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- journalist, and the founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra ... music education, writings, and the beauty of his compositions. He felt that ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- The Battle of Buena Vista (February 23, 1847), also known as the Battle ... After the Battle of Monterrey in September 1846, most of Major General ...9 KB (1,403 words) - 03:51, 2 January 2022
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... Mayo has become associated with celebration of Mexican-American culture. ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The compromise was possible after the death of President Zachary Taylor, who ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- himself to be the legitimately elected president of Mexico. ... * Godoy, Jose Francisco. Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico, the ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 05:38, 30 November 2022
- 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who long ... Geronimo embodied the very essence of the Apache values—aggressiveness ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- the communities of apartment-like structures in the Southwestern United ... Pueblo is a term used to describe modern (and ancient) communities ...16 KB (2,339 words) - 23:24, 14 December 2023
- (1867–1871), and (1871–1872), as President of Mexico.For resisting the ... became Chief Justice and Vice-President of Mexico, under moderado (moderate ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 09:15, 27 September 2023
- | order=President of Mexico | term_start=May 16, 1833 | term_end=June ... a turbulent 40-year career. He was President of Mexico eleven non-consecutive ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 05:42, 11 August 2023
- national park with the exception that the President of the United States can ... monument and national park is the amount of diversity in what is being ...19 KB (2,589 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving ... While Fillmore is considered by many as one of the lesser United States ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- work on this tribe, and her studies of West Indian and African American ... 27, 1875, in New York City, as the eldest of three children of Henry Clews ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature ... Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City, Mexico during tumultuous times ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- American military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor ... on November 24, 1784. He was the third of nine children of Richard and ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving ... His time as U.S. president is most notable for the largest expansion ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- and his contributions to the development of theories of culture within ... 11, 1905, in Le Mars, Iowa, into the family of Clyde Clofford and Caroline ...10 KB (1,350 words) - 22:13, 7 January 2024
- United States as The Mexican War and in Mexico as la intervención norteamericana ... with popular belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States ultimately ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- rebel leader. He is regarded as the founder of the Mexican War of Independence ... continued to be dominated by ten percent of the population and power would ...16 KB (2,562 words) - 17:46, 9 November 2022
- Although he held a number of law enforcement posts and gained a reputation ... For a while, he enjoyed the patronage of President Theodore Roosevelt ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:03, 18 November 2022
- Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he served on ... American War, he served as military governor of Mexico City. Such was his stature ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- North American peninsula, politically a part of the nation of Mexico. Extending ... deserts, the peninsula is also home to some of the best preserved rock art ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- to July 13, 1954), was a Mexican painter of the indigenous culture of her ... Kahlo's life was a tragic one. Stricken with polio at the age ...18 KB (2,754 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of ... the entire peninsula. Following a series of insurrections, its territory ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- born Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as ... married into), military service in the War of 1812, and subsequent successful ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 01:57, 23 December 2022
- The Battle of the Alamo was a nineteenth century battle between the ... for rights under the Mexican Constitution of 1824. By the time of the battle ...19 KB (3,079 words) - 23:51, 30 October 2023
- colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations ... The three main concepts of the doctrine—separate spheres of influence ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving ... Pierce served in the House of Representatives and Senate as a Democrat ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- people who originally lived in the valley of the Río Yaqui in the northern ... of Sonora, and still later Vice-president of Mexico. It was at this time ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Gypsum is a very soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate ... many practical applications and for works of art. In particular, it is used ...8 KB (1,054 words) - 21:52, 28 July 2023
- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... to receive the necessary two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- 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
- scandal that began during the administration of President Harding. Elk Hills ... The Teapot Dome oil field received its name because of a rock resembling ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 19:58, 9 February 2023
- general. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina ... After the war he spoke in favor of civil and voting rights for the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2022
- against religious sites, and the seizure of church property. mere secularism or the French tradition of laïcité, which advocates ...18 KB (2,564 words) - 23:52, 27 April 2022
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- 1955) was an American newspaper baron, owner of the Chicago Tribune, and popularly ... A leading opponent of United States entry into World War II and of ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... in American history. He served as Speaker of the House longer than any man ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal ... However, the basic effort on the part of the majority of countries in ...16 KB (2,401 words) - 23:59, 24 March 2024
