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Madoc
Madoc or Madog (Madoc ap Owain Gwynedd) , fl. 1170?, quasi-historical Welsh prince. According to Welsh legend, Madoc, said to be a son of Owain Gwynedd, discovered America 300 years before Columbus. Witnesses' accounts of finding supposedly Welsh-speaking Native Americans have served to keep... Read more |
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Second Amendment
SECOND AMENDMENT The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The subject matter and unusual phrasing of this amendment led to much... Read more |
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vital statistics
vital statistics primarily records of the number of births and deaths in a population . Other factors, such as number of marriages and causes of death, by age groups, are regularly included. From these records can be computed birthrates and death (or mortality) rates from which trends are... Read more |
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William Burnet
William Burnet 1688-1729, English colonial governor in America; son of Gilbert Burnet. As governor of New York and New Jersey (1720-28), he advocated extending the trade with Native Americans, thereby seeking to bind the Iroquois to the British and keep them from French influence—a move that... Read more |
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Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts 1767, originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act . They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The colonials,... Read more |
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Usnea
Usnea Description Usnea is a unique species of herb because it is created through a symbiotic relationship between lichens and algae. Symbiosis refers to the living together of two different organisms. In the case of lichens, both the alga and the fungus benefit from the relationship. Other names... Read more |
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Charles M. Andrews
Charles McLean Andrews The American historian Charles McLean Andrews (1863-1943) originated the version of colonial history that places the English settlements in America within the larger context of the British Empire. Charles McLean Andrews was born in Wethersfield, Conn., on Feb. 22,... Read more |
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Monday
Monday the day of the week before Tuesday and following Sunday. Recorded from Old English (in form Mōnandæg), the name originally meant ‘day of the moon’, a translation of late Latin lunae dies.Monday club a right-wing political club, formed in 1961, that originally held... Read more |
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David Lee Roth
David Lee RothSinger, songwriter Infamous as the lead vocalist and colorful frontman for Van Halen, one of America's most popular hard-rock bands, David Lee Roth turned solo artist in 1985. After the enormous success of his extended play album Crazy From the Heat, Roth, in a decision that stunned... Read more |
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