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- William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...21 KB (3,197 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- 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 Purple Heart is an American military decoration that was the first ... Designed by Washington in the form of a purple heart, it was intended ...23 KB (3,569 words) - 00:25, 3 December 2022
- and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious ... Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political ... returned to Colombia and served as President from 1833 until 1837, then ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ... As one of the "Seven Sisters," Wellesley has been and continues ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 23:29, 3 May 2023
- [[Image:UnitedPressInternational.jpg|right|thumb|400 px|Front of UPI ... United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency, headquartered ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 11:51, 3 May 2023
- LaGuardia, often spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- The United States Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments ... The Bill of Rights also restricts Congress' power by prohibiting ...36 KB (5,472 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- The Gabonese Republic or Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) was the first United ... lands in a 4,000-mile wilderness trek, the expedition lost only one man ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering ... The CIA is restricted from operating inside the United States, although ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- |caption= Shield of Emory University |motto=Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam (The wise heart seeks knowledge ...26 KB (3,754 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...16 KB (2,379 words) - 06:13, 14 January 2023
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... Cambridge. Upon graduation he joined the family business. He proved ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- housing, or education—but also to redress the effects of past discrimination ... admissions, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination|right ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...22 KB (3,341 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- crime and its penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Main Library of ... The Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is the national ...24 KB (3,496 words) - 22:34, 25 October 2022
- The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic ... arts, cabinet making, crafts, and even the "cottage" garden ...15 KB (2,276 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the South Asian earthquake or ... In response to the catastrophe, India and Pakistan dropped their hostility ...24 KB (3,487 words) - 06:41, 13 June 2023
- January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African-American to ... ideas took many years to come to any sort of fruition, his tenure as the ...24 KB (3,985 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... from Tosa Province, Japan, and rescued by the American whaler USS John ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 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
- |vice-president = Sydney H. Evans Jr. |provost = Richard ... |country = United States |coor = ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... women and even though she was once hailed as the most influential Black woman ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 16:12, 7 November 2022
- The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U. S. President ... that day, shines brightly in history while the other speeches have long been ...35 KB (5,403 words) - 07:40, 24 January 2023
- Cantor dedicated much of his life for caring for others needs. He ... Cantor was born Israel Iskowitz in New York City, the son of Russian ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in ... Present concerns include large-scale unemployment, overfishing, the ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots ... awards due to her contributions, among them the Distinguished Flying Cross ...19 KB (3,058 words) - 08:12, 18 March 2024
- 17, 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 Prague Linguistic Circle (French: Cercle linguistique de Prague; ... Along with its first president, Vilém Mathesius, they included Russian ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was a leader ... In his book, Soul on Fire, he renounced many of his former attitudes ...17 KB (2,660 words) - 00:10, 13 February 2024
- on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...24 KB (3,751 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- affiliations = United Methodist Church| website=[http://www.drew.edu/ ... New Jersey. Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) won ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...29 KB (4,299 words) - 07:54, 24 January 2023
- weht(German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- located in Houston, Texas. It is the fifth largest private sector ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who originally ... Throughout their history, the Yaqui remained separate from the Aztec ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- 12, 1892) was officially credited by the United States Congress on ... Abner Doubleday was once credited with the invention of baseball, ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 09:07, 18 July 2023
- | caption = The JSTOR front page | url = http://www.jstor.org ... | author = The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | launch date = 1995 ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 07:45, 27 February 2023
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... Wright. Like other modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... The Libray has been guided by the "belief that universal access ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- in official matters as x-rated material, is the explicit representation of ... Though mass-distributed pornography is as old as the printing press ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... Whatever the motivation, deep state usually refers to a conspiracy ...29 KB (4,345 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers ... It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by ... Geologists estimate that formation of the canyon required at least ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent for syphilis, in 1911. Noguchi was born into poverty and became handicapped when, at the ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- |observedby=Canada, United States |date=2nd Monday in October (Canada ... it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- 2023) was an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice ... moderate political views, O'Connor was the crucial swing vote of the ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- | nationality = United States | period = | genre = Literary fiction ... was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- ) was a co-recipient, with Mairead Corrigan, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 ... Williams led a women's movement for peace that consisted of ordinary ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 23:29, 11 January 2023