- figure who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight ... One of his policy contributions was what became known as brinkmanship ...14 KB (1,941 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- (November 10, 1878 - June 14, 1946) was President of Guatemala from February ... him was short-lived in the end. As part of development and government ...15 KB (2,332 words) - 06:28, 6 May 2024
- North American continent, spreading its form of democracy, freedom, and culture ... Originally a political catch phrase of the nineteenth century, Manifest ...40 KB (6,026 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- was trusted and supported by the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia ... was soon aroused by the aggressive movements of the Federal government (President ...15 KB (2,251 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- image_caption=Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed ... place_of_death=Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA | }} Georgia Totto O'Keeffe ...23 KB (3,732 words) - 07:37, 24 January 2023
- Cliff-dwelling is the general archaeological term for the habitations ... inhabited. They are common among the canyons of the Southwestern United States ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- that first aired in 1980. The purpose of the network is to make information ... and Reese Schonfeld. The founding purpose of the network was to make information ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 10:13, 25 November 2023
- Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his following of patriots from his sugar mill ... The Ten Years' War (1868-1878) was the first of three wars that ...12 KB (1,919 words) - 05:40, 27 February 2023
- , better known as José Martí, was a leader of the Cuban independence movement ... most widely read, and his poetry. Several of the verses from his collection ...19 KB (3,059 words) - 06:30, 6 May 2024
- James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... Monroe was a popular president who ran unopposed for a second term ...18 KB (2,572 words) - 16:07, 8 February 2023
- – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869 ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... with Russia and Spain. By Article III of the Anglo-American Convention ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- most famous for serving as the only president of the Confederate States ... the Mississippi legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. ... and served two terms as prosecuting attorney of Covington, Indiana. In 1853 ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Living in the shadow of both fame and tragedy, Lindbergh found her ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part ... its beauty and spectacular cacti. In spite of the harsh climate of this desert ...22 KB (3,316 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- singer who has been called "the queen of Tejano music".Rick Mitchell ... Selena was murdered at the age of 23 by Yolanda Saldívar, the president ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 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
- 22, 1951) was an American sociologist, one of first sociologists who pursued ... essential socially beings, the understanding of whose interactions and interdependencies ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 18:20, 12 February 2024
- The Republic of Guatemala ( República de Guatemala , re'puβlika ... ), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the northwest ...37 KB (5,339 words) - 23:54, 8 March 2024
- Park located in the southeastern corner of New Mexico near the city of ... On October 25, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the Carlsbad ...19 KB (2,927 words) - 15:25, 27 November 2023
- – August 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving ... presidential campaign, held in the aftermath of World War I, he promised a ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- The United Mexican States, or simply Mexico, is a country located ... Covering almost two million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- and poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío. He was a gifted ... stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. He is known for his ...13 KB (2,077 words) - 19:46, 20 August 2022
- style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been ... Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw. ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- science, education, and entertainment. One of the "big three" American ... cover. In 1937, Malcolm Muir took over as president and editor-in-chief. Muir ...10 KB (1,451 words) - 23:24, 14 November 2022
- horticulturist, botanist, and co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural ... He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 22:29, 25 October 2022
- D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific ... Geographic Magazine has, through its use of photojournalism and quality ...17 KB (2,345 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- and diplomat who is best known for his study of ancient Mayan culture. In 1885 ... paid little attention to the cultural legacy of the peoples whose land was ...16 KB (2,447 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- The Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR, is a lineage-based ... Hall, leading to the resignation of Eleanor Roosevelt from the ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... regimes. The conflict and the two sets of alliances can be seen as representing ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest ... Between 900 and 1150 C.E., Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture ...30 KB (4,488 words) - 00:10, 4 December 2023
- renown after writing a stinging expose of the mistreatment of the mentally ... up to the task and worried about the amount of luggage she would carry. In ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- he was only 15 years old, under the command of his older brother Oliver Hazard ... However, it did lead to the rest of the world gaining much from ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- from British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States forming ... Columbia, down to the Rio Grande in New Mexico. They can also be described ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- September 14, 1836) was the third Vice-President of the United States (1801–1805 ... As a legislator, Burr was a formative member of the Democratic-Republican ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
