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  • the genus Pomoxis of the sunfish family (family Centrarchidae), the ... Centrarchidae, the family to which Pomoxis belongs, is one of about ...
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  • John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American ... As secretary of state in the administration of James Monroe, Adams ...
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  • Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American ... Adams was born in Boston to Mary Fifield and Samuel Adams, Sr., Samuel ...
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  • Fennecs are the smallest members of the Canidae family and are smaller ... rhinal pad, and over the violet gland (Adams and Myers 2004). ...
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  • novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Tarkington's works ... Booth Tarkington was born to a middle-class family in Indianapolis ...
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  • associate of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and many other notables ... She died at 86 and was buried near her family's hometown of Plymouth ...
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  • raised in Warsaw, Illinois, where his family relocated when he was only ... Hay was a close friend of Henry Adams, American historian and author ...
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  • == Family and early years == Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia ... of war, and a northerner, John Quincy Adams, as secretary of state. Only ...
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  • the famed pioneer country act the Carter Family and the second wife of singer ... music and performed with the Carter Family from a young age, beginning ...
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  • associating with John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and other pro-independence ... before finally being moved in 1855 to his family's vault in Forest Hills ...
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  • have continued to flourish. John Quincy Adams suggested that it was unbridled ... After the fall of the O'Brien family (Brian Boru's descendants ...
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  • fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, political speeches ... days later on July 4. A day earlier, John Adams had written to his wife Abigail: ...
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  • to and from major members of the Adams family, plus their diaries; still ... * [http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/ Adams Family Papers: ...
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  • In December 1776 the Rutledge family held an impressive array of positions ... impression. He became the focus of John Adams' scorn. Never an admirer ...
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  • 14-year-old boy quit school to manage the family farm in South Carolina. But ... become the running mate to both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Thus ...
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  • *Adams, Edward Ben, and Edward Ben Adams. 1991. Korea's golden age cultural spirit of Silla in Kyongju. Seoul, Korea: Seoul International ...
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  • and Martha. Martha's friends and family were supporters on both sides ... in the winter of 1775. George's family and some friends traveled ...
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  • to June 7, 1800, and, under President John Adams, was Secretary of State from ... Keith (cousin of Thomas Jefferson); his family, like many of his class in ...
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  • and middle names were the result of a family tradition of using the names ... Although this family tradition was not continued into his father& ...
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  • Born to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, except for a family tradition ... his comfortable income in America and his family's needs, he agreed to ...
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  • earliest English settlers of Virginia. The family traces their lineage back ... criticizing then-president John Quincy Adams and his administration, again ...
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  • stepfather, Capt. Henry Watkins, moved the family to Richmond, where Clay worked ... he married Lucretia Hart, of a leading family in the community, and was ...
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  • parents. When Stieglitz was 16, the family moved to a brownstone on ... His father retired from business suddenly and moved the family to ...
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  • and health care, social services and family programs are well established. ... movement for political rights. Sir Grantley Adams (1898-1971), founded the ...
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  • As a boy he began to work in his family business on a flatboat that ... near today's Monrovia the Roberts family decided to join an expedition ...
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  • place for the perfect gentleman and his family, the king, and his court. ... jae (former residence of Korean imperial family including Princess Bangja ...
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  • a member of a long-standing Boston family that owned a small shipping ... Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the movements of the British ...
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  • years after his assassination, to their family home, Lawnfield, in Mentor ... also house numerous objects including family heirlooms, items collected ...
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  • The Van Burens were a large, struggling family of Dutch descent. ... that followed the choice of John Quincy Adams as president. Van Buren had ...
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  • Perrault was born in Paris to a wealthy bourgeois family, son of Pierre ... *Adams, Oscar Fay. Dear Old Story-Teller. (original 1889) republished ...
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  • an enslaved African woman. Sally's family was owned by Jefferson's ... and Sally were met by John and Abigail Adams. Mrs. Adams expressed doubt ...
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  • *Family Juglandaceae ** Walnut—esp. Persian Walnut (Juglans regia) ... * Family Fagaceae ** Chestnut (Castanea) ** Beech (Fagus) ...
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  • John Adams became the first president to take residence in the building ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt had Adams' blessing carved into the ...
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  • Square in London, even though his family's estates were in Kent ... * Adams, R. “A View of Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown,” ...
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  • mutineers and Tahitian men. Mutineers John Adams and Ned Young turned to religion ... and the example of leadership given by Adams. Because of this, it was ...
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  • His mother, Betty (Bellin), came from a family of Jewish immigrants from ... His father left the family when Vidal was three years old.[https://www ...
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  • Hippocrates extended clinical observations into family history and ... and especially as very practical. Francis Adams describes him as "strictly ...
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  • with loved ones, such as a spouse or other family members.N.C. Aizenman, [http://www ... and Dutch adventurers such as William Adams arrived in Japan 50 years ...
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  • plant, Raphanus sativus, of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), grown as ... Radishes belong to the flowering plant family Brassicaceae (or Cruciferae ...
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  • Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American ... parents Captain Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. She was not born ...
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  • | preceded= John Quincy Adams | succeeded= Martin Van Buren ... of his mother and others in the immediate family. He received a sporadic ...
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  • more than 40 years by Louis Leakey and his family. The 30-mile (40 kilometer ... by Louis Leakey in the 1950s and continued by his family. ...
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  • with his first wife, to manage his family's plantations in Mauritius ... * Adams, Sylvia. Sleeping on the moon. Regina: Hagios Press, 2006 ...
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  • were the only two children in the family who survived through adulthood. ... for his ability to not offend anyone. Henry Adams, a prominent politician at ...
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  • Ahmadu Bello: The Unsung Heroine. Kaduna, Nigeria: Adams Books, 1995. ISBN 9789783197725 * Olaniyan, Richard. Nigerian History and Culture. Harlow ...
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  • Muncie Fair in Indiana. Tharp's family (including younger sister ... of Bob Dylan in the context of a small family circus, in which the clowns ...
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  • the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae, characterized ... (Farjon 2005), Juniperus oxycedrus (Adams 2004), Juniperus phoenicea ...
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  • reformer John Knox. In 1806, the Polk family moved to Tennessee, settling ... nor any of the other candidates John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, or William H ...
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  • to pursue both a career and marriage and family. Thus, the faculty at Wellesley ... life and work, and often shared bonds of family or prior friendship, could ...
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  • on April 24, 1800, when President John Adams signed an act of Congress ... Within a month, Adams' successor and third U.S. Thomas Jefferson ...
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