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Famous Firsts by Hispanic Americans

The first Hispanic-American politicians, baseball players, and more Government Member of U.S. Congress: Joseph Marion Hernández, 1822, delegate from the Florida territory. Sonia Sotomayor…

Florida Area Codes

Area codes Selected cities239Fort Myers, Naples305Miami, Key West321Orlando, Cape Canaveral352Gainesville, Ocala386Daytona Beach407Kissimmee, Orlando561West Palm Beach, Boca Raton727Clearwater, St.…

Brewer's: Cock and Pie

(By). We meet with cock's bones, cock's wounds, cock's mother, cock's body, cock's passion, etc., where we can have no doubt that the word is a minced oath, and stands for the sacred name…

Brewer's: Cuckoo

A cuckold. The cuckoo occupies the nest and eats the eggs of other birds; and Dr. Johnson says “it was usual to alarm a husband at the approach of an adulterer by calling out `Cuckoo,'…

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Lyndon Baines JohnsonBorn: 8/27/1908Birthplace: Stonewall, Tex. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in Stonewall, Tex., on Aug. 27, 1908. On both sides of his family he had a political heritage…

Seinfeld

Leaving as Masters of Their Domain by Gerry Brown The cast of SeinfeldSource: Archive Photos Information Please Haiku Contest Michael Richards, as KramerSource: Wide World Photos I can't get…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Mary

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Witch of AtlasTo Mary (On Her Objecting to the Following Poem, Upon the Score of Its Containing No Human Interest). How, my dear Mary,—are you critic-bitten…

Brewer's: Bride of Lammermoor

Lucy Ashton. (Scott: Bride of Lammermoor.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bride of the SeaBride of Abydos A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q…

Women's Suffrage: The Fighting Forces

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler The Crises of 1916The Decisive BattleThe Fighting ForcesIn the struggle from which the final woman suffrage victory was now about to emerge…