Search results for "District of Columbia" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California ... The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Outside of California ...
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  • Grace, Princess of Monaco, née Grace Patricia Kelly, (November 12 ... Olympic sculler at a time that the sport of rowing was at its zenith. He ...
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  • leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 ... raise a similar protest when the District of Columbia school board, under ...
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  • Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... territory in 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 ...
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  • of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Command module pilot Michael ... visiting 49 state capitals, the District of Columbia, and Anchorage, Alaska ...
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  • In geology and environmental science, erosion is the displacement ... rock into soil. Thus a certain degree of erosion is healthy for the ...
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  • in the seventeenth century. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the ... The Kalmyks are the only inhabitants of Europe whose national religion ...
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  • Lobbying is the practice of trying to persuade legislators or officials ... the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which said: ...
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  • reputation in 1949, as a member of the U.S. team that won the ... American Youth Center (LAYC),in the District of Columbia began to offer tennis ...
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  • was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. Russia suffered from a number of chronic economic and social problems ...
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  • device for transporting people, consisting of a staircase whose steps move ... with Trav-O-Lator®, a registered trademark of United Technologies), or moveator ...
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  • The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located ... (one each for the 48 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories ...
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  • leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic ... Pavel was born in Moscow in the upper-class family of Nikolai Pavlovich ...
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  • Education City, Qatar. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League, and prides ... areas useful to society. Situated in an area of farming, conservation, and ...
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  • Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...
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  • licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing ... stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four ...
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  • |name = University of Bridgeport |image = [[File:University of Bridgeport Cortright Hall.jpg|250px]] ...
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  • 29, 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-twentieth century New York ... region's development. During the height of his powers, New York City participated ...
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  • a database that contains descriptive records of books, periodical articles ... 793 stores in 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. ...
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  • The Kronstadt rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors ... The rebellion took place in the first weeks of March, 1921 in Kronstadt ...
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