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- Tennessee is a state located in the Southern United States. In 1796 ... The State joined the Confederate States of America during the American ...47 KB (6,620 words) - 03:00, 19 April 2023
- Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence ... One of the founders of Rhode Island was Roger Williams. In 1636, Williams ...30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- or both, or generally to violate standards of ethical behavior. Government ... The history of competition law reaches back further than the Roman ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce ... weather. The mountain and the surrounding area comprise Mount Rainier National ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
- Ohio is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Part of ... Prior to 1984, the United States Census Bureau considered Ohio part ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...17 KB (2,707 words) - 09:04, 18 November 2022
- an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA ... were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, ...30 KB (4,076 words) - 17:11, 5 October 2022
- January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States. As the first ... his party's platform and vetoed several of their proposals. As a result ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 07:59, 3 August 2022
- Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the ... In many places, lawyers are bound by an ethical code that is enforced ...17 KB (2,791 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Ontario is a province located in the east-central part of Canada, ... The capital of Ontario is Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Ottawa ...35 KB (5,025 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... in the nation, based largely on the value of slaves, who were counted as ...35 KB (5,105 words) - 11:10, 10 March 2023
- Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population ... the missionary St. Rupert arrived in the area. The first establishment of ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. She co-owned the Newark ... The only female owner in the history of the Negro Leagues, Manley ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 02:46, 17 January 2023
- The Kingdom of Tonga, also known as “The Friendly Islands,” is ... Settled for more than 2,800 years, Tonga is part of the cradle of ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 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
- and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during the ... martial upon his return to the United States, Doolittle was awarded the ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- South Korea's contemporary culture has been shaped by the passionate ... The contemporary culture of South Korea derives from the traditional ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- country that occupies the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ... the Dominican Republic has a long history of violence and tyranny, including; ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...28 KB (3,888 words) - 23:14, 3 March 2023
- on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... movement, Zarqawi opposed the presence of United States and Western military ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Group ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 23:05, 31 October 2023
- Central America is the region of North America located between the ... ==Countries of the region== The area considered Central America comprises ...32 KB (4,189 words) - 17:46, 11 May 2023
- "clear-seeing") denotes a form of extra-sensory perception in ... Most cultures throughout history have anecdotal reports of clairvoyance ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 07:21, 14 January 2023
- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of organic compounds ... Most of the 209 different PCB congeners are colorless, odorless crystals ...24 KB (3,627 words) - 08:41, 24 November 2022
- Alabama is a state located in the southern region of the United States ... Like other states in the South, Alabama is burdened by the legacy ...36 KB (5,209 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- California is a state on the West Coast of the United States, along ... changed California, sparking a large influx of people and a sustained economic ...42 KB (5,921 words) - 18:24, 25 November 2023
- The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... The history of the tribes and peoples who inhabited this gateway to ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- Montevideo is the largest city, capital, and chief port of Uruguay ... Montevideo is the commercial, political, and intellectual center of ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... in Western countries, including the United States, Australia, France, French ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- , earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... 1970s, Pol Pot became the prime minister of "Democratic Kampuchea ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- Iowa is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America ... A north central state, it forms a bridge between the forests of the ...28 KB (4,107 words) - 18:56, 7 February 2023
- West Virginia is a state in the Appalachia/Upland South region of ... West Virginia is one of the Border States. The state's Northern ...40 KB (5,933 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- east. Wrangle Island has the highest density of polar bear dens as well as ... Humans lived as early as 1700 B.C.E. in the region, at the end of ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 14:01, 20 May 2023
- He was the best-selling Chicago blues artist of the later 1950s and early 1960s ... Reed was a major player in the early days of electric blues, whose ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 13:23, 1 August 2022
- he mapped over 3.9 million square kilometers of North America and for this ... This represented one-fifth of the North American continent. His great ...17 KB (2,468 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands ... from the sea. Located 575 miles southeast of Miami, the Turks and Caicos ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- Connecticut is one of the Unites States. It is located in the New ... early colonial times. Its Fundamental Orders of 1639 are considered to be the ...36 KB (5,082 words) - 18:54, 14 January 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
- County, southeastern New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk ... Native Lenape inhabited the area prior to the arrival of English settlers ...28 KB (3,984 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
- | office = Mayor of Chicago | order = 48th Mayor of Chicago | term_start = 1955 | term_end = 1976 ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the ... The city is also an important contributor of popular music legacies, celebrated ...33 KB (4,747 words) - 10:07, 29 January 2024
- squirrels comprising the genus Marmota of the rodent family Sciuridae ... their abundant reproduction provide a supply of defenseless young pups, which ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 16:05, 6 November 2022
- New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern ... both to its geology and to its tradition of self-sufficiency. Several other ...33 KB (4,724 words) - 09:19, 11 March 2023
- founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in ... was the first university in the United States to emphasize research, applying ...28 KB (4,118 words) - 19:30, 4 May 2024
- North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions ... The Missouri River flows through the western part of the state and ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- dogbane family Apocynaceae, characterized by dark green, lanceolate leaves ... an adverse reaction. Even a small amount of ingestion can cause lethal ...13 KB (1,908 words) - 10:31, 11 March 2023
- or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation ... The advent of the printed Bible ushered in an age in which Bibles ...21 KB (3,123 words) - 02:56, 27 July 2023
- modern life. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors ... Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter ...26 KB (4,124 words) - 21:08, 30 April 2023
