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Kwame Kilpatrick Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick1970— Former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was the youngest mayor to lead the city of Detroit, Michigan, and the city's first mayor to resign the office after being charged with a felony. What began as an administration full of promise for both Kilpatrick and the beleaguered city in 2002... Read more
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ATTAINDER At common law, that extinction of civil rights and capacities that took place whenever a person who had committed treason or a felony received a sentence of death for the crime. The effect of attainder upon a felon was, in general terms, that all estate, real and personal, was... Read more
apparition apparition
apparition spiritualistic manifestation of a person or object in which a form not actually present is seen with such intensity that belief in its reality is created. The ancient and widespread belief in apparitions and ghosts (specters of dead persons) is based on the idea that the spirit of a man,... Read more
Ferdinand Marie vicomte de Lesseps Ferdinand Marie vicomte de Lesseps
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Lizzie Andrew Borden Lizzie Andrew Borden
Lizzie Andrew Borden 1860-1927, American woman accused of killing her father and her step-mother, b. Fall River, Mass. The elder Bordens were hacked to death with an ax on Aug. 4, 1892. Although Lizzie Borden claimed that she was out in the barn at the time, she was accused of the murders and... Read more
Edith Cavell Edith Cavell
Edith Cavell , 1865-1915, English nurse. When World War I broke out, she was head of the nursing staff of the Berkendael Medical Institute in Brussels. In 1915 she was arrested by the German occupation authorities and pleaded guilty to a charge of harboring and aiding Allied prisoners and assisting... Read more
Ka Ka
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Embracery Embracery
EMBRACERY The crime of attempting to influence a jury corruptly to one side or the other by promises, persuasions, entreaties, entertainments, and the like. The person guilty of it is called an embraceor. This is both a state and federal crime, and is commonly included under the offense of... Read more
Sortilege Sortilege
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insanity insanity
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