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Brewer's: Benbow

(Admiral ), in an engagement with the French near St. Martha, on the Spanish coast, in 1701, had his legs and thighs shivered into splinters by a chain-shot, but, supported in a wooden…

Brewer's: Asmodeus

[the destroyer]. The demon of vanity and dress, called in the Talmud “the king of devils.” The Asmodeus of domestic peace(in the Book of Tobit). Asmodeus falls in love with Sara, daughter…

Classical Mythology: A Family Reunion

A Family ReunionClassical MythologyThe Model Hero: PerseusA Face Only a Mother Could LoveHomeward BoundA Family Reunion Upon his return to the island of Seriphus, Perseus found his mother taking…

December 2009 Current Events: U.S. News

World News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in United States news for the month of December 2009. Obama Sending More Troops to Afghanistan, Provides Timeline (Dec. 1): In a press…

Brutus VI

Brutus VI27 December 1787AbstractThe Federalist writers apparently never responded to "BRUTUS." The following "Brutus" article was extracted from his sixth essay, The New-York Journal of…

Federalist No. 64

No 63 No 65 The Powers of the Senate From the New York Packet.Friday, March 7, 1788. Jay To the People of the State of New York: IT IS a just and not a new…

The Federalist Papers: Federalist No. 64

by AlexanderHamilton, JamesMadison and JohnJayFederalist No. 63Federalist No. 65Federalist No. 64 The Powers of the Senate To the People of the State of New York: It is a just and…

Acts: 21

Acts Chapter 21 1 And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from…

Where Then is the Restraint?

Where Then is the Restraint?by This essay by "AN OLD WHIG" (see Antifederalist Nos. 18-20, 49, 50, and 70) appeared in the Maryland Gazette and Baltimore Advertiser on Nov. 2, 1788.See also…

Geneva Convention, Part IV, Section II

Section II Final Provisions Article 150 The present Convention is established in English and in French. Both texts are equally authentic. The Swiss Federal Council shall arrange…