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| United States presidential election, 1864 In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. Lincoln ran under the National Union banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan. McClellan was the "peace candidate" but did not personally believe in his party's platform.The election of 1864 was conducted during the Civil War, and as such, none of the states controlled by governments loyal to the Confederate States of America participated. United_States_presidential_election,_1864 | |
| William Jennings Bryan For other persons of the same name, see William Bryan and William Jennings.William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. William_Jennings_Bryan | |
| Optical amplifier optical amplifier is a device that amplifies an optical signal directly, without the need to first convert it to an electrical signal. An optical amplifier may be thought of as a laser without an optical cavity, or one in which feedback from the cavity is suppressed. Stimulated emission in the amplifier's gain medium causes amplification of incoming light. Optical amplifiers are important in optical communication and laser physics. Optical_amplifier | |
| Signal compression telecommunication, the term signal compression has the following meaningsIn analog (usually audio) systems, reduction of the dynamic range of a signal by controlling it as a function of the inverse relationship of its instantaneous value relative to a specified reference level. Signal compression is usually expressed in dB. Signal_compression | |
| Sex education Sex education is a broad term used to describe education about human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, reproductive health, emotional relations, reproductive rights and responsibilities, contraception, and other aspects of human sexual behavior. Common avenues for sex education are parents or caregivers, school programs, and public health campaigns. Sex_education | |
| Hyman G. Rickover Hyman George Rickover (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986), was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy. Rickover was known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy", which as of July 2007 had produced 200 nuclear-powered submarines, and 23 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and cruisers, though many of these U.S. Hyman_G._Rickover | |
| Second Amendment to the United States Constitution Talk:Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | |
| Discovery Institute The Discovery Institute is a conservative non-profit public policy U.S. think tank based in Seattle, Washington, best known for its advocacy of intelligent design. Its Teach the Controversy campaign aims to teach creationist anti-evolution beliefs in United States public high school science courses. Discovery_Institute | |
| Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Henry_David_Thoreau | |
| Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt (October 22, 1844 Americas. She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning the nickname "The Divine Sarah." Sarah_Bernhardt | |
| Robert Schumann Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 1810 German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic composers of the 19th century.He had hoped to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist, having been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe after only a few years of study with him. Robert_Schumann | |
| Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. He is particularly noted for his original melodic and harmonic writing. Franz_Schubert | |
| Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23 – August 25, 79), better known as Pliny the Elder, was an author, naturalist or natural philosopher as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing or investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, he wrote an encyclopedic work, Naturalis Historia, which became a model for all such works written subsequently. Pliny_the_Elder | |
| Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 - 19 November 1786 - June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.Weber's works, especially his operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany. Carl_Maria_von_Weber | |
| Mother's Day The modern Mother's Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis in Grafton, West Virginia, as a day to honor mothers and motherhood; especially within the context of families, and family relationships. Mother's_Day | |
| Leiden Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands and has 118,000 inhabitants. It forms a single urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk, with 254,000 inhabitants. It is located on the Old Rhine, close to the cities of The Hague and Haarlem. The recreational area of the Kaag Lakes (Kagerplassen) lies just to the northeast of Leiden. Leiden | |
| Mount Vesuvius Mount Vesuvius (in Italian Monte Vesuvio and in Latin Mons Vesuvius) is a stratovolcano east of Naples, Italy. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently erupting. The two other volcanoes in Italy, (Etna and Stromboli) are located on islands. Mount_Vesuvius | |
| Climate model This article is about the theories and mathematics of climate modeling. For computer-driven prediction of Earth's climate, see Global climate model.Climate models use quantitative methods to simulate the interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and ice. They are used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the climate system to projections of future climate. Climate_model | |
| Daylight saving time Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English—see Terminology) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Daylight_saving_time | |
| Sierra Nevada (U.S.) The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy mountain range") is a mountain range located in the U.S. state of California. In a few places, it overlaps into neighboring Nevada. The range is also known informally as the Sierra, the High Sierra, and the Sierras. Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.) | |
| Malacca Malacca (, dubbed as The Historical State or Negeri Bersejarah amongst locals) is the third smallest Malaysian state, after Perlis and Penang. It is located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, on the Straits of Malacca. It borders Negeri Sembilan to the north and the state of Johor to the south. The state's capital is Malacca Town. This historical city centre has been listed as a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO since 7 July 2008. Malacca | |
| Minsk Minsk (, ; , ,, Minsk | |
| Left-wing politics Talk:Left-wing_politics | |
| Watergate scandal The Watergate scandal was an American political scandal during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the indictment and conviction of several of Nixon's closest advisors, and ultimately in the resignation of the President himself, on August 9, 1974. Watergate_scandal | |
