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Keith Sweat
Keith Sweat 1961(?)– Vocalist An Early Gift for Music Received His Big Break Continued Success Sources Keith Sweat is one of the earliest practitioners, and some would say the inventor, of “New Jack Swing” music, a style of rhythm and blues that fuses soul singing and hip-hop... Read more |
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Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker 1973(?)– Funny from the Start The Big Time An Amalgam of Influences Sources Comedian, actor Although comics like Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, and Robin Harris helped break down some of the barriers for African American comedians, very few outlets exist whereupon young... Read more |
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Clipper Chip
Clipper Chip In 1993, officials in the administration of President William Jefferson Clinton announced the proposed use of a cryptographic device intended to protect private communications for all but authorized monitoring by government agencies. Termed the "clipper chip,"... Read more |
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Ems dispatch
Ems dispatch 1870, communication between King William of Prussia (later German Emperor William I) and his premier, Otto von Bismarck. In June, 1870, the throne of Spain was offered to Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, a relative of King William. Leopold at first accepted the candidacy,... Read more |
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William McTaggart
McTaggart, William (1835–1910). Painter. McTaggart was born in Kintyre (Strathclyde), in a poor labouring family. He studied in Glasgow and Edinburgh, meeting his expenses by painting portraits, and first exhibited in 1856. He became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and Royal... Read more |
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Religion in Europe
Religion in Europe: Catholicism: Missionaries Sources The Role of Missionaries.European missionaries to the Americas served two primary purposes. The explorers, monarchs financing the voyages, and missionaries themselves would argue that the more important reason... Read more |
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Old Man
Old Man Old Man, also known as Napi, is a creator god and tricksterfigure in the mythology of the Blackfoot Indians of North America. He is said to have created the world and all the creatures in it. To make humans, Old Man fashioned figures out of clay and breathed ... Read more |
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Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mantle 1931-1995 American baseball player Many argue that he was the greatest baseball player ever, and were it not for the almost constant menace of alcohol and health-related maladies during his long and successful career as a New York Yankee, chances are there would be no argument.... Read more |
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Englishry
Englishry. To afford some protection to lone Normans in the tense period after the Conquest, William I declared that if a murdered man could not be proved to be English, he would be presumed to be Norman, and the hundred fined. By the time of Richard I, at the end of the 12th cent. it had fallen... Read more |
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Bedchamber crisis
Bedchamber crisis, 1839. After the resignation of Lord Melbourne in 1839 Robert Peel was summoned to form a ministry. Peel mentioned casually to the queen the changes he thought should be made to the royal household. He wanted the queen to dismiss those ladies of the bedchamber whose husbands were... Read more |
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