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(Encyclopedia) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and seg...
(Encyclopedia) Pius XI, 1857–1939, pope (1922–39), an Italian named Achille Ratti, b. Desio, near Milan; successor of Benedict XV.
Pius's pontificate was marked by great diplomatic activity and by many importa...
(Encyclopedia) Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de fränthēsˈkō hōsāˈ ᵺā gōˈyä ē lo͞othēānˈtās [key], 1746–1828, Spanish painter and graphic artist. Goya is generally conceded to be the greatest...
(Encyclopedia) Progressive party, in U.S. history, the name of three political organizations, active, respectively, in the presidential elections of 1912, 1924, and 1948.
At Philadelphia in July, 1948, a new...
(Encyclopedia) İstanbul
ĭsˌtănbo͞olˈ,
ĭstanˈbo͞ol
[key], city and metropolitan muncipality,...
(Encyclopedia) Socrates sŏkˈrətēz [key], 469–399 b.c., Greek philosopher of Athens. Famous for his view of philosophy as a pursuit proper and necessary to all intelligent men, he is one of the great examples o...
(Encyclopedia) vocational education, training designed to advance individuals' general proficiency, especially in relation to their present or future occupations. The term does not normally include training for the ...
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CE5
Optic nerve
vision, physiological sense of sight by which the form, color, size, movements, and distance of objects are perceived.
Defects of vision include astigmatism, color blindness, far...
(Encyclopedia) poet laureate lôˈrēĭt [key], title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. It is an outgrowth of the medieval English custom of having...
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Supreme Court Justices(including dates on bench)
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