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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
72: | [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]
172: | [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: Alanis's Surname "Morissette" is French in origin. Her [[1995]] international debut ...
12: ...er early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you o...
23: ...he would later write about in songs such as "UR" (from the album ''[[Supposed Former Infatuation Junki...
38: ...is''. The album attempted to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound. However, ''N...
42: ...to [[Nashville]] a few months later also proved unfruitful. - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
13: | place of death= [[The Hermitage]], [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]
18: ...e first president who had lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associa...
22: ...trust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favo...
24: ...began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state milit...
34: ...ackson's election represented a significant break from that past. - Malawi (22306 bytes)
1: ... remains unclear; it is held to be either derived from that of southern tribes, or noting the 'glitter...
7: national_motto = Unity and Freedom |
35: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[July 6]], [[1964]] ...
49: ...similar to peoples living today in the [[Horn of Africa]]. At another site, dated 1500 BC, the remains...
51: ...f traders, mostly from [[Glasgow]], formed the [[African Lakes Company]] to supply goods and services ... - U.S. state (14432 bytes)
3: ...of education, health, transportation, and other infrastructure are generally the responsibility of the...
34: ...'<td>Ky.<td>[[Kentucky]]<td>[[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]</tr>
62: ...>Tenn.<td>[[Tennessee]]<td>[[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]</tr>
79: ...arianas]]) which do have a legal status different from the states.
85: ...ee to organize their judicial systems differently from the federal judiciary, as long as [[due process... - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...nguage]] of the [[Hasinai]], ''tejas'', meaning ''friends'' or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers...
42: ...ist of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
50: ** flying — [[Mexican free-tailed bat]]
57: ...om you talk to (and which part of Texas they come from), Texas forms part of the [[U.S. Southern State...
62: ...ve flown over its soil: the [[Fleur-de-lis]] of [[France]], and the national flags of [[Spain]], [[Mex... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] |
11: ...essee|Memphis]] (largest [[metropolitan area]] is Nashville) |
39: ...ed "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers later enc...
48: ...9]], nearly 17,000 Cherokees were forced to march from Eastern Tennessee to [[Indian Territory]] west ...
50: ...ennessee was the last Confederate state to secede from the Union when it did so on [[June 8]], [[1861]... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
43: ...the [[Oregon Bottle Bill]], but has also suffered from the rapid pace of logging in its forests.
61: ...fornians (or outsiders in general). State ballots frequently illustrate the extremes of the political ...
68: ... that the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 1700s, naming the ...
69: ...m the word ''oolighan'', referring to grease made from fish, which the [[Native American]]s of the reg...
70: ... is likely to have heard the terms because of his frequent encounters with [[Mohegan]]s in the late [[... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...en the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 [[Northern United States|northern states...
53: ...mter]], South Carolina, Lincoln called for troops from all remaining states to recover the forts, resu...
58: ...estern counties of Virginia organized a secession from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for...
62: ...California_and_the_Civil_War|California]] was a [[free state]] and a part of the Union. Lincoln had wo... - Barbecue (24807 bytes)
6: ...g is barbecuing except when it means double-sided frying with something like a [[sandwich toaster]] or...
8: ...ooking, including grilling, as barbecue, which is frowned upon by purists in some areas. The device us...
10: ...dispersed to the sides or at significant distance from the grate. Alternately, an apparatus called a ...
23: ...g, and/or flavored in numerous ways after removed from the heat.
26: ... off to the side and almost always under a cover, frequently with added smoke for additional flavor. - Sam Houston (6990 bytes)
5: ... in the [[War of 1812]]. By December he had risen from [[Private (rank)|private]] to third [[lieutenan...
7: ... Tennessee]]. He was made [[attorney general]] of Nashville district in late 1818 and also given a command in...
16: ...ober 22]], 1836 to [[December 10]], [[1838]], and from [[December 12]], [[1841]] to [[December 9]], [[...
22: ...as-Nebraska Act]]. He was a [[lame duck]] senator from 1857.
34: ...States Senators from Texas|U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Texas]] | before= none | after=[[John Hemphill]... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
14: | place of death=[[Nashville, Tennessee]]
19: ...venth [[President of the United States]], serving from [[March 4]], [[1845]] to [[March 4]], [[1849]]....
