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Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs was a German-born British physicist who passed United States atomic secrets to the Soviets during World War II and was convicted of espionage in 1950. Fuchs, a communist, was forced from…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: August 18, 1804
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark August 17, 1804August 19, 1804August 18, 1804 18th August 1804 a fine morning, despatched Jo. Fields for the Party from the Ottoes, whom did not…The True George Washington: Enemies: Edmund Randolph
Edmund RandolphA third Virginian who was almost as closely associated was Edmund Randolph. There had been a friendship with his father, until he turned Tory and went to England, when,…Brewer's: Confederation of the Rhine
Sixteen German provinces in 1806 dissolved their connection with Germany, and allied themselves with France. At the downfall of Napoleon in 1814 this confederation melted away of itself…Brewer's: Confiscate
(3 syl.). To forfeit to the public treasury. (Latin, con fiscus, with the tribute money.) If thou dost shed one drop of Christian blood, Thy lands and goods are, by the laws of Venice,…Brewer's: Dagobert
King Dagobert and St. Eloi. There is a French song very popular with this title. St. Eloi tells the king his coat has a hole in it, and the king replies, “C'est vrai, le tien est bon;…Brewer's: Catharine Wheel
(A). A sort of firework. (See below.) Catharine Wheels To turn Catharine Wheels. To turn head over heels on the hands. Boys in the streets, etc., often do so to catch a penny or so from…Brewer's: Augean Stables
The stables of Augeas, King of Elis, in Greece. In these stables he had kept 3,000 oxen, and the stalls had not been cleansed for thirty years. When Hercules was appointed to cleanse these…Brewer's: Augury
means properly the function of an augur (perhaps from avium garritus). St. Pierre says: “The first navigators, when out of sight of land, watched the flight of birds, as indications of the…What to the Slave on the Fourth of July?
by Frederick Douglass The Hypocrisy of American Slavery Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I or those I represent to do with…Trending
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