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| Alabama Alabama | |
| Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Abraham_Lincoln | |
| Ayn Rand Ayn_Rand | |
| Algeria Talk:Algeria | |
| Austria Austria | |
| Andorra Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra (), also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a small landlocked country in western Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is currently a prosperous country mainly because of tourism and its status as a tax haven. The people of Andorra are currently listed as having the highest human life expectancy in the world, at an average of 85 years at birth. Andorra is the sixth smallest nation in Europe. Andorra | |
| America the Beautiful "America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The words are written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward. Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, first published in the July 4th edition of the church periodical The Congretionalist in 1895. America_the_Beautiful | |
| Articles of Confederation The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly referred to as the Articles of Confederation, was the first constitution of the thirteen United States of America. The Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft the 'Articles' in June 1776 and proposed the draft to the States for ratification in November 1777. Articles_of_Confederation | |
| Afghanistan Afghanistan | |
| Albania This article is about the country in southern Europe. For a topic outline on this subject, see List of basic Albania topics. For other uses, see Albania (disambiguation). Albania | |
| Azerbaijan Azerbaijan | |
| American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies on the North American continent, and ended in a global war between several European great powers. American_Revolutionary_War | |
| Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 – 2 August 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. Alexander_Graham_Bell | |
| Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. The civilization began around 3150Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next three millennia. Ancient_Egypt | |
| Antigua and Barbuda Antigua_and_Barbuda | |
| Albert Speer Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer and ; MarchGerman architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. Albert_Speer | |
| Asteraceae Asteraceae | |
| Albert Camus Talk:Albert_Camus | |
| Assembly line An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added to a product in a sequential manner using optimally planned logistics to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting-type methods. The assembly line developed by Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1915 made assembly lines famous in the following decade through the social ramifications of mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers. Assembly_line | |
| Anguilla Anguilla ( ) is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. It consists of the main island of Anguilla itself, approximately long by wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population. The island's capital is The Valley. The total land area of the territory is , with a population of approximately 13,500 (2006 estimate). Anguilla | |
| Amazing Grace "Amazing Grace" is a well-known Christian hymn by Englishman John Newton and first appeared in print in Newton's Olney Hymns (1779). Amazing_Grace | |
| Assault Assault is a crime of violence against another person. In some jurisdictions, including Australia and New Zealand, assault refers to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, while in other jurisdictions, such as the United States, assault may refer only to the threat of violence caused by an immediate show of force. On the other hand, in Canada, assault can be simply just touching another without their consent. Assault | |
| Ahmad Shah Durrani Ahmad_Shah_Durrani | |
| Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 17th President of the United States (1865the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was the first U.S. President to be impeached. At the time of the secession of the Southern states, Johnson was a U.S. Senator from Greeneville in eastern Tennessee. Andrew_Johnson | |
| American Airlines Flight 77 American Airlines Flight 77 was the third flight hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks, and it was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon. The scheduled U.S. domestic flight from Washington Dulles International Airport, near Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles International Airport was hijacked by five Islamic terrorists less than 35Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers who was trained as a pilot, assumed control of the flight. American_Airlines_Flight_77 | |
| American Revolution In this article, the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans", with occasional references to "Patriots", "Whigs", "Rebels", or "Revolutionaries". Colonists who supported the British in opposing the Revolution are usually referred to as "Loyalists" or "Tories". (See section 2 below for a detailed explanation.) The geographical area of the thirteen colonies that both groups shared is often referred to simply as "America". American_Revolution | |
| Auguste Rodin Auguste Rodin (born François-Auguste-René Rodin; 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community. Auguste_Rodin | |
| Adam Weishaupt Johann Adam Weishaupt (February 6, 1748 in Ingolstadt November 18, 1830 in Gotha) was a German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati, a secret society with origins in Bavaria. Adam_Weishaupt | |
| African American Black Americans or African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry. African_American | |
| Ahmad Shah Massoud Ahmad Shah Massoud (- Aḥmad Šāh Mas‘ūd; September 1953 Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who, with support from the United States and other foreign nations, played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the nickname Lion of Panjshir. Many Afghans call him Āmir Sāhib-e Shahīd, translating to (Our) Martyred Commander. Massoud was the most moderate and popular of the anti-Soviet resistance leaders. Ahmad_Shah_Massoud | |
| Armadillo Armadillos are small placental mammals, known for having a leathery armor shell. The Dasypodidae are the only surviving family in the order Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra along with the anteaters and sloths. The word armadillo is Spanish for "little armored one".There are approximately 10 extant genera and around 20 extant species of armadillo, some of which are distinguished by the number of bands on their armor. Armadillo | |
| Antisemitism in the Arab world Antisemitism in the Arab world refers to discrimination against Jews. While Arabs are also a Semitic people, the modern meaning of the English term "antisemitism" refers exclusively to discrimination against Jews (see Antisemitism).Arab antisemitism is believed to have expanded since the 19th century. Jews, like other minority groups within the Muslim world, were subject to various restrictions long before that (see Dhimmi). Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world | |
| Abdul Rashid Dostum Abdul Rashid Dostum (also known as Heavy D, D-Diddy) (born 1954) is a former pro-Soviet fighter during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and is considered by many to be the leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community. He joined the Afghan military in 1978, fighting with the Soviets and against the mujahideen throughout the 1980s before switching sides and joining the mujahideen. Abdul_Rashid_Dostum | |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Woman A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should have an education. A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman | |
| Durrani Empire The Durrani Empire (also referred to as the Afghan Empire) was a large state based in modern Afghanistan and Pakistan and later included northeastern Iran and even parts of eastern Punjab. It was founded at Kandahar in 1747 by a Pashtun (Afghan) military commander, Ahmad Shah Durrani. Durrani_Empire | |
| Alien and Sedition Acts Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the United States Congress, who were waging an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President John Adams. Proponents claimed the acts were designed to protect the United States from alien citizens of enemy powers and to stop seditious attacks from weakening the government. Alien_and_Sedition_Acts | |
| Augusto Pinochet Talk:Augusto_Pinochet | |
| Belgium Belgium | |
| Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president; only Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were younger when entering office. Bill_Clinton | |
| Brazil Brazil | |
| Bulgaria Bulgaria | |
| Blindness Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP," an abbreviation for "no light perception." Blindness | |
| Bangladesh Bangladesh | |
| Geography of Brazil Geography_of_Brazil | |
| Geography of Bulgaria Geography_of_Bulgaria | |
| Economy of Bulgaria Economy_of_Bulgaria | |
| Transport in Bulgaria Transport_in_Bulgaria | |
| History of baseball in the United States The history of baseball in the United States can be traced to the 18th century, when amateurs played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using improvised equipment. The popularity of the sport inspired the semi and fully professional baseball clubs in the 1860s. History_of_baseball_in_the_United_States | |
| Braille Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. Braille was devised in 1821 by Louis Braille, a Frenchman. Each Braille character or cell is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two columns of three dots each. Braille | |
| Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Benjamin_Franklin |
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