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  • A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge
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  • I never considered a difference of opinion in politics...(Quotation)
  • James Callender
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  • Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...(Quotation)
  • Loan Office (Virginia)
  • Manual of Parliamentary Practice
  • Margaret Bayard Smith
  • Meriwether Lewis
  • No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it (Quotation)
  • Origins of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Postal Service
  • Public Speaking
  • Pursuit of Happiness
  • Russia
  • Seal of the United States
  • Senatorial Saucer
  • St. Domingue (Haiti)
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  • Thaddeus Kosciuszko
  • The First Barbary War
  • Tunisian Envoy
  • United States Military Academy at West Point
  • Washington, D.C.
  • When governments fear the people, there is liberty...(Quotation)
  • William Short
  • Wilson Cary Nicholas
  • Zebulon Pike

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