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If you had taken a random survey of names in a playground at the turn of the century, you might have counted a fair number of Johns and even an Ethel or…
The Constitution describes equal rights only in general terms. The courts, especially the Supreme Court, have had to decide how these consitutional guarantees apply to specific situations.…
Some people consider the single most important place in U.S. women's history to be Seneca Falls, New York, where on July 19, 1848, the first women's rights convention was held. Seneca Falls…
Old Anthony Now-now. An itinerant fiddler, meant for Anthony Munday, the dramatist who wrote City Pageants. (Chettle: Kindhart's Dream, 1592.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
The lady-love of Abrocomas in Xenophon's romance, called Ephesiaca. Shakespeare has borrowed from this Greek novel the leading incidents of his Romeo and Juliet , especially that of the…
The nickname of Dr. Vaughan, rector of St. Bride's, in Bedfordshire. So called from his Anthroposophia Teomagica, to show the condition of man after death. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
by Robert Burns On The Death Of John M'Leod, Esq,Impromptu On Carron Iron WorksElegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair The lamp of day, with—ill presaging glare,
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In 2016, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed for a second consecutive year to nominate any African-American actors in the major acting categories, prompting director Spike…
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