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The chemical laden fog caused by automobile engines, a serious problem in southern California. Like nuclear waste and the shrinking water supply, it reflects the problems associated with the rapid demographic shift to the West in modem times.

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Category: American history
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Sputnik

History; American history

Russian satellite that successfully orbited the earth in 1957, prompting Americans to question their own values and educational system. The hysteria over Soviet technological ...

specie

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A term for hard coin, such as gold or silver, that can also back and give a fixed point of valuation to paper currencies.

Strategji e Jugut

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Once France formally entered the War for Independence in 1778 on the American side, the British had to concern themselves with protecting such vital holdings as their sugar ...

Darvinizëm Social

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An ideology based upon the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin, it justified the concentration of wealth and lack of governmental protection of the weak through the ideas of ...

separatistë

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Religious dissenters from England who believed that the state supported Anglican church, or Church of England, was too corrupt to be reformed. Thus, like the Pilgrims, they often ...

republikanë

History; American history

A political party founded by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson to combat Alexander Hamilton's fiscal policies.

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Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is widely recognized as one of the most famous paintings in the history of art. It is a half-length portrait of a seated woman painted ...