- written Piute) refers to two related groups of Native Americans — the Northern ... The Paiute are particularly well-known through the work of Wovoka ...23 KB (3,614 words) - 06:17, 18 November 2022
- The State of Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... First occupied by American Indians, the region was explored by the ...41 KB (5,855 words) - 15:35, 12 February 2024
- as a strong chemical base in the manufacture of pulp and paper, textiles, drinking ... It is very soluble in water, with liberation of heat. It also dissolves in ...19 KB (2,762 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- 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
- South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... ) has existed for nearly 60 years, built on the foundation of a 5 ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda ... As long as war exists, we can expect new forms of psychological warfare ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 23:30, 2 December 2022
- ) is a large seaport city on the northern coast of Colombia. Founded ... eighteenth century as the de facto capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- nonmetal that belongs to the nitrogen group of chemical elements. Given its ... When purified artificially, several different allotropic forms of ...25 KB (3,622 words) - 22:45, 28 March 2023
- Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses ... Kansas City was founded in 1838 as the "Town of Kansas" ...46 KB (6,922 words) - 17:38, 14 May 2024
- Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the ... Latino and Asian populations in the United States. The citizens of Los Angeles ...40 KB (5,759 words) - 07:54, 9 March 2023
- Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that ... The need to identify and manipulate the properties of a system as ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- 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
- The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... oil industry, which had been owned and run by the British since 1908, with ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- " is the wireless communication of signals by transmitting electromagnetic ... Radio technology gives humanity the convenience of extremely rapid ...35 KB (5,160 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... became unpopular. However, the value of on the job training and practical ...23 KB (3,363 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- Guam (Chamorro: Guåhån), officially the U.S. Territory of Guam, ... is 1,500 miles (2414 km) southeast of Tokyo and 6,000 miles (9656 ...22 KB (3,229 words) - 03:09, 26 February 2023
- A poll tax, or head tax, is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per ... There are several famous cases of poll taxes in history, notably a ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- 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
- le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté ... high in her right hand. The statue is made of pure copper on a framework ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- large white-colored obelisk at the west end of the National Mall in Washington ... The monument is made of marble, granite, and sandstone. It was designed ...23 KB (3,484 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- Scallop is the common name for any of the marine bivalve mollusks ... Scallops constitute a cosmopolitan family, found in all of the world ...19 KB (2,833 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- the aircraft carrier as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously ... 000 tonnes or more, has been the pinnacle of carrier development since their ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of ... but he, more than anyone, seemed to be aware of his shortcomings and was willing ...27 KB (4,163 words) - 02:49, 24 July 2023
- Kansas is a Midwestern state located in the geographic center of the ... Originally, home to large numbers of nomadic Native Americans that ...47 KB (6,939 words) - 17:34, 14 May 2024
- Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- New Caledonia, or Nouvelle-Calédonie, is an overseas territory of ... New Caledonia's capital, Nouméa, is the seat of the Secretariat ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1962 ... Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven military test pilots selected in ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United ... Oklahoma was the destination of the Native American Cherokee tribes ...50 KB (7,185 words) - 10:30, 11 March 2023
- Riga the capital city of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast ... The Historic Centre of Riga has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the ... The destruction of Dresden has an epically tragic quality to it. It ...44 KB (6,668 words) - 07:18, 17 November 2023
- carnivorous mammal, Martes pennanti, of the marten genus (Martes) and ... predator that captures a wide diversity of prey: Rabbits, hares, squirrels ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 17:26, 28 March 2024
- Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- , or 12 players (women's field), each of whom uses a netted stick (the ... It has grown in popularity in the United States, becoming the fastest growing ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 22:41, 30 April 2023
- #039;ing) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic ... Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, Chongqing is intersected ...30 KB (3,987 words) - 17:18, 10 December 2023
- Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated ... Although commonly referred to in the singular, the territory consists ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- ) is the capital, chief seaport, and largest city of Algeria, the ... role throughout history. Originally settled by Berbers, the land was eventually ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- Operation Provide Comfort (OPC). The pilots of two United States Air Force ... the helicopters as hostile. The crew members of the AWACS aircraft were blamed ...67 KB (10,179 words) - 23:19, 30 March 2024
- Mexican Revolutionary general. As commander of the División del Norte (Division ... military revolutionary aims, unlike those of Emiliano Zapata and the Zapatista ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- lit. “capital capital,” or “capital of capitals") was the Imperial ... Kyoto is known as one of the academic centers of Japan, and is home ...36 KB (5,281 words) - 04:01, 6 October 2022
- served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... Due to her case-by-case approach to jurisprudence and her relatively ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- ) is a protein derived from the seed of the castor oil plant (Ricinus ... crystal, or powdered form, for delivery by inhalation, ingestion, or injection ...25 KB (3,716 words) - 18:51, 11 August 2022
- African-Americans, or Black Americans, are citizens of the United ... lived as slaves, mostly in Southern United States, and another 500,000 lived ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- A ceiling fan is a device suspended from the ceiling of a room, with ... In the summer, the direction of rotation of the blades is set to blow ...35 KB (5,762 words) - 23:44, 3 December 2023
- Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was born out of a union of four villages ... crime-free environment, and for being one of the cleanest cities of Africa ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 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
- 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
- , officially titled "The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro ... Numerous unethical actions -- including lack of informed consent, ...41 KB (6,364 words) - 00:19, 27 December 2021
- and technology toward benefiting the lives of everyday people. Despite the ... known as Diamond, Missouri. The exact date of birth is unknown due to the ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society ... She is noted by critics and art historians for her photographs depicting ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- Fleming were among the most beloved athletes of their respective generations ... Major international competitions are sanctioned by the ISU. These ...29 KB (4,650 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
