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- Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth)Leada Gore, [https://www ... – is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been ...32 KB (4,394 words) - 10:18, 12 May 2024
- Celtic Studies. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Center for Celtic ... Or Modern Invention? Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299166740. ...49 KB (7,613 words) - 23:47, 3 December 2023
- 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
- ) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means "wheel of time ... The Kalachakra tradition revolves around the concept of time (kāla ...25 KB (3,799 words) - 17:00, 14 May 2024
- statesman Pericles. She was born in the city of Miletus in Asia Minor, and ... edu/1711.dl/Literature.DeipnoSub University of Wisconsin Digital Collections ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of ... Opposition and Dissent, 1846-1848. University of Wisconsin Press, 1973. ISBN ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- was the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper ... as a British citizen by nativity. At the age of nine, he and his family traveled ...26 KB (4,041 words) - 04:50, 7 May 2024
- an influential but controversial director of the United States Federal Bureau ... Hoover has frequently been accused of exceeding and abusing his authority ...27 KB (3,966 words) - 08:14, 13 March 2024
- Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation ... Hospice care in the United States is largely defined by the practices ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 20:47, 25 September 2020
- The start of the European Colonization of the Americas is typically ... Hemisphere would come under the domination of European nations, leading to ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected ... and Joanna North. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. ISBN ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- quot; or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the ... Century America] (Lacrosse, WI: University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse, 1969 ...30 KB (4,326 words) - 20:12, 13 April 2024
- in Northern Europe. Considered an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is connected ... Space Science and Engineering Centre, University of Wisconsin. [http://www ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- [[Image:Gamla uppsala.jpg|350px|thumb|The Royal mounds of Gamla Uppsala ... A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving ... After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ...53 KB (7,912 words) - 19:39, 1 May 2023
- and Batavia is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Located on the northwest ... in Dutch Asia. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. ISBN ...29 KB (4,012 words) - 08:43, 18 March 2024
- Noel Carroll, Theories of Art Today (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin ... *Carroll, Noel. Theories of Art Today, Madison : University of Wisconsin ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... Characterized by its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, with an area of 227 ... The 1874 "March West" of the federal government's new ...28 KB (3,852 words) - 03:30, 23 December 2022
- played an important part in the development of twentieth century English language ... With Notes Toward the Memoirs. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. ISBN ...26 KB (3,975 words) - 16:29, 29 January 2024
- Madeleine Doran. Endeavors of Art. (Madison: University of Wisconsin ... *Doran, Madeleine. Endeavors of Art. Madison: University of Wisconsin ...57 KB (9,012 words) - 21:40, 16 April 2023
- electromagnetic phenomena. It is the carrier of electromagnetic radiation of ... and inquiries thereupon University of Wisconsin. and Christian Huygens ...34 KB (4,943 words) - 20:26, 27 September 2023
- ) 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 ...34 KB (4,890 words) - 08:31, 13 March 2024
- conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté ... Apes. It was the subject of a 1978 University of Wisconsin-Madison prank in ...27 KB (4,075 words) - 22:49, 9 May 2023
- stretch along the northern Pacific coast of California south of the Oregon ... Reform, 1917-1978. (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press), 130-185. ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 19:11, 16 April 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
- New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern ... In one of the earliest English settlements in the New World, English ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theaters in 1660 signaled ... Century England. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 19:57, 8 December 2022
- June 10, 1940), West Indian spokesman of black nationalism and economic ... Improvement Association. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. ISBN ...30 KB (4,654 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Originally coined to criticize the actions of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy ... During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being ...62 KB (9,130 words) - 09:28, 10 March 2023
- 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
- Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 22, 1942) was one of the pioneers ... German Anthropological Tradition. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299145549 ...37 KB (5,468 words) - 05:16, 9 April 2024
- Niagara Falls is a set of massive waterfalls located on the Niagara ... The falls formed after the receding of the glaciers of the most recent ...27 KB (4,264 words) - 09:42, 11 March 2023
- :This article focuses on modern scientific research on the age of Earth. ... Are Forever, The Outcrop for 1999. University of Wisconsin-Madison. [http://www ...34 KB (5,149 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic ... with high velocity, approaching the speed of light; general relativity is ...33 KB (4,963 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- celebrity, due to the emerging role of mass media in the lives of ... In 1922 he quit college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, due partly ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- Lama, without any qualifiers. The fifth of 16 children of a farming family ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved ...36 KB (5,257 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey ... Genealogy of Pragmatism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. ISBN ...38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
- without a writing system; one set of criteria specifies material ... as history. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press) ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is the second largest species ... Some cultures revere the elk as a spiritual force. In parts of Asia ...32 KB (4,952 words) - 08:44, 31 December 2021
- History of Psychology (The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, ISBN ... History of Psychology. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. ISBN ...74 KB (9,637 words) - 17:25, 16 May 2024
- Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- |name=The University of Chicago life enriched.") title=About the University | year=2007 | publisher ...51 KB (7,192 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque ... and the Menippean Satire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. ISBN ...31 KB (4,584 words) - 15:56, 18 December 2022