26: During his childhood, Polk suffered from poor health. In 1812, his father took him to [[...
28: ...ated in 1818, returning to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] to study law under [[Felix Grundy]]. Polk was a...
31: ...opular, earning him the nickname "[[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] of the Stump." He courted [[Sarah ... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
1: ...:ac.parthenon5.jpg|thumb|300px|The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west]]
3: ...thena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''παρθέ...
9: ...he treasury of the Delian League, which was moved from the Panhellenic sanctuary at [[Delos]] to the A...
19: ...ted on the northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]].
21: ...ouring Athena. On the fourth, eastern, side was a frieze showing all the gods of the Greek [[pantheon]... - Jackson, Mississippi (21073 bytes)
33: ...pi River]], and did not develop like those cities from river commerce. Instead, railroads would later ...
39: ...erman to meet the Confederate forces heading west from Jackson. Upon learning that Vicksburg had alre...
41: ...or less than $8,000. It is said that Sherman, a [[Freemasontry|Mason]], spared it because it housed a ...
45: ...es the harsh and largely terror-filled life most African-Americans experienced in the South (and, it s...
49: ...r [[disturbing the peace]] after they disembarked from their bus. - Al Gore (43430 bytes)
36: ... the 45th [[Vice President of the United States]] from [[1993]] to [[2001]]. He [[U.S. presidential el...
38: ...also considered by many political pundits to be a front runner for the [[2008]] Democratic nomination ...
42: ...e his [[father]] was a veteran Democratic senator from Tennessee, Al Gore Jr. divided his childhood be...
48: ...]]) was actor [[Tommy Lee Jones]]. Gore graduated from Harvard in [[June]] of [[1969]] with a Bachelor...
52: The Gores now reside just outside of [[Nashville]], Tennessee, USA, and own a small farm near Cart... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
33: ...band]], [[bebop]], [[hard bop]], [[cool jazz]], [[free jazz]], [[jazz fusion]] and [[smooth jazz]].
37: ...h degree of technical skill and musical knowledge from the performers.
39: ...rm today is a widely varied one, using influences from all of the past styles, although the root of mo...
45: ... the early 1960s rhythm 'n' blues took influences from [[gospel music|gospel]] and [[rock and roll]] a...
49: ...[1950s]]. Its earliest form, rock and roll, arose from multiple genres in the late [[1940s]], most imp... - List of genres of country (522 bytes)
27: *[[Nashville Sound]] - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
6: ...of [[West Africa]]n [[slavery|slave]]s. These [[African American]]s played a variety of instruments, ...
8: ...], [[music of Russia|Russian]], [[music of France|French]], [[music of Germany|German]], [[music of It...
10: ...y became especially associated with the city of [[Nashville, Tennessee]] as the many stars of the era establi...
12: ...ck|punk]] and [[funk]]. In the [[1970s]], urban African Americans in [[New York City]] began performi...
19: ... a melting pot of different peoples. Immigration from [[China]] began in large numbers in the 19th ce... - Music of the United States (1940s and 50s) (18910 bytes)
6: ...Europe]] and the rest of the world. This stemmed from a revival of [[hillbilly music]] early in the d...
10: ... and social activism. [[Psychedelic rock]] arose from this subculture, which opposed the [[Vietnam Wa...
18: ...black vocalists like [[Little Richard]] ("[[Tutti Frutti]]"), [[Chuck Berry]] ("[[Johnny B. Goode]]"),...
25: *country music's capital, [[Nashville]]
30: ...ians unable to maintain their hipness, both faded from mass consciousness. The mid-[[1960s]] saw the ... - American Association for the Advancement of Science (8017 bytes)
1: ...ration between [[scientist]]s, defends scientific freedom, encourages scientific responsibility and su...
7: ... to become a casualty of the war. In [[1866]], [[Frederick Barnard]] presided over the first meeting ...
45: |[[1931]]||[[Franz Boas]]||[[1871]]||[[Asa Gray]]
60: ...from the [[National Academy of Sciences]] and one from each region of the country. The President of t...
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