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Brewer's: Christian Traditions

connected with natural objects. 1. Birds, Beasts, and Fishes. The Ass: Cross on the back. (See Ass.) Bunting. (See Yellowhammer.) The Crossbill has nothing to do with the Christian…

Federalist No. 14

No 13 No 15 Objections to the Proposed Constitution From Extent of Territory Answered From the New York Packet.Friday, November 30, 1787.Madison To the People of the…

Federalist No. 13

No 12 No 14 Advantage of the Union in Respect to Economy in Government For the Independent Journal.Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: As CONNECTED…

Jodie Comer

Jodie Comer is the young English actress who was a hit in 2018 as Villanelle, the charmingly psychotic assassin in the television series Killing Eve. A kid from Liverpool, she began her acting…

Euclid

Euclid was a mathematician whose third century B.C. textbook Elements served as the western world's unchallenged standard for two millennia. Nothing is known about Euclid's life or physical…

Wallace Stevens

Now considered one of the great modernist poets, Wallace Stevens didn't receive many literary honors until late in life: He was over 70 when he won the National Book Award twice (1950 and 1954) and…

Shannon Elizabeth

Shannon Elizabeth played a voluptuous Czechoslovakian exchange student in the teen comedy American Pie (1999, with Tara Reid). The movie put Elizabeth on the map, and she raised her profile even…

Moses Maimonides

Name at birth: Moshe ben MaimonMoses Maimonides is regarded by many as the greatest Jewish philosopher ever. As a doctor, rabbi, religious scholar, mathematician, astronomer, and commentator on the…

The Federalist Papers: Federalist No. 3

by AlexanderHamilton, JamesMadison and JohnJayFederalist No. 2Federalist No. 4Federalist No. 3 The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence) To the…