- 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
- Maize, also known as corn and Indian corn, is any of the diverse cultured ... American continents. It spread to the rest of the world after European contact ...30 KB (4,684 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...37 KB (5,377 words) - 11:07, 10 May 2023
- Personality is a collection of emotional, thought, and behavioral ... wisc.edu/ Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison], has focused ...35 KB (5,056 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (commonly referred ... American Revolution, 1774-1781. University of Wisconsin Press, 1948. OCLC 498124 ...43 KB (6,401 words) - 17:38, 16 August 2023
- Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. German Nazism ... of Fascism, 1914-45. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. ISBN ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... 1861-1960 (full text from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries). ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) (Felis catus) is a member of ... * Zoolab. 2002. Cat skeleton. ZooLab (BioWeb, University of Wisconsin). ...36 KB (5,931 words) - 01:01, 13 January 2023
- and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including ... the Sundance Kid (1969), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), The ...38 KB (5,689 words) - 17:42, 21 November 2022
- Prussia. Quite generally regarded as one of history’s truly great thinkers ... Aesthetic Theory. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974. ISBN ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- and European history. The last capital of Prussia was Berlin. Prussia ... Curti lectures, 1982) Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299097301 ...46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
- 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 ...39 KB (5,459 words) - 11:07, 10 March 2023
- 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 ...75 KB (11,261 words) - 20:56, 26 October 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
- philosopher, and scholar – a professor of English literature, a literary ... job as a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which he ...44 KB (6,751 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- It generally is classified as a subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus ... between dogs and humans]. University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. ...38 KB (6,036 words) - 11:04, 2 August 2023
- |image=[[Image:Sitting Bull.jpg|200px]]Photograph of Sitting Bull ... |popplace=United States of America (SD, MN, NE, MT, ND), Canada (MB ...39 KB (6,016 words) - 23:59, 22 November 2023
- The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international ... may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- 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
- for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several ... Fifteenth Centuries. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299066703 ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- #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 ...46 KB (7,008 words) - 06:33, 6 May 2024
- , is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ... Despite these disparities, the common feature of apartment construction ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest and southernmost ... the North Sea on the west, and a majority of its land mass lies on a peninsula ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- Joan of Arc, also Jeanne d'Arc Joan of Arc's name was written ... – May 30, 1431), is a national heroine of France and a saint of ...41 KB (6,624 words) - 13:42, 1 August 2022
- large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any wild terrestrial mammal ... predator, the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey. Primary food sources ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Order of the British Empire (January 3, ... His works address the inner struggle of good and evil within each of ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution varies in different ... and Prostitution in the Cinema. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. ISBN ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- and other domesticated animals, by the bite of infected ticks. ... there identified additional features of the disease, including an unidentified ...45 KB (6,567 words) - 16:55, 21 December 2023
- 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 ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semeiotic, that he ... employment at Clark University, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan ...60 KB (9,018 words) - 22:24, 4 December 2023
- – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... Franco-Prussian War. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299174903 ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... As the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate has several powers of ...71 KB (10,564 words) - 21:06, 30 December 2023
- 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 ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- | order=16th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1861 ... | date of birth=February 12, 1809 | place of birth=Hardin County, Kentucky ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians ... Art, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin, retrieved May 17 ...73 KB (10,603 words) - 12:23, 7 May 2024
- 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 ...68 KB (9,596 words) - 04:49, 10 February 2021
- Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... (1888 by William Lowe Bryan), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1888 by ...60 KB (8,560 words) - 12:29, 1 February 2024
- Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... and 660,000 displaced, and all but 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August ... Born in what is present-day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica ...65 KB (10,156 words) - 11:55, 9 May 2024
- Baptist minister. He is considered one of the most influential Christian ... work reached beyond a narrow understanding of Christianity, embracing people ...66 KB (9,276 words) - 17:37, 31 October 2023
- The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements ... weeks before the expedition which warned of an impending British search ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 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
- and colonizer whose daring conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico ... American Electronic Text Series, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections ...74 KB (12,378 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...80 KB (11,614 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- 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 ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- fullerite. Its hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial ... stm "Chinese made first use of diamond,"] BBC News (May ...81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
- Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España ... Regime, 1936-1975. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. ISBN ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...199 KB (24,192 words) - 20:08, 19 September 2022