- Pacific from Montreal. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson following ... with the Native Americans with the help of the Shoshone Indian woman Sacajawea ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- January 31, 1955) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the World Student ... From 1920 until 1928, he was the Chairperson of the WSCF. For his labors in ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 03:51, 3 May 2024
- Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing ... myself seated next to the former president of Mexico at a ski-area restaurant ...39 KB (5,642 words) - 12:09, 8 May 2023
- Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was the wife ... During the Civil Rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s she worked ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- and has a steadily growing population of 23.9 million. Houston is ... 1835, Antonio López de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, enacted a constitution ...36 KB (5,158 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- West from the unique Christian perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Together ... Endo’s greatest work, Silence, portrays the courage of Japanese ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
- The State of New Mexico is in the southwestern region of the United ... American populations and has been part of the Spanish viceroyalty of ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- and is widely considered the architect of the Dominican Republic and ... made him a political martyr in the eyes of subsequent generations. The ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 06:02, 10 May 2024
- 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was Vice President of the Confederate States ... The causes of the Civil War remain the subject of debate and it is ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 21:02, 28 November 2023
- officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon Trail and climbed ... Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- who did significant work on Native Americans of the Southeastern and Northwestern ... his fieldwork on the Northwestern coast of the United States. At that ...9 KB (1,217 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- Crockett and by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier." He ... approach and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- | 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
- officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in ... participated in the military Reconstruction of the South and the Army's ...38 KB (5,623 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- high governmental posts including Minister of Trade. He made several key ... denounced Stalin's "cult of personality." He helped ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- and journalist. She was a co-founder of numerous social organizations ... Marlborough, Massachusetts, into the family of Samuel Eastman and Annis Ford ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:32, 11 January 2024
- The Cuban Revolution overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista by ... In the context of the Cold War between the Western world, led by the ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 19:27, 5 June 2020
- In February 1926, Carter G. Woodson launched the celebration of "Negro ... G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug ... During the mid-twentieth century, Borlaug led the introduction of ...46 KB (6,869 words) - 10:00, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:Greeley-Horace-LOC.jpg|thumb|right|Photographic portrait of ... and politician. His New York Tribune was one of America's most influential ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 14:59, 2 February 2024
- which supported the general allegations of espionage by Julius, though ... tried to match the military capacity of the other in pursuance of the ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name ... mind, to produce a dream-like work of art that explored truth that ...16 KB (2,513 words) - 06:10, 18 November 2022
- Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... helping to found the United Steelworkers of America. He joined the U.S ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- Hoover Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the ... Elwood Mead who oversaw the construction of the dam. Listed on the National ...19 KB (3,049 words) - 13:41, 2 February 2024
- Oklahoma where they are enrolled in either of two federally recognized tribes ... the nation which had been following President Ulysses S. Grant's ...23 KB (3,542 words) - 12:59, 10 March 2023
- 1924 - November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States of ... During the final days of the Cold War, he was responsible for managing ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- by the men's national soccer teams of the member nations of Fédération ... the World Cup Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 national ...41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
- government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy ... really had a chance to make his mark as President - and the Vietnam War may ...49 KB (7,803 words) - 19:01, 25 October 2022
- The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which ... has captured public imagination as a symbol of freedom, and figures prominently ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become ... For Vassar graduates, both men and women, to advance the world of ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 2023
- 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
- award for study at the University of Oxford. This scholarship program ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- 1808 – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic ... moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Armadillo is the common name for any of the small, placental, Old ... one, armadillos are often used in the study of leprosy, since they are among ...11 KB (1,442 words) - 03:47, 15 August 2023
