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  • May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...
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  • September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...
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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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  • Edmund Husserl's formulation, the study of experience and the ways in ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...
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  • June 10, 1940), West Indian spokesman of black nationalism and economic ... By enlarging upon the philosophy of Booker T. Washington, Garvey became ...
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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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  • 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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  • , Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).Dinitia Smith ... The Twain Shall Meet,”] University of Wisconsin-Madison News (November ...
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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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  • an American educator and editor. A critic of pragmatism and progressive ... 15, 1874, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of William Chase and Ruth Walker ...
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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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  • significant popularity. The strength of his approach is the importance ... Rogers was born on January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb ...
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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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  • ђевић) (Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro, December 4/December ... The logic of Yugoslavia was that a unified Balkan state could maximize ...
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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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  • 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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  • Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-1762). The third of six children, she was self ... eight plays, one biography, and 20 volumes of journals and letters. In addition ...
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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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