(2 syl.). Roman officers who had charge of the streets, bridges, aqueducts, temples, and city buildings generally. We call our surveyors city ediles sometimes. (Latin, ædes, a house.)…
in Roxburghshire, near the Tweed, where Thomson, the author of The Seasons, was born. The Tweed, pure parent-stream, Whose pastoral banks first heard my Doric reed. Autumn (888-9).…
Who was the only bachelor to lead the nation?
Presidents Who Were Related to Each Other
John Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams.
James Madison and Zachary Taylor…
(Encyclopedia) Edward the Confessor, d. 1066, king of the English (1042–66), son of Æthelred the Unready and his Norman wife, Emma. After the Danish conquest (1013–16) of England, Edward grew up at…
by Mark Hughes
The American public has always been fascinated by first families. We know much about the lives of the presidents and first ladies, but what about the children in the White House?…
The Board of the Modern Library, a division of Random House, published its selections in July 1998.
Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
A Portrait of the…
Everyone knows about the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, but there is a larger history of attempts on the lives of U.S. leaders. Here are the presidential…
(Encyclopedia) Mahan, Alfred ThayerMahan, Alfred Thayerməhănˈ [key], 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and historian, b. West Point, N.Y. A Union naval officer in the Civil War, he later lectured on…
