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Mandarin Mandarin
Mandarin [Port. mandar =to govern, or from Malay mantri =counselor of state], a high official of imperial China. For each of the nine grades there was a different colored button worn on the dress cap. Mandarin Chinese was the language spoken by the official class and was based on the Beijing... Read more
Recall Recall
Recall BIBLIOGRAPHY Recall is an electoral procedure that allows citizens to vote on whether or not a public official should be removed from office. It is distinct from an impeachment, which involves a formal trial. A recall is simply a special election open to all voters in the area... Read more
Official Secrets Act Official Secrets Act
Official Secrets Act, 1911. The first Official Secrets Act (1889) was ineffective. It required the government to prove a suspect was a spy, even where it was obvious. The 1911 Act put this right, and extended the law further. It was passed in a panic, during an anti-German spy scare, and on a hot... Read more
William Joseph Casey William Joseph Casey
William Joseph Casey 1913-87, American public official, b. New York City. After graduating from Fordham Univ. (B.S., 1934) he obtained a law degree from St. Johns Univ. (1937). During World War II he became an important official in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and helped supervise... Read more
Francis Turner Palgrave Francis Turner Palgrave
Francis Turner Palgrave 1824-97, English poet and anthologist; oldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave. Educated at Oxford, where he began his lifelong friendship with Tennyson, he was an official in the government education department until he became professor of poetry (1885-95) at Oxford. He is... Read more
Edwin Austin Abbey Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey 1852-1911, American illustrator and painter, b. Philadelphia, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Employed by Harper & Brothers, he was sent to England, where he gathered materials for his illustration of Herrick's poems and other works. His illustration of... Read more
Qadi Qadi
QADI Islamic judge. According to Muslim legal doctrine, the qadi or judge is a public official whose primary responsibilities entail the administration of justice on the basis of the divinely revealed law of Islam, known in Arabic as the shari Read more
Freemasonry Freemasonry
Freemasonry teachings and practices of the secret fraternal order officially known as the Free and Accepted Masons, or Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Organizational Structure There are approximately 5 million members worldwide, mostly in the United States and other English-speaking countries.... Read more
divorce divorce
divorce partial or total dissolution of a marriage by the judgment of a court. Partial dissolution is a divorce "from bed and board," a decree of judicial separation , leaving the parties officially married while forbidding cohabitation. Total dissolution of the bonds of a valid marriage is... Read more
Saint Augustine of Hippo Saint Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine The Christian philosopher and theologian St. Augustine (354-430) is best known for "The Confessions" and "The City of God." After the authors of the New Testament, he has probably been the most influential Christian writer. The greatest of the Latin Fathers of the Church,... Read more

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