Kurt Waldheim, Austrian president and former U.N. secretary general, was barred from entering the U.S. in 1987 for this:

He suggested Earth Day as a means to focus America?s attention to ecological problems:

This person was responsible for raising most of the money for the construction of the pedestal on which the Statue of Liberty stands:

German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg reportedly called this "a scrap of paper" not worth fighting over:

He worked as a war correspondent in the Russo-Japanese War:

At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris on August 19, 1839, this was introduced:

He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 1797 to 1815.