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The Federalist Papers: Federalist No. 47
by AlexanderHamilton, JamesMadison and JohnJayFederalist No. 46Federalist No. 48Federalist No. 47 The Particular Structure of the New Government and the Distribution of Power Among Its…Collected Inaugural Addresses of U.S. Presidents: George Bush
Ronald Reagan Bill Clinton George Bush Inaugural Address Friday, January 20, 1989 Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. President, Vice President Quayle, Senator Mitchell, Speaker Wright, Senator…Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry March 23, 1775. No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But…Algebra: Graphing with Slope-Intercept Form
Graphing with Slope-Intercept Form Algebra Cooking Up Linear Equations Point-Slope Form Slope-Intercept Form Graphing with Slope-Intercept Form Standard Form of a Line Tricky Linear Equations…Taittiriyaka-Upanishad: First Valli, Eighth Anuvaka
Eighth Anuvaka1. Om means Brahman. 2. Om means all this. 3. Om means obedience. When they have been told, “Om, speak,” they speak. 4. After Om they sing Samans. 5. After Om they recite hymns…Brewer's: Adroit
Adroit′ properly means “to the right” (French, à droite). The French call a person who is not adroit gauche (left-handed), meaning awkward, boorish. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Agony
Ag′ony properly means contention in the athletic games; and to agonise is the act of contending. (Greek, agon, a game of contest, as well as a “place of assembly”). Agony, meaning “great…Brewer's: Divan'
(Arabic and Persian, diwan) means a register kept on a white table exactly similar to our board. Among the Orientals the word is applied to a council-chamber or court of justice; but in…Brewer's: Done Up
Thoroughly tired and wearied out. Up means ended, completed, as the “game is up” (over, finished), and adverbially it means “completely,” hence to be “done up” is to be exhausted…Brewer's: Down Town
I am going down town, i.e. to the business part of the town. Down the country properly means down the slope of the land, or as the rivers run. We say “I am going up to town” when we mean…Trending
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