- 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 ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) president of the United States, and ... As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... century, but more aggressively pursued by President Andrew Jackson after the ...36 KB (5,257 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- Bald eagle is the common name for a North American bird of prey, ... The species was on the brink of extirpation in the continental United ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- Arkansas (are-can-saw) is a state located in the southern region of ... Little Rock became the center of international attention in 1957 when ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- for migrant workers. He is hailed as one of the greatest Mexican-American ... posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United State’s ...25 KB (4,024 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- Cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, is the attempt to change ... Schenectady, after he dropped six pounds of dry ice into a cloud from a plane. ...17 KB (2,393 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, or Uruguay, is a country located ... shaped country between the two major powers of Brazil and Argentina has long ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' ... In the latter part of the twentieth century opposition to Columbus ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- [[Image:Slc mormon tempel.jpg|thumb|right|345px|The Salt Lake Temple ... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the ...28 KB (4,522 words) - 21:59, 10 December 2023
- Perle des Antilles" or "the Pearl of the Caribbean." The island is the second largest island of the West Indies, with an ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 21:45, 31 January 2024
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 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
- ) describes the central area of the original city of Havana, Cuba ... Following a royal Spanish decree by Philip II of Spain in 1561, all ...17 KB (2,656 words) - 00:04, 18 November 2022
- The Republic of Costa Rica ("Rich Coast") is a country in ... Costa Rica is also at the forefront of conservation and environmental ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America ... in the United States with a population of 5.6 million. Houston was ...38 KB (5,412 words) - 18:57, 7 February 2024
- Chim (pronounced shim) was the pseudonym of David Seymour (November ... A founding member of Magnum Photos, together with Robert Capa and ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- The Community of Christ, formerly known as the Reorganized Church ... dedicated to justice, outreach and youth. As of 2006, the Community of Christ ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- in his native country, is considered one of the most significant authors ... for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in ...51 KB (8,034 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a noose ... considered a rather inhumane method of execution it was the method ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- and inventor who foresaw the possibility of space travel and launched the ... Robert Goddard was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the only child ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ... After several weeks of tension, during which the United States and ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 16:44, 2 May 2023
- Kon-Ska, which means meaning "Children of the Middle Waters." Today ... and be recognized as Osages, an identity of which they can remain proud. ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:50, 11 March 2023
- Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant ... Often references to mastodons are limited to members of the genus ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics ... in an automobile accident, and from the age of seven he and his younger sister ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 08:52, 18 March 2024
- 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
- :This article is about the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas ... Benito Juárez, a Zapotec Indian and President of Mexico from 1858 to 1872 ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- celebrity, due to the emerging role of mass media in the lives of ... The trajectory of his life would take Lindbergh from the Herculean ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- | awards = Hollywood Walk of Fame7030 Hollywood Boulevard ... 1947, appeared mostly, with varying degrees of success, in stylish New York ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 20:43, 3 May 2023
- The Republic of Bolivia (or Bulibiya in the Quechua language; Wuliwya ... enough silver from Bolivia to build a bridge of silver from South America to ...29 KB (4,244 words) - 23:38, 20 March 2024
- 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
- Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... MacArthur served in the U.S. Army most of his life, participating ...47 KB (7,075 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- the economic, social, and cultural center of the nation of Guatemala. It ... The area of Guatemala City was the location of Kaminaljuyu, a Mayan ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- {{Infobox President | name=Abraham Lincoln | image name=Abraham Lincoln ... | order=16th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1861 ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas ... Her name is virtually identical to that Menrva, the Etruscan goddess ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- A national park is a reserve of land, usually, but not always, declared ... National Park in 1872, which covers parts of the U.S. states of Wyoming ...17 KB (2,403 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- and human rights activist who served as President of Poland from 1990 to ... His term as President was marred by internal rivalries including issues ...29 KB (4,198 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- and south-central United States. Because of the region's unique cultural ... After the Civil War, the South was largely devastated in terms of ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... For many decades, coffee was the mainspring of the Salvadoran economy ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- Space tourism (or spaceflight) is the recent phenomenon of tourists ... Among the primary attractions of space tourism are the uniqueness ...31 KB (4,415 words) - 16:01, 27 November 2023
- marshland located in the southern portion of the U.S. State of Florida. ... and West Indian manatee. Over 1,000 species of plants live here, many endemic ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 23:51, 24 March 2024
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- The watershed event of United States history was the American Civil ... The Union victory resulted in the abolition of slavery and consolidation ...63 KB (9,343 words) - 03:27, 24 July 2023
- 180 countries, it is engaged in every aspect of the oil and gas industry, including ... to develop the Pico Canyon Oilfield north of Los Angeles. It was purchased ...26 KB (3,656 words) - 18:40, 8 December 2023
