National Recovery Administration (NRA)

As major general during the War of 1812, he defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and a British army at the Battle of New Orleans. In 1818, he led an American ...

Committee on Public Information (CPI)

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U. S. Propaganda agency of World War I.

Charles Grandison Finney

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The "father of modern revivalism," Finney devised many techniques adopted by later revival preachers. He encouraged many women to participate actively in revival.

Billy Yank

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This appellation was used to refer to common soldiers serving in Union armies during the Civil War. See Johnny Reb.

Calvinismo

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Broadly influential Protestant theology emanating from the French theologian John Calvin, who fled to Switzerland, where he reordered life in the community of Geneva according to ...

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Danilo R. dela Cruz Jr.

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Teresa Scanlan

The winner of the 2011 Miss America pageant. Scanlan, A 17-year-old and recent high school graduate from the western Nebraska town of Gering captured ...