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Tour de France—2007
(July 7–29, 2007) Cyclist, country Team Behind 1. Alberto Contador, Spain Discovery Channel…October 2016: FCC Fines Comcast $2.3 Million
World News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major U.S. news events of October 2016. 1. Police Kill Black Man in L.A. 2. FBI Announces Arrest of NSA…U.S. News: Movie Theater Shootings in Colorado Shocks the Nation
Major U.S. news stories, from the Presidential Election to the Chicago Teachers' Strike The Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado, location of the shootings Photo…Brewer's: Clergy
The men of God's lot or inheritance. In St. Peter's first epistle (ch. v. 3) the Church is called “God's heritage” or lot. In the Old Testament the tribe of Levi is called the “lot or…Brewer's: Tariff
A list in alphabetical order of the duties, drawbacks, bounties, etc., charged or allowed on exports and imports. The word is derived from Tarifa, a seaport of Spain about twenty miles…Brewer's: Rack-rent
The actual value or rent of a tenement, and not that modified form on which the rates and taxes are usually levied. (Saxon, raecan, to stretch; Dutch, racken.) “A rent which is equivalent…Brewer's: Rights
Declaration of Rights. An instrument submitted to William and Mary, on their being called to the throne, setting forth the fundamental principles of the constitution. The chief items are…Brewer's: Salic Law
The law so called is one chapter of the Salian code regarding succession to salic lands, which was limited to heirs male to the exclusion of females, chiefly because certain military…Brewer's: Smoke Farthings
An offering given to the priest at Whitsuntide, according to the number of chimneys in his parish. “The Bishop of Elie hath out of everie parish in Cambridgeshire a certain tribute called…