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Albert John Luthuli
Albert John Luthuli , 1898?-1967, African political leader in the Republic of South Africa. Descended from a line of Christian Zulu chiefs, he was educated at Adams College, a mission school near Durban, and taught there for 15 years. He was appointed chief (1935) and, remaining active in church aff...
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plagues of Egypt
plagues of Egypt in the Bible, the plagues and other troubles brought on Egypt by God through the hands of Moses, because Pharaoh would not let the people of Israel go out of Egypt. The account, in the Book of Exodus, tells how Pharaoh relented each time until the plague was removed, then hardened ...
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Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley 1811-72, American newspaper editor, founder of the New York Tribune, b. Amherst, N.H.
Early Life
His irregular schooling, ending at 15, was followed by a four-year apprenticeship (1826-30) on a country weekly at East Poultney, Vt. When the paper failed, he went briefly to...
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Bhutan
Bhutan , officially Kingdom of Bhutan, kingdom (2005 est. pop. 2,232,000), 18,147 sq mi (47,000 sq km), in the E Himalayas, southern Asia. It is bordered on the west, south, and east by India and on the north by the Tibet region of China. Punakha is the traditional capital; Thimphu is the offici...
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Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse d. 1877, war chief of the Oglala Sioux . He was a prominent leader in the Sioux resistance to white encroachment in the mineral-rich Black Hills . When Crazy Horse and his people refused to go on a reservation, troops attacked (Mar. 17, 1876) their camp on Powder River. Crazy Horse wa...
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Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris , 1752-1816, American political leader and diplomat, b. Morrisania, N.Y. (now part of the Bronx); a grandson of Lewis Morris (1671-1746), he was born to wealth and influence. He studied law and was admitted (1771) to the bar. At the outbreak of the American Revolution he adopted ...
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Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Hutchinson 1711-80, colonial governor of Massachusetts (1771-74) and historian, b. Boston. A descendant of Anne Hutchinson, he was a man of wealth and prominence, of learning, and of notable integrity. He entered public life when he became (1737) a member of the General Court, the Massachuse...
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Hosea
Hosea , prophetic book of the Bible. It relates something of the career of the prophet Hosea who preached against the sins of the northern kingdom of Israel in the third quarter of the 8th cent. BC The collection opens with an account of Hosea's marriage to the prostitute Gomer and his apparent rema...
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Edmund Randolph
Edmund Randolph 1753-1813, American statesman, b. Williamsburg, Va.; nephew of Peyton Randolph. He studied law under his father, John Randolph, a Loyalist who went to England at the outbreak of the American Revolution. He served briefly in the Continental army as aide-de-camp to George Washington. ...
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Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation in U.S. history, the executive order abolishing slavery in the Confederate States of America.
Desire for Such a Proclamation
In the early part of the Civil War, President Lincoln refrained from issuing an edict freeing the slaves despite the insistent urgings of ...
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