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History and Government (1537 Articles)
Were the First Atomic Bombs Dropped on Their Intended Targets?
What is the Difference Between a Republic and a Democracy?
What is the Difference Between a Parliamentary and Presidential System of Government?
How Important Is Drinking Tea to Life in Britain?
What are the Most Common Public Policy Issues?
What is the Gregorian Calendar?
What Happened on March 15?
What Happened on March 17?
What Happened on March 20?
What Happened on March 23?
What Happened on March 25?
What are Government Agencies?
How did the African Slave Trade Begin?
Does an off-Duty Police Officer Have Authority?
What Happened on March 31?
What is the Difference Between a Sheriff and a Police Officer?
What is a National ID Card?
What Happened on March 19?
What Happened on March 26?
What Happened on March 29?
Who Was the First Person to Reach the North Pole?
What is the Difference Between a President and a King?
What is a Class C Misdemeanor?
What is NATO?
Why Was Elizabeth I Called "the Virgin Queen"?
What is the House of Lords?
What are the Different Types of Military Tanks?
What are the Different Types of Mental Health Policy?
What is the Great Plague?
What Was the Rape of Nanjing?
What Was the Irish Potato Famine?
Is It Really Illegal to Display the Swastika Symbol in Germany?
What is a Battlefield Cross?
How did Ancient Egyptians Make Mummies?
What is Apartheid?
Do Pirates Still Exist?
What is Regional Planning?
What is Patriotism?
What is a Tariff Code?
What is Public Health Policy?
What Happened on March 28?
What Percentage of Americans Died in the US Civil War?
What Is a Constitutional Monarchy?
What are Human Rights?
What Is a Liberal Politician?
What is a Political Agenda?
What is Governmentality?
What Happened to the Calendar in October 1582?
What is a Welfare State?
What is Pandering?
What is Social Equality?
What is a Class B Misdemeanor?
What is Independence?
What are Tariff Barriers?
What Was Operation Ajax?
Who Were the Plantagenets?
What is Crime Mapping?
What is Waterboarding?
What Is a Career Politician?
What is Rezoning?
What is a Tariff Number?
What is a Guillotine?
Where can I Find Information About Political Candidates?
What is the Foundation Stone?
What Are Tank Traps?
What is an Economic Policy?
Who Was the Richest Person in History?
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
What Is Hot Bunking?
Do my Kids Qualify for Reduced Price or Free Lunch?
Who is Benito Mussolini?
What Was the Stone Age?
What is Means of Egress?
How did Civilization Start?
What is Public Policy Theory?
What is Public Policy Analysis?
What is April Fool's Day?
What Are the Main Political Parties in Germany?
What are Bilateral Relations?
Who are the Ancient Greek Gods?
What does "Across the Aisle" Mean?
What Was the Tokyo Firebombing?
Does a Background Check Reveal Immigration Status?
What is OPEC?
What is a Statesman?
When Was the French Revolution?
What is Qualified Theft?
What is a City Council?
What is the Spanish Main?
Who Was the First Person to Reach the South Pole?
What is Public Policy Administration?
What is a Political Handler?
Was Winston Churchill the Target of Assassination Attempts?
What is Atlantis?
What is Political Conservatism?
What is a U-Boat?
What does a State Police Officer do?
What is Democratic Socialism?
What is a Flood Myth?
What is a Tulip Craze?
What is the Mexican System of Government?
Why do Politicians Have Such a Bad Reputation?
What is a Magistrate?
What is the Maginot Line?
What is Emergency Egress?
Did Roman Gladiatorial Contests Always End in Death?
Where Was Writing Invented?
What is an Army Battalion?
In Politics, what does Vetting Mean?
What is a Social Security Card?
Who Are the 47 Ronin?
What is a Delegate?
What Was the Great Fire of London?
What are Minority Rights?
What Was Vichy France?
What is a Planning Commission?
What Was the Hanoi Hilton?
What Is a Census-Designated Place?
What is the League of Nations?
