Search results for "District of Columbia" - New World Encyclopedia
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- |popplace=Canada (British Columbia), United States (Alaska) ... The Haida are an indigenous people of the west coast of North America ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... Act of 1790, which established the District of Columbia as the new federal ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- His confidence in the long-term growth of the U.S. guided him as he relocated ... :1867, The Peabody Institute, Georgetown, District of Columbia: $15 ...10 KB (1,547 words) - 14:53, 21 May 2024
- in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania ... Maryland, Delaware, and in the District of Columbia. The historic routes ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 18:31, 8 December 2023
- ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze ... which followed, aristocrats constructed many of the famous private gardens ...24 KB (3,013 words) - 00:31, 27 February 2023
- in 1940, and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1941. ... The FBI had been called in by the District of Columbia police because the ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- the United States, and has become a symbol of the death penalty there. Although ... Case were put to death in the District of Columbia jail electric chair. ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 02:55, 29 December 2021
- Crowd (1950) is considered a landmark study of American character. The analysis ... The character of society, like that of an individual, naturally goes ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- Prize-winning Turkish novelist and professor of comparative literature at Columbia ... Pamuk is one of Turkey's most prominent novelists, ...30 KB (4,557 words) - 10:43, 11 March 2023
- with President Washington. The District of Columbia commissioners were ... of slavery. A diary kept by the District of Columbia building commissioner ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- church until 2010, in which Moon and a group of former executives purchased ... is distributed throughout the District of Columbia and sections of Maryland ...31 KB (4,327 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying ... arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... the strongest candidate for highest point of the Australia/Oceania continent. ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- to maintaining an online library and archive of Web and multimedia resources ... historians, and scholars. It is a member of the American Library Association ...28 KB (4,060 words) - 10:40, 6 March 2024
- who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... (but not slavery itself) in the District of Columbia. This compromise delayed ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ... In addition to completing this level of academic studies, high schools ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of ... Virtually every state, the District of Columbia, and all United States ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- His work evidences an impressive combination of art and science. The artwork ... His love for art and his appreciation of the aesthetic aspects of all ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:58, 9 May 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
