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Florence, city, Italy

(Encyclopedia) Florence Florence flôrˈəns, flŏrˈ– [key], Ital. Firenze, city (2021 est. metro area…

The Danger of Congressional Control of Elections

The Danger of Congressional Control of Electionsby Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 59, addresses this same topic from an opposing viewpoint. This essay was written anonymously by "VOX…

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Historical BackgroundIn the aftermath of Reconstruction, which ended in 1877, the Southern State governments again became-as they remained in the North-“white man's governments.“ The new…

Smith, Jedediah Strong

(Encyclopedia) Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799–1831, American explorer, one of the greatest of the mountain men, b. near Binghamton, N.Y. Early in 1824, Smith took a party through South Pass, beginning…

San Sebastián

(Encyclopedia) San SebastiánSan Sebastiánsän sābästyänˈ [key], Basque Donostia, city (1990 pop. 183,944), capital of Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa) prov., N Spain, on the Bay of Biscay at the mouth of the…

Temple, Shirley

(Encyclopedia) Temple, Shirley, 1928–2014, American child film star, b. Santa Monica, Calif., as Shirley Jane Temple. She started in movies at three-and-a-half and starred in her first feature (Stand…

Lefkás

(Encyclopedia) Lefkás, formerly LevkásLevkásboth: lĕfkäsˈ [key] or LeucasLeucasl&oomacr;ˈkəs [key], mountainous island (1991 pop. 19,350), c.115 sq mi (300 sq km), W Greece, in the Ionian Sea;…

Napolitano, Janet Ann

(Encyclopedia) Napolitano, Janet Ann,, 1957 - , American politican and university administrator, b. New York, N.Y., Santa Clara (Ca.) Univ. (B.A…

Duccio di Buoninsegna

(Encyclopedia) Duccio di BuoninsegnaDuccio di Buoninsegnad&oomacr;tˈchō dē bwōnēnsāˈnyä [key], fl. 1278–1319, early Italian artist, first great painter of Siena. Infusing new life into the…