Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as 21st President of the United States. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the 20th Vice President in the administration of James Garfield. Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, a disgruntled office seeker, on July 2, 1881. Garfield died on Septem ...

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Chester is the county town of Cheshire in North West England. It is situated on the River Dee close to the border with Wales, and is one of the best-preserved walled cities in the country. It is the main settlement in the City of Chester local government district. The adjective associated with the city is Cestrian. The patron saint of Chester is Saint Werburgh. According to the 2001 census the population of the Chester urban area, including Broughton and Saltney (w ...

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• Chester - Media
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Christian views of women vary considerably today and have varied even more throughout the last two millennia, evolving along with or counter to the societies in which Christians have lived. Some contemporary observers accuse Christianity of holding a negative view of women. Others believe Christianity has inspired gender equality. As an example of these opposing views, many societies containing large groups of Christians granted women basic rights of equality in both legal and social terms within the past two centuries. On the ...

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• Christian views of women - Historically
• Christian views of women - Currently
• Christian views of women - Biblical arguments for equal roles
• Christian views of women - Biblical arguments for distinct gender roles
• Christian views of women - Mary the mother of Jesus

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Worcester is a city in Worcester County in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States of America. Its population in the 2000 census was 172,648; a July 1, 2002, estimate put the city's population at 174,962. In terms of population, Worcester is the third largest city in New England, behind Boston and Providence, Rhode Island. Worcester is also the second largest city in Massachusetts and ...

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• Worcester Massachusetts - Transportation
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• Worcester Massachusetts - Born in Worcester
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The Cimetière de Passy is a famous cemetery located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. In the early 19th century, on the orders of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, all the cemeteries in Paris were replaced by several large new ones. Outside the precincts of the capital, the Cimetière de Montmartre was built in the north, the Cimetière Père Lachaise in the east, and the Cimetière du Montparnasse in the south. The Cimetière ...

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The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. It is in the 14 th arrondissement. Created from three farms in 1824, the Montparnasse cemetery was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786 due to health concerns. Several new cemeteries outside of the precincts of the capital replaced all the internal Parisian ones in the early 19th cent ...

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 – Serbia    – Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    – Vojvodina  – Montenegro The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbian: Аутономна Покрајина Војводина/Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina, Hungarian: Vajdaság Autonóm Tartomány, Slovak: Autonómna Provincia Vojvodina, Romanian: Provincia Autonomă Voievodina, Croatian: Including:

• Vojvodina - Name
• Vojvodina - History
• Vojvodina - Geography
• Vojvodina - Districts
• Vojvodina - Cities
• Vojvodina - Demographics
• Vojvodina - Politics
• Vojvodina - Culture

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The Feminist movement (also known as the Women's Movement and Women's Liberation) campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, sexual harassment, discrimination and sexual violence. The goals of the movement vary from country to country, e.g. female circumcision in Sudan, or the glass ceiling in European countries. Some issues, such as rape, incest, and mothering are universal. The Feminist movement is the social reform and activism component of Feminism. Including:

• Feminist movement - Achievements
• Feminist movement - Early Achievements
• Feminist movement - Effect on heterosexual relationships
• Feminist movement - Effect on religion
• Feminist movement - Effect on moral education
• Feminist movement - History
• Feminist movement - Prior to 1850
• Feminist movement - In the 19th century
• Feminist movement - In the 20th century
• Feminist movement - Recent activities
• Feminist movement - Notable historical feminists
• Feminist movement - Relationship to other movements
• Feminist movement - General
• Feminist movement - History
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Woolwich ['wʊlɪtʃ] is a town in south-east London, England in the London Borough of Greenwich, on the south side of the River Thames, though the tiny exclave of North Woolwich (which is now part of the London Borough of Newham) is on the north side of the river. It was home to the United Kingdom's first McDonald's, in 1974. It is notable as a river crossing point, having the Woolwich Ferry (and the lesser-known Woolwich foot tunnel), and as the one-time home of the Woolwi ...

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The Cherokee Trail was a historic trail in the present-day U.S. states of Colorado and Wyoming that was used from the late 1840s up through the early 1860s. The route was established in 1848 along the base of the Rocky Mountains by a group of Cherokee on their way from Oklahoma to California to search for settlement lands for their tribe. The trail was later used by other Cherokee as well as European settlers to drive cattle along the base of the mountains. The route of the trail ran northward from the Santa Fe Trail on the Arkansas R ...

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Chelmsford is a town in the county of Essex, in the United Kingdom.It lies 31 miles (50 km) northeast of London, approximately halfway between there and Colchester. It is almost exactly in the centre of the county and it has been the county town of Essex since the early 13th century. It is also the seat of the Borough of Chelmsford, which covers a wider area than the town, including the new (1970s-on) settlement of South Woodham Ferrers on the banks of the River Crouch. The Borough Council celebrated its centenary in ...

