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Brewer's: Abram-Man

or Abraham Cove A Tom o' Bedlam; a naked vagabond; a begging impostor. The Abraham Ward, in Bedlam, had for its inmates begging lunatics, who used to array themselves “with party-coloured…

Battle of Gettysburg Fact Sheet

A guide to the battle that inspired Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address by Catherine McNiff Union General John Reynolds, killed on the first day of fighting.…

Fourth of July Quotes

Founders' Wisdom: quotations from signers of the Declaration of Independence Compiled by Elizabeth Olson We hold these truths to be…

The Confederate States of America

Top of Page Source: iStock Following the election of Abraham Lincoln on an anti-slavery platform, 11 US states broke away from the union to form a…

Scientists: Earth Sciences

var addthis_config = { data_track_linkback: true } Cite Geologists, geographers, naturalists, oceanographers, and paleontologists…

Cameron, Simon

(Encyclopedia) Cameron, SimonCameron, Simonkămˈərən [key], 1799–1889, American politician and financier, b. Lancaster co., Pa. From humble beginnings he rose to be a newspaper publisher and with…

Warburg, Aby

(Encyclopedia) Warburg, Aby (Abraham Moritz Warburg), 1866–1929, German historian of art and culture, b. Hamburg, studied art history in Bonn, Munich, Florence, and Strasbourg, where he received a…

Luke: 3

Luke Chapter 3 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip…

Biographies of the Presidents

Read bios on all of the U.S. presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant to Joe Biden. George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison…

An Introduction to the Hajj

What is the Hajj? The Hajj (literally "pilgrimage") is an annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Makkah Province in Saudi Arabia, undertaken by Muslims from around the world. Hajj is…

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