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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of children's stories such as 'The Secret Garden' in which the characters suffer hardships before finding happiness, herself suffered great hardship and loss in her own life leading her to a spiritual quest for healing

Frank Lloyd Wright

The most famous buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright include the private home "Fallingwater" and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City

Psychology

The term "Psychology" comes from Greek and means "study of the soul"

United States Constitution

The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights

Distance education

Distance education has been around at least since Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s.

Thesaurus

The word "thesaurus" comes from a Greek word meaning "treasury"

Recorder (music)

The recorder, originally popular in Medieval music, was revived in the twentieth century

Internet

The internet was first conceived of in the 1946 science fiction short story, "A Logic Named Joe"

Granite

The sport of curling uses stones made of polished granite

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden initially denied involvement in the infamous September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States

Dwarf

Dwarves are famed miners and metalsmiths, and some myths suggest they have the ability to forge magical items.

Whale

Whales are the largest mammals, the largest vertebrates, and the largest known animals in the world.

Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca in the Andes is the world's highest lake navigable to large vessels

Immunity (legal)

In the United States both federal and state levels of government can claim, or waive, sovereign immunity.

Mount Rushmore

The original plan for the Mount Rushmore monument was for the figures of the presidents to be carved down to their waists

Qi

In Chinese thought Qi is believed to be the “life force” or “spiritual energy” that pervades the natural world

Dick Clark

Due to his perennial youthful appearance, Dick Clark was often referred to as "America's oldest teenager"

Nicolaus Copernicus

The "Copernican revolution," placing the sun instead of the Earth at the center of the universe, is considered "the" scientific revolution and marked the starting point of modern astronomy and cosmology

Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg was an end on the first All-America team selected in 1889 and he was elected to both the charter class of the College Football Hall of Fame (1951) and the charter class of the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959.

Halo

Plain round halos typically have been used to signify saints and angels while square halos were sometimes used for the living

Book of Jeremiah

The Book of Jeremiah is best known for its theme of the "New Covenant" that involves a personal relationship with God

Head Start

The Head Start program was initated as part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty

Minoan eruption

The volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Thera (Santorini) in the second millennium B.C.E. was one of the largest volcanic events in recorded history

Hijacking

The term hijacking arose in connection with the seizing of liquor trucks during Prohibition in the United States.

Languages of India

The Constitution of India recognizes 23 official languages, spoken in different parts of the country

Vocational education

The general philosophy of vocational education stands in stark contrast to the ideology of a liberal arts education.

John Rolfe

Many Americans are descended from John Rolfe and Pocahontas through their son, Thomas Rolfe

African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

Asbestos

Litigation related to asbestos is the longest-running mass tort in U.S. history

Sun

The Sun is a near-perfect sphere

Hel

In Norse Mythology "Hel" refers both to the cold realm inhabited by the dead who died not in battle and the cold deity who rules it

Sari

The term "sari" is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning "strip of cloth"

Princeton University

Princeton University first admitted women as undergraduate students in 1969

Medjugorje

The location in Medjugorje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where six teenagers had visions of Mary is known as "Apparition Hill"

Cheyenne

Cheyenne were involved in the Indian Wars: Southern Cheyenne were killed at the Sand Creek Massacre and Northern Cheyenne participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn defeating George Armstrong Custer and his troops

Iroquois

Five tribes formed the original Iroquois Confederacy, which had a constitution known as the Gayanashagowa (or "Great Law of Peace") memorized with the help of special beads called wampum

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell led the first scientific expedition down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon

Census

The Roman census was the most developed in the ancient world, the word "census" coming from Latin "censere," meaning "estimate"

Forty-Seven Ronin

Rōnin, meaning "drifting person," were masterless samurai as a result of their master's death or ruin

World Cup

The host nation for the World Cup final tournament is automatically qualified to play in the tournament

Graham Greene

Graham Greene's intense focus on moral issues, politics, and religion, mixed with suspense and adventure, became the trademark of his popular novels.

Cayuga

The Cayuga were one of the original five tribes that formed the Iroquois Confederacy

Illusion

Illusions are distortions of sensory perception, "mocking" the senses so that most people are deceived

Feng-huang

Unlike the Phoenix of the Western World, the Feng-Huang is immortal without needing to go through a cycle of death and re-birth.