- The illegal drug trade is a worldwide black market consisting of production ... The economic reality of the massive profiteering inherent to the drug ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- famous for his audacious Valley Campaign of 1862 and as a corps commander ... Military historians consider Jackson to be one of the most gifted ...40 KB (6,273 words) - 04:43, 28 April 2023
- to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population, known ... incredible geological diversity in the form of snowcapped mountains to well ...39 KB (5,757 words) - 13:47, 3 May 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
- is a small nation on the eastern coast of Central America, on the Caribbean ... nation in 1981. Belize is a member of Caribbean Community (CARICOM ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 11:57, 9 May 2024
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- both recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy and criticism ... Sherman's attack on civilian infrastructure and displacement ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- songwriter, and band leader. A pioneer of the Western Swing genre, Wills ... At its height in the 1940s, Wills' brand of Western Swing was ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 08:43, 16 November 2023
- army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during ... County, Virginia, the fourth child of American Revolutionary War ...26 KB (4,136 words) - 21:11, 16 April 2023
- States, located in the north-central part of the state, near the junction ... Dallas is the main economic center of the 12 county Dallas, Fort Worth ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
- Phoenix is the largest and most populous city in the state of Arizona ... Phoenix, incorporated in 1881, is located on the banks of what is ...30 KB (4,458 words) - 22:43, 28 March 2023
- Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country ... A small, landlocked country located in the heart of South America ...27 KB (3,892 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2023
- 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving ... Vietnam War. He is also noted for his middle-of-the-road domestic policy that ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- 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
- Project refers specifically to the period of the project from 1941-1946 ... Germany might be developing nuclear weapons of its own. Born out of a small ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... Strikes are suspensions of work against an employer, factory, industry ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 20:58, 26 February 2023
- 14, 1870) was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American ... full generals in the army since the birth of the nation, but Farragut was ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- jurisdiction based in Austin, the capital of Texas, in the United States ... The Rangers have taken part in many of the most important events of ...49 KB (7,650 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- defeated the Republicans, or Loyalists, of the Second Spanish Republic ... and civilians, formally acting independently of the state, massacred Catholic ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
- fell ill and died in Russia during the fall of 1920. He was given a state ... in what is now the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. His grandmother ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 07:41, 3 August 2022
- 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
- the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. The term ... made it more profitable to smuggle. The cost of enforcing prohibition was high ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 23:11, 30 November 2022
- The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...42 KB (6,144 words) - 08:27, 10 January 2024
- best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the ... position to lobby for international control of atomic energy and to avert ...58 KB (8,808 words) - 01:10, 8 February 2023
- It is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior, which ... Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, the National Park ...24 KB (3,262 words) - 14:57, 11 November 2022
- Hearst acquired and developed a series of influential newspapers, starting ... to promote his views. Near the end of his life he turned to philanthropy ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 10:39, 12 May 2023
- 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
- Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the ... Sheridan prosecuted the latter years of the Indian Wars of the Great ...46 KB (7,083 words) - 03:18, 24 November 2022
- organization dedicated to the public purpose of furthering access to the world ... eContent provider, in 2002 and owns 100% of the shares of OCLC PICA, a ...15 KB (2,039 words) - 00:39, 18 November 2022
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- she changed the public's perception of people with disabilities. She ... true value comes from the height and depth of her mind. ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 08:35, 21 January 2024
- |popplace=United States (Oklahoma, North Carolina, New Mexico) ... native to North America, who, at the time of European contact in the sixteenth ...50 KB (7,562 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
- Constitutional Convention over the inclusion of slaves in a state's total ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 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
- cummings; Cummings himself did not approve of this rendering.Norman Friedman ... for his poems and their unorthodox usage of capitalization, layout, punctuation ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 17:28, 12 February 2024
- Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed ... Liberation theology has had an impact. It helped many of the poor ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
- in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the ... UN had the courage to do what the old League of Nations had failed to do, to ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- (6,194 m). The park itself covers an area of 7,409 square miles (19,189 ... McKinley. The mountain was named after president William McKinley of Ohio ...19 KB (2,921 words) - 09:33, 28 January 2024
- Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... social, and economic problems. As a result of mismanagement, very few natural ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- performing companies. At the head of the complex's central ... Created with a vision of bringing together the best of New York's ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
