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History and Government (1536 Articles)
What Is a Passport Number?
Why is the Donkey a Symbol of the Democrat Party?
What is a Political Moderate?
In Politics, what is a Campaign Surrogate?
What are the Most Common Public Policy Issues?
Do You Have to Be Registered with a Political Party to Vote in the Primaries?
What Happened on March 1?
What Happened on March 2?
What Happened on March 3?
What Happened on March 5?
How does a Party Choose a Presidential Candidate?
What Happened on March 13?
What are Social Policies?
Did Roman Gladiatorial Contests Always End in Death?
How did the African Slave Trade Begin?
What are the Different Types of Military Tanks?
What Was the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
What Was the Rape of Nanjing?
What Happened on March 6?
What Happened on March 11?
Why do We Have Leap Years?
Who Was the First Person to Reach the North Pole?
Were There Non-Nazi German Soldiers in WWII?
What is a Hotel Tariff?
What are Government Agencies?
What is Waterboarding?
Why Was Elizabeth I Called "the Virgin Queen"?
Does an off-Duty Police Officer Have Authority?
What Was Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"?
Where can I Find Information About Political Candidates?
What Happened on March 8?
What Was Operation Ajax?
What Was the Velvet Revolution?
How can a Child Become Emancipated from Her Parents?
What are the Steps in the Negotiation Process?
What are the Different Types of Mental Health Policy?
What Happened to the Calendar in October 1582?
What is an Unsub?
What is a National ID Card?
What is Dual Citizenship?
Is It Really Illegal to Display the Swastika Symbol in Germany?
What is a Ballot?
How is a U.S. Presidential Election Decided?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
What is a Political Agenda?
What are the Clay Tablets of Mesopotamia?
Does a Background Check Reveal Immigration Status?
What is a Government Background Check?
What is Means of Egress?
What is a Guillotine?
What is Qualified Theft?
What is a City Council?
What is an Export Tariff?
What is a Closed Primary?
What are the Different Types of Litigation Cases?
What is a Class C Misdemeanor?
What is Political Conservatism?
What does the Coast Guard do?
What is an Open Primary Election?
How did Civilization Start?
What is Public Policy Theory?
What Are the Different Types of Public Policy Jobs?
What is a Tariff Code?
What is the Spanish Main?
What Percentage of Americans Died in the US Civil War?
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
What is Trench Warfare?
What Was the Red Threat?
What is a Ration Book?
In Politics, what is Stumping?
What is a Tulip Craze?
What is the Mexican System of Government?
What are Minority Rights?
What is a Class a Misdemeanor?
What Is a Biometric Passport?
What is the FCC?
What is a No Confidence Vote?
What Are the Main Political Parties in Germany?
What Was the English Civil War?
What is Proportional Representation?
Can There be a Mixed Presidential Ticket?
What is an Economic Policy?
What is Water Privatization?
What is Crime Mapping?
What is the Ming Dynasty?
What is an Ossuary?
Do my Kids Qualify for Reduced Price or Free Lunch?
What is a Notice to Vacate?
What is a Harmonized Tariff Code?
What is the House of Lords?
What is a Butterfly Ballot?
What are Issue Networks?
What is a Social Contract?
Who is Rama?
What is a Magistrate?
What is a Plurality Vote?
What Was the Hanoi Hilton?
Did Slaves Really Use Quilt Codes on the Underground Railroad?
Who Were the Cavaliers?
What are Concurrent Powers?
In Politics, what is Triangulation?
What is a War Crime?
What Were the Causes of the French Revolution?
What is a Flood Myth?
What is Rezoning?
What is Political Malpractice?
What is Centrism?
What is a Misdemeanor Conviction?
What Is a War of Attrition?
What is Emergency Egress?
What are Tariff Rates?
How do I Use a Form W-9?
Do I Have to Respond to a Subpoena?
How did Our Ancestors Predict the Weather?
What is a Workhouse?
What is a Federal System?
What Is a Tender Board?
