John LewisAge: 80 jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who founded and served as music director of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet. The MJQ, known for its thoughtfully selected arrangements…
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College star at Amherst College and then Harvard; first Black player to be selected as an All-American (1892-93); also the first Black person…
A proclamation of outlawry; a denunciation by the church (Anglo-saxon, ge-ban, a proclamation; verb, ge-bannan). Marriage bans. (See Banns.) To ban is to make a proclamation of outlawry…
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Sammy Davis, Jr.singer, actorBorn: 12/8/1925Birthplace: New York City Popular singer and stage and film actor who started touring with his family's troupe, the Will Mastin Trio, at age three…
The Power Vested in Congress of Sending Troops for Suppressing Insurrections Will Always Enable Them to Stifle the First Struggles of FreedomA Federal Republican5 March 1788by A Federal…
James Polk (December 5, 1848) Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people…
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