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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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  • 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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  • 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 OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a "nonprofit, membership ... The organization was founded by Fred Kilgour, and its offices are ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic ...
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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: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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  • 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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  • The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in ... Present concerns include large-scale unemployment, overfishing, the ...
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  • American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots ... awards due to her contributions, among them the Distinguished Flying Cross ...
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  • 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... For thirty-three years one of the great mysteries of American politics ...
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  • The Prague Linguistic Circle (French: Cercle linguistique de Prague; ... Along with its first president, Vilém Mathesius, they included Russian ...
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  • Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was a leader ... In his book, Soul on Fire, he renounced many of his former attitudes ...
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  • on July 24, 1897 (missing in flight as of July 2, 1937), daughter of ... Daughter of a railroad attorney, she grew up as a tomboy in the American ...
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  • Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) won ... , contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, developed ...
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  • weht(German loosely translated to "The wind of freedom blows") ... university located 37 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles ...
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  • located in Houston, Texas. It is the fifth largest private sector ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...
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  • 12, 1892) was officially credited by the United States Congress on ... Abner Doubleday was once credited with the invention of baseball, ...
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  • The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who originally ... Throughout their history, the Yaqui remained separate from the Aztec ...
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  • dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... Wright. Like other modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century ...
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  • in official matters as x-rated material, is the explicit representation of ... Though mass-distributed pornography is as old as the printing press ...
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  • The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... The Libray has been guided by the "belief that universal access ...
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  • ), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... Whatever the motivation, deep state usually refers to a conspiracy ...
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  • Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19.3 kilometers ... It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States ...
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  • The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...
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  • The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by ... Geologists estimate that formation of the canyon required at least ...
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  • Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent for syphilis, in 1911. Noguchi was born into poverty and became handicapped when, at the ...
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  • 2023) was an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice ... moderate political views, O'Connor was the crucial swing vote of the ...
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  • |observedby=Canada, United States |date=2nd Monday in October (Canada ... it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude ...
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  • | nationality = United States | period = | genre = Literary fiction ... was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ...
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  • ) was a co-recipient, with Mairead Corrigan, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 ... Williams led a women's movement for peace that consisted of ordinary ...
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  • 1837 political cartoon about unemployment in the United States.]] ... Unemployment is the condition of willing workers lacking jobs or ...
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  • South American independence leader, was one of the commanders--together with ... Influenced by the ideals of the United States Declaration of Independence ...
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  • was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Many consider Ahn Chang-ho to be one of the key moral and philosophical ...
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  • The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was ... The initial reaction in the United States was enthusiastically in ...
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  • to Japan, which opened that country to trade with the West. Perry began his United States naval career when he was only 15 years ...
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  • and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National ... Buckley was the spiritual "godfather" of the modern American ...
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  • analyzed social change brought about by the Great Depression. Their publications ... A. in 1914, and started to work as an editor of the trade magazine Publishers ...
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  • * First African American to play a game in the American League ... an American professional baseball player in the Negro Leagues and Major League ...
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  • The Gambia, commonly known as Gambia, is the smallest country on ... Like its neighbor, The Gambia relies heavily on the export of groundnuts ...
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  • The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic ... The Emmys are presented by three related, but separate, organizations: ...
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  • intellectual. Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University ... and for a more pluralistic approach to the question of the literary canon ...
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  • Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... A former French colony, Haiti became the first independent black republic ...
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  • The Allegheny National Forest is a National Forest located in northwestern ... of land on the Allegheny Plateau. Within the forest is the Kinzua ...
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  • a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted ... Burnside was not the most apt general to take the field during the ...
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  • activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid ... He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation ...
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  • The World Factbook (ISSN 1553-8133 ; also known as the CIA World Factbook)Central Intelligence Agency ...
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  • This article is about the 20th-century aviator. {{Infobox Biography ... was an American aviator famous for piloting the first non-stop solo flight ...
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  • Service learning is a method of teaching, learning, and reflecting ... ==History of Service Learning== Service learning can be traced back ...
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  • Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado ... During the period of Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled the country since ...
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  • Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...
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  • Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... a long and turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean ...
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  • his highly imaginative modern ballets. As the founder and artistic director ... Noted for making ballet more accessible to the American public, the ...
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  • Mexican Revolutionary general. As commander of the División del Norte (Division ... He robbed and commandeered trains, and, like the other Revolutionary generals ...
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  • 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...
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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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  • Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in ... Togo was once part of the area known as the "Slave Coast" ...
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  • Harare (formerly Salisbury) is the capital of Zimbabwe. It lies in ... It serves as a distribution point for the surrounding agricultural and ...
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  • an influential front office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National ... As coach of the Celtics from 1950 to 1966, Auerbach won nine NBA titles ...
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  • Cliff-dwelling is the general archaeological term for the habitations ... Cliff-dwellings are found throughout the world and in some cases are ...
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  • was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era ... constitutional precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government ...
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  • Darfur is a region of Sudan which borders the Central African Republic ... The region was devastated by drought in the 1980s, bringing to head ...
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  • and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948 ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...
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  • from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ... Although a staunch Protestant and member of the Orange Order, Trimble was ...
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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime ... The coup was precipitated when Mosaddeq nationalized Iran's oil ...
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  • Tenzin Gyatso (born July 6, 1935) is the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...
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  • teaching, and service to their community. The process is subject to ongoing ... Academic tenure is primarily intended to guarantee the right to academic ...
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  • lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been ... Henri La Fontaine and Otlet created the Central Office of International ...
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  • Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... Djibouti's main advantage is its strategic location near the ...
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  • Psychological warfare is a tactic involving the use of propaganda ... As long as war exists, we can expect new forms of psychological warfare ...
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  • The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a Latin ... Like many Latin American nations, the Dominican Republic has a long ...
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  • extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...
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  • James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) was ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...
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  • The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...
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  • Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) is the ... his career as a writer and propagandist for the American war effort against ...
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  • jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender ...
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  • objective idealist philosopher. He was one of the most influential philosophers ... Josiah Royce was born November 20, 1855, in the remote mining town ...
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  • The Chicago School is one of the better known American "schools ... Economists of the Chicago school are known for applying economic analyses ...
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  • The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...
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  • Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...
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  • Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... attract upscale tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird ...
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  • Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the thirty ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...
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  • Antigua and Barbuda is a three-island nation located in the eastern ... The islands' indigenous people became virtually extinct not long ...
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  • :This article is about the mineral. {{Infobox mineral | name = Diamond ... Diamond is the hardest known natural material and the third-hardest ...
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