What Is Government Strategic Planning?
What is a Merkhet?
What are Some Examples of Dirty Politics?
What Was the Taiping Rebellion?
What are Military Ethics?
What are Political Ethics?
What is a Private Military Contractor?
What is the Mossad?
What is Civil Service?
What is a Class B Misdemeanor?
What Was the French Resistance?
What is White Collar Crime?
What is a Plutocracy?
What is the Foundation Stone?
What Are the Differences between a Limited and Absolute Monarchy?
What is Atlantis?
What Was the Globe Theater?
What Happened on September 1?
Who Are the 47 Ronin?
Have Pink and Blue Always Been Considered Gender-Specific Colors?
What is an Embassy?
What Is Social Reconstruction?
What Are Public Sector Reforms?
What Was the First Assembly Line?
What is the Tower of London?
What is Identity Politics?
What is a Political Handler?
What is a Crypt?
What is Greek Fire?
What Was the First Complete Alphabet?
What does "Missing in Action" Mean?
What is a Social Security Card?
What is the Black Hills War?
What is a Buffer State?
What is Impeachment?
What is Comparative Politics?
What Happened on October 2?
What is a Drunk Tank?
What is Grassroots Activism?
What are the Different Types of Local Law Enforcement?
What is the History of Medicaid?
What Was the Irish Renaissance?
Who is St. Jude?
What is the House Appropriations Committee?
Who Was in Shakespeare's Family?
What is a Glebe?
What is a Constitutional Republic?
What is the Silk Road?
What Was the Arian Heresy?
What are Riparian Rights?
What Was the French and Indian War?
What is a Guard Tower?
Why do They Say That the Irish Saved Civilization?
What is a Supermax Prison?
What is Grassroots Advocacy?
What Happened on February 26?
What is a Planning Commission?
What is a Burn Bag?
What is a Political Movement?
Which Countries Have the Highest Voter Turnout?
Was Winston Churchill the Target of Assassination Attempts?
What Should I Know About the Roman Aqueducts?
Who Was King Tut?
Who is St. Valentine?
What is Encomienda?
What Was the Yukon Gold Rush?
What is a Police Background Check?
What is a Catapult?
What is Involved in Making Public Policy?
What Was the Pony Express?
What is Realpolitik?
What is a Green Card?
What is a Missing Man Formation?
What Happened on November 1?
Why do Some Countries Have Both a President and a Prime Minister?
How can I Become More Politically Involved?
What are Paratroopers?
Who Were the Carpetbaggers?
What is a Gross Misdemeanor?
What Happened on February 20?
What is Hadrian's Wall?
What Was the Berlin Airlift?
What is an Energy Tariff?
What is a Senior Senator?
What is a Majority Rule?
What Are Liberal Politicians?
What Is Kampuchea?
What is the National Guard?
Who are the Log Cabin Republicans?
What is a Public Policy Director?
What is an Air Tariff?
What is a Citadel?
What are the Origins of the Necktie?
What is the Legion of Honor?
What is a One Party Democracy?
What is a Customs Tariff?
What is Cuneiform?
What Was the Indus Valley Civilization?
What Happened on November 27?
What is a Proprietary Colony?
What is a Coalition Government?
What is a Draft Dodger?
What Is a Presidential Veto?
What is Murder Incorporated?
What is Dereliction of Duty?
What is a Shield Law?
What Makes a Country Sovereign?
What is a Living Wage?
What is Neoliberalism?
What is Qin Dynasty?
What Was the Korean War?
What Was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who Was Jane Seymour?
What is the Lighthouse of Alexandria?
What is a Meritocracy?
Has Every U.S. President Been Sworn in with a Bible?
What Happened on December 10?
Who Were the Vandals?
What is the California Gold Rush?
What Happened at Krakatoa?
What are Blemmyes?
What Happened on February 12?
What Was the Lusitania?
What is a Tariff Policy?
What Was the Hog Farm?
What does It Mean to "Walk the Plank"?
