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- financier, public official, and publisher of the Washington Post newspaper ... agent, Meyer also served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. In 1946, ...9 KB (1,262 words) - 04:14, 23 March 2024
- Washington Post, The The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., ...14 KB (2,023 words) - 17:49, 30 April 2023
- Washington's Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated ... Colloquially, the day is also now widely known as Presidents' ...19 KB (2,531 words) - 23:00, 3 May 2023
- John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American ... effects that became emblematic of the genre. Among his best known ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 03:59, 2 May 2024
- from Boston, who, at 24 years old, became the chief artillery officer of ... who died in 1759. Henry left school at the age of 12, and became a clerk ...13 KB (1,896 words) - 15:24, 25 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
- of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and for the Rosenwald Fund, which donated ... Over the course of his life, Rosenwald and his fund donated over ...10 KB (1,544 words) - 09:56, 12 May 2024
- an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United ... When Harrison took office in 1841 at the age of 68, he was the oldest ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 10:57, 9 May 2023
- Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the twenty ... Harrison presidency was notable for the dramatic geographical expansion ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 09:55, 28 September 2023
- James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... unopposed for a second term in 1820. With the opposition Federalist Party ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President ... a result, most of his cabinet resigned, and the Whigs, dubbing him His Accidency ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 07:59, 3 August 2022
- politics. Following a long career with the news magazine Newsweek, covering ... of government, monarchs, and key figures of the world, including Saddam Hussein ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 03:52, 15 August 2023
- – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served as ... Arthur had been Collector of Customs for the Port of New York. He was appointed ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... The organization faced controversy on several occasions over its discriminatory ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth ... celebrated in a religious fashion. In the Catholic tradition, it is ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 12:56, 21 January 2023
- in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally ... Originally called News-Week, the weekly magazine Newsweek was founded ...10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- Thomas Heyward, Jr. (July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809), was a signer ... He served in the last four Royal Assemblies in the colony and in its ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- | order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... politician, lawyer, military leader, and the 19th President of the United ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- newspaper, reporting instances of racism in the community. She was active ... as most people in town made a living at the sawmill, rented houses owned ...13 KB (1,959 words) - 07:47, 12 January 2024
- Nicholas Nehemiah Kittrie (March 26, 1926 - December 9, 2019) was ... He taught at American University's Washington College of Law ...17 KB (2,401 words) - 22:23, 27 June 2023
- – June 19, 1786) was a major general of the Continental Army in the American ... ==Before the war== The son of a Quaker farmer and smith, he was born ...24 KB (3,805 words) - 01:32, 11 November 2022
- The New York Daily News is the sixth largest daily newspaper in the ... The Daily News was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and ...9 KB (1,384 words) - 21:48, 14 November 2022
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States ... a milestone in his work of turning the United States away from isolationism ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) invented roll film ... Eastman was born in Waterville, Oneida County, New York. He was the ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 07:36, 15 May 2024
- was a Prussian army officer who emigrated to the United States, became a geographer ... In May 1861 Adolph raised a volunteer regiment in New York City, the ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:10, 15 June 2023
- an influential front office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National ... As coach of the Celtics from 1950 to 1966, Auerbach won nine NBA titles ...21 KB (3,308 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- Edward Wyllis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American ... and sisters. His grandfather had issued the London Literary Gazette, and ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 17:31, 12 February 2024
- Seymour Martin Lipset (March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was a ... Seymour Martin Lipset, known as "Marty," was born on March ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between July 2-6, 1777 ... The uncontested surrender of Ticonderoga caused an uproar in the American ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 21:10, 28 March 2024
- "AWL-bee") (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an ... Albee was one of the early American contributors to Theatre of the ...15 KB (2,221 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- He was an outfielder, most notably with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore ... During a 21-season career, he was the only player to win League MVP ...19 KB (2,752 words) - 05:08, 9 April 2024
- 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
- Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American abolitionist ... Her personal narrative stood apart from the majority of slave narratives ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 20:40, 29 January 2022
- a British general and commander in chief of the British North American forces ... Gage was born in Firle, England the second son of the first Viscount ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was a nineteenth ... emigration to Tennessee, time spent with the Cherokee Nation (into which ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 01:57, 23 December 2022
- military officer who participated in both the American and French revolutions ... La Fayette served in the American War of Independence both as a general ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 12:41, 22 May 2024
- Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- Day) is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther ... King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 08:36, 10 March 2023
- author best known for historical fiction. The Caine Mutiny (1951) made Wouk ... His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance ...38 KB (5,130 words) - 23:59, 27 November 2023
- Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America ... as majority status slips away] The Washington Post, March 24, 2011. Retrieved ...39 KB (5,697 words) - 23:11, 3 May 2023
- Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was a captain in ... #039; statue of Hale is located outside the headquarters of the Central ...13 KB (2,092 words) - 01:31, 11 November 2022
- military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic ... and supported President Polk throughout the Mexican-American War. Cass ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (identified on ... Designed by famed New York architect Edward Durell Stone, the Kennedy ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 23:38, 5 July 2023
- James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831–September 19, 1881) was ... Garfield is the only person in United States history to be a Representative ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth ... to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear as the second of ten children. The ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is considered ... When Betty's mother took over running the shop after her husband fell ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:01, 29 September 2023
- His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian ... Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate ...20 KB (2,938 words) - 00:47, 21 April 2023
- statesman, was one of four signers of the Declaration of Independence ... A delegate at both the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
