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Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Massachusetts
Member Name Birth-Death ABBOTT, Amos 1786-1868 ABBOTT, Josiah Gardner 1814-1891 ADAMS, Benjamin 1764-1837…
U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: U.S.-Canada Relations Government Political Conditions U.S.-CANADA RELATIONSPrime Minister Harper, who entered office stating he intended to…
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In 1965, Edward Heath became the first…
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Angola Angola ăng-gōˈlə [key], officially Republic of Angola (2020 est. pop. 32,870,000), including the exclave of Cabinda, 481,351 sq mi (1,246,700…
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AlabamaAlabamaăləbămˈə [key], state in the SE United States. It is bordered by Tennessee (N), Georgia (E), Florida and the Gulf of Mexico (S), and Mississippi (W).
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Supreme Court Justices(including dates on bench)
Chief Justices
John Jay
1789–95
John Rutledge
1795
Oliver Ellsworth
1796–1800
John Marshall
1801–35
Roger B. Taney
1836–64…
(Encyclopedia) Chinese literature, the literature of ancient and modern China.
Fiction during the first years after the 1949 Communist revolution depicted the great social transformations taking…
