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September 2009 Current Events: U.S. News

World News | Business/Science News Here are the key events in United States news for the month of September 2009. Federal Ruling: New York Discriminated Against Mentally Ill (Sept. 8): New York…

October Current Events 2022: US News

Top of Page World News | Disaster News | Science & Technology News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the US…

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

(Encyclopedia) Shelley, Percy ByssheShelley, Percy Bysshebĭsh [key], 1792–1822, English poet, b. Horsham, Sussex. He is ranked as one of the great English poets of the romantic period. Most of…

Jefferson DAVIS, Congress, MS (1808-1889)

Senate Years of Service: 1847-1851; 1857-1861 Party: Democrat; Democrat DAVIS Jefferson , a Representative and a Senator from Mississippi; born in what is now Fairview, Todd County, Ky., June 3,…

Brewer's: Custos Rotulorum

(keeper of the rolls). The chief civil officer of a county, to whose custody are committed the records or rolls of the sessions. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer…

Brewer's: Mittimus

(Latin). A command in writing to a gaoler, to keep the person named in safe custody. Also a writ for removing a record from one court to another. So called from the first word of the writ…