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Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests.
The modern revival of the Olympic games is due in a…
(Encyclopedia) American art, the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture, North American Native art, pre-Columbian art and…
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Painters, sculptors, and photographers
Read the brief and informative biographies of notable artists, from Pablo Picasso and Mary Cassatt to Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O'Keeffe. This is…
(Encyclopedia) mythology [Greek,=the telling of stories], the entire body of myths in a given tradition, and the study of myths. Students of anthropology, folklore, and religion study myths in…
(Encyclopedia) integration, in U.S. history, the goal of an organized movement to break down the barriers of discrimination and segregation separating African Americans from the rest of American…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Illinois
Member Name Birth-Death ADAIR, Jackson Leroy 1887-1956 ADAMS, George Everett 1840-1917 ADKINS, Charles 1863-1941…
Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from New York
Member Name Birth-Death ABZUG, Bella Savitzky 1920-1998 ACKERMAN, Gary Leonard 1942- ADAMS, Charles Henry 1824-1902…
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Supreme Court, United States, highest court of the United States, established by Article 3 of the Constitution of the United States.
With the emergence of a working…
