Search results for "District of Columbia" - New World Encyclopedia
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- valorem tax that an owner pays on the value of the property being taxed. There ... and assessment, with various methods of assessing property value in ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- the United Kingdom as well as other areas of Europe and North America, and ... *Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:48, 24 May 2024
- Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven military test pilots selected in ... The fireboat John H. Glenn Jr., operated by the District of Columbia ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... at the Federal level in the District of Columbia. ==Racism in the twenty ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest ... A child of economic and social privilege, he overcame a crippling ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... War in 1866. It was founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, with ...52 KB (7,797 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being. recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There ...59 KB (8,933 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- and William Leonard Langer, The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval ... policy that has rewarded veterans of the Bush War with farms previously ...37 KB (5,599 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- 14, 1836) was the third Vice-President of the United States (1801–1805 ... As a legislator, Burr was a formative member of the Democratic-Republican ...38 KB (5,858 words) - 07:13, 13 June 2023
- ) was established immediately following the abdication of Nicholas ... For most of the life of the Provisional Government, the status of ...44 KB (5,965 words) - 22:22, 29 May 2022
- Industrialization in the Soviet Union occurred as a process of accelerated ... The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the ...62 KB (8,764 words) - 22:12, 30 March 2023
- 14, 1799) was the commander in chief of the Continental Army in the ... was soon named "Washington, District of Columbia." ...58 KB (8,978 words) - 15:03, 21 May 2024
- Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players ... above; the team with more points at the end of the game wins. The ball can ...42 KB (6,657 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- 2.5 million acres (10,000 km²) in the state of Wyoming. Originally a part ... property, lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Wind ...41 KB (6,175 words) - 20:03, 21 April 2023
- Prague (Czech: Praha), is the capital and largest city of the Czech ... Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of Europe ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... Carter with only six states and the District of Columbia in the Electoral College ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- right|250px| A child learning the countries of Asia by experience rather than ... quot;learning by doing") is the process of actively engaging students ...47 KB (6,690 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo village of Ogidi in south ... When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe ...79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. A graduate of Purdue ... made his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
