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Parent topics
- United States of America [r]: Constitutional republic in North America, has major land borders with Mexico and Canada. [e]
- Colonial America [r]: The eastern United States and parts of Canada from the time of European settlement to the time of the American Revolution. [e]
Subtopics
Principal cities
- Atlantic City, New Jersey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Camden, New Jersey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Newark, New Jersey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Princeton, NJ [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Trenton, New Jersey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vineland, New Jersey [r]: Add brief definition or description
Politics and government
State government
U.S. Senate
- Frank R. Lautenberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Menendez [r]: U.S. Senator, D-New Jersey, Senate Committee on Finance; chair, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; Congressional Hispanic Caucus [e]
U.S. House of Representatives
- John Adler [r]: U.S. Representative (D-New Jersey); House Financial Services Committee; voted against H.R. 3962 health care bill; Member, New Democrat Coalition [e]
- Robert E. Andrews [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rodney Frelinghuysen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scott Garrett [r]: U.S. Representative, (R-New Jersey) House Financial Services Committee; Republican Study Committee [e]
- Rush Holt [r]: Physicist and U.S. Representative, (D-New Jersey), U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor; Intelligence Committee: Tactical and Technical Intelligence Subcommittee, chair, Intelligence Oversight Panel; Natural Resources Committee; Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition; House Democracy Assistance Commission; opposed 2002 Iraq War vote; arms control specialist, U.S. State Department; assistant director (1989-1998) Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University [e]
- Leonard Lance [r]: U.S. Representative, (R-New Jersey) House Financial Services Committee [e]
- Frank LoBiondo [r]: U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey); member of the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee [e]
- Frank Pallone Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bill Pascrell Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Donald M. Payne [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Steven Rothman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albio Sires [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chris Smith [r]: U.S. Representative (R-New Jersey);House Foreign Affairs Committee: and Ranking Republican of the Committee's Africa and Global Health Subcommittee; Congressional Bosnia Caucus; co-chair Bipartisan Congressional Refugee Caucus [e]
Social, cultural, and educational
- To include 4 yr colleges and universities, also museums, zoos, etc
Industry and agriculture
- Principal crops and farming-related articles, industrial products, etc
Geographical and geological features
- Atlantic Ocean [r]: Second largest ocean in the world; separates the Americas from Europe and Africa. [e]
Noteworthy places
- Examples: Hoover Dam
People
- Either native born or important in some way to the state
Federal
- Institutions and installations such as military (West Point), research facilities (Los Alamos), National Paks, Wilderness areas
State history
Associated U.S. states and Canadian provinces
Native American
- Tribes, reservations, etc
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- Acid rain [r]: Deposition of acidified rain, snow, sleet, hail, gases and particles, and acidified fog and cloud water, due to nitric or sulfuric acid pollution. [e]
- Asphalt (paving) [r]: A mix of bitumen (petroleum tar), aggregate and additives. A typical paving asphalt consists to 90 to 95 percent by weight of aggregate and 5 to 10 % of bitumen. [e]
- Asphalt (petroleum) [r]: A sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most petroleum crude oils and in some natural deposits. [e]
- Bicameral legislature [r]: A legislature divided into two deliberative bodies. [e]
- Bill Maher [r]: (1956—) American comedian, political commentator and presenter of Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO. [e]
- Brett Favre [r]: Famed quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. [e]
- CALPUFF air pollution dispersion model [r]: An advanced, integrated Gaussian puff modeling system for the simulation of air pollution dispersion. [e]
- Christine Todd Whitman [r]: President, The Whitman Strategy Group; member of the board, Council on Foreign Relations; Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 2001-2003, in the George W. Bush Administration; co-chair of the moderate Republican Leadership Council (RLC) merged with her political action committee; governor of New Jersey 1994-2001. [e]
- Conspiracy theory [r]: Belief that a covert and deceptive organization or people is responsible for important world events, and that these people are hiding their own involvement, acting from behind the scenes and spreading misinformation. [e]