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Charles George Gordon, C.B. (January 28, 1833 - January 26, 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his exploits in China and northern Africa. Charles George Gordon - Early career. Born in Woolwich, the fourth son of General H. W. Gordon of the Royal Artillery. He was educated at Taunton School and then at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich starting in 1848. He was commissioned in 1852 a ...

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Sir Charles Lyell (November 14, 1797 – February 22, 1875), British lawyer, geologist, and popularizer of uniformitarianism. Charles Lyell was born in Kinnordy, Forfarshire, Scotland, the eldest of ten children. Lyell's father, also named Charles, was a botanist of minor repute and first exposed the younger Charles to the study of nature. Having attended Exeter College, Oxford ending in 1816, Lyell encountered geology as a serious profession under the wing of William Buckland. Upon graduation he took a professional detour into ...

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Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (8 September 1814 – 8 January 1874) was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies, travelling extensively in the region. His writings, publications, and recovery of historical documents contributed much to the later understanding of the region's languages, writing, history and culture (in particular, that of the Maya and Aztec). Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg - Early life and writings. < ...

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• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg - Discovery of de Landa's work
• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg - Publication of Popol Vuh
• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg - Identification of Maya codex
• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg - Death assessment of accomplishments
• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg - List of publications

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Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved lasting fame by establishing the fact of evolution and originating the theory that this could be explained through natural and sexual selection. He developed his interest in natural history while studying first medicine, then theology, at university. Darwin's five-year voyage on the Beagle and subsequent writings brought him eminence as a geologist and fame as a popular author. His biological observations led him to study t ...

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• Charles Darwin - Reaction
• Charles Darwin - Further work until his death
• Charles Darwin - Religious views
• Charles Darwin - Legacy
• Charles Darwin - Commemoration
• Charles Darwin - Eugenics
• Charles Darwin - Social Darwinism
• Charles Darwin - Works
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Zheng He (Traditional: 鄭和; Simplified: 郑和; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhèng Hé; Wade-Giles: Cheng Ho; Birth name: 馬三寶 / 马三宝; pinyin: Mǎ Sānbǎo; Arabic name: Hajji Mahmud) (1371 – 1433), the most well-known Chinese mariner and explorer who made the voyages collectively referred to as the travels of "Eunuch Sanbao to the Western Ocean" (三保太監下西洋) or "Zheng He to the Western Ocean", from 1405 to 1433. ...

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• Zheng He - Connection to the history of Late Imperial China
• Zheng He - Cultural echoes

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Charles Pickering (November 10, 1805 – March 17, 1878) was an American naturalist. Born in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, the grandson of Colonel Thomas Pickering, he grew up in Wenham, Massachusetts and received a medical degree from Harvard University in 1823. A practicing physician in Philadelphia, he became active as librarian and curator at the city's Academy of Natural Sciences. Pickering went with the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 as one of its naturalists, then upon his return was appointed to a post at the Patent Office. This did not last lo ...

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Sir Charles Wheatstone (February 6, 1802 - October 19, 1875) was the British inventor of many innovations including the English concertina the Stereoscope an early form of microphone the Playfair cipher (named for Lord Playfair, the person who publicized it) He was a major figure in the development of telegraphy, improved upon the Wheatstone bridge originally invented by Samue ...

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Young Ireland was a Irish nationalist revolutionary movement, active in the mid nineteenth century. Young Ireland - History. Young Ireland grew out of the weekly the Nation, a journal calling for the restoration of Irish self govenment by the repeal of the Act of Union, established in 1842 by Charles Gavan Duffy, an experienced young Catholic journalist, and Thomas Davis, a Protestant graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. They followed Daniel O'Connell and his Repeal Association in his demand for repeal, but ...

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Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the trio of Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. Brontë was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë, an Irish clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved to Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving her five daughters and a son to th ...

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Yucatán is the name of one of the 31 states of Mexico, located on the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. The term The Yucatán is also used in Mexico to refer to the three states on the peninsula: Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; all three modern states were formerly part of the larger historic state of Yucatán in the 19th century. This Mexican state borders the states of Campeche to the south west, Quintana Roo to the east and southeast ...

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• Yucatán - Arrival of the Spanish
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• Yucatán - Mid 19th century through mid 20th century
• Yucatán - Late 20th century: An end to relative isolation
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Various governments have a Chancellor who serves as some form of junior or senior minister. Chancellor (Latin: cancellarius), an official title used by most of the peoples whose civilization has arisen directly or indirectly out of the Roman empire. At different times and in different countries it has stood and stands for very various duties, and has been, and is, borne by officers of various degrees of dignity. The original chancellors were the Cancellarii of Roman courts of justice- ushers who sat at t ...

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