What are K-Rations?
What is a Papal Bull?
What Happened on February 24?
What Happened on February 21?
What is the History of Father's Day?
What is the USPTO?
What is the Difference Between a Republic and a Democracy?
What is the Difference Between a Parliamentary and Presidential System of Government?
What is Public Policy?
What is a Diplomatic Passport?
What is Communism?
What is the Difference Between a Sheriff and a Police Officer?
What is a Brokered Convention?
What is the Gregorian Calendar?
What Happened on March 4?
What Happened on March 9?
What Happened on March 12?
What Happened on March 14?
What is the Difference Between a President and a King?
Who Was the Richest Person in History?
What is Apartheid?
What Is Political Corruption?
What is Pandering?
What Happened on March 7?
What Happened on March 10?
What are the Main Political Parties in the United Kingdom?
What is Global Citizenship?
What is Tarring and Feathering?
What is a Battlefield Cross?
How did Ancient Egyptians Make Mummies?
What is Laissez-Faire?
What Is a Career Politician?
What Happened on January 3?
What is a Delegate?
What is Patriotism?
What is Left-Wing Politics?
What is the Difference Between the FBI and the CIA?
What Is a Constitutional Monarchy?
What does "Across the Aisle" Mean?
Who is Benito Mussolini?
What is Governmentality?
What is Polygamy?
What is a Background Check?
What is Welfare?
What is Public Health Policy?
What is Fiscal Administration?
What is a Nation-State?
What is Public Policy Administration?
What are Human Rights?
What is Issue Framing?
What Was the Tokyo Firebombing?
In Politics, what does Vetting Mean?
What is Ranked Choice Voting?
What is Democratic Socialism?
What Was the Stone Age?
Why do Politicians Have Such a Bad Reputation?
What is Egress Code?
What is the YMCA?
What is the Maginot Line?
What is the Green Party?
What Are Tank Traps?
What is the League of Nations?
Who Were the Plantagenets?
What is Desert Storm?
Do Pirates Still Exist?
What is a Tariff Number?
What is a Draft Card?
When Was the French Revolution?
What is the Difference Between a State and a Territory?
What is Social Equality?
What are Tariff Barriers?
What is a Zeppelin?
Who Was St. Francis?
What is the UN (United Nations)?
What is the Social Security Administration?
What is OPEC?
What is a Non-Governmental Organization?
What Is a Conservative Politician?
What is a Doubloon?
What is the FDA?
What is the Great Plague?
What is Public Policy Analysis?
What Was Vichy France?
What is Involved in Criminal Murder Investigations?
What is the Largest Volcanic Eruption in Recorded History?
What Were the Opium Wars?
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
What is Public Policy Management?
What Is an Offset Agreement?
What Is a Liberal Politician?
What is Fire Egress?
What is NATO?
What is the French System of Government?
What is a U-Boat?
What is a Person of Interest?
What does a State Police Officer do?
What is Vigilante Justice?
What is Regional Planning?
What is a Lunar Calendar?
What is a Gulag?
What is the Ramayana?
What is a Non-Binding Resolution?
Who Were the Young Turks?
What Was the Irish Potato Famine?
What are Bilateral Relations?
Where Was Writing Invented?
What is an Army Battalion?
What does Giving Someone the White Feather Mean?
What Is Hot Bunking?
What is a "String of Pearls" Strategy?
What Was the UK Poll Tax?
What is a Welfare State?
What is a Banana Republic?
What is a Registered Social Landlord?
What is a Federal Misdemeanor?
What is an Indirect Election?
Who Was the First Person to Reach the South Pole?
What is a Bomber's Moon?
What is the Difference Between SSI and SSDI?
What is Recidivism?
What is the OECD?
What is a Strigil?
What is Social Security Privatization?
What is State Terrorism?
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
What are the Different Social Security Benefits?
What is a Political Consultant?
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
What Are Common Stereotypes of Politicians?
What is a Totem Pole?
