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History and Government (1506 Articles)
What Happened on November 8?
What Happened on November 5?
What is the Difference Between a Republic and a Democracy?
What is Separatism?
What is a Notice to Vacate?
What is Public Policy?
What is a Diplomatic Passport?
What Happened to the Calendar in October 1582?
What is a Political Philosophy?
What Happened on November 1?
What Happened on November 3?
What Happened on November 14?
What Happened on November 11?
What is a Federal System?
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
What is a Trade Embargo?
What is a Non-Governmental Organization?
What is Patriotism?
What is the Difference Between a Sheriff and a Police Officer?
What is Spectral Evidence?
What is Psephology?
Is It Really Illegal to Display the Swastika Symbol in Germany?
Who Was the First Person to Reach the North Pole?
Do I Have to Respond to a Subpoena?
What Happened on November 9?
What Happened on November 13?
What is Apartheid?
Does a Background Check Reveal Immigration Status?
What is a Buffer State?
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
What Was Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"?
What is a Class a Misdemeanor?
What is Dereliction of Duty?
What is the History of Alcatraz Prison?
What is Social Equality?
What Was the Lost Colony?
What is Habitat for Humanity?
What is the Difference Between SSI and SSDI?
What is an Atlas?
What is NATO?
What is Sine Qua Non?
What is a Stump Speech?
How Can I Verify a Passport?
What are the Most Common Public Policy Issues?
What is Appeasement?
What is so Unique About the Year 2012?
How do I Use a Form W-9?
What is a Crypt?
What Was the Great Schism?
What is Issue Framing?
What is Extraordinary Rendition?
What is the Mexican System of Government?
What is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?
What Is a Politically Exposed Person?
What is a Class C Misdemeanor?
What Is a Passport Number?
What is a Merkhet?
What Was Woodstock?
What is a No Confidence Vote?
What are Social Policies?
What is the Difference Between the FBI and the CIA?
How did Ancient Egyptians Make Mummies?
What does "Across the Aisle" Mean?
Why Was Elizabeth I Called "the Virgin Queen"?
What are the Steps in the Negotiation Process?
What Was the Warsaw Pact?
What Happened on October 31?
What is Public Policy Analysis?
What is Qualified Theft?
What is Grassroots Activism?
What does a Legislator do?
What is a Plutocracy?
What is the Difference Between a President and a King?
What Was the Velvet Revolution?
What is a Political Agenda?
Do my Kids Qualify for Reduced Price or Free Lunch?
What Was the Iron Age?
What Is a Biometric Passport?
What Was the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
What Is an Aristocracy?
What is Qin Dynasty?
What Is an Offset Agreement?
How can a Child Become Emancipated from Her Parents?
What Is a Triple Agent?
What are Some Examples of Dirty Politics?
What Was the UK Poll Tax?
What is a Banana Republic?
What is White Collar Crime?
What is a Political Movement?
What is a Bomber's Moon?
Who Was St. Francis?
What is a Harmonized Tariff Code?
What is Regional Planning?
What is a Private Military Contractor?
What Was the Titanic?
What is a City Council?
What is the Spanish Main?
What is a Noble Savage?
What is Global Citizenship?
Who are the Ancient Greek Gods?
Do Pirates Still Exist?
What is a Papal Bull?
What is an IED?
What is a Misdemeanor Conviction?
What are the Central Powers?
What is a Senior Senator?
What Was Hurricane Katrina?
How Are Utilities Subsidized in Turkmenistan?
What are Human Rights?
What is a Trade Tariff?
What Was the Tokyo Firebombing?
What is the French System of Government?
What does a State Police Officer do?
What is OPEC?
Why do Politicians Have Such a Bad Reputation?
What Was the Industrial Revolution?
Do You Have to Be Registered with a Political Party to Vote in the Primaries?
What is a Subcommittee?
What Was the French Resistance?
What is Trade Negotiation?
Are Members of Parliament Allowed to Drink Alcohol in the House of Commons?