What is Water Privatization?
What Is a Tender Board?
What Was the October Revolution?
What is a Political Consultant?
What is the Shroud of Turin?
What Was the War of 1812?
What is an Embassy?
What Is Political Corruption?
What is a Totem Pole?
What is the FCC?
What Is a Tariff Classification?
What is a Harmonized System Tariff?
What is a Non-Binding Resolution?
What Was Hurricane Katrina?
What is Recidivism?
What is Nativism?
What are the Clay Tablets of Mesopotamia?
What is a Person of Interest?
What are Some Examples of Dirty Politics?
What are Military Ethics?
What is Zero Tolerance?
What Happened on October 28?
What is the Spanish-American War?
What is the White House Situation Room?
What Is Social Reconstruction?
What is Grassroots Activism?
What is a Ballot?
What Is Public Diplomacy?
Can There be a Mixed Presidential Ticket?
Who Was in Shakespeare's Family?
What Was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What Is a Triple Agent?
Have Pink and Blue Always Been Considered Gender-Specific Colors?
What is Zhou Dynasty?
What is Comparative Politics?
What Happened on October 2?
Who Were the Carpetbaggers?
What Is a Court Jester?
What is the Mossad?
What is the Senate Armed Services Committee?
What is the History of Alcatraz Prison?
What is the History of Medicaid?
What is the Quebec Act?
What is an Indirect Election?
What does a Legislator do?
What Was the Watergate Scandal?
What Was the First Assembly Line?
What is a Police State?
What Happened on November 1?
Why do Some Countries Have Both a President and a Prime Minister?
What Happened on November 23?
What does "Missing in Action" Mean?
What is a War Crime?
What is State Terrorism?
What is a Public Policy Institution?
What Happened at Krakatoa?
What Was the Yukon Gold Rush?
What are Federal Emissions Regulations?
What is Dereliction of Duty?
What Was the Titanic?
What is the Hope Diamond?
What is a Majority Rule?
What Was the Black Act?
What is Populism?
What are VOC Regulations?
What is the Difference Between SSI and SSDI?
What is a Mystery Cult?
Who Were the Vandals?
What is a Proprietary Colony?
What is a Constitutional Republic?
What Was the Iron Age?
What is an IED?
What is the House Judiciary Committee?
What is Centrism?
What is so Unique About the Year 2012?
What Happened on March 10?
What is a Burn Bag?
What are the Main Political Parties in France?
What is a Revolutionary War?
What is Stop-Loss Military Policy?
What Are Inherent Powers?
What is Pork Barrel Spending?
What is Encomienda?
What is a Papal Bull?
Why do They Say That the Irish Saved Civilization?
What is a Priest Hole?
What is the History of Fireworks?
What Is Military Intelligence?
What is a Social Security Office?
What is a Misdemeanor Offense?
What is the Black Hole of Calcutta?
What is a Citadel?
Did Soldiers on Opposing Sides Really Exchange Gifts in the Trenches in World War One?
What is Blackballing?
What is a State of Emergency?
What Was the Balfour Declaration?
What is a Tariff Schedule?
What is Gay Panic?
What is Realpolitik?
How are Names for Military Operations Chosen?
What is the OECD?
What is the California Gold Rush?
What are Blemmyes?
What is a City Council Meeting?
What Was the Pony Express?
What Are Liberal Politicians?
Who are the Log Cabin Republicans?
What Happened on November 18?
How can I Become More Politically Involved?
What Was the Berlin Wall?
What are the Different Types of Agricultural Policy?
What is the Geneva Convention?
What is the Ramayana?
What is an Energy Tariff?
What is a Living Wage?
What is Neoliberalism?
What is Tang Dynasty?
What Was the Hog Farm?
What is a Manifesto?
Why are Veterans Reluctant to Discuss Their War Experiences?
What is a Trial Balloon?
What is a Water Conflict?
What is Grassroots Advocacy?
What is the House Armed Services Committee?
What Happened on March 12?
What Is Kampuchea?
