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Wright was one of the world's most influential architects whose masterpieces include NY's Guggenheim Museum. His Chicago "Prairie Houses" complement their landscape with low horizontal lines and projecting eaves; they are also credited with being the first examples of the "open plan," which achieves a fluidity of interior space by eliminating walls between rooms. The most famous private residence he designed is called "Fallingwater," which incorporates what kind of geological formation?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 30 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Brooks was an award-winning poet whose poems, written in a variety of forms, deal with the experience of being black and often of being female in America. Her 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen, received a Pulitzer Prize, the first ever awarded to an African American. In 1994, she was named the National Endowment for the Humanities's Jefferson Lecturer, one of the highest honors in the American literary world. How old was Brooks when her first poem was published?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 33 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Sukarno helped Indonesia win independence from the Netherlands and served as the country's first president. He attempted to consolidate his multi-island nation and establish a "guided democracy," with a cabinet representing all political parties. Regional and factional problems, however, led him to dissolve the assembly and assume full dictatorial powers. He proclaimed himself president for life in 1963, but an attempted Communist coup late in 1965 triggered a military takeover by whom?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 34 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Garrett was a lawman, bartender, and customs agent who was appointed sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, in 1880. As sheriff, he was charged with tracking down and arresting Henry McCarty, a jail escapee and participant in the Lincoln County War, better known as Billy the Kid. How did Garrett ultimately succeed in killing "the Kid," and why did this act eventually sully his reputation?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 35 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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King George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland. During his reign, Britain lost many of its colonies in N America, and the realms of Great Britain and Ireland united to form the UK. He suffered a short nervous breakdown in 1765 and a more serious one beginning in 1788, sparking a conflict over the powers to be vested in the regency. His mental condition continued to decline, and he became permanently insane in 1810. One theory claims his condition was a result of what metabolic disorder?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 36 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Davis was the only President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He served in both houses of the US Congress, fought in the Mexican War as colonel of a volunteer regiment, and was elected President in 1861. A West Point graduate, Davis prided himself on his military skills and closely managed the Confederate army. When the war ended, he was indicted on charges of treason and imprisoned for two years. Davis was briefly married to the daughter of what US president?
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Avatar Posted by lanerough 37 days ago (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com)
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Hardy was an English writer and poet of the naturalist movement. His characters, for the most part, are members of the poorer rural classes and are sympathetically and often humorously portrayed. Their lives are ruled not only by nature, but also by rigid Victorian social conventions; the physical harshness of the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape that they occupy echoes that of an indifferent universe. Why did Hardy give up writing novels altogether at the height of his success?
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Young was an early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or Mormon Church. He helped maintain the unity of the church after Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was assassinated in 1844. He led the great migration west and established a settlement at Salt Lake City, where the Church is headquartered today. He defended Mormon interests during the Utah War, eventually losing his post as governor of Utah. A known polygamist, Young had dozens of wives and how many children?
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