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Industries
INDUSTRY INDUSTRY. The subject of industry is part of the general pattern of economic development in the early modern period. This development had three basic phases: the first, a period of expansion running from the middle of the fifteenth century through to the very end of the sixteenth; the... Read more |
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Thomas Alexander Scott
Thomas Alexander Scott 1823-81, American railroad president, b. Fort Loudon, Pa. He was employed by the Pennsylvania RR as a station agent in 1850 and rose to become general superintendent (1858) and first vice president (1860). His efficiency in transporting Pennsylvania troops at the beginning of... Read more |
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Containment
C ONTAINMENT Barton J. Bernstein The containment doctrine, with its ambiguities and imprecision, was a major strategy and the guiding conception in American foreign policy from shortly after World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union in... Read more |
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Great Society
Great Society in U.S. history, term for the domestic policies of President Lyndon Johnson . In his first State of the Union message, he called for a war on poverty and the creation of a "Great Society," a prosperous nation that had overcome racial divisions. To this end, Johnson proposed an... Read more |
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Fort Laramie Treaty
FORT LARAMIE TREATY (1851) The years of rapid expansion into the American frontier were marred by fractious battles between forces making way for settlers and the Native Americans already inhabiting the lands. In the period between 1784 and 1894, approximately 720 treaties forcing Native Americans... Read more |
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Fort Worth
Fort Worth city (1990 pop. 447,619), seat of Tarrant co., N Tex., on the Trinity River 30 mi (48 km) W of Dallas; settled 1843, inc. 1873. An army post was established on the site in 1847, and after the Civil War became an Old West cow town. The first railroad (completed 1876) helped establish Fort... Read more |
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Augustinian friars
Augustinian friars (the order of Hermits of St Augustine), a religious order that established eleven houses in Ireland between 1282 and 1341. Founded from England, they initially gravitated towards Anglo‐Norman settlements. At first they were directly governed by the English provincial as... Read more |
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Justo Sierra
Justo Sierra Justo Sierra (1848-1912) was a Mexican educator, writer, and historian. As one of Mexico's leading liberal historians and as minister of education, he was responsible for considerable educational reform and expansion during the first decade of the 20th century. Justo Sierra was... Read more |
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James Jerome Hill
James Jerome Hill 1838-1916, American railroad builder, b. Ontario, Canada. He went to St. Paul, Minn., in 1856. He became a partner of Norman Kittson in a steamboat line and, with Kittson, Donald Alexander Smith (later Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal), and Sir George Stephen, he bought (1878) the... Read more |
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Thermal Expansion
THERMAL EXPANSION CONCEPT Most materials are subject to thermal expansion: a tendency to expand when heated, and to contract when cooled. For this reason, bridges are built with metal expansion joints, so that they can expand and contract without causing faults in the... Read more |
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