What Is a Political Climate?
What is Trench Warfare?
What is Vigilante Justice?
What are Riparian Rights?
What is the FDA?
What are the Different Law Enforcement Agencies?
Do Politicians Ever Write Their Own Speeches?
What is Head Start?
What Is a War of Attrition?
What is the Foundation Stone?
What is Neoliberalism?
What Is a Constitutional Monarchy?
Who Was Oliver Cromwell?
What is the Roman Republic?
How can I Become More Politically Involved?
What is the Act of Settlement?
What is a U-Boat?
What Was the War of 1812?
What is a Demesne?
What is Flower Power?
What is Hispanic Heritage Month?
What is the Green Party?
What are Bilateral Relations?
What Was the Bhopal Disaster?
What is a Car Tariff?
Who Were the Anasazi?
What is an Embassy?
What is Classified Information?
What is a Telecom Tariff?
What is a Plurality Vote?
What is Qing Dynasty?
Where Was Writing Invented?
What Is a Wildcat Strike?
What Was Custer's Last Stand?
What is Encomienda?
What Was the Taiping Rebellion?
What Was Shays' Rebellion?
What is a City Council Meeting?
What is a Totem Pole?
What is Political Malpractice?
What Are the Different Types of Public Policy Jobs?
What is a Customs Tariff?
What Was the Black Act?
What is a Workhouse?
What is Governmentality?
What is the Great Plague?
What is a Drunk Tank?
What is an FBI File?
What is a Harmonized System Tariff?
What is a Revolutionary War?
What is a Manifesto?
What is the Social Security Administration?
What is Capital Litigation?
What is a Priest Hole?
What Are Postmodern Politics?
What is Emergency Egress?
What Is an Act of War?
What is Populism?
How are Names for Military Operations Chosen?
What does "Missing in Action" Mean?
Who Was Jane Seymour?
What are the Different Types of Mental Health Policy?
What Happened on October 30?
What is the Price Revolution?
What is a Living Room War?
What is Perestroika?
Who Were the Proponents of Apartheid in South Africa?
What is Recidivism?
Why do Some Countries Have Both a President and a Prime Minister?
Who Were the Vandals?
What Was Fat Man?
What Was Jonestown?
What is a Gulag?
What is the History of Father's Day?
What are the Different Types of Law Enforcement Uniforms?
During WWII, what Was the Final Solution?
What is Independence?
Who Was Rasputin?
What Is a Legislation Amendment?
Who is St. Jude?
What is an Iron Maiden?
What is Annexation?
What is the National Labor Relations Board?
What Was the KGB?
What is a Planning Commission?
What is an Indirect Election?
What is the History of Teddy Bears?
What Is a Census-Designated Place?
What is Pigeon Post?
What is Political Conservatism?
What does the Consumer Product Safety Commission do?
What is a State of Emergency?
What Are Public Sector Reforms?
Who Was King Tut?
Who is General Lafayette?
Where did Paisley Print Come from?
What is the History of Cannabis?
What is a Public Policy Institution?
What is Posse Comitatus?
What Is a Conservative Politician?
What Was the Crimean War?
What is a Gross Misdemeanor?
What is the Mossad?
What is a Stiletto?
What Was the People's Temple?
What is a Non-Binding Resolution?
What is a Zeppelin?
What Is Progressivism?
What is a Bid Protest?
What Happened on September 13?
What is Democratic Socialism?
What is a Social Contract?
How Often Did People Receive Mail in the Victorian Era?
What Happened on August 29?
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
What is Maritime Piracy?
What is Social Security Privatization?
What Should I Know About the Hellenistic Period?
What is a Protectorate?
What is the California Gold Rush?
What is Comparative Politics?
What is a Meritocracy?
When Was the French Revolution?
What Was the English Reformation?
What Are the Main Political Parties in Germany?
What Were the Dark Ages?
What is the League of Nations?
What Was the Indus Valley Civilization?
What is a Regicide?
What Happened on November 4?
