 October 2022
- Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located ... The origin of the name is controversial. The most common explanation ...24 KB (3,641 words) - 19:45, 19 September 2021
- A Pulitzer Prize is an award regarded as the highest national honor ... legacy, his effort to establish and maintain the highest standards in the profession ...15 KB (2,254 words) - 23:45, 2 December 2022
- Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) nephew ... professionals who learned from him used the techniques and ideas that ...20 KB (2,909 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- |Born = 1919|2|13Bristol, Tennessee, United States ... 1919 – October 17, 1991), better known by the stage name Tennessee Ernie ...12 KB (1,774 words) - 06:08, 27 February 2023
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- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the ... Because the border with the Saudi kingdom is simply a line on the ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic ... The Emmys are presented by three related, but separate, organizations: ...32 KB (4,624 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
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- Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...27 KB (3,892 words) - 11:24, 11 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
- was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era ... constitutional precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- April 21, 1942) was a furniture maker and the leading spokesperson for the ... Stickley was the most well-known name of the American Arts and Crafts ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 23:59, 26 July 2023
- a serious actor who appeared in a number of movies and television shows ... In later years, he helped many philanthropic causes. He founded the ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- is a French "overseas country" in the southern Pacific Ocean. It ... French Polynesia is an archipelago located in the South Pacific Ocean ...18 KB (2,636 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... Wright. Like other modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
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- Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan ... Niger was an important economic crossroad, and the empires of Songhai ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 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
- This article is about the 20th-century aviator. {{Infobox Biography ... was an American aviator famous for piloting the first non-stop solo flight ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
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- 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
- was an American sociologist who established the sociology department at Harvard ... was a Congregational minister, active in the social reform movement "Social ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- Number 10) is an essay by James Madison and the tenth of the Federalist Papers ... had completed his two terms as President of the United States. ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 01:53, 26 March 2024
- Censorship is the editing, removing, or otherwise changing speech ... While humankind remains self-centered and unable to develop a world ...26 KB (3,779 words) - 01:42, 13 January 2023
- was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Barak Obama as a candidate for President of the United States. ...16 KB (2,495 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- |popplace=United States (Oklahoma) |rels=Christianity, other ... as many regular troops as the President of the United States may, from time ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:50, 11 March 2023
- Pravda (Правда, "The Truth") was a leading newspaper ... ==Origins: The Vienna Pravda== The original Pravda ("The Truth ...17 KB (2,565 words) - 00:32, 12 April 2023
- Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a nation ... The Tanzanian geography is one of the most varied and unique in the ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which ... to 100,000 people escaped enslavement via the Underground Railroad, though ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- ) is a Japanese trading company and one of the largest sogo shosha ... Marubeni's name combines the Japanese words for "circle ...25 KB (3,645 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- The European Parliament (Europarl or EP) is the directly elected parliamentary ... by universal suffrage since 1979. Although the European Parliament has legislative ...60 KB (8,687 words) - 04:34, 23 March 2024
- was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India ... what he saw as too close a relationship with the Soviet Union by improving ...17 KB (2,426 words) - 00:04, 16 December 2022
- Middle school, also known as Junior High school, is a school in the ... The middle school years are a significant time in compulsory schooling ...19 KB (2,829 words) - 17:33, 9 November 2022
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- Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of ... Senegal, though poor, has a tradition of political stability and peaceful ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- The Battle of Hampton Roads, often called the Battle of Monitor and ... The naval battle lasted two days. The first day saw Virginia wreak ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- Belize, formerly known as British Honduras, is a small nation on the ... The name is derived from the Belize River which Belize City, the former ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 11:57, 9 May 2024
- historic national treasure that covers the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains ... 1935, Shenandoah National Park is a preserve of 311 square miles (805 square ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- various unions to fight against exploitation of children and women in factory ... Throughout her life she advocated women's suffrage, housing for ...7 KB (992 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- 2023) was an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice ... moderate political views, O'Connor was the crucial swing vote of the ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
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- woodlands, and lakes, preserving much of the Mount Desert Island associated ... Acadia National Park is the only national park in New England and ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 07:17, 14 June 2023
- Christian Science Monitor, The The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is an international newspaper ...9 KB (1,395 words) - 15:32, 30 April 2023
- Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled the country since ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- * First African American to play a game in the American League ... an American professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues and Major League ...22 KB (3,428 words) - 17:46, 25 October 2022
- 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
- and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
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- Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland ... Founded by the British in 1781 and named for King George III of the ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- Mount Vernon, Virginia, was the plantation home of the first president of the United States, George Washington. Built of wood in a neoclassical ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- The term Community College is used almost exclusively in the United ... traditional four-year programs. However, the advent of community colleges ...21 KB (3,019 words) - 00:18, 8 January 2024