What Was the Children's Crusade?
What Happened on November 27?
What Was the Yom Kippur War?
What is a Voter Turnout?
How is Evidence Analyzed at a Crime Lab?
Did Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Draw a Crowd?
Why is the Donkey a Symbol of the Democrat Party?
What is a Political Moderate?
What is Public Policy?
What is Communism?
What is Left-Wing Politics?
What Happened on March 16?
What Happened on March 18?
What are Social Policies?
What Happened on March 24?
What Happened on March 30?
What Is a Passport Number?
What is a Ration Book?
What is a Diplomatic Passport?
What is Welfare?
What is the History of Father's Day?
What Happened on March 21?
What are the Main Political Parties in the United Kingdom?
What Happened on March 27?
What is Global Citizenship?
What is Tarring and Feathering?
What is a Trade Tariff?
What is a Federal System?
How can a Child Become Emancipated from Her Parents?
What are the Steps in the Negotiation Process?
In Politics, what is a Campaign Surrogate?
What is a Non-Governmental Organization?
What is a Lunar Calendar?
What Was the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
What is a No Confidence Vote?
What Happened on March 22?
What Was the English Civil War?
What is a Hotel Tariff?
What are Concurrent Powers?
What is the UN (United Nations)?
What is a "String of Pearls" Strategy?
What Was Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"?
Do You Have to Be Registered with a Political Party to Vote in the Primaries?
How does a Party Choose a Presidential Candidate?
What is Dual Citizenship?
What is the Difference Between the FBI and the CIA?
Were There Non-Nazi German Soldiers in WWII?
Who Were the Cavaliers?
What Was the Velvet Revolution?
What does the Coast Guard do?
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
What is Polygamy?
What is a Background Check?
What is an Unsub?
What is the Difference Between a State and a Territory?
What is Involved in Criminal Murder Investigations?
What is an Export Tariff?
What is the Largest Volcanic Eruption in Recorded History?
What is a Nation-State?
What are the Different Types of Litigation Cases?
What is the Roman Republic?
What is Desert Storm?
What is Issue Framing?
What is Terrorism?
What is a Social Contract?
What is a Class a Misdemeanor?
What is a Brokered Convention?
What is a Plurality Vote?
What is a Zeppelin?
What is the National Guard?
What Is an Offset Agreement?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What is Trench Warfare?
What is the French System of Government?
What is the Social Security Administration?
What is a Government Background Check?
What Is a Conservative Politician?
What Is a Biometric Passport?
What is Political Malpractice?
What is Flower Power?
What Are the Different Types of Public Policy Jobs?
What is the Green Party?
What is the Tower of London?
What is a Quorum Call?
What Was the Globe Theater?
What is a Workhouse?
What is an Ossuary?
What are K-Rations?
What is a Butterfly Ballot?
What is a Private Military Contractor?
What is the Origin of Valentine's Day?
What is Civil Service?
What Was the French Resistance?
What is Fiscal Administration?
What is Identity Politics?
What Are the Differences between a Limited and Absolute Monarchy?
How is a U.S. Presidential Election Decided?
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
How Does the Weather Affect Voter Behavior?
What is Fire Egress?
What is a Harmonized Tariff Code?
What Happened on January 3?
What Is Good Citizenship?
What Was the Taiping Rebellion?
What are Issue Networks?
What is the FDA?
What is a Harmonized Tariff Number?
What is the YMCA?
Who Were the Young Turks?
Why do We Have Leap Years?
What is Proportional Representation?
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
What is the Ming Dynasty?
What is an Open Primary Election?
What is Ranked Choice Voting?
What is a Notice to Vacate?
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
What Are Common Stereotypes of Politicians?
What is a Draft Card?
What is a Registered Social Landlord?
What is a Closed Primary?
What is a Noble Savage?
What is a Bomber's Moon?
What is Pigeon Post?
Who Was St. Francis?
What Is Government Strategic Planning?
What is a Merkhet?
What are the Federalist Papers?