What Happened on November 7?
What is the Difference Between a Parliamentary and Presidential System of Government?
What is Fascism?
Does an off-Duty Police Officer Have Authority?
What is Blackballing?
What are Issue Networks?
What is Communism?
What is an Incumbent?
What Happened on November 2?
What Happened on November 6?
What are Government Agencies?
What is a Citizen's Arrest?
Why is the Donkey a Symbol of the Democrat Party?
What is a Social Security Card?
What Was the Stone Age?
What are Military Ethics?
What is Welfare?
What are Mid-Term Elections?
What is an Export Tariff?
What Was the Irish Potato Famine?
What is a Nation-State?
Were There Non-Nazi German Soldiers in WWII?
What Was the Children's Crusade?
What Happened on November 12?
How did the African Slave Trade Begin?
What is a Concession Speech?
What is a "String of Pearls" Strategy?
What is a Flood Myth?
What is a Butterfly Ballot?
What are Minority Rights?
What is the Ramayana?
What Is Social Reconstruction?
Where can I Find Information About Political Candidates?
What is Involved in Criminal Murder Investigations?
Why do We Have Leap Years?
What Is Public Diplomacy?
What Happened on November 10?
What is a Political Moderate?
What is a Proprietary Colony?
What is a Fief?
What Is a Presidential Veto?
What are Political Ethics?
What is Involved in Making Public Policy?
What Was the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration?
What is the Largest Volcanic Eruption in Recorded History?
What is Contempt of Congress?
What is a Power Vacuum?
What Was the Lord of Misrule?
What is the UN (United Nations)?
What is Terrorism?
What Was the Boxer Rebellion?
What is a Ballot?
What is a Battlefield Cross?
What are Concurrent Powers?
What does the Coast Guard do?
In Politics, what is Stumping?
What is the Difference Between a State and a Territory?
What is a National ID Card?
What are the Main Political Parties in the United Kingdom?
Who Were the Cavaliers?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What is an Ossuary?
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
What is the House of Lords?
What is a Tariff Number?
What does the Ways and Means Committee do?
What is a Magistrate?
What is the Gregorian Calendar?
What is Structural Deficit?
What Was the Watergate Scandal?
What are Tariff Barriers?
What is Proportional Representation?
Are the World’s Biggest Pyramids All Located in Egypt?
What are the Clay Tablets of Mesopotamia?
In Politics, what is a Campaign Surrogate?
What is a Background Check?
What is a Welfare State?
What is Pandering?
What is Tarring and Feathering?
What is Atlantis?
What is Greek Fire?
What Is a Career Politician?
Who is Benito Mussolini?
What are the Different Types of Military Tanks?
What is a Lunar Calendar?
What Was the Rape of Nanjing?
What is the History of Silk?
What are Tariff Rates?
What is an Economic Policy?
What does Giving Someone the White Feather Mean?
What is a Political Consultant?
What is a Draft Card?
What is Public Policy Theory?
What is a Tariff Code?
What is a Federal Misdemeanor?
What is Public Health Policy?
What is the History of Veterans Day?
What are the Different Types of Litigation Cases?
What is Desert Storm?
What is a Government Background Check?
What Is Political Corruption?
What is Means of Egress?
What is the YMCA?
What is the History of Fireworks?
What Was the Hanoi Hilton?
What Are the Differences between a Limited and Absolute Monarchy?
Was Gunpowder Invented on Purpose?
What Happened on November 15?
What Is a Liberal Politician?
In Politics, what does Vetting Mean?
What Was the Red Threat?
Have Pink and Blue Always Been Considered Gender-Specific Colors?
What Happened at Krakatoa?
What is a Harmonized Tariff Number?
What is a Guillotine?
What Was Vichy France?
What is the Hope Diamond?
What is Dual Citizenship?
Who Were the Plantagenets?
What is Waterboarding?
What is a Citadel?
What is Healthcare Policy?
What is a Tulip Craze?
What is Zero Tolerance?
How did Civilization Start?
