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Fourteenth Amendment
(Encyclopedia) Fourteenth Amendment, addition to the U.S. Constitution, adopted 1868. The amendment comprises five sections. Section 2 provides for apportionment of membership in the House of…U.S. History Timeline: 1800–1849
Top of Page Source: Getty ImagesAs it heads into the 19th century, the United States is a country that is still only 24 years old, the Treat of Paris was signed in 1783. Ahead lies a century of…James Knox Polk
James Knox PolkBorn: 11/2/1795Birthplace: Mecklenburg County, N.C. James Knox Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, N.C., on Nov. 2, 1795. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he…Willie Person MANGUM, Congress, NC (1792-1861)
Senate Years of Service: 1831-1836; 1840-1853 Party: Jacksonian; Anti-Jacksonian; Whig MANGUM Willie Person , a Representative and a Senator from North Carolina; born in Orange (now Durham)…Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
Learn about the heroes of the American civil rights movement, including Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and more. by Borgna Brunner Rosa Parks, seated on a Montgomery…Federalist No. 53
No 52 No 54 The Same Subject Continued(The House of Representatives) From the New York Packet. Tuesday, February 12, 1788. Hamilton or Madison To the People…The Divine Comedy: Paradiso: Canto XXIV
Paradiso: Canto XXIIIParadiso: Canto XXVParadiso: Canto XXIV "O company elect to the great supper Of the Lamb benedight, who feedeth you So that for ever full is your desire, If by…Mark: 1
Mark Chapter 1 1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; 2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare…Mary, the mother of Jesus
(Encyclopedia) Mary, in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother of God (Gr., theotokos).…Locke, John
(Encyclopedia) Locke, JohnLocke, Johnlŏk [key], 1632–1704, English philosopher, founder of British empiricism. Locke summed up the Enlightenment in his belief in the middle class and its right to…Trending
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