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• Directory:Wooster, Ohio
  ...t settlers, including the young German immigrant August Imgard, whom local historians claim introduced Christmas trees to America in 1847. ...e 1815 Beall House. Displays include original Beall furniture, porcelains, American Indian artifacts, mounted animals, a smith, tools, firearms, clothing and a
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• Directory:Bloomington, Illinois
  The American Passion Play, originally performed in 1923, is presented each spring. The I ...ok notes. Although newspapers were unable to report the exact speech, most historians agree that this popular theme helped carry Lincoln to the presidency.
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• Wet floor sign spoof
  ...," an interesting combination of [[English]] and [[Spanish]]. Thus, many [[historians]] argue that the introduction of wet-floor signs into popular use and popul ...ood that a sign would prevent a pedestrian from slipping on the wet floor. Historians of the Roman period point to the introduction of wet floor signs (approxima
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• Objectivity (journalism)
  ...olar [[David Mindich]] (''Just the Facts: How "Objectivity" Came to Define American Journalism'', 1998), was the coverage that the major papers (most notably t ...a guiding principle by the 1890s. A number of communication scholars and historians agree that the idea of "objectivity" has prevailed as a dominant discourse
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• Directory:Long Neck, Delaware
  ...thropologists and historians made their way to Sussex County, since Native American tribes in the eastern part of the country were practically unheard of. Mos .... Census)|African American]], 0.25% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.06% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.37% from [[Race (United States Ce
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• Directory:Andrew Johnson
  | nationality=American ...m in a bitter dispute with the Radical Republicans.<ref>{{cite book |title=American Legal History |last=Hall |first=Kermit |coauthors= Paul Finkelman, James W.
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• Directory:Wyoming
  The area that would become Wyoming was inhabited by several Native American groups before the arrival of Europeans. The Shoshone, Arapaho, Cheyenne and Historians believe the first Europeans to see Wyoming were Francois and Louis Verendry
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• Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality
  ...the Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York, one of the founders of the American Association for the History of Nursing, and a member of the editorial board We pass to the Middle Ages. Like many modern historians, Percy over-emphasises the contributions of the Islamic philosophers, altho
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• Directory:Raff Ellis
  ...200 letters from family and friends in Lebanon, dating back to 1925. A few historians have told Ellis that this was an important discovery. [[Keyword:=American history]]
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...d Providence in 1636. It was granted a royal charter in 1663 and after the American Revolution began the industrialization that is still a major part of the st Until the American Revolution, Newport was the commercial center of the colony, thriving espec
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• Employment
  ...benefits. To resist this, employees can organize into [[labor union]]s ([[American English]]), or [[trade union]]s ([[British English]]), who represent most o ...[[slavery|slave]] and slaveowners are also not considered employers. Some historians suggest that slavery is older than employment, but both arrangements have e
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• Directory:James Madison
  | nationality=American ...ref> ([[March 16]] [[1751]] – [[June 28]] [[1836]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[politician]] and the fourth [[President of the United States]] (1809–
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• Directory:James Buchanan
  ...rty]]. As Southern states declared their secession in the lead-up to the [[American Civil War]], he held that [[secession]] was illegal, but that going to war ...ary Dix ordered Treasury agents in New Orleans, "If any man pulls down the American flag, shoot him on the spot".
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• Directory:James Monroe
  | nationality=American ...the treaty contained no ban on the British practice of [[impressment]] of American sailors. As a result, the two nations moved closer toward the [[War of 1812
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• Directory:John Adams
  ...He became the founder of an important family of politicians, diplomats and historians, and in recent years [[Historical rankings of United States Presidents|his ...ood example. Otis’s argument inspired Adams with zeal for the cause of the American colonies.<ref> Ferling (1992) ch 2</ref>
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• Wikipedia’s Communist Propaganda Articles!
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...]] &ndash; [[October 8]], [[1869]]) was an [[Politics of the United States|American politician]] and the fourteenth [[President of the United States]], serving ...[[United States Senate|Senate]]. Later, Pierce took part in the [[Mexican-American War]] and became a [[brigadier general]]. His private law practice in his h
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  :''This article is about the American politician; for the American rock climber, see [[Warren Harding (climber)]].'' | nationality = American
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• Directory:William McKinley
  ...fth [[President of the United States]], and the last veteran of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] to be elected. ...this one focused on foreign policy. As president, he fought the [[Spanish-American War]]. McKinley for months resisted the public demand for war, which was ba
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• Directory:George Washington
  | nationality= American ...ntinental Army]] to victory over the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]] (1775&ndash;1783).
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