- congressman, and sixth president of the United States. The son of ... As secretary of state in the administration of James Monroe, Adams ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 03:49, 3 May 2024
- The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper ... The Times has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes; this includes four in editorial ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
- Adviser and later as Secretary of State in the Richard M. Nixon administration ... A proponent of realpolitik (or the realist school of international ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- Japanese naval officer and statesman during the Late Tokugawa shogunate and ... In 1860, Katsu commanded the Kanrin-maru, a tiny triple-masted schooner ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 17:15, 5 October 2022
- Agence France-Presse (AFP) is the oldest news agency in the world ... AFP continues to be based in Paris, with regional centers in Washington ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) became the first ... class family in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... For thirty-three years one of the great mysteries of American politics ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- 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
- Joseph Echols Lowery (October 6, 1921 – March 27, 2020) was an American ... Luther King Jr., dies at 98] The Washington Post, March 28, 2020. Retrieved ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The Cold War ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- The Washington Monument is a large white-colored obelisk at the west ... The monument is made of marble, granite, and sandstone. It was designed ...23 KB (3,484 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by ... located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda ...13 KB (1,876 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- 27, 1795) was a military leader during the French and Indian War, who ... He rose to prominence as a delegate in 1775, to the South Carolina ...20 KB (3,146 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- at 635 Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.]] organization of public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 14:58, 11 November 2022
- located in Arlington, Virginia, near The Pentagon, and directly across ... . Veterans and military casualties from each of the nation's ...24 KB (3,687 words) - 03:05, 15 August 2023
- Mount St. Helens is an active volcano in Skamania County, Washington ... eruption on May 18, 1980. This eruption was the deadliest and most economically ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- The Korean people are the most homogeneous people on earth. Although ... Although a variety of different Asian peoples had migrated to the ...14 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 6 March 2024
- #039;s House of Burgesses, delegate to the 1774 Continental Congress ... Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he was one of the most radical advocates of ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 16:44, 21 November 2022
- Wolverine is the common name for a solitary, carnivorous mammal, Gulo ... The wolverine is the largest land-dwelling species of the Mustelidae ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... Born in Minnesota to a leftist family, Hall joined the American Communist ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- Paine anticipated and helped foment the American Revolution through ... Born in England, Paine was an active participant in both the American ...26 KB (4,114 words) - 22:45, 30 April 2023
- Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy (March 29, 1916 – December ... He unsuccessfully sought the presidency five times. In 1980, McCarthy ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 04:13, 23 March 2024
- of Germany from 1998 to 2005. A member of the Social Democratic Party of ... In this perspective, as the world community matures, diplomacy and ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 18:11, 21 May 2024
- ; born June 13, 1944) is a South Korean diplomat who was the eighth ... On October 13, 2006, he was elected as the eighth Secretary-General ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American ... Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Albright immigrated to the United ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- He was one of the first to expose the use of psychiatric imprisonment ... Vladimir Bukovsky was born in the town of Belebey, Bashkirian ASSR ...20 KB (2,721 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... 1947 because he wanted above all to remove the causes of war "insofar ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 07:05, 18 April 2024
- Benito Pablo Juárez García (March 21, 1806 – July 18, 1872) was ... , as President of Mexico.For resisting the French occupation, overthrowing ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 09:15, 27 September 2023
- or simply alternative) is a branch of the rock music genre that became ... Independent record labels were established during the punk era, which ...22 KB (3,494 words) - 00:45, 9 January 2023
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the ... Gore subsequently became chairman of the Emmy Award-winning American ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 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
- 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
- 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
- - February 23, 1915) was a mulatto slave in the United States who freed himself ... His actions as a Navy ship captain helped to bolster support for the ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... The victory would ultimately prove to be a Pyrrhic one for the British ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American ... As a Radical Republican leader in the Senate during Reconstruction ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- short fiction, and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime ... and short stories were also adapted for the screen, including "Welcome ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- an American statesman and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... After World War II, Japan was occupied by a foreign power for the ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth president of the United ... Virginia on November 24, 1784. He was the third of nine children of ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives ... Lewis fulfilled many critical roles in the civil rights movement and ...59 KB (8,081 words) - 20:53, 1 May 2024
- Wall Street Journal, The The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an influential international daily ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 17:37, 30 April 2023
- Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 – March ... and survived imprisonment due largely to the intervention of the Bishop ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association ... Woodson is also notable for launching the celebration of "Negro ...27 KB (3,964 words) - 00:40, 29 November 2023
- and educator, widely recognized as the foremost black intellectual ... Du Bois is viewed by many as the father of modern black scholarship ...29 KB (4,549 words) - 21:59, 3 May 2023
- whose inventions and discoveries in the fields of electromagnetism ... Joseph Henry was born on December 17, 1799, in Albany, New York, the ...17 KB (2,654 words) - 04:14, 7 May 2024
- These acts include suicide bombings, and the killing of soldiers, police ... As an Islamist identified with the Salafi movement, Zarqawi opposed ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a noose ... a rather inhumane method of execution it was the method of choice in numerous ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- Booker Taliaferro (T.) Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, ... In the decades after the war, millions of Southern freedmen needed ...32 KB (5,107 words) - 19:08, 20 November 2023
- leader. He retired as a general from the United States Army, where ... After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President ...40 KB (5,553 words) - 13:50, 18 July 2023
- 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and ... Maria Montini was born in Concesio, in the province of Brescia, Lombardy ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 01:36, 23 November 2022
- of political scandals, which began with the arrest of five men who broke ... Investigations conducted by the FBI, Senate Watergate Committee, House ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 14:08, 31 May 2022
