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AFTER THE GREAT WAR: ANTIRADICALISM AND THE RED SCARE The Palmer Raids The xenophobia that underlay immigration restrictions and the revitalization of the Ku Klux Klan was also apparent in the Red Scare of 1920. On 2 January 1920 federal agents under the direction of Attorney... Read more
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Dieppe raid, undertaken, predominently by Canadian troops, primarily to test the defences of this German-occupied French port. Launched on 19 August 1942, it was the biggest such operation of the war.Originally codenamed RUTTER, the raid was planned by a British organization, Combined Operations... Read more
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Malcolm III (Malcolm Canmore), d. 1093, king of Scotland (1057-93), son of Duncan I; successor to Macbeth (d. 1057). It took him some years after Macbeth's death to regain the boundaries of his father's kingdom. About 1068, Edgar Atheling , pretender to the English throne, took refuge with... Read more
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Esek Hopkins 1718-1802, American Revolutionary naval hero, b. Scituate, R.I.; brother of Stephen Hopkins . He commanded a privateer in the French and Indian War, and in Dec., 1775, he was appointed commander in chief of the newly established Continental navy. In 1776 he made a successful raid on... Read more
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reivers or moss-troopers were the names given to border raiders. There was little protection against them, save the building of peel towers and bastle-houses as temporary refuges. Liddesdale on the Scottish side and Redesdale on the English were notorious nests for reivers. Repeated agreements were... Read more
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Śivaji or Shivaji , 1627-80, Indian ruler, leader of the Marathas . The son of a Maratha chieftain, he was imbued from early childhood with hatred of the Mughal empire, which controlled most of India. From his capital at Pune he made guerrilla attacks on the Muslim kingdom of Bijapur and... Read more
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Charles Ginner , 1878-1952, English painter. After study in Paris, Ginner settled in London, becoming a founder of the neorealist school. During both world wars he was an official government artist. Among his World War II paintings are several scenes of air raids.... Read more
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Elias Hasket Derby (1739-1799) Sources I NTERNATIONAL MERCHANT The House of Derby. Elias Hasket Derby’s father, Richard Derby, had been one of the most prosper-ous merchants in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1761 Elias Derby married Elizabeth Crownin-shield, ... Read more

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