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(Encyclopedia) Custer, George Armstrong, 1839–76, American army officer, b. New Rumley, Ohio, grad. West Point, 1861.
In the reorganization of the U.S. army after the war Custer was assigned to the…
The man who won the speed skating equivalent of a sprint, a marathon, and everything in between
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The red cap of Liberty worn by the leaders of the French revolution. It is the emblem of Red Republicanism. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bonnie…
(Scotch) a mate, companion, friend. “Not marrow”- that is, not a pair. The Latin word medulla (marrow) is used in much the same way as “mihi hæres in medullis” (Cicero); (very dear, my…
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