Mérida
Mérida , city (1990 pop. 523,422), capital of Yucatán state, SE Mexico. It is the chief commercial, communications, and cultural center of the Yucatán peninsula. Founded (1542) by Francisco de Montejo , the younger, on the site of a ruined Mayan city, Mérida has many fine examples of Spanish colonial architecture, notably the 16th-century cathedral. Rooftop windmills, characteristic of this region, are used to pump water from underground wells and streams. The limited nature of the soil has made Mérida commercially dependent upon the large crops of henequen (see sisal hemp ) from the surrounding region, and on tourists visiting nearby Mayan ruins, notably Chichén Itzá and Uxmal .
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A whole lot of talk but no free speech
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 9/26/1998; ; 654 words
; ...administration, helped James Madison bring Philip Freneau, a Whig opponent of Hamilton...Philadelphia. Jefferson offered Freneau a part-time government job to...set up, the National Gazette. Freneau published such harsh things against...
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The face of the public.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...period by situating two texts--Philip Freneau's "The Picture Gallery" (1788...described as a political liability by Freneau in "The Picture Gallery" and...Brackenridge in Modern Chivalry. Freneau's "The Picture Gallery" identifies...
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The Library of America has pu ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/14/2007; ; 593 words
; ...plainness. In a later generation, Philip Freneau (1752-1832) of New Jersey...The mere idea of a flower. Freneau, a contemporary and colleague...vivid. (Anne Bradstreet's and Philip Freneau's poems can be found in "American...
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Interview: Robert Hedin discusses American war poetry from the Revolutionary War period to the present
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 8/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...different, and has any of it endured? Mr. HEDIN: Well, Philip Freneau, who is often called the poet laureate of the American...emotional and otherwise, is very apparent when you read Freneau's work. LUDDEN: Would you like to read a bit of...
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The Hemingses: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 9/22/2008; ; 688 words
; ...attacks by the anti-Federalist National Gazette editor Philip Freneau on John Adams, once his fast friend, and was flummoxed rather than ashamed at being caught out paying Freneau to be his mouthpiece. Such actions gave rise in Jefferson...
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/6/2002; 700+ words
; ...Preservation, 1988 ``The Battles of Saratoga,'' John R. Elting, Philip Freneau Press, Monmouth Beach, N.J., 1977 ``Belonging to the...Press, Westport, Conn., 1995 ``War Over Walloomscoick,'' Philip L. Lord Jr., state
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The Oxford Book of English Verse
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 4/1/2000; ; 425 words
; ...Americanists, especially, will be puzzled to discover the appearance here of Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Philip Freneau, and Phillis Wheatley, not to mention the truncation of Eliot's The Waste Land to less than half a page. Still...
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Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature
Magazine article from: Ethnic Studies Review; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...public concept, individuals determine the real meaning in private spheres. He examines five Anglo, male authors (Philip Freneau, Joel Barlow, William Prescott, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman) to ascertain what they thought of as American...
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In the mIdst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...organizations federated into the first national party system by 1800. Throughout, editors such as John Fenno and Philip Freneau thought in terms of a national public sphere that included growing numbers of politically conscious Americans. Waldstreicher...
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A Thousand Friends
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/28/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...included the poet and journalist Joel Barlow, the artist Charles Willson Peale, the author Thomas Paine, the poet Philip Freneau, and other writers, scientists, and travelers." Bill Clinton's "Arts and Letters" guest list features Candice...
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Philip Morin Freneau
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Philip Morin Freneau Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832) was...transitional figure in American literature. Philip Freneau's life alternated between ardent...Forman, The Political Activities of Philip Freneau (1902); Lewis Leary, That Rascal...
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Freneau, Philip (1752-1832)
Book article from: American Eras
Philip Freneau (1752-1832) Jeffersonian editor and poet Patriot. Philip Freneau was well prepared for a career as one...December 1832. Mary Weatherspoon Bowden, Philip Freneau (Boston: Twayne, 1976); Lewis Leary...
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Philip Freneau
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Philip Freneau , 1752-1832, American poet and journalist, b. New York City, grad...satirist for the American Revolution and for Jeffersonian democracy. Freneau edited various papers, including the partisan National Gazette (Philadelphia...
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Freneau, Philip (Morin)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Freneau, Philip [Morin] (1752–1832...editorship and his government appointment, Freneau was accused by Hamilton of being Jefferson...Washington called him “that rascal Freneau.” He published Poems Written...
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Freneau, Philip Morin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Freneau, Philip Morin (1752–1832), the ‘poet of the American Revolution’, and miscellaneous writer, editor...
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