Search results for "District of Columbia" - New World Encyclopedia
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- |popplace=Canada (British Columbia), United States (Alaska) ... The Haida are an indigenous people of the west coast of North America ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- Pennsylvania State House for then Province of Pennsylvania. In 1775, it became ... Act of 1790, which established the District of Columbia as the new federal ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 12:50, 4 March 2024
- His confidence in the long-term growth of the U.S. guided him as he relocated ... :1867, The Peabody Institute, Georgetown, District of Columbia: $15 ...10 KB (1,547 words) - 14:53, 21 May 2024
- in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania ... Maryland, Delaware, and in the District of Columbia. The historic routes ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 18:31, 8 December 2023
- ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze ... which followed, aristocrats constructed many of the famous private gardens ...24 KB (3,013 words) - 00:31, 27 February 2023
- in 1940, and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1941. ... The FBI had been called in by the District of Columbia police because the ...34 KB (5,368 words) - 10:34, 11 May 2023
- the United States, and has become a symbol of the death penalty there. Although ... Case were put to death in the District of Columbia jail electric chair. ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 02:55, 29 December 2021
- Crowd (1950) is considered a landmark study of American character. The analysis ... The character of society, like that of an individual, naturally goes ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- Prize-winning Turkish novelist and professor of comparative literature at Columbia ... Pamuk is one of Turkey's most prominent novelists, ...30 KB (4,557 words) - 10:43, 11 March 2023
- with President Washington. The District of Columbia commissioners were ... of slavery. A diary kept by the District of Columbia building commissioner ...21 KB (3,325 words) - 17:23, 4 May 2023
- church until 2010, in which Moon and a group of former executives purchased ... is distributed throughout the District of Columbia and sections of Maryland ...31 KB (4,327 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment ...37 KB (5,511 words) - 19:31, 14 November 2022
- to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government or of an occupying ... arrested for civil disobedience on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... the strongest candidate for highest point of the Australia/Oceania continent. ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- to maintaining an online library and archive of Web and multimedia resources ... historians, and scholars. It is a member of the American Library Association ...28 KB (4,060 words) - 10:40, 6 March 2024
- who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives and Senate ... (but not slavery itself) in the District of Columbia. This compromise delayed ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- A high school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly ... In addition to completing this level of academic studies, high schools ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of ... Virtually every state, the District of Columbia, and all United States ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- His work evidences an impressive combination of art and science. The artwork ... His love for art and his appreciation of the aesthetic aspects of all ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:58, 9 May 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
- The Defenestrations of Prague refers to either of two incidents with ... 1618, although the term "Defenestration of Prague" is more commonly ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, as well as its chief ... The four main highways of Zambia; the Great North Road to Tanzania ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses ... Kansas City was founded in 1838 as the "Town of Kansas" ...46 KB (6,922 words) - 17:38, 14 May 2024
- One of the first American writers to use the stream of consciousness ... *District of Columbia (1952). Three-volume set includes ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
- ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital of numerous dynasties and governments ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- Savings Bank; as marshal of the District of Columbia; as minister-resident ... appointed Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. His wife, Anna Murray ...23 KB (3,597 words) - 10:27, 11 April 2024
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a ... Adelard was a pioneer of the scientific renaissance of the twelfth ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- statesman, writer, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most ... later be called Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), and both the funding ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she ... Second Circuit, and another for the District of Columbia Circuit. Ginsburg ...79 KB (11,056 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- | State Party = [[Image:Flag of Iran.svg|22px]] Iran | Type ... #039;) was an ancient ceremonial capital of the second Iranian dynasty ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- for the representation of the District of Columbia or of territories ... passage of bills. Presently, the District of Columbia and the five inhabited ...85 KB (12,273 words) - 00:47, 30 December 2023
- Alberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces, joining the confederation ... the fur trade, and in the latter half of the twentieth century its bitumen ...36 KB (5,234 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- 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
- agrees to become pregnant for the purpose of gestating and giving birth ... handful banning it completely. The District of Columbia and eleven states ...15 KB (2,303 words) - 13:57, 28 April 2023
- urban renewal project, a transformation of a large former disused docks ... Cabrini-Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts.]] ...41 KB (6,131 words) - 00:41, 13 January 2024
- law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice ... played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849), was the wife of President James Madison, who ... Dolley felt right at home in the District of Columbia society. Before ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- not in the geographic center of the District of Columbia, the Capitol is the ... and were completed under the supervision of Edward Clark. ...23 KB (3,473 words) - 01:21, 3 May 2023
- and Sri Lanka. A sari is a very long strip of unstitched cloth, ranging from ... long decorative borders running the length of the sari, and a one- to three ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 03:28, 23 December 2022
- States, Doolittle was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor and leadership ... After the war he was active in the reorganization of the American ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- to 1874. Elected offices included membership of the New York State Senate and ... Scott Key and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, whom Sickles had ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The paper ... its newsprint readership is in the District of Columbia, as well as in the ...14 KB (2,023 words) - 17:49, 30 April 2023
- regions (tundra and northern forests) of Eurasia (Scandinavia to Siberia ... There are several recognized subspecies of caribou. Caribou offer innumerable ...20 KB (2,969 words) - 19:16, 26 November 2023
- American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall ... States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, well-known ...24 KB (3,985 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. Founded in 1831 ... 31 Nobel Prize winners; 9 National Medal of Science recipients; 12 Pulitzer ...33 KB (4,775 words) - 09:32, 11 March 2023
- Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, and its ... center. It plays host to a year round slate of world-class festivals, earning ...47 KB (6,763 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- Japan into the catastrophic Pacific theater of World War II. Unfortunately ... Some Japanese historians, using the diaries and testimony of military ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction. He wrote twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
