Search results for "University of Wisconsin" - New World Encyclopedia

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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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  • comprising eight private institutions of higher education located in ... were foundational in the development of education in the United States ...
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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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  • 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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  • Burnett. High Sierra. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979. ISBN ... *Huston, John. Juarez. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press ...
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  • through coercion, intimidation, or threats of physical harm. It is distinguished ... lies not just in stricter external methods of security, stiffer punishments ...
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  • The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...
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  • age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the ... More colloquially, when speaking of the last few million years, "the ...
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  • produced by hydropower—that is, the energy of moving water. It is the world ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...
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  • Damascius (c. 460 C.E. – c. 538 C.E.) was the last head of the Neoplatonic ... Life of Isidore. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin, 1978. ...
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  • an American educator and editor. A critic of pragmatism and progressive ... enrolled in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned ...
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  • in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary team nicknamed ... The cost of enforcing prohibition was high, and the lack of tax revenues ...
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  • He entered the University of Wisconsin initially studying agriculture ... given. In 1957, he returned to the University of Wisconsin to teach. However ...
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  • The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... War and all its bloodshed (3.09 percent of the population) could have ...
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  • American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress ... and for making this stance the centerpiece of 1968 presidential campaign ...
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  • race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual dissociation ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...
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  • migratory bird, Ectopistes migratorius, of the Columbidae family, that ... and Extinction. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 1930665962. ...
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  • Mastodon is the common name for any of the large, extinct elephant ... Often references to mastodons are limited to members of the genus ...
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  • lawyer and politician and a founding father of the United States. He served ... He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the ...
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  • Hemiptera is a major order of insects, collectively known as true ... edu/mbcn/kyf402.html Damsel bugs.] University of Wisconsin, Madison: Department ...
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  • of Women’s Writing.(Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), 23. ... of Women’s Writing. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. ISBN ...
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  • 1475-1521 |year=1981 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |location ... 1475-1521. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. 1981. ISBN ...
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  • known as Ritchie Valens, was a pioneer of rock and roll and, as a Mexican ... The professional career of Ritchie Valens lasted a period of eight ...
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  • the University of Chicago to the University of Wisconsin, he attended church ... in 1955, when he moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The biological ...
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  • Intellectual History.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299189848. ... history: a memoir. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299165809. ...
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  • X-ray astronomy is an observational branch of astronomy that focuses ... X-ray Astrophysics Group, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Retrieved ...
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  • In 1937, he began teaching at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Two ... in 1938 as young academics at the University of Wisconsin. Through life's ...
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  • was an American author who wrote a series of historical fiction books for ... Laura and her pioneer family never dreamed of, and yet she was to experience ...
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  • liquid residue obtained in the preparation of sucrose (commercial sugar) ... Chelates and chelating agents]. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved ...
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  • scientific principles and Aristotelian logic of the twelfth century to scholars ... in London and Paris. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ...
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  • England, what emerged later as the House of Commons first met. Recognition ... III and rebellion," University of Wisconsin. This situation was ...
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  • His writings addressed the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World ... He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1941. ...
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  • [[Image:Winnebago wigwam.jpg|thumb|200 px|Winnebago family, Wisconsin ... is generally used to label these kinds of dwellings in American Southwest ...
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  • The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...
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