...announced his candidacy in the 2024 United States Senate election in Texas to take on Ted Cruz. He won the Democratic nomination on March 5, 2024, and wi
...ere he played baseball, basketball and football. He accepted a scholarship to play college football at Baylor University. He played for the Baylor Bears
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{{Short description|A 1933 plan to overthrow the U.S. government}}
...dier General Smedley Butler, 1927 (14773211711).jpg|thumb|The plot planned to install retired Major General Smedley Butler as dictator of the United Stat
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...became acquainted with the ideas of human evolution of Darwin and Spencer that are reflected in his later writings. His stories appeared in the undergradu
...acters in the novel, this "larger view always ... discovers the Truth that will, in the end, prevail, and all things, surely, inevitably, resistlessly
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...ished weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923,
...an "Take Time – It's Brief". Hadden was considered carefree and liked to tease Luce. He saw ''Time'' as important but also fun, which accounted for
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| movement = West Coast Response to the European Decadent movement
...nse verse, such as "The Purple Cow," and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He was the il
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...the ''Britannica'' shortened and simplified articles to broaden its appeal to the North American market.
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...at Britain failed. Dickinson also reworked [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s language to write the final draft of the 1775 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity o
...ts passage. Nevertheless, Dickinson wrote the first draft of the 1776–1777 Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union and served as a militia officer during
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...ontesquieu''' (18 January 1689{{snd}}10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply '''Montesquieu''', was a French judge, man of letters, historian,
...hroughout the world. He is also known for doing more than any other author to secure the place of the word ''despotism'' in the political lexicon. His an
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...ons won in the Spanish–American War. Root favored a paternalistic approach to colonial administration, emphasizing technology, engineering, and disintere
.... He negotiated 24 bilateral international arbitration treaties, which led to the creation of the Permanent Court of International Justice.
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...s never joined the [[League of Nations]] and his penned conditions against that treaty, known collectively as the Lodge reservations, influenced the struct
...ntative, Lodge sponsored the unsuccessful Lodge Bill of 1890, which sought to protect the voting rights of African Americans and introduce a national sec
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White was born in Emporia, Kansas and moved to El Dorado, Kansas, with his parents, Allen and Mary Ann Hatten White, where
...greater than it is now, that the contraction of currency gives him a right to repudiate.</blockquote>
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...Hamlets, topping the poll, even though few women were qualified to vote at that time.
...turer on the subject. As part of her theosophy-related work, she travelled to India. In 1898 she helped establish the Central Hindu School, and in 1922 s
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...ather of public relations". His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freed
...n released to the public by an organization, in a manner most advantageous to the organization. He does this by first providing an overview of the histor
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...co-Prussian War. Defeat in the war coupled with being a first-hand witness to the Paris Commune of 1871 strongly shaped Le Bon's worldview. He then trave
...the view that crowds are not the sum of their individual parts, proposing that within crowds there forms a new psychological entity, the characteristics o
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...evenue (rather than cover price or political party subsidies) and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news, gossip, entertainment and advertising.
...of his endowment to [[Columbia University]]. The prizes are given annually to recognize and reward excellence in American journalism, photography, litera
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...religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Although many adherents maintain that Theosophy is not a religion, it is variably categorized by religious schola
...ion and the human soul undergoes reincarnation upon bodily death according to a process of karma. Universal brotherhood and social improvement are guidin
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...n commission co-chaired by James A. Baker III and [[Lee H. Hamilton]] that studied the lessons of the Iraq War.
...f America's Best Leaders by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''. He continued to serve as secretary of defense in President Barack Obama's administration an
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...ast-Table'' (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes also served as a physician, professo
...al idea that doctors were capable of carrying puerperal fever from patient to patient. Holmes retired from Harvard in 1882 and continued writing poetry,
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...mbian (B&O train)|''Columbian'']] crossing the Potomac River from Maryland to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 1949]]
...eling, Virginia, in 1853; and in 1857, Parkersburg, Virginia, below rapids that made navigation difficult during parts of the year.
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...iology" (together with [[Robert Koch]]; the latter epithet also attributed to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek).
...he auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, his experiment demonstrated that in sterilized and sealed flasks, nothing ever developed; conversely, in ste
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