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income tax

(Encyclopedia) income tax, assessment levied upon individual or corporate incomes. Although personal incomes were occasionally taxed in medieval Italian cities, the income tax is essentially a modern…

July 2016: Police Shooting in Minnesota

World News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major U.S. news events of july 2016. 1. No Charges Filed for Hillary Clinton 2. Police…

July 2016: Verizon Buys Yahoo!

World News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major U.S. news events of July 2016. 1. No Charges Filed for Hillary Clinton 2. Police…

Brewer's: Azrael

(3 syl.). The angel that watches over the dying, and takes the soul from the body. The angel of death. He will be the last to die, but will do so at the second trump of the archangel. “The…

Brewer's: Gleek

A game at cards, sometimes called cleek. Thus, in Epsom Wells, Dorothy says to Mrs. Bisket, “I'll make one at cleek, that's better than any two-handed game. ” Ben Jonson, in the Alchemist…