- Franjo Tuđman (May 14, 1922 - December 10, 1999) was the first president ... For him, this made Croatia an ideal candidate for membership of the ...32 KB (4,830 words) - 06:17, 23 January 2023
- Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and ... The term Jim Crow comes from the minstrel show song "Jump Jim ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... science books and co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- Cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, is the attempt to change ... Silver iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) are the most commonly ...17 KB (2,393 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been ... County, Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- | order=36th President of the United States | date1=November 22, 1963 ... "LBJ," was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969 ...44 KB (6,749 words) - 03:18, 5 November 2022
- The Olympic Games (often referred to simply as The Olympics) are the ... The original Olympic Games began in c. 776 B.C.E. in Olympia, Greece ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein ... and Princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil, of the royal Hashemite family ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 21:18, 9 February 2024
- performed live and later televised, to honor the American Military who were ... played golf with nearly every President of the United States from Dwight D ...28 KB (4,249 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in ... Togo was once part of the area known as the "Slave Coast" ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan, home to the Late Show with David Letterman.]] CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 22:42, 7 January 2024
- An ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly, held on the July 22 ... The flag displays a horizontal tricolour of "deep saffron" ...33 KB (5,237 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Hoover, went on to become the President of the United States, and several ... *Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- 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
- The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National ... The border between Tennessee to the west and North Carolina to the ...27 KB (4,145 words) - 12:21, 24 January 2023
- 1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate general during the American ... Hood was born in Owingsville, in Bath County, Kentucky, and was the ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 05:57, 3 August 2022
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- Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern ... slaves and later contract laborers from the Dutch East Indies and India ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
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- – 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
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- William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States ...54 KB (7,922 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally as The Rock, is a small island located ... Due to its isolation by the cold, strong, hazardous currents of San ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- in Commonwealth countries; “Intel” in the U.S.), is a military discipline ... advances have ensued as a result of military intelligence operations ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- and handbooks; his Psychology: A Study of Mental Life (1921) and Experimental ... as other psychologists, this work laid the foundation for the greatest ...11 KB (1,471 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one ... O. C. Marsh is famous for his "paleontological battle," ...12 KB (1,930 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- generally known as Cornplanter, was the son of a Seneca (Indian) mother ... Cornplanter urged neutrality during the American Revolutionary War ...15 KB (2,354 words) - 19:04, 14 January 2023
- In 27 months of combat action in World War II, Murphy became the most ... Murphy had a successful movie career, including the extremely popular ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- Alaska and is home to Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North ... The word "Denali" means "the high one" in the ...19 KB (2,921 words) - 09:33, 28 January 2024
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- 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
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- a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize ... was involved in agrarian reform following the revolution, activities which ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
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- in cognitive psychology. He is best known as the creator of the Stanford-Binet ... County, Indiana, seventeen miles southeast of Indianapolis. He was the twelfth ...14 KB (2,037 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
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- 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
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- Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... Djibouti's main advantage is its strategic location near the ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
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- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
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- The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación ... former FSLN allies as well as supporters of the former Somoza regime. More ...51 KB (7,226 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- born American economist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics ... Modigliani also developed the Life-Cycle Hypothesis as a counter to ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – August 16, 2003) was President of Uganda ... When he assumed power in 1971, Uganda had experienced a series of ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 21:36, 25 July 2021
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- The Commonwealth of Dominica, commonly known as Dominica, is an island ... "Tall is her body." Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 17:13, 30 January 2024
- The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- Born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana, the daughter of former slaves ... for African-Americans, especially women, of her day. At a time when women ...18 KB (2,870 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- |popplace=United States (Oklahoma, Alabama) |rels=Protestantism, other ... The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern ...29 KB (4,264 words) - 06:22, 11 January 2024
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- educator, and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. Henry David Thoreau. Adler found ethics as the common ground for and at the ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- Immediately following the truce ending the Korean war, South Korea ... North Koreans have continued to defect, with many being caught during ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
