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- as several state holidays, commemorating the Battles of Lexington and Concord ... The day is observed by re-enactments of the battles and the famous ...16 KB (2,205 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- The Creative Commons (CC) is a U.S. non-profit corporation founded ... The Creative Commons licenses enable copyright holders to grant some ...14 KB (1,898 words) - 06:20, 11 January 2024
- 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 ...21 KB (3,308 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- Plagiarism is taking the ideas of another and using them without giving ... Plagiarism is not necessarily the same as copyright infringement, ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 06:23, 24 November 2022
- 30, 2016) was a religious studies scholar in the United States. He wrote more ... Born and raised a Methodist, Smith studied and practiced many of the ...17 KB (2,414 words) - 21:25, 9 February 2024
- Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is the ... Puritan colonists from England founded the city in 1630. During the ...40 KB (5,847 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- 1888 – December 8, 1958), nicknamed "the Gray Eagle", was an American ... After playing in the minor leagues in Texas and Arkansas, Speaker ...49 KB (7,023 words) - 16:01, 9 April 2024
- The Northeastern United States, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau ... The first Europeans to settle New England landed in present-day Massachusetts ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- questions and moral dilemmas brought on by the emergence of digital technologies ... While laws are primarily defined within the boundaries of a nation ...26 KB (3,869 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- Tenzin Gyatso (born July 6, 1935) is the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and ... After the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, Tenzin ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...23 KB (3,477 words) - 22:10, 29 January 2023
- The hajj ( حج , transliterated Ḥaǧǧ; "greater pilgrimage") ... is the Islamic rite of pilgrimage in Mecca, the city in Saudi Arabia ...29 KB (4,558 words) - 16:54, 21 January 2024
- was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga ... languages and Haley won a Special Award from the Pulitzer Board in 1977. Roots ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid ... He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- :"The World Wide Web" and "WWW" redirect here. ... The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of ...31 KB (4,531 words) - 13:58, 20 May 2023
- novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus ... Roth's work expresses the difficulties of reconciling traditional ...23 KB (3,273 words) - 22:40, 28 March 2023
- poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English ... as an actor, writer, and part owner of the acting company the Lord Chamberlain ...56 KB (8,436 words) - 10:51, 12 May 2023
- The Ganges (also Ganga Devanāgarī: hi|गंगा ) is a major river in the Indian subcontinent flowing east through ...23 KB (3,512 words) - 10:05, 23 October 2022
- and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism ... Thompson himself became a central figure in the 1960s and 1970s ethos ...43 KB (6,622 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2024
- Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United ... The original Native American tribes in the area were the Algonquian ...45 KB (6,488 words) - 23:23, 5 March 2023
- and author, best known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled, published ... Peck described human life as a series of obstacles to be overcome ...37 KB (5,607 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from ... in surgery. He became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- The Gaia hypothesis is a class of scientific models of the geo-biosphere ... The Gaia hypothesis was developed by atmospheric scientist and chemist ...30 KB (4,599 words) - 11:57, 4 December 2023
- Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) decided at ... if" ideas that often relate to the extremes of human behavior ...27 KB (3,902 words) - 19:07, 16 April 2023
- colonizer whose epochal voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- in eastern and southern Afghanistan and in the North-West Frontier Province ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- of developed countries' involvement in the developing world. Critics ... business companies continue to exploit the resources of post-colonial ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- former Communist Party member, testified to the House Un-American Activities ... During the pretrial discovery process, Chambers produced new evidence ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President ... and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- Parenting is the process of rearing children by promoting and supporting ... The relationships in the family form the basis for how children perceive ...34 KB (4,978 words) - 07:57, 18 November 2022
- ), known previously as the Uddhav Sampraday, is a Hindu sect established ... Under the leadership of Swaminarayan, the movement gained strength ...48 KB (6,849 words) - 14:17, 28 April 2023
- I. Due to his interest in magic and the occult, he also devoted much ... Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as the two disciplines ...34 KB (5,268 words) - 02:25, 9 February 2023
- The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... #039;s rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. In 1980, President ...79 KB (11,056 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- Spain led European global exploration and colonial expansion in the ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- singer and actress. She was cited as the most awarded female artist ... vocalist while in high school. With the guidance of Arista Records ...197 KB (27,840 words) - 23:40, 20 June 2019
- The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was an effective ... HMS Endurance was dispatched to remove the camp on March 25, but was ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction between individuals of ... in accord with nature and natural law. On the other hand, many cultures ...91 KB (13,332 words) - 16:14, 25 January 2023
- The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Mouvement international ... human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... law firm before becoming a law professor at the University of Virginia. In ...85 KB (12,298 words) - 05:39, 11 August 2023
- singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...200 KB (27,687 words) - 00:08, 13 March 2023
- has a long history, extending back to the Greco-Roman world and culminating ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- – January 19, 2013), nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American ... He batted .331 over the course of his career and set National League ...92 KB (13,126 words) - 03:32, 10 April 2024
- , was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. Saddam tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- :This article is about the mineral. {{Infobox mineral | name = Diamond ... Diamond is the hardest known natural material and the third-hardest ...81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
- French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... on how to portray emotion and connect with the audience. She played several ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
