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Women's Suffrage: Illinois: A Turning Point

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler A New ImpulseThe Story of OhioIllinois: A Turning PointAfter 1912 woman suffrage prospered with the fortunes of the Progressive party.…

1920 – 1929 World History

Benito Mussolini(1883–1945)National Archives and Records Admin.Bessie Smith(1894–1937)The Library of Congress Picture CollectionWilliam Butler Yeats(1865–1939)Archive PhotosJoseph Stalin (…

Ship Fever

The world's most famous–and fated–sailing vessels       Historical Ships   The Mayflower1620 The Pilgrims' progress was forwarded by this hearty English vessel  …

Five-Ring Circus

Bribery scandal tarnishes Olympic gold by Gerry Brown President Juan Antonio Samaranch. Related Links Olympics OverviewOlympic ReformsOlympics Through the YearsIt's been called "the ugliest…

Grinchy Trivia

Compare the holiday movie, TV, and Dr. Seuss creations by Holly Hartman How The Grinches Measure Up version year length book 1957 about 12 minutes TV movie…

Brewer's: Gooseberry

Fox Talbot says this is St. John's berry, being ripe about St. John's Day. [This must be John the Baptist, at the end of August, not John the Evangelist, at the beginning of May.] Hence,…

The Berlin Conference and the Partition of Africa

Formalizing the Scramble for Africa In 1884, representatives of all the colonial powers of Europe and America met in Berlin to discuss how they would divide Africa between them. The colonization of…

Cameroon, country

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Cameroon Cameroon kămˌər&oomacr;nˈ , Fr. Cameroun, officially Republic of Cameroon…