What is a No-Fee Passport?
What Was the UK Poll Tax?
What is the Legion of Honor?
What are Political Ethics?
What is Egress Code?
What is Hadrian's Wall?
What is a Pow-Wow?
What is Contraband?
What is White Collar Crime?
What Were the Dark Ages?
What is Greek Fire?
What is a Private First Class?
What Was the Red Threat?
What is a Voice Vote?
What Was the Arian Heresy?
What is a Supermax Prison?
What Happened on October 14?
What is a Drunk Tank?
What is a Banana Republic?
What is a Political Philosophy?
Are Christmas and Easter Rooted in Pagan Rituals?
What Is a War of Attrition?
Did Slaves Really Use Quilt Codes on the Underground Railroad?
What is the Honor Guard?
What is Public Policy Management?
What is a Strigil?
What is Social Security Privatization?
What are the Different Social Security Benefits?
What is Vigilante Justice?
In Politics, what is Stumping?
What Was the French and Indian War?
What is a Doubloon?
What is a Gulag?
What does the Ways and Means Committee do?
What is a Misdemeanor Conviction?
What Was the Lusitania?
What Was the People's Temple?
What is a Federal Misdemeanor?
What is a Customs Tariff?
What is Structural Deficit?
What Was the Irish Renaissance?
What is a Green Card?
How do I Use a Form W-9?
What is a Crypt?
What Happened on November 15?
What is Laissez-Faire?
What Is a Political Climate?
What does Giving Someone the White Feather Mean?
What is a Trade Embargo?
What is a Coalition Government?
What Was the Dust Bowl?
What is Impeachment?
What Was the Meiji Period?
Who is Rama?
What Was the English Reformation?
What Was the Sago Mine Disaster?
What Makes a Country Sovereign?
What is the History of Silk?
What Is an Act of War?
What is the Public Health Act?
What Is a Politically Exposed Person?
Do I Have to Respond to a Subpoena?
How did Our Ancestors Predict the Weather?
What does the Consumer Product Safety Commission do?
What is a Buffer State?
What Was Jonestown?
How Can I Verify a Passport?
Who Were the Five Good Emperors?
What is a Gross Misdemeanor?
What Was the Berlin Airlift?
What Was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
What Are Public Sector Reforms?
What is a Plutocracy?
What Were the Opium Wars?
What Was the First Complete Alphabet?
What Should I Know About the Hellenistic Period?
What is Healthcare Policy?
What is a Suspect?
What is the Silk Road?
What is a Guard Tower?
What is the G20?
What is Spectral Evidence?
What is a Telecom Tariff?
What is a 21 Gun Salute?
What is the House Appropriations Committee?
What Was the Bhopal Disaster?
What is an Air Tariff?
What is a Two-Party System?
What is the Black Hills War?
What is a Police Background Check?
What Was Shays' Rebellion?
What is a One Party Democracy?
What is the USPTO?
What is a Senior Senator?
What is a Political Movement?
What Should I Know About the Roman Aqueducts?
What Happened on September 1?
What Is a Presidential Veto?
What is a Catapult?
What Happened on February 20?
What are the Different Types of Local Law Enforcement?
What is a Missing Man Formation?
What Is a Political Faction?
What is the Shoah?
What Were the Causes of the French Revolution?
What is an Enemy Combatant?
What are Riparian Rights?
What is Murder Incorporated?
What is a Meritocracy?
What is Cuneiform?
What are Tariff Rates?
Who is St. Jude?
What is a Public Policy Director?
Who Was King Tut?
What does It Mean to "Walk the Plank"?
What are Paratroopers?
What is the Social Security System?
What Was the KGB?
What is a Living Room War?
What is the Mongol Ascendancy?
What is a Bilateral Treaty?
Can You Influence the Vote of a Superdelegate?
What Happened on November 19?
Which Countries Have Been Led by Women?
What Happened on February 24?
Has Every U.S. President Been Sworn in with a Bible?
What Happened on March 2?
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