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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 (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- 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