| Hector Berlioz Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande Messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a conductor, he performed several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs for voice and guitar. Hector_Berlioz | |
| Silk Road Silk Road (or Silk Routes) is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe. In recent years, it has also come to be used for the maritime as well the overland routes. Silk_Road | |
| Chester W. Nimitz Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, USN, GCB (24 February 1885 United States Navy. He held the dual command of Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet ("CinCPac" pronounced "sink-pack"), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. Chester_W._Nimitz | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908LBJ, served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.Johnson, a Democrat, succeeded to the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Lyndon_B._Johnson | |
| Incest taboo Talk:Incest_taboo | |
| Nanking Massacre The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, refers to a six-week period following the Japanese capture of Nanking, then capital of the Republic of China, on December 9, 1937. During this period, thousands of women were raped and hundreds of thousands of civilians were murdered by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. The massacre remains a contentious political issue, as various aspects of it have been disputed by some historical revisionists and Japanese nationalists, Nanking_Massacre | |
| Wilmot Proviso Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the United States House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War. The intent of the proviso, submitted by Democratic Congressman David Wilmot, was to prevent the introduction of slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico. Wilmot_Proviso | |
| Public Works Administration United States Public Works Administration, a New Deal government agency headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 during the Great Depression. $3.3 billion to be spent on the construction of public works to provide employment, stabilize purchasing power, improve public welfare, and contribute to a revival of American industry. Public_Works_Administration | |
| Voting Rights Act Voting_Rights_Act | |
| Taft–Hartley Act The Labor–Management Relations Act, 80 Pub.L. 101; 61 Stat. 136, informally the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that serves as a great impediment to the activities and power of labor unions. The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Taft–Hartley_Act | |
| Hmong people Talk:Hmong_people | |
| Suez Crisis Suez_Crisis | |
| Montserrat (mountain) This is the mountain in Catalonia. For other uses, see Montserrat (disambiguation).Montserrat is a mountain near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It is the site of a Benedictine abbey, Santa Maria de Montserrat, which hosts the Virgin of Montserrat sanctuary and which is identified by some with the location of the Holy Grail in Arthurian myth." Montserrat_(mountain) | |
| Mission Santa Barbara Mission_Santa_Barbara | |
| Self (programming language) Self is an object-oriented programming language based on the concept of prototypes. It was used mainly as an experimental test system for language design in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2006, Self was still being developed as part of the Klein project, which was a Self virtual machine written fully in Self. The latest major version is 4.3, which was released in July 2006. As of 2007, the Klein project is no longer active. Self_(programming_language) | |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is the name of a song by Irving Berlin. It was his first major hit, in 1911. There is some evidence, although inconclusive, that Berlin borrowed the melody from a draft composition submitted by Scott Joplin that had been submitted to a publisher. Alexander's_Ragtime_Band | |
| Joaquín Balaguer Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo (September 1, 1906 July 14, 2002) was the President of the Dominican Republic from 1960 to 1962, from 1966 to 1978, and again from 1986 to 1996. Joaquín_Balaguer | |
| Ctenophore The Ctenophora (, singular ctenophore, or Ctenophore | |
| Edwin Meese Edwin "Ed" Meese III (born December 2, 1931 in Oakland, California) is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration (1967-1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team (1980), and the Reagan White House (1981-1985), eventually rising to hold the position of the seventy-fifth Attorney General of the United States (1985-1988). Edwin_Meese | |
| History of the United States The first known inhabitants of modern-day United States territory are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000 - 50,000 years ago by crossing Beringia into Alaska. Solid evidence of these cultures settling in what would become the US is dated to around 14,000 years ago.Research has revealed much about the early Native American settlers of North America. History_of_the_United_States | |
| Armia Krajowa The Armia Krajowa (the Home Army, literally translated as the Country's Army), abbreviated "AK", was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Struggle) and over the next two years absorbed most other Polish underground forces. Armia_Krajowa | |
| Armia Krajowa Talk:Armia_Krajowa | |
| Tetrahymena Tetrahymena are free-living ciliate protozoa that can also switch from commensalistic to pathogenic modes of survival. They are common in fresh-water. Tetrahymena species used as model organisms in biomedical research are T. thermophila and T. pyriformis. Tetrahymena | |
| Sarbanes-Oxley Act The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (), also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 and commonly called Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbox or SOX, is a United States federal law enacted on July 30, 2002, as a reaction to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals including those affecting Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems and WorldCom. Sarbanes-Oxley_Act | |
| Roe v. Wade Roe v. Wade , , is a United States Supreme Court case that resulted in a landmark decision regarding abortion. According to the Roe decision, there is a constitutional right to privacy, guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which disallowed most existing state and federal restrictions on abortion in the United States. Roe_v._Wade | |
| Joe Lieberman Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. First elected to the Senate in 1988, Lieberman was elected to a fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 United States presidential election, Lieberman was the Democratic nominee for Vice President, running with presidential nominee Al Gore, becoming the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket. Joe_Lieberman |
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