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  • 1967. Tracy is still widely considered one of the most skillful actors of ... named Tracy among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking ninth on ...
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  • the United States providing for the return of escaped slaves to their owners ... The Articles of Confederation of the New England Confederation of ...
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  • history. He joined the Green Bay Packers out of the University of Alabama in ... Hutson was a dominant factor in the evolution of offense in pro football ...
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  • Before the nineteenth century, none of the mathematical concepts as ... html Elementary Calculus] University of Wisconsin. Retrieved December ...
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  • She was involved in two of the most famous and well-received radio ... English and public speaking at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She ...
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  • state holidays, commemorating the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and ... The day is observed by re-enactments of the battles and the famous ...
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  • Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese ... World Music: Japanese Music.] University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. Retrieved ...
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  • Midwest) refers to the north-central states of the United States of America ... In the early nineteenth century, anything west of the Mississippi ...
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  • University of Wisconsin-MadisonPrinceton University | doctoral_advisor ... rehire Wigner, so he moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There he ...
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  • are a Native American people originally of the Great Lakes region. They ... twentieth century. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. ISBN ...
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  • soldier, geologist and the second director of United States Geological Survey ... an American soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He earned ...
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  • The Great Lakes region includes much of the Canadian province of Ontario ... power, recreation, and a host of other uses. The Great Lakes ...
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  • Jews from Spain (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995), 157, 369. ... Jews from Spain. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. ISBN ...
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  • shop and later enrolled in the University of Wisconsin (which at been in ... #039;s former professor at the University of Wisconsin, Ezra Carr, and ...
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  • from the crops are shared in a variety of ways, depending on the agreement ... Types of tenant farming include sharecropping, some forms of peonage ...
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  • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President ... of Science in Accounting at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin ...
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  • 6, 1903) is a key figure in the development of library science. Cutter's ... Cutter was the editor of Library Journal from 1891-1893. One of the ...
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  • networks. A digital library is a type of information retrieval system. A digital library has a number of advantages and problems not found ...
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  • Lake Superior, bounded by Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of Minnesota ... deepest (1,332 feet at its deepest point) of the Great Lakes. Its drainage ...
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  • including those belonging to public and university library systems. Carnegie ... The first of Carnegie's public libraries opened in his hometown ...
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  • 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was one of the most prominent social reformers ... Mary Thompson Hill Willard. She spent most of her childhood on a farm in ...
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  • the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in ... who shared her husband's strong love of nature and had perhaps a more ...
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  • moon illusion has inspired in many a sense of wonder and amazement at the ... proposed by Don McCready of the University of Wisconsin. McCready suggests ...
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  • composer and organist, the younger brother of (Franz) Joseph Haydn who lived ... Contemporary Portraits (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968, ISBN ...
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  • which has grown into the Yonsei University Severance Hospital and ... Relations, 1884-1905. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. ...
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  • and dominant American football player of his era. In college, Nagurski ... He was also a famous professional wrestler, being one of the first ...
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  • American Craftsman movement, a descendent of the British Arts and Crafts ... Stickley was the most well-known name of the American Arts and Crafts ...
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  • cause. Academic tenure is awarded to university professors based on seniority ... is the 1894 case of Richard Ely, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor ...
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  • psychologist who helped found the school of transpersonal psychology. He ... moved to Wisconsin to attend the University of Wisconsin from which he received ...
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  • near Lima, New York, graduated from the University of Vermont, and began his ... in Nineteenth-Century America. University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. ISBN ...
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  • school, and kindergarten teacher, one of the leaders of the Kindergarten ... March 27, 1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky, one of six children of William and ...
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  • and his contributions to the development of theories of culture within ... Kluckhohn resumed study at the University of Wisconsin and received ...
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  • |University of Wisconsin-Madison |- bgcolor="#ffffff" ... |University of Wisconsin-Madison |- bgcolor="#ffffff" ...
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  • from police. His exploits, along with those of other criminals of the 1930s ... 1924, a small-time criminal who was a friend of Dillinger convinced him to ...
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  • place_of_birth=Sun Prairie, Wisconsin|Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA | ... an American artist, widely regarded as one of the greatest painters of the ...
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  • Thomas Jefferson, believed to be the mother of several children belonging ... that the Hemings children were the offspring of a nephew of Jefferson. ...
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  • the richly detailed natural settings of the Florida backcountry and ... where she enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ...
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  • comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in ... were foundational in the development of education in the United States ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • :For the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, see Louis ... and is often referred to as the "father of modernism." He is considered ...
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  • was an American researcher in the fields of cognitive psychology, computer ... who had studied economics at the University of Wisconsin under John R. Commons ...
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  • Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002, ISBN ... Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise. University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. ISBN ...
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  • east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ... politics and diplomacy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ...
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  • ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... subcultural divisions among themselves; two of the largest are White Hmong ...
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  • It was these beliefs that led to her support of the system of kindergartens. ... Beecher was born in East Hampton, New York, the oldest of 13 children ...
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  • an American newspaper publisher and founder of The E.W. Scripps Company, a ... Disquisitions of E. W. Scripps. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299039900 ...
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  • May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. ... Milwaukee State Normal School (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where ...
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  • 29, 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer ... reached a popular readership. His defense of religious studies as a secular ...
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  • instrumental in the development of biofeedback. His productive ... support to behavior modification techniques of altering an individual's ...
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  • famous for his work on the ethnology of religion and mythology, and ... Lodz, Russia (today Poland), into the family of Adolf and Johanna Radin. His ...
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