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King of the Golden Horde Jonathan Sumption applauds this attempt to rescue the reputation of Tamerlane
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Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
by Justin Marozzi
HarperCollins, pounds 25, 449 pp
pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
TAMERLANE HAD an image problem - and still does. Like other
Asiatic conquerors, he came from a world without historians, and had
no known intimates who could share with us their experience of the
private man.
By and large, the sources for his life were written by his
enemies. These men, most of them inhabitants of cities and
settlements that he conquered, regarded him as a destroyer redeemed
only by his contribution to the spread of Islam.
A slightly ...
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The variola variation.(The Sound of Legal Thunder: The Chaotic Consequences of Crushing Constitutional Butterflies)
Magazine article from: Constitutional Commentary
; ...Of greater interest to young Fessenden, and of imponderable consequences...the course of the proceedings Fessenden contracted cowpox. This episode...three years later, Senator William Pitt Fessenden could not contract the variola...
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FREE FOR ALL
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...presidency, was Sen. William Pitt Fessenden of Maine, an unabashed...would also point to Fessenden's masterful constitutional reasoning. Pitt Fessenden, known by friends...Hernon Champion Cubs William Gildea's Sept. 23...
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Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1900.
Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly
; ...by Calhoun. Two Republicans, William Pitt Fessenden and Charles Sumner, are the subjects...of the Fourteenth Amendment. Fessenden's great moment of virtue came...Dome investigation. Republican William Borah, who championed the isolationist...
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Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U. S. Senate, 1789-1990.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...golden age. Charles Sumner and William Pitt Fessenden represent the Civil War and Reconstruction...in the Red Scare a year later. William E. Borah and George W. Norris...the face of Hernon's heroes, Fessenden and Hoar. Derived almost wholly...
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Profile: Retiring seniors becoming more frequent students on college campuses
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
; ...impeachment process was a Maine politician named William Pitt Fessenden. Mr. KING: And, coincidentally, there were three streets over here: William, Pitt and Fessenden. And it ties in, for example, when you're...
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Caught in History's Spotlight; 5 Senators Prepare to Shoulder a Most Unusual Burden
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Johnson trial record of 1868, nor William Rehnquist's book on impeachment...article prosecution of the impeached William Jefferson Clinton. But together...1996, has learned all about one William Pitt Fessenden, a Maine senator back in '68...
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Senate's women in bind over trial.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...senators who escorted Chief Justice William Rehnquist to the Senate floor...Collins has been studying up on William Pitt Fessenden, a Maine senator back in 1868...impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, Fessenden joined with Democrats to acquit...
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Is God behind the war?
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
; ...and Senate, who were eager to shed blood. But Johnson was saved by the cool- headedness of Sen. William Pitt Fessenden of Maine. Fessenden, ironically, was an opponent of Johnson; however, he saw the danger of mob rule when he said...
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Famed theater was host to icons
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
; ...hall into a giant salesroom. Designed by architect William Morse and built by his uncle Leonard Morse, the theater...such as James G. Blaine, Thomas Brackett Reed and William Pitt Fessenden also had stood at the podium. But it was the theatrical...
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The presidential candidate, then and now.(Symposium issue, part two.)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science
; ...Indeed, according to his secretary of the treasury, William Pitt Fessenden, Lincoln was "too busy looking after the election...original constitutional design. Writing in 1881, William Graham Sumner suggested that in fact "the intention...
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