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  2. A Nation at Risk - Wikipedia

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    A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform is the 1983 report of the United States National Commission on Excellence in Education.Its publication is considered a landmark event in modern American educational history.

  3. Elephant - Wikipedia

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    African bush elephants and Asian elephants are listed as endangered and African forest elephants as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). One of the biggest threats to elephant populations is the ivory trade , as the animals are poached for their ivory tusks.

  4. American frontier - Wikipedia

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    The war resulted in a total of 1,762 men who have been killed, wounded, and captured from both sides. Unlike other Indian Wars, the Snake War has widely forgotten in United States history due to having only limited coverage of the war. [200] The Colorado War fought by Cheyenne, Arapaho and Sioux, was fought in the territories of Colorado to ...

  5. Historical significance - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, historical significance is an example of a subject specific secondary key concept or "second-order knowledge" also known as a meta-concept, [2] or disciplinary concept, [3] which is typically used to help organize knowledge within a subject area, frame suitable areas of inquiry, provide the framework upon which substantive ...

  6. Neoconservatism - Wikipedia

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    The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons". [ 63 ] [ 64 ] Some major defense and national-security persons have been quite critical of what they believed was a neoconservative influence in getting the United States to go to war against Iraq.

  7. Brinkmanship - Wikipedia

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    Brinkmanship is the ostensible escalation of threats to achieve one's aims. The word was probably coined, on the model of Stephen Potter's "gamesmanship", [citation needed] by the American politician Adlai Stevenson in his criticism of the philosophy described as "going to the brink" during an interview with US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during the Eisenhower administration. [2]

  8. History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 November 2024. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...

  9. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    The United States does not require police officers to identify themselves as police in the case of a sting or other undercover work, and police officers may lie when engaged in such work. [144] Claiming entrapment as a defense instead focuses on whether the defendant was improperly induced by undue pressure from government officials to commit ...