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22 hours ago · The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, [2] [3] was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.
22 hours ago · Background Kennedy Main article: John F. Kennedy Further information: Presidency of John F. Kennedy Kennedy delivering his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University, 1962 In 1960, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, was elected the 35th president of the United States with Lyndon B. Johnson as his vice presidential running mate. Kennedy's tenure saw the height ...
22 hours ago · t. e. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and from there to Canada. [1] The network, primarily the work of free African Americans (and some whites as well), [2 ...
22 hours ago · The Book of Psalms (/ s ɑː (l) m z / SAH(L)MZ, US also / s ɔː (l) m z / SAW(L)MZ; Biblical Hebrew: תְּהִלִּים , romanized: Tehillīm, lit. 'praises'; Ancient Greek: Ψαλμός, romanized: Psalmós; Latin: Liber Psalmorum; Arabic: زَبُورُ, romanized: Zabūr), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible ...
22 hours ago · v. t. e. Religious violence covers phenomena in which religion is either the subject or the object of violent behavior. [1] All the religions of the world contain narratives, symbols, and metaphors of violence and war. [2] Religious violence is violence that is motivated by, or in reaction to, religious precepts, texts, or the doctrines of a ...
22 hours ago · Abraham Lincoln's surname does trace back to the English town of Lincoln, but his family had migrated to America long before his birth. Many locations in the U. S. now bear the name Lincoln, such as Lincoln, Nebraska. But the shared name with England's Lincoln is only coincidental, as the U. S. place names were named in honor of Abraham Lincoln.
