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AMERICA: Pluribus, and Unum.
National Review
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January 24, 2000|
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AS with a wedding, the next century holds for America something borrowed, something old, and something new. There are reasons that all these developments could make us blue, but, since they seem unavoidable, we should try to make the best of them.
In 1814 British and American diplomats, trying to end the War of 1812, were deadlocked over a British proposal to reserve a North American homeland for London's Indian allies. John Quincy Adams was indignant: The population of the United States was already over seven million. Was it "in human power to check [the country's] ...
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Why he stayed over the water James II made a better martyr than he did a monarch, says John Adamson
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...the ousting of James II has been regarded...assume the throne, England would have turned...invasion to restore James II came to anything...reported back in England) further consolidated...Callow argues, James remained sincerely...
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The Last Years of James II 1690-1701.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...closer look at the life that James led in France. The information...biographers also explain that James II turned to religion to provide...patronage of the arts. James went out of his way to...preparing an invasion of England across the Channel from...
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Contrasting King James II and his remorseless girls.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...The subject is England's "Glorious...1688, when King James II, son of the...Catholicism of James and his daughters...became Queen Mary II (of William...royal families of England, France, Denmark...Catholic King James II precipitated...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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INVASION WE'D RATHER FORGET; Tides of change: William of Orange launched a colossal armada to seize the throne from Catholic King James II.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...The new king, James II,crowned jut three...another king of England, Charles I, hadfallen...wasto be king of England. He believed too...wife, Mary, was James II'seldest daughter...the royal blood of England and Scotland running...
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BLOODY LIFE OF SCOTLAND'S BOY KING; With his early years blighted by murder, kidnap and grisly retribution, it is no wonder six-year-old James II grew up to be a gun-obsessed killer bent on brutal revenge.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...short of his 30th birthday James II was only six when he succeeded...throne in 1437. His father, James I, a clever and unscrupulous...great-granddaughter of England's Edward III, was immediate...Born on October 16, 1430, James II was disfigured by a port...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Bishop trelawny deserves his anthem ; I'm with Donald Rowe on Bishop Trelawny's anthem. The Rev Hawker's Song of the Western Men doesn't claim the Cornish set off for London, only that 20,000 of them would "know the reason why" if King James II topped their man.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; ...the reason why" if King James II topped their man. William...the holy lamb of God on England's pleasant pastures seen...deposed the Catholic monarch James II and replaced him with William...was the tipping point for James, who had already identified...
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The reason why... ; "MY Lord of Bristol was the most saucy of the seven" may not be the most famous of James II's remarks, but it is perhaps the most important for damp-eyed Cornish patriots with a pint in their hand.
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
; ...seven" may not be the most famous of James II's remarks, but it is perhaps the...The facts of the case were that James wished to ease the discord between...allegiance. However the Church of England was incensed and, led by the Archbishop...
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OBIT - REYNOLDS, JAMES ENGLAND
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; James England Reynolds, 89, of Roanoke and formerly...U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, he opened his own wholesale meat plant...a sister, Mary Lu McBurney; a son, James E. Reynolds and his wife, Penny of Easton...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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KING JAMES II; Scots star McAvoy up for BAFTA No2 as best actor.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...By Rick Fulton SCOTS star James McAvoy is on course for his...IanMcEwan novel. Last year, James won the inaugural Rising Star...Control Eastern Promises This Is England LEADING ACTOR George Clooney...Lewis There Will Be Blood James McAvoy Atonement Viggo Mortensen...
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Q & A: James Baker II, Business Interiors
Magazine article from: Vermont Business Magazine
; James Baker II, 48, is the third generation...Brattleboro by his grandfather, James Baker, in 1925, and operated...in 1925. My grandfather, James Baker, started a business...business based in Northern New England. VBM: How much do you do...
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