- was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Many consider Ahn Chang-ho to be one of the key moral and philosophical ...16 KB (2,495 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- 1837 political cartoon about unemployment in the United States.]] ... Unemployment is the condition of willing workers lacking jobs or ...30 KB (4,434 words) - 02:16, 18 April 2023
- South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together with ... Influenced by the ideals of the United States Declaration of Independence ...15 KB (2,196 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was ... The initial reaction in the United States was enthusiastically in ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- to Japan, which opened that country to trade with the West. Perry began his United States naval career when he was only 15 years ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- analyzed social change brought about by the Great Depression. Their publications ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- * First African American to play a game in the American League ... an American professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues and Major League ...22 KB (3,428 words) - 17:46, 25 October 2022
- The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic ... The Emmys are presented by three related, but separate, organizations: ...32 KB (4,624 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
- The Gambia, commonly known as Gambia, is the smallest country on ... Like its neighbor, The Gambia relies heavily on the export of groundnuts ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- intellectual. Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University ... and for a more pluralistic approach to the question of the literary canon ...23 KB (3,215 words) - 21:58, 21 October 2022
- The Allegheny National Forest is a National Forest located in northwestern ... of land on the Allegheny Plateau. Within the forest is the Kinzua ...19 KB (2,766 words) - 18:25, 21 July 2023
- a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted ... Burnside was not the most apt general to take the field during the ...27 KB (4,163 words) - 02:49, 24 July 2023
- activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid ... He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... A former French colony, Haiti became the first independent black republic ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- The World Factbook (ISSN 1553-8133 ; also known as the CIA World Factbook)Central Intelligence Agency ...33 KB (4,760 words) - 17:51, 30 April 2023
- This article is about the 20th-century aviator. {{Infobox Biography ... was an American aviator famous for piloting the first non-stop solo flight ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations ... Oswald's life changed history but it did not leave the world ...49 KB (7,803 words) - 19:01, 25 October 2022
- Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ... ==History of Service Learning== Service learning can be traced back ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado ... During the period of Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled the country since ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... a long and turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- Mexican Revolutionary general. As commander of the División del Norte (Division ... He robbed and commandeered trains, and, like the other Revolutionary generals ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- his highly imaginative modern ballets. As the founder and artistic director ... Noted for making ballet more accessible to the American public, the ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 05:07, 15 December 2022
- Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in ... Togo was once part of the area known as the "Slave Coast" ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County, often referred to ... The Music Center's current mission is to go beyond its role as ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- The St Andrews Agreement was an agreement between the British and ... By enabling the inclusion of the DUP, which had opposed the Belfast ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... It serves as a distribution point for the surrounding agricultural and ...23 KB (3,136 words) - 13:29, 24 January 2023
- | order=28th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1913 ... | date of birth=December 28, 1856 | place of birth=Staunton, Virginia ...37 KB (5,512 words) - 23:30, 17 May 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
- Cliff-dwelling is the general archaeological term for the habitations ... Cliff-dwellings are found throughout the world and in some cases are ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era ... constitutional precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government ...42 KB (6,358 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic ... The region was devastated by drought in the 1980s, bringing to head ...15 KB (2,359 words) - 22:17, 25 January 2024
- and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948 ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ... Although a staunch Protestant and member of the Orange Order, Trimble was ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 08:32, 28 January 2024
- The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... The coup was precipitated when Mosaddeq nationalized Iran's oil ...27 KB (4,144 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- Tenzin Gyatso (born July 6, 1935) is the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- teaching, and service to their community. The process is subject to ongoing ... Academic tenure is primarily intended to guarantee the right to academic ...21 KB (3,170 words) - 03:41, 30 April 2023
- novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|400px|right|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... A labor union, or trade union, is an association of fair wage-earners ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- 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
- for honesty and integrity in delivering the news, he is considered among ... A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow's work continued ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2024