- (born August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from ... and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- ) is a Japanese trading company and one of the largest sogo shosha ... directly from manufacturers instead of through foreign trading houses ...25 KB (3,645 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- The Battle of Hampton Roads, often called the Battle of Monitor and ... arrived and initiated the famous duel of the ironclads. The battle, ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- James A. Naismith, (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) Bachelor ... November 6, 1861. James was the eldest son of Scottish immigrants John and ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 08:49, 18 March 2024
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- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... Part of a submerged mountain chain, the archipelago has more than ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). While differing ... Africa and India, but are now, because of migration, found also in Western ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious ... cardiac resuscitation techniques, the number of NDEs reported continually increases ...19 KB (2,751 words) - 16:06, 11 November 2022
- Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... Guayana highlands, it plunges off the edge of a "tepui," or table ...35 KB (5,081 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
- The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from United ... Football League in 1922. The NFL is one of the most popular sports leagues ...39 KB (6,001 words) - 14:44, 11 November 2022
- influenced the entire postwar development of American folk music. He was ... Guthrie's body of music consists of hundreds of songs, ballads ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 23:31, 17 May 2023
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- in 1979, by overthrowing the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Generally ... former FSLN allies as well as supporters of the former Somoza regime. More ...51 KB (7,226 words) - 01:19, 21 April 2023
- physician, Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist ... Some time later, Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 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
- national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- 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
- grand jury indicted Hiss on two counts of perjury; Chambers admitted ... 1950, he was found guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- Sales tax is a consumption tax charged at the point of purchase for ... The design and implementation of sales tax has many problems, some ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, consists of the island of Cuba ... Taíno and Ciboney peoples, the period of Spanish colonialism, the introduction ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- ) is a major ship canal that traverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central ... and the canal opened in 1914. The building of the 48-mile canal was plagued ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
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- He served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952 ... or La Era de Trujillo), was one of the longest for a non-royal leader ...66 KB (9,421 words) - 19:56, 29 April 2024
- in Chicago, began as a rally in support of striking workers. The strikes ... important role in establishing the tradition of May Day. The Haymarket affair ...46 KB (6,999 words) - 15:07, 25 January 2023
- Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in ... Seoul, one of the world's most densely populated major cities ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- 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
- science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), statistics and ... Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... the Republican Party. Bush is the eldest son of the 41st U.S. President, George ...61 KB (9,229 words) - 08:20, 23 January 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
- such as the Trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul, and clergy-laity ... The name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" is derived from a number ...37 KB (5,392 words) - 01:06, 9 February 2023
- bend in each arm. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates ... Though once commonly used all over much of the world without stigma ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... universal access to and the understanding of law serves an important role ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- |flag=[[File:Flag of the Comanche Nation.svg|center|225px]] ... Oklahoma. They became renowned masters of horsemanship and war and thrived ...41 KB (6,731 words) - 00:03, 8 January 2024
- 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
- most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, ... father was Alberto Fermi, a Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Communications ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 22, 1942) was one of the pioneers ... Boas was exposed to natural history. Of his work at the gymnasium, ...37 KB (5,468 words) - 05:16, 9 April 2024
- singer and songwriter. Cash was the husband of country singer and songwriter ... a-boom or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing ...23 KB (3,723 words) - 06:42, 27 February 2023
- but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts ... South. In 1871, however, he broke with President Ulysses S. Grant; Grant ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven military test pilots selected in ... year to run for political office. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
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- public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department ... It operates in Mexico as Walmex, in the UK as ASDA, and in Japan as ...58 KB (8,209 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- " a nickname earned during the War of 1812 because of the prominent ... The State joined the Confederate States of America during the American ...47 KB (6,620 words) - 03:00, 19 April 2023
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- 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
- is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world ... The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of ...16 KB (2,435 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
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