- Council on Foreign Relations [r]: An influential "think tank", publisher, and facilitator of communications in international relations; based in the US but with an international membership and not associated with a specific ideology [e]
- Declaration of Independence [r]: Document formally declaring the independence of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain, July 4, 1776. [e]
- Delaware [r]: A State of the Eastern USA. [e]
- Ellis Island [r]: The entry point for 20 million European immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1954. [e]
- First Great Awakening [r]: The First Great Awakening was a religious revitalization movement that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s; there was a de-emphasis on ritual and ceremony and religion became intensely personal. [e]
- Fluid catalytic cracking [r]: A petroleum refining process that cracks the large hydrocarbon molecules in the portion of the petroleum crude oil boiling above 340 °C into lower boiling, more valuable high octane gasoline and olefinic gases. [e]
- George Washington [r]: First President of the United States (1789-1797) and commander in chief of the Continental Army. [e]
- Grounds for Sculpture [r]: Museum of sculpture and landscape art in Hamilton, New Jersey founded in 1992. [e]
- Hindenburg (LZ-129) [r]: Large German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class, the largest flying machines of any kind ever built, until destroyed by fire on 6 May 1937. [e]
- History of television technology [r]: Chronology of the development and history of television. [e]
- Jean Shepherd [r]: (26 July 1921 – 16 October 1999) American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor, renowned for creating nostalgic and humorous storytelling. [e]
- John Dickinson [r]: (November 8, 1732 – February 14, 1808) American lawyer and politician who was a militia officer during the American Revolution, a representative to the Continental Congress, and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. [e]
- John McKinly [r]: This article is a summary description of John McKinly, emphazing the career, political, location and family factors involved in the his career. [e]
- Journalism [r]: Practice of writing about daily events of interest to people - politics, international affairs, sports, etc. [e]
- Lacrosse [r]: Team sport played outdoors by ten players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. [e]
- London Calling (novel) [r]: A 2006 young adult novel by Edward Bloor, which involves time travel back to London during the Blitz via a radio. [e]
- Moving panorama [r]: Form of visual entertainment in the nineteenth century, utilising contiguous views of passing scenery, as if seen from a boat or a train window. [e]
- My Chemical Romance [r]: An alternative rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001, [e]
- Nathanael Greene [r]: A general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution; he became one of George Washington's most trusted aides. [e]
- New York City [r]: The largest city in the United States of America and a world center of finance, commerce, communications, and the arts. [e]
- North American Great Lakes [r]: There are five large connected Lakes in Eastern North America. [e]
- Patti Smith [r]: (1946 - ) American musician, singer, and poet, dubbed "punk rock's poet laureate". [e]
- Paul A. Volcker [r]: Chairman of the Federal Reserve 1979-1987 [e]
- Pennsylvania [r]: One of the fifty states in the United States [e]
- Robert Barclay [r]: (23 December 1648 – 3 October 1690) Scottish-born writer belonging to the Religious Society of Friends and a member of the Clan Barclay. [e]
- The Nobs [r]: A name used by Led Zeppelin during their 1970 tour of Denmark. [e]
- The Sopranos [r]: U.S. television show on HBO depicting the daily life of an Italian-American crime family in New Jersey. [e]
- Thirteen Colonies [r]: The historical region ranging from the present-day Canadian province of Quebec to the present-day state of Georgia which comprised the thirteen British colonies in North America. [e]
- Thomas Collins [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas McKean [r]: (March 19, 1734 - June 24, 1817) American lawyer and politician who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. [e]
- U.S. Constitution [r]: Document that states the fundamental constitutional law of the United States of America. [e]
- U.S. Demographic History [r]: Historic trends in population growth, geographical distribution by states and urban-rural, internal migration, and components of change (births, deaths, immigration), as well as race and ethnicity, and population policy as they relate to the United States. [e]
- U.S. Economic history [r]: The economic history of the United States. [e]
- Welding [r]: Fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence at a high melting point. [e]
- Whiskey Rebellion [r]: A rural uprising in the western counties of Pennsylvania in 1794 in response to a federally imposed excise tax placed on liquor. [e]
- Woodrow Wilson [r]: 28th U.S. President (1913-1921); founded the Federal Reserve and brought his country to fight both the Mexicans in the Mexican Revolution and the Central Powers in World War One. [e]
- Zeppelin [r]: A type of rigid airship pioneered by German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. [e]
