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- . Historically, alimony arose as a result of the indissoluble nature of ... in all 50 U.S. states, and the District of Columbia. No-fault divorce ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 00:40, 9 January 2023
- Archives refer to a collection of records, and also refers to the ... NARA archives exist not only in the District of Columbia, but regionally as well. ...30 KB (4,298 words) - 06:20, 12 August 2023
- the economic and social contributions of workers. It was first nationally ... Day. Today, all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territories ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 05:32, 4 March 2023
- according to an established standard of evaluation. There is a range ... established only within certain frameworks of thought and value perspectives ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Grants presidential electors to the District of Columbia. ... *The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was proposed by ...45 KB (6,615 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...33 KB (4,943 words) - 18:26, 26 February 2024
- Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a ... Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia without the consent ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- river that runs through the eastern portion of New York State and, along its ... The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history ... Although women have always made up at least half of the world's ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia ... segregation in the United States. He was one of the "Big Six" leaders ...59 KB (8,081 words) - 20:53, 1 May 2024
- eighteenth century, from the pleasure houses of Japan where courtesans would ... are no distinct singular or plural variants of the term. The word consists ...30 KB (4,689 words) - 06:34, 18 April 2024
- largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... south of the Canada – United States border in King County, of which ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- eras. Ruskin is also known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism. ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...29 KB (4,497 words) - 03:58, 3 May 2024
- to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a law passed ... their slaves. All slaves in the District of Columbia were freed in this ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... refers to the province's location east of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United ... It was part of the 1663 charter in which Charles I of England granted ...64 KB (9,145 words) - 15:14, 27 April 2023
- design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not generally ... has been adopted by 46 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 04:53, 1 May 2023
- designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), Manhattan Project ... Germany might be developing nuclear weapons of its own. Born out of a small ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving ... Gore subsequently became chairman of the Emmy Award-winning American ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- 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
- who served as the second Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 ... become the heir apparent for the leadership of the Democratic People's ...64 KB (9,034 words) - 23:07, 3 March 2023
- by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (across the Potomac ... ceded territory to form the new District of Columbia, but in an Act of ...41 KB (5,879 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... America as they have developed independent of African traditions from which ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- oldest military unit native to the District of Columbia.[http://www12.georgetown ... frequency to the University of the District of Columbia because of WGTB's ...40 KB (5,598 words) - 15:16, 21 May 2024
- |free = Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ... *Howard University District of Columbia Small Business Development ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- was a major figure in the development of bebop, or modern jazz. ... U.S. cities in 31 states and the District of Columbia, headlined three television ...17 KB (2,671 words) - 09:19, 15 January 2023
- 16, 1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and ... Canadian government, the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870 and the North-West ...46 KB (7,007 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He had his first number-one popular song with "Because of You ...61 KB (9,033 words) - 20:13, 12 September 2023
- The Order of the Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Roman ... and dedicated to the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity, and ...33 KB (5,125 words) - 23:21, 3 March 2023
- 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving ... Humphrey did win the South Dakota and District of Columbia primaries ...32 KB (4,916 words) - 21:09, 7 February 2024
- Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France would be taking part ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- quot;The naughty children"; German Caricature of 1849.]] has been largely rejected in favor of other disciplinary methods ...28 KB (4,287 words) - 03:35, 8 January 2024
- Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals and other geological ... Yet, these problems persist in regions of the world where regulations ...18 KB (2,752 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and the largest ... Located at the site of a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi ...42 KB (6,247 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- geologic, and cultural highland region of the central United States. ... River valley and the Ouachitas, both south of the Boston Mountains, are usually ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
- a royal Indian dynasty ruling large parts of southern, central and northern ... The clan that ruled from Elichpur had been a feudatory of the Badami ...53 KB (7,699 words) - 00:10, 14 November 2023
- Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador ... Quito is considered to have one of the oldest and best preserved colonial ...31 KB (4,586 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2023
- American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots ... Flying Cross and the French Legion of Honor, and she still holds ...19 KB (3,058 words) - 08:12, 18 March 2024
