Search results for "List of University of Wisconsin-Madison people" - New World Encyclopedia
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- philosopher, and scholar – a professor of English literature, a literary ... he was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine. ...44 KB (6,751 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 06:46, 18 April 2024
- Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 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
- scientist, engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first television; ... Baird's work was part of the great advance in technology that ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 20:54, 1 May 2024
- Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It ... many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds ...39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
- Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... to the early culture at Poverty Point, one of the largest and most important ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... Characterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau ... Hoover has frequently been accused of exceeding and abusing his authority ...27 KB (3,966 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2024
- the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) (Felis catus) is a member of ... for at least 9,500 years, and it is one of humankind's most popular ...36 KB (5,931 words) - 01:01, 13 January 2023
- for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of ... Welles was born in 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the second son of ...56 KB (8,968 words) - 02:19, 18 November 2022
- The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall ...54 KB (8,496 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... method, which revolutionized the treatment of psychological disorders. ...60 KB (8,560 words) - 12:29, 1 February 2024
- Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...28 KB (3,852 words) - 03:30, 23 December 2022
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic, that he ... was scant until after World War II. Much of his huge output is still unpublished ...60 KB (9,018 words) - 22:24, 4 December 2023
- Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World ... ranges from Costa Rica through most areas of South America east of the Andes ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 2023
