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111History of the Philippines (1898–1946) — This article covers the history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946. It spans the Spanish American War which resulted in the United States acquiring sovereignty over the Philippines from Spain via the Treaty of Paris which ended that war, the… …
112Vermont in the American Civil War — During the American Civil War, the State of Vermont continued the military tradition started by the Green Mountain Boys of Revolutionary War fame, contributing a significant portion of its eligible men to the war effort. History The second… …
113Thomas M'Crie the Elder — For his eldest son, of the same name, see Thomas M Crie the Younger.Thomas M Crie (November, 1772 August 5, 1835) was a Scottish historian, writer, and preacher born in the town of Dunse, Berwickshire in November 1772. He was the eldest of a… …
114Qur'an oath controversy of the 110th United States Congress — Ellison s photo op reenactment of his swearing in ceremony with Thomas Jefferson s Quran In mid November 2006 it was reported that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress (for Minnesota s 5th congressional district) …
115Laws and customs of the Land of Israel in Judaism — (Hebrew: מצוות התלויות בארץ; translit. Mitzvot Ha teluyot Be aretz) are special Jewish laws that apply only to the Land of Israel. According to a standard view, 26 of the 613 mitzvot apply only in the Land of Israel.[1] Overall, the laws and… …
116Faces in the Moon — Infobox Book name = Faces in the Moon image caption = 1994 cover of Faces in the Moon author = Betty Louise Bell country = United States language = English cover artist = Bill Cason series = genre = Native American Literature; Autobiographical… …
117Early Byzantine mosaics in the Middle East — are a group of Christian mosaics created between the 4th and the 8th centuries in ancient Syria, Palestine and Egypt when the area belonged to the Byzantine Empire. The eastern provinces of the Eastern Roman and later the Byzantine Empires… …
118Theodore Roosevelt: The Monroe Doctrine and the National Honor — ▪ Primary Source A dispute between England and Venezuela over the boundary of British Guiana (now Guyana) became the concern of the United States in 1895 when the Venezuelan ambassador to the U.S. requested its intervention.… …
119William Faulkner: Intruder in the Dust — ▪ Primary Source If the Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War, the beginning of the end for the Confederacy, then Pickett s Charge, the climax of three days fighting involving a theretofore unparalleled assembly of men …
120Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Lynching and the Excuse for It (1901) — ▪ Primary Source In the twenty years after 1885 there were more lynchings in the United States than legal executions. The great majority of victims were African Americans, who, after a brief period of political power in the South during… …