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- Atlantic County, southeastern New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk ... Native Lenape inhabited the area prior to the arrival of English settlers ...28 KB (3,984 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
- Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear ... father was Alberto Fermi, a Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Communications ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- – August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, United States) ... was an eminent astrophysicist. Of Tamil Indian heritage, he was born ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- | nationality = United States | period = | genre = Literary fiction ... was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- The Belmont Report is an influential, eight-page document that identifies ... crimes, and researchers' abuse of power. Highly publicized cases ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 18:58, 25 July 2021
- 25, 1881 – June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st pope of the Roman Catholic ... Pope John XXIII was instrumental in opening up the Roman Catholic ...21 KB (3,268 words) - 04:45, 3 May 2024
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- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
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- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- The Potawatomi (also spelled Pottawatomie or Pottawatomi) are a Native ... The Potawatomi controlled a vast amount of territory in the 1700s ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 00:29, 12 April 2023
- Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953); as Vice President, he ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
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- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is an extensive 16.3|acre|m2 arts complex in New York City which contains the city's finest ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
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- The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... Mozambique is still recovering from the destruction wrought by nearly ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
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- May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... He was the Labor Party's longest-serving Prime Minister and the ...44 KB (6,546 words) - 04:00, 1 May 2023
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- regarded as China's most important of the twentieth century. Some ... and Peking Man (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- philosopher, and lexicographer. He served as the U.S. Commissioner of Education ... In 1859, he became a principal in one of the public schools in St ...12 KB (1,673 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
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- ) is the largest steel company in the world, with 310,000 employees ... It has led the consolidation of the world steel industry and today ...21 KB (2,936 words) - 06:14, 12 August 2023
- 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer ... In recognition of his achievements he was awarded the Harmon Trophy ...37 KB (5,256 words) - 21:56, 10 December 2023
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- politician and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose ... pass social reform legislation especially in the area of housing. The 1924 ...40 KB (6,096 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- The Marshall Plan (from its enactment, officially the European Recovery ... The reconstruction plan was developed at a meeting of participating ...47 KB (7,376 words) - 19:38, 14 June 2023
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- Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le ... The statue depicts a woman, standing upright, dressed in a flowing ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- Health is a term that refers to a combination of the absence of illness ... In any organism, health can be said to be a "state of balance ...21 KB (3,080 words) - 15:09, 25 January 2023
- The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent ... The first awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929. The statuettes ...19 KB (2,964 words) - 07:16, 14 June 2023
- Education City, Qatar. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League, and prides ... Established in 1865, Cornell was non-sectarian from the beginning ...42 KB (5,828 words) - 03:33, 8 January 2024
- American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio ... 250px|Glenn is honored by [[President of the United States|President]] Kennedy ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 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
- executive who most recently served as President of Basketball Operations ... Drafted into the NBA by the Boston Celtics with the sixth overall ...29 KB (4,389 words) - 22:36, 22 October 2022
- The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.9 million ... It is a high, rugged, and remote area which consists of three main ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 14:39, 31 December 2022
- The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an international religious organization ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- Honduras, officially Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras ... The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest ...34 KB (4,896 words) - 12:36, 2 February 2024
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013) was the ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- nationalist and suffragette. During the Easter Rising of 1917, she ... She was imprisoned by the British authorities in 1911, in 1916, in ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 17:49, 16 May 2020
- 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
- Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the state ... Baltimore's harbor has always been a major asset. Once the second ...32 KB (4,493 words) - 03:24, 17 September 2023
- :"Fall of Communism" redirects here. For the fall of the ... The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern ...27 KB (4,082 words) - 20:00, 8 December 2022
- The Hunter Biden laptop controversy involves a laptop computer that ... Three weeks before the 2020 United States presidential election, the ...75 KB (10,024 words) - 01:22, 21 September 2022
- The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, often referred to ... The Music Center's current mission is to go beyond its role as ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- Acculturation refers to the processes that occur when different individuals ... Probably one of the first academic accounts of the process of acculturation ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
- He led France during World War I and was one of the major voices behind the ... Clemenceau, however, secured France's trusteeship of Syria and ...28 KB (4,425 words) - 22:45, 28 November 2022
- He is famous for his geopolitical conception of the globe as divided into two ... born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, the eldest son of Draper and Fanny ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation ... The earliest settlers were probably Tamils from southern India. Today ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... Through such international bodies as the Inter Action Council, Schmidt ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
