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or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist Papers. It was ... Titled, "The Apportionment of Members Among the States" ...

Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near ... Bordered by the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois, ...

lawyer and politician and a founding father of the United States. He served ... He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the ...

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and ... More than 12 million people live along Lake Michigan's shores ...

and dominant American football player of his era. In college, Nagurski ... He was also a famous professional wrestler, being one of the first ...

, as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...

) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... Southeast Asian nations. Many Hmong people in Laos fought against the ...

east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ... The System traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario ...

the richly detailed natural settings of the Florida backcountry and ... the growing urbanization around her. Many of her works explored the importance ...

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neuroanatomist and physiologist, the father of phrenology. He was also one ... Gall's work pioneered our understanding of the function of the ...

communications, and economic center of Burundi. Bujumbura is the capital ... situated on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, is Burundi ...

as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...

), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of ... the preferred term by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and that the word ...

perhaps the best known representative of nineteenth century child advocacy ... whose best known works were The Best Method of Disposing of Our Pauper and ...

States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat four ... then went directly to law school at the University of Alabama in 1937. After ...

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 ...

the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in ... took a lively interest in nature, people, and places, which was inherited ...

The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...

important and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...

) is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. It is ... Bank One, First Chicago and National Bank of Detroit, have contributed significantly ...

he is sometimes called "the father of scientific management." ... #039;s views may be too naive in terms of the relationship between workers ...

also an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...

movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Kevin Passmore. Fascism: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford University ...

ђевић) (Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro, December 4/December ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...

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 ...

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly poor Christians ...

produced by hydropower—that is, the energy of moving water. It is the world ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...

Personality is a collection of emotional, thought, and behavioral ... In psychology, personality is a collection of emotional, thought, ...

stretch along the northern Pacific coast of California south of the Oregon ... The park system preserves nearly 45 percent of all Coastal Redwood ...

Industrial engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with ... Industrial engineering draws upon the principles and methods of engineering ...

The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred ... The Articles set the rules for operations of the "United States ...

Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...

1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving ... America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states' ...

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 ...

years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theaters in 1660 signaled ... The era of Restoration Comedy is seen as the high point for literary ...

from a source (Latin fons), fills a basin of some kind, and is drained away ... One of the most common features of a fountain, if there is enough ...

in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey ... Upon the rise of analytic philosophy after World War II, the classical ...

His gregarious personality and dynamic style of play endeared him ... by Seattle Mariner Ichiro Suzuki), and one of only two to record 2,000 hits ...

music student in Canada, for the creation of a virtual library of public ... since multiple and historical editions of a single composition can be ...

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The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...

and Batavia is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Located on the northwest ... Jakarta faces many of the challenges of large cities in developing ...

The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation ... The core group consisted of the American poets Zukofsky, Williams ...

Baptist minister. He is considered one of the most influential Christian ... As a Christian evangelist his mission was to bring people to Christ ...

Annenberg Foundation, famous for its support of numerous educational institutions ... He attended college at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ...

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...

and political figure, and the father of President John F. Kennedy and ... to the United Kingdom at the start of World War II. His term as Ambassador ...

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 ...

Space tourism (or spaceflight) is the recent phenomenon of tourists ... Among the primary attractions of space tourism are the uniqueness ...

) was de facto regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and then the first ... Godunov's life was the subject of two of the great works of Russian ...

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– January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... own moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France ...

for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic ... At the close of his life, Stevenson was respected by people of all ...

without a writing system; one set of criteria specifies material ... tradition" refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal ...

The State of Georgia is a state in the United States and was one of ... Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River by land ...

Hayworth is now widely regarded to be one of the first Hispanic-American ... As an actress, she pushed the envelope on what was acceptable in terms ...

philosopher, and scholar – a professor of English literature, a literary ... he was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine. ...

after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandie (the French-speaking ... Geneva was a center of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, and ...

The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... As the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate has several powers of ...

Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...

scientist, engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first television; ... Baird's work was part of the great advance in technology that ...

Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It ... many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds ...

Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being ...

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United ... to the early culture at Poverty Point, one of the largest and most important ...

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... Characterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical ...

an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau ... Hoover has frequently been accused of exceeding and abusing his authority ...

the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...

The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) (Felis catus) is a member of ... for at least 9,500 years, and it is one of humankind's most popular ...

for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of ... Welles was born in 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the second son of ...

The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall ...

conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...

Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... method, which revolutionized the treatment of psychological disorders. ...

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...

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 ...

mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic, that he ... was scant until after World War II. Much of his huge output is still unpublished ...

Raccoon (sometimes racoon) is the common name for any of the New World ... ranges from Costa Rica through most areas of South America east of the Andes ...

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's ... and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic ...

from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary ...

A political party is an organized group of people who have the same ... being whether they are an extension of government power, or an organized ...

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...

and other domesticated animals, by the bite of infected ticks. ... there identified additional features of the disease, including an unidentified ...

#039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... The seventh of eleven children born to a wealthy family in the town ...

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Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... share culture and history with the Iranian people, and speak the Tajik language. ...

laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug ... During the mid-twentieth century, Borlaug led the introduction of ...

large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any wild terrestrial mammal ... predator, the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey. Primary food sources ...

It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...

that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, ... Cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the most effective means of ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region ... Salem, and Boston, which soon became the hub of the region, then the Pioneer ...

Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements ... weeks before the expedition which warned of an impending British search ...

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...

fullerite. Its hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial ... stm "Chinese made first use of diamond,"] BBC News (May ...

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 ...

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...