What is the FCC?
What Is a Tariff Classification?
What is a Game Warden?
What Is Military Intelligence?
What is Kampuchea?
What is Public Policy Administration?
What is the House Appropriations Committee?
What is a Mystery Cult?
What is a Strigil?
What is Fire Egress?
Did Soldiers on Opposing Sides Really Exchange Gifts in the Trenches in World War One?
What is a Delegate?
What is a Doubloon?
What is Grassroots Advocacy?
What is Left-Wing Politics?
What is the Mongol Ascendancy?
Did Slaves Really Use Quilt Codes on the Underground Railroad?
How did Our Ancestors Predict the Weather?
What is an Open Primary Election?
What is Impeachment?
What Are Common Stereotypes of Politicians?
Why do They Say That the Irish Saved Civilization?
Are Christmas and Easter Rooted in Pagan Rituals?
How does a Party Choose a Presidential Candidate?
What is Public Policy Management?
What is a Hotel Tariff?
What Was the Golden Age of Piracy?
Why are Veterans Reluctant to Discuss Their War Experiences?
What Is a Signing Ceremony?
What Was the Arian Heresy?
What is a Statesman?
What is the Legion of Honor?
What is Polygamy?
What is Social Spending?
Who is Rama?
What is a Class B Misdemeanor?
What is a Broadsword?
What is a Legislative Order?
What Is Political Abuse?
What Was the Papal Schism?
Who Were the Carpetbaggers?
What Is a Resistance Movement?
What is the Ishtar Gate?
What Was Operation Ajax?
What is Infantry?
What does It Mean to "Walk the Plank"?
What Is Good Citizenship?
What is a No-Fee Passport?
What is a Pow-Wow?
What is a Green Card?
What are the Main Political Parties in France?
What is Fiscal Administration?
What Are Tank Traps?
How is a U.S. Presidential Election Decided?
What is Enhanced Interrogation?
What is NIMBY?
What Was the Battle of Shiloh?
What Happened on October 29?
What Is a Secular State?
What is the USPTO?
What is a Closed Primary?
What Were the White Night Riots?
What Happened on November 20?
What Was the Spanish Civil War?
In Politics, what is Triangulation?
What is a Coalition Government?
What is Rezoning?
What is Anti-Communism?
What is Civil Service?
Why does NORAD Track Santa Claus?
Who Were the Young Turks?
What is a Micronation?
Did the Swastika Symbol Really Originate in Some Eastern Religions?
Why is May 25th an Important Date in Argentina?
What is a Political Handler?
What Was the First Complete Alphabet?
What is a Person of Interest?
Who Were the Five Good Emperors?
What are Blue Laws?
What is April Fool's Day?
What is a Living Wage?
What is the Tower of London?
What is Identity Politics?
What are Catacombs?
What is Nativism?
What Are Inherent Powers?
What Happened on October 28?
What is a Misdemeanor Offense?
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
What is an Air Tariff?
What is a Leper Colony?
What is the Black Hills War?
What Were Bacchanalia?
What are Blemmyes?
What is Andersonville?
What Is a Court Jester?
What is a One Party Democracy?
What is Egress Code?
What Was the Stamp Act?
What is the History of Medicaid?
What Was the Irish Renaissance?
Who Was the First Person to Reach the South Pole?
What is a Consulate?
What is Tang Dynasty?
What Was the October Revolution?
What are the Different Law Enforcement Badges?
What is a Government Bid?
What is a Bilateral Treaty?
What is a Tariff Policy?
What is Water Privatization?
What Is a Political Myth?
What Happened on September 4?
What Was the Velvet Divorce?
What Circumstances Trigger an Election Recount?
What is a Gladiator?
What Was the Vela Incident?
What is a Water Conflict?
What is the Temple of Dendur?
How is a New Pope Chosen?
What Was Project Mercury?
What is a Moat?
What is Nuclear Weapons Proliferation?
What is Counterintelligence?
What Was the Golden Horde?
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