Senate Years of Service: 1965-1966
Party: Democrat RUSSELL Donald Stuart , a Senator from South Carolina; born in Lafayette Springs, Lafayette
County, Miss., February 22, 1906; moved with his…
Senate Years of Service: 1948-1987
Party: Democrat LONG Russell Billiu , a Senator from Louisiana; born in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, La.,
November 3, 1918; attended the public schools of…
(Verbum Dei manet in aeternum). The word of God endureth for ever. The inscription on the livery of the servants of the Duke of Saxony and Landgrave of Hesse, the Lutheran princes, at the…
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(Encyclopedia) Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896–1974, English author. Beginning his career as a poet of nature, Blunden became a cosmopolitan teacher and writer. His prose works include Undertones of…
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