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  • Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States, with ... a goatee, with a strong resemblance to President Abraham Lincoln, and dressed ...
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  • | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...
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  • diplomat and conservative politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
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  • The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by ... located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda ...
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  • 27, 1926 – December 9, 2009) served as President of Costa Rica from May ... in efforts to educate peacemakers. He was the founder of the University ...
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  • Arches National Park preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches—the ... The area, administered by the National Park Service, was originally ...
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  • an American anthropologist, who pioneered the ethnohistorical research technique ... In 1900, Swanton received his Ph.D. and started his fieldwork on the ...
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  • Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which ... Investigations conducted by the FBI, Senate Watergate Committee, House ...
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  • was an Egyptian statesman who served as the third president of Egypt from ... Sadat was a soldier who became a man of peace. Egypt and Israel had ...
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  • 25, 1974) was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of ... As a devout Buddhist and practitioner of meditation, Thant brought ...
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  • 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...
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  • and archaeologist, famous for his discovery of "Turkana Boy." The ... Richard Leakey was the second of the three sons of the archaeologists ...
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  • (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was the founder of the American Red ... all I had, even with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted Mason ...
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  • The Baja California peninsula, (also Lower California peninsula) is ... beaches and rugged mountains and deserts, the peninsula is also home to ...
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  • The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty ... Only two ABM systems have previously been operational against ICBMs: ...
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  • The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a "nonprofit, membership ... The organization was founded by Fred Kilgour, and its offices are ...
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  • and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... science books and co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television ...
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  • would quickly renounce these views in favor of a life-long, if sometimes cynical ... parents, Jacob and Daisy Baum Lippmann. The family lived a comfortable ...
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  • that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... is lost; this does not necessarily mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing ...
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  • William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...
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  • an American statesman and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina ... Rutledge was a member of the South Carolina Assembly, the Stamp Act ...
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  • The Purple Heart is an American military decoration that was the first ... Designed by Washington in the form of a purple heart, it was intended ...
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  • and university educator. He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious ... Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain ...
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  • Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political ... returned to Colombia and served as President from 1833 until 1837, then ...
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  • in Wellesley, Massachusetts (13 miles west of Boston), Wellesley college ... As one of the "Seven Sisters," Wellesley has been and continues ...
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  • [[Image:UnitedPressInternational.jpg|right|thumb|400 px|Front of UPI ... United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency, headquartered ...
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  • LaGuardia, often spelled La Guardia, was the Republican Mayor of New York ... LaGuardia was born in New York City to a non-traditional parents of ...
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  • The United States Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments ... The Bill of Rights also restricts Congress' power by prohibiting ...
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  • The Gabonese Republic or Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...
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  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) was the first United ... lands in a 4,000-mile wilderness trek, the expedition lost only one man ...
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  • The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering ... The CIA is restricted from operating inside the United States, although ...
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  • |caption= Shield of Emory University |motto=Cor prudentis possidebit scientiam (The wise heart seeks knowledge ...
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  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July ... In its search for a way to realize the dream of social and economic ...
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  • Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... Cambridge. Upon graduation he joined the family business. He proved ...
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  • housing, or education—but also to redress the effects of past discrimination ... admissions, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination|right ...
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  • The American Anti-Imperialist League was established in the United ... Was U.S. intervention in 1898 disinterested altruism in support of ...
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  • crime and its penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...
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  • [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic ...
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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 ...
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  • [[Image:LibraryCongressWashDC.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Main Library of ... The Library of Congress, located in Washington, D.C., is the national ...
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  • The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic ... arts, cabinet making, crafts, and even the "cottage" garden ...
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  • The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the South Asian earthquake or ... In response to the catastrophe, India and Pakistan dropped their hostility ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • - 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 ...
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  • | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | date of birth=September 15, 1857 | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio ...
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  • |vice-president = Sydney H. Evans Jr. |provost = Richard ... |country = United States |coor = ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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