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- [[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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... Djibouti's main advantage is its strategic location near the ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been ... Henri La Fontaine and Otlet created the Central Office of International ...22 KB (3,199 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a Latin ... Like many Latin American nations, the Dominican Republic has a long ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- #039;s first well-known naval hero in the American Revolutionary War ... John Paul started his maritime career at the age of 12, sailing out ...18 KB (2,783 words) - 03:55, 2 May 2024
- allegedly passing atomic weapons secrets to the Soviet Union, as they were ... In the 1990s, Soviet communications decrypted in the Venona project ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- Myanmar - swift and strong (from the native words, myan meaning swift ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) is the ... his career as a writer and propagandist for the American war effort against ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...44 KB (5,878 words) - 20:20, 30 October 2022
- jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender ...79 KB (11,056 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...24 KB (3,666 words) - 19:58, 7 September 2022
- 1868 - October 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native ... Invited to join anthropological expeditions as a photographer of native ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League ... Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress expounding ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- quot; or "radiotelegraphy," is the wireless communication of ... Radio technology gives humanity the convenience of extremely rapid ...35 KB (5,160 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...37 KB (5,383 words) - 22:39, 7 January 2024
- Prize in Literature|1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom|2012 ... | birthplace = Ohio, United States | deathdate = 2019|08|05|1931|2|18 ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
