Search results for "District of Columbia" - New World Encyclopedia
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- city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States ... It lies along the Pacific Ocean at San Diego Bay just north of the ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. ... , and his majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller (holding ...85 KB (12,298 words) - 05:39, 11 August 2023
- during the American Civil War on the grounds of the antebellum plantation of ... . Veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- Attorney General in 1860-61 and Secretary of War through most of the American ... Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the eldest of the four children ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early ... (The Hammer Song)" (with Lee Hays of the Weavers), and "Turn ...58 KB (8,480 words) - 21:18, 8 August 2023
- park with the exception that the President of the United States can quickly ... #039; Home National Monument--District of Columbia (managed by the non ...19 KB (2,589 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- 1919) was an American pioneer in the areas of feminism, abolitionism, prohibition ... the Judiciary Committee of the District of Columbia House of Delegates ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 16:01, 7 November 2022
- The Klamath are a Native American tribe of the Plateau culture area ... With the loss of their resources and federal support services, as ...18 KB (2,702 words) - 23:18, 3 March 2023
- Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... His later work has shown steadfast devotion to many traditions of ...41 KB (6,363 words) - 05:45, 16 November 2023
- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Throughout 1849 in ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- and Kashmir from Pakistan with the intention of fomenting an insurgency among ... the first since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. Its success, as envisaged ...17 KB (2,428 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of ... There were also regional and district diets. The League aimed to protect ...33 KB (4,840 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States after 1876 ... intermarriage a felony in the District of Columbia. His new Postmaster ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the ... eighteenth century Boston was the location of several major events surrounding ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- (the energy that determines the temperature of matter) generated and stored ... In terms of alternative energy, geothermal energy is the energy that ...43 KB (6,447 words) - 16:43, 21 May 2024
- or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest ... Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world ...35 KB (5,077 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- or institution; sometimes used as a loan of money. The term derives from ... by an elected governing body. The principles of the charter's function ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 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
- The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- and libertarian attitude. He was an exemplar of the communitarian, drug-positive ... his family in 1919 from the Galicia region of northwest Spain to San Francisco; ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
