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Alien and Sedition Acts

(Encyclopedia) Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798, four laws enacted by the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress, allegedly in response to the hostile actions of the French Revolutionary government on the…

Reform party, in the United States

(Encyclopedia) Reform party, in the United States, political party founded in 1995 by H. Ross Perot as an alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties. The Reform party's aims originally…

Borglum, Gutzon

(Encyclopedia) Borglum, Gutzon (John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum)Borglum, Gutzongŭtˈsən dĕ lˈə mät bôrˈgləm [key], 1867–1941, American sculptor, b. Idaho; son of a Danish immigrant physician and…

Capt. Richard J. Ashby, 1999 News

32, Marine pilot, was cleared in March of manslaughter charges stemming from the 1998 accident in which the jet he was flying severed ski gondola cables, killing 20 at an Italian resort.…

Poems: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

by T. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the NightingalesPortrait of a LadyThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa…

Hans J. Müller-Eberhard 1998 Deaths

Hans J. Müller-EberhardAge: 70 immunologist who made influential discoveries about the working of the body's immune system. Died: March 3, 1998.Wright MorrisM - QFrancis (Franny) Murray…

Cabinet Members Under J. Q. Adams

Secretary of State Henry Clay, 1825Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush, 1825Secretary of War James Barbour, 1825Peter B. Porter, 1828Attorney General William Wirt (Cont.)Secretary of the…

Garrison, Theodosia (Mrs. Frederick J. Faulks)

Garrison, Theodosia (Mrs. Frederick J. Faulks)[1874-1944](1)Born at Newark, N.J. Educated at private schools in New York. Mrs. Garrison was for several years a constant contributor to the…

Edward J. O'Brien: The Last Piper

The Last PiperEdward J. O'BrienDark winds of the mountain, White winds of the sea, Are skirling the pibroch Of Seumas an Righ.The crying of gannets, The shrieking of terns, Are keening his…

Edward J. Wheeler: Night's Mardi Gras

Night's Mardi GrasEdward J. WheelerNight is the true democracy. When day Like some great monarch with his train has passed, In regal pomp and splendor to the last, The stars troop forth…