What is a Harmonized Tariff Number?
What Is a Tariff Classification?
What is so Unique About the Year 2012?
What is Contraband?
What is Structural Deficit?
What is Independence?
What is the Age of Sail?
What Is Public Diplomacy?
What is Pigeon Post?
What is Qing Dynasty?
What Is a Political Climate?
What Should I Know About the Hellenistic Period?
What is a Public Policy Institution?
What is Terrorism?
What is the Origin of Valentine's Day?
What is a Pow-Wow?
What is a Noble Savage?
What Was Hurricane Katrina?
What Were the Dark Ages?
What Is a Politically Exposed Person?
What is a Social Security Office?
What is a Mystery Cult?
What Was the Bhopal Disaster?
What is the Roman Republic?
What is a Private First Class?
What is a Trade Embargo?
What Is a Triple Agent?
What Is Good Citizenship?
What is the Shroud of Turin?
What Was the War of 1812?
What Happened on October 14?
What Was the KGB?
What Was the People's Temple?
What is a Telecom Tariff?
What is the Hope Diamond?
What are the Main Political Parties in France?
What is the Honor Guard?
How Does the Weather Affect Voter Behavior?
What Happened on November 23?
What is Occupational Health Policy?
What is Zhou Dynasty?
What Was Jonestown?
What is a No-Fee Passport?
What are Federal Emissions Regulations?
How Can I Verify a Passport?
What is a City Council Meeting?
What is an IED?
What is the White House Situation Room?
What is a Political Philosophy?
What is a Priest Hole?
What is the Mongol Ascendancy?
What Is Military Intelligence?
What Is a Census-Designated Place?
What is a 21 Gun Salute?
Who are the Ancient Greek Gods?
What is a Trade Tariff?
In China, what Was the Down to the Countryside Movement?
Did Soldiers on Opposing Sides Really Exchange Gifts in the Trenches in World War One?
What is Blackballing?
What Was the Great Fire of London?
What is a Statesman?
What is the Spanish-American War?
What Was the Titanic?
What is the Senate Armed Services Committee?
What does a Legislator do?
What are VOC Regulations?
What is a Revolutionary War?
What Is a Political Faction?
Who is General Lafayette?
Why are Veterans Reluctant to Discuss Their War Experiences?
What is Zero Tolerance?
What Is a Court Jester?
What is Flower Power?
Are Christmas and Easter Rooted in Pagan Rituals?
What is the History of Alcatraz Prison?
What is the History of Fireworks?
What Was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
What is April Fool's Day?
What is the History of Silk?
What Is an Act of War?
What is Populism?
What is a Police State?
What Happened on November 15?
What Happened on November 19?
What Happened on November 18?
What Was the October Revolution?
What are the Federalist Papers?
What is the House Judiciary Committee?
What Was the English Reformation?
What Happened on March 15?
What is a Misdemeanor Offense?
What is the Black Hole of Calcutta?
What does the Consumer Product Safety Commission do?
What Are Inherent Powers?
What Was the Iron Age?
What is Chainmail?
What Was the Balfour Declaration?
What Was the Industrial Revolution?
What is the House Armed Services Committee?
What Was the Sago Mine Disaster?
What Happened on December 14?
What Was the Watergate Scandal?
What is a Quorum Call?
What is Tang Dynasty?
What is Nativism?
What is a Manifesto?
What Was the Berlin Wall?
What Was Shays' Rebellion?
What does the Ways and Means Committee do?
What is a Harmonized System Tariff?
What is Gay Panic?
What is Healthcare Policy?
What is an Enemy Combatant?
What Happened on January 21?
What Happened on October 28?
What Happened on February 27?
What is Spectral Evidence?
How are Names for Military Operations Chosen?
What is the Shoah?
What is a Sundown Town?
What Was the Dust Bowl?
What is a Trial Balloon?
What Happened on February 22?
What is a Tariff Schedule?
What is a Living Room War?
What Happened on December 8?
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