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- Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...en presence, stunning good looks and mysterious [[death]] would make her a perennial [[sex symbol]] an...
6: ... of Los Angeles County Hospital. Her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, later had her baptized ''Norm...
8: ...Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously considered adopting her, which they could not have done w...
10: ...ospital in [[Norwalk, California|Norwalk]], where Della had died; Gladys's father, Otis, died in a men...
12: ...elf, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-human drive. She was very intelligent... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
3: ... Independence|United States Declaration of Independence]]]]
5: ...to sign the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. According to legend, he signed his name lar...
8: ...ended [[Harvard College]] and received a business degree in [[1754]], when he was 17. Upon graduation,...
10: ...ously, the same. With his generosity, he was regarded as a man of integrity and honor.
13: ... [[Massachusetts General Court]], his colonial trade business naturally disposed him to resist the [[S... - Kentucky (15076 bytes)
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27: Longitude = 81?58'W to 89?34'W | - Virginia (23198 bytes)
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27: Longitude = 75°13'W to 83°37'W | - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
2: ...d Concord]] and continued after the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The ...
4: ...tion of [[George Washington]] as the first [[President of the United States]] in [[1789]]. Beyond that...
10: ...rn frontier. Most white colonists in America considered themselves loyal subjects of the British Crown...
16: ...his European Enlightenment and were a source for ideas regarding [[separation of church and state]] an...
23: ...ese new policies grew steadily throughout the decade, and had a significant impact on the emergence of... - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
20: ...el Adams]] organizes the [[Committees of Correspondence]]
31: *[[1775]] - [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]]
33: ...Declaration_of_Independence|Declaration of Independence]]
38: *[[1777]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] adopted by the Second Continental Congres...
43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...ted to continual sniper attacks. The [[Battle of Lexington and Concord]], coming after a dozen years of esca...
7: .... The Congress immediately began to organize a federal government for the 13 associated colonies, tak...
9: ...ted to the Congress where numerous changes were made, including the exclusion of his charges against G...
11: ...endowed the nascent United States with a great wilderness empire stretching from the Atlantic to the M...
13: ...deration outlined the governance of a permanent federation of States, without fully clarifying whether... - Barbecue (24807 bytes)
1: ...Airpork Crew barbecue team prepares [[pork]] shoulder at the [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] in May Wor...
4: ...be cooked in large brick or metal ovens specially designed for that purpose.
6: ...lling is barbecuing except when it means double-sided frying with something like a [[sandwich toaster]...
8: ...ich is frowned upon by purists in some areas. The device used for cooking barbecue can usually be used...
10: ...barbecue" restaurants, but nevertheless many consider this to be a distinct cooking process called smo... - Benedict Arnold (11750 bytes)
1: ...jpg|thumb|right|250px|Benedict Arnold. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
3: ...he plot was thwarted, but Arnold successfully avoided capture by Continental forces. Shortly thereaft...
6: ...ips, as his father had done. Some of his business dealings drifted into smuggling - in contempt of the...
9: ...colonel]] in the Massachusetts's [[militia]] to undertake the first entirely offensive military expedi...
10: ...]. In a dawn attack on [[May 10]], [[1775]], Ticonderoga was taken from the 22 British troops that hel... - American Revolutionary War (40738 bytes)
1: ... American colonies]]. The war, which eventually widened far beyond [[British North America]], resulted...
3: ...fers solely to the military campaign; for the broader perspective, including the origins and aftermath...
10: ..." army). Each colony instead provided for its own defenses through the use of local [[militia]]. Milit...
12: ...st number of men that Washington personally commanded in the field at any one time was fewer than 17,0...
15: ...g the war years. However, according to reliable modern estimates, total British strength in the coloni... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
2: [[Image:President-Jefferson-Davis.jpg|thumb|'''Jefferson Davis'''...
3: ...r serving as the only [[President]] of the [[Confederate States of America]] throughout the [[American...
6: ...[[British Empire|British]], two of them serving under [[Andrew Jackson]] and receiving his commendatio...
10: ...ry Academy]] at [[West Point, New York]] as a [[cadet]].
14: ...spatched to [[Galena, Illinois]] at the head of a detachment assigned to remove [[miner|miners]] from ... - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
3: ..., and his death was a severe setback for the Confederacy.
8: ... Julia was buried in an unmarked grave in a homemade coffin in a small town along the [[James River an...
12: ...nt to live with other relatives on his mother's side of the family, but he died of [[tuberculosis]] in...
14: ...ation of a law in Virginia at that time that forbade teaching a slave to read or write, but neverthele...
16: ...ademy. Thomas Jackson graduated 17th out of 59 students in the Class of [[1846]]. - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
9: founded = [[September 17]], [[1630]] |
11: ...Thomas Menino]] ([[United_States_Democratic_Party|Dem]]) |
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25: ...tened from [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes]]' phrase ''The Hub of the Universe''), ...
27: ...has a population of approximately 5.8 million residents. [[Greater Boston]] is one of the top-ten larg... - Alchemy (42222 bytes)
2: ...Alchemy can be regarded as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation o...
4: ...|thumb|150px|left|Chemistry Clipart .Clipart provided by
8: ...] of gold and silver". The Arabic therefore could derive from a purely Greek word, not Coptic, and hav...
11: ...ormal)|magic]]. From today's perspective, their endeavours and beliefs have limited validity, but if w...
13: ... both an inner meaning referring to the spiritual development of the practitioner as well as a materia... - John C. Breckinridge (5870 bytes)
2: ...ce President of the United States]], and a [[Confederate]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]].
4: ..., Iowa]], but soon returned and began practice in Lexington. He was married to Mary Cyrene Burch in 1843. Bre...
6: ... US history at age 35, the minimum age required under the [[US Constitution]].
8: ...rbor]]. He led the famous charge of the [[VMI]] cadets at the [[Battle of New Market]] on [[May 14]], ...
10: ...even while President [[Jefferson Davis]] fiercely desired to continue the fight. - Alben W. Barkley (3817 bytes)
2: ...rom [[Kentucky]] and the thirty-fifth [[Vice President of the United States]].
4: ...versity]]), graduating in [[1900]], and then attended the [[University of Virginia]] Law School, [[Cha...
6: ...[United States Senate Minority Leader|minority leader]] from 1947 to [[1949]].
8: ..., Emory University, to receive the LLD degree and deliver the commencement address, an occasion which ...
10: ...[[Cumberland River]] at the Kentucky-Tennessee border and Barkley Dam at the same lake are also named ... - Massachusetts (31663 bytes)
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27: Longitude = 68?57'W to 73?30'W | - United States Declaration of Independence (23184 bytes)
1: ...-indep.jpg|thumb|250px|U.S. Declaration of Independence]]
2: ...nal Archives]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] The independence of the American colonies was recognized by Gre...
6: ... was able to promote the belief that total independence was the only possible route for the colonies.
8: ...es are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegia...
10: ... Dunlap broadsides still known to exist are the oldest surviving ''copies'' of the document.
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