- The State of Wyoming is a state in the western region of the United ... Wyoming is the least populous of any state (or the District of Columbia ...36 KB (5,337 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- Maryland is a state located on the East Coast of the United States ... though it became a part of the District of Columbia when it was created ...45 KB (6,596 words) - 08:44, 10 March 2023
- office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ... As coach of the Celtics from 1950 to 1966, Auerbach won nine NBA titles ...21 KB (3,308 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- republic of 50 states and the District of Columbia. Each of the 50 states ... and possessions, notably the District of Columbia, which is the nation ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She ... children of the inner city of the district of Columbia to summer camp, providing ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 17:10, 5 October 2022
- served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. She ... when she was eleven years old. A member of the Democratic Party, she worked ...48 KB (6,706 words) - 04:54, 5 November 2022
- Macbeth is among the best known of William Shakespeare's plays ... is often seen as an archetypal tale of the dangers of the lust for ...40 KB (6,125 words) - 04:47, 5 November 2022
- date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 15:01, 21 May 2024
- Genpei gassen, 1180–1185) was a series of conflicts between the Taira ... as Gempei) comes from alternate readings of the kanji for 'Minamoto ...23 KB (3,568 words) - 19:36, 23 October 2022
- The term criminal law, sometimes called penal law, refers to any of ... and Washington) and the District of Columbia do not use grand jury ...32 KB (5,141 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- |name = Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational ...42 KB (5,941 words) - 09:17, 10 March 2023
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | date of birth=September 15, 1857 | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- The State of Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... and Clark Expedition in 1805. It was part of the disputed Oregon Country ...41 KB (5,855 words) - 15:35, 12 February 2024
- and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues ... Fans of the Grateful Dead were known as "Deadheads" and ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 17:52, 20 January 2023
- U.S., that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. Berkshire ... to individuals in 49 states and the District of Columbia. The subsidiaries ...33 KB (4,479 words) - 11:02, 28 September 2023
- The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ... The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Outside of California ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- Grace, Princess of Monaco, née Grace Patricia Kelly, (November 12 ... Olympic sculler at a time that the sport of rowing was at its zenith. He ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
- leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 ... raise a similar protest when the District of Columbia school board, under ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:11, 13 February 2024
- Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... territory in 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Command module pilot Michael ... visiting 49 state capitals, the District of Columbia, and Anchorage, Alaska ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
- In geology and environmental science, erosion is the displacement ... rock into soil. Thus a certain degree of erosion is healthy for the ...24 KB (3,723 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- in the seventeenth century. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the ... The Kalmyks are the only inhabitants of Europe whose national religion ...59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
- Lobbying is the practice of trying to persuade legislators or officials ... the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which said: ...27 KB (3,879 words) - 07:47, 9 March 2023
- reputation in 1949, as a member of the U.S. team that won the ... American Youth Center (LAYC),in the District of Columbia began to offer tennis ...25 KB (3,993 words) - 06:34, 18 November 2022
- was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. Russia suffered from a number of chronic economic and social problems ...46 KB (6,600 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- device for transporting people, consisting of a staircase whose steps move ... with Trav-O-Lator®, a registered trademark of United Technologies), or moveator ...37 KB (6,013 words) - 21:28, 20 March 2024
- The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... (one each for the 48 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories ...54 KB (8,496 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic ... Pavel was born in Moscow in the upper-class family of Nikolai Pavlovich ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- Education City, Qatar. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League, and prides ... areas useful to society. Situated in an area of farming, conservation, and ...42 KB (5,828 words) - 03:33, 8 January 2024
- Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...60 KB (8,706 words) - 05:53, 10 May 2024
- licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing ... stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four ...49 KB (6,708 words) - 10:40, 10 March 2023
- |name = University of Bridgeport |image = [[File:University of Bridgeport Cortright Hall.jpg|250px]] ...30 KB (4,093 words) - 17:06, 15 September 2023
- 29, 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-twentieth century New York ... region's development. During the height of his powers, New York City participated ...25 KB (3,907 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- a database that contains descriptive records of books, periodical articles ... 793 stores in 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. ...27 KB (3,849 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- The Kronstadt rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors ... The rebellion took place in the first weeks of March, 1921 in Kronstadt ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- Viking peoples and revered as the "God of Thunder." Historical evidence ... Thor was the focus of numerous Norse folk tales and he was seen to ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
