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political campaign
political campaign organized effort to secure nomination and election of candidates for government offices. In the United States, the most important political campaigns are those for the nomination and election of candidates for the offices of president and vice president. In each political party... Read more |
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John Charles Fremont
John Charles Frémont John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier. Through his explorations in the West he stimulated the American desire to own that region. He was the first presidential candidate of the Republican party. Born on Jan. 31,... Read more |
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primary
primary in the United States, a preliminary election in which the candidate of a party is nominated directly by the voters. The establishment of the primary system resulted from the demand to eliminate the abuses of nomination by party conventions, which were often open to manipulation by party... Read more |
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electoral college
electoral college in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of... Read more |
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Hunkers
Hunkers conservative faction of the Democratic party in New York state in the 1840s, so named because they were supposed to "hanker" or "hunker" after office. In opposition to them stood the radical Democrats, or Barnburners . The Hunkers favored internal improvements and liberal... Read more |
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American Protective Association
AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION (APA), founded at Clinton, Iowa, in 1887 by attorney Henry F. Bowers, represented anti-Catholic and anticapitalist sentiments during the 1890s. The APA movement grew slowly until the economic unrest of the panic of 1893 fueled its... Read more |
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Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg American politician Michael Bloomberg (born 1942) first gained renown as chief executive officer of Bloomberg L.P., the immensely successful financial data services and news media company. Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York City in 2001, and during his second term rumors... Read more |
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936), novelist, critic, journalist, screenwriter, and essayist, abandoned writing at least temporarily in 1990 to run unsuccessfully for president of his country. Like many of the characters in his fiction, (Jorge) Mario... Read more |
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Alfred M. Landon
Alfred Mossman Landon Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon (1887-1987) was the Republican nominee opposing Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U.S. presidential election of 1936. Running against popular New Deal policies, Landon lost to Roosevelt by the largest electoral vote margin of any candidate since... Read more |
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Grierson, Francis
...of Benjamin Henry Jesse Francis Shepard (1848–1927), who was brought from England as an infant and raised in a log cabin in Illinois and elsewhere in the Midwest. Self‐educated as a musician, he made his way to Paris (1869) to become... |
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Battlefields, Encampments, and Forts as Public Sites
...Michilimackinac—a palisade of pointed logs and blockhouses surrounding log buildings—was built by the French on the southern...scale replica that has 20‐foot‐high log walls surrounding barracks, officers...storehouse, French church, British trader cabins, ... |
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Housing
...Southeast, Cherokees built log houses out of small logs chinked with dirt and sand. In the...constructing one‐ or two‐room cabins, often using mud‐covered woven...Scandinavian countries built log houses and log barns in the Middle West. In... |
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Mary Celeste
...deck slate so that it could be later entered into the ship's log.Nine days later the Mary Celeste was sighted some 560 kilometres...off, as was the galley hatch, and the skylight above the main cabin was open. There was one metre of water in her, but this was... |
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cabin
cabin cabin fever lassitude, irritability, and similar symptoms resulting from long confinement or isolation indoors during the winter (originally and chiefly in North America).See also log cabin. |
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log
...and were first of all given a log by Jupiter. Demanding a more...inertia and excessive activity.log cabin a hut built of whole or split logs; in North America taken (as...person might rise to eminence.log line the knotted line to which... |
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miscellany
mis·cel·la·ny / ˈmisəˌlānē; miˈselənē/ • n. (pl. -nies) a group or collection of different items; a mixture: Talkeetna was a random miscellany of log cabins. ∎ a book containing a collection of pieces of writing by different authors. |
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anomie
...Social Structure and Anomie’ (in Social Theory and Social Structure, 1957), he discusses the American Dream of ‘log cabin to White House’, the truly open society where enormous upward social mobility and financial rewards are possible... |
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connote
...connotes a complete openness to empirical testing. ∎ (of a fact) imply as a consequence or condition: in that period a log cabin connoted hard luck. DERIVATIVES: con·no·ta·tive / ˈkänəˌtātiv/ adj. |
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Springfield
Springfield, Australia, Canada, Jamaica, New Zealand, USA 1. USA (Illinois): a log cabin was built here in 1818 around which the city developed. Its name comes from the nearby Spring Creek.2. USA (Massachusetts... |
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cabin
cabin • noun 1. a cabin by the lakesynonyms: log cabin, hut, chalet, cottage, shack, shanty, shed. 2. a first-class cabin in the shipsynonyms: stateroom, room, sleeping quarters, berth, compartment. 3. an aircraft's cabinsynonyms: compartment, ... |
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house
...house beach house bi-level brownstone bungalow bunkhouse cabin Cape Codcarriage house chalet clapboard house coach house...timbered house house trailer iglooin-law apartment log cabin longhouse maisonette manor mansion mobile home octagon... |
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hut
hut • noun we spent two nights in a rustic little hut near the villagesynonyms: shack, chantey, cabin, log cabin, shelter, shed, lean-to, hovel; hovel; cabana. |
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shanty
shanty • noun they stay in a little shanty by the lakesynonyms: shack, hut, (log) cabin, lean-to, shed, hovel. |
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flame
...lover, partner; informal beau; dated steady. • verb 1. logs crackled and flamed synonyms: burn, blaze, be ablaze, be...crimson/scarlet, color, glow. phrase: in flames the cabin was in flamessynonyms: on fire, burning, alight, flaming... |
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Couple logs many hours restoring cabins; The Home Place: Pair finds...
...dismantled 13 log cabins and rebuilt eight...land are the logs from a 150-year-old cabin they took apart...have given each cabin a crowning touch...owners of the log cabins were about to...recycling the ... |
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Rugged men build up the past with log cabin homes
...supplemental income. From hunter's cabins, doghouses and storage cabins to a couple of summer getaways...I would never build a big log home," he says in a baritone...me a 10-by-12 (foot) cabin in the woods - you couldn...don't make glossy elaborate ... |
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Log cabin expert uses `architectural forensics' to decide on preservation.
...at which houses might be log cabins cloaked in modern-day siding...rebuilding and restoring old log cabins. He has dismantled, documented...spearheaded full restorations on 15 cabins and structures, and done partial...people whether he ... |
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AN OUTDOORSMAN'S DREAM GETAWAY LOG CABIN A PERFECT FIT.(Time Out!)
...windows.'' Hege makes his own log siding for use on the gable ends on the exterior of each cabin. He uses white pine on the...and uses a product called Log Keeper on the logs to help resist mildew. Red...What's the secret of a good log home? ... |
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Expert on Log Cabins Looks Into the Grain; Forensics Unlock Secrets of the Past
...at which houses might be log cabins cloaked in modern-day siding...rebuilding and restoring old log cabins. He has dismantled, documented...spearheaded full restorations on 15 cabins and structures, and done partial...people whether he ... |
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Little cabin in the woods ; Teacher saves history, and herself, one log at a...
...drive up the dirt path to the cabin. "She doesn't stop when...as she proudly shows me the cabin. "It really is beautiful, isn't it? How many log cabins do you see sitting out in the...being used as a home." The cabin was originally built by ... |
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Fancy living in log cabins?
...that the wood used for the cabin is suitable for our Malaysian...White Pine, Fella's log cabins, which are handcrafted, are...A unique thing about log cabins which not many people know...single nail is used. How is a log ... |
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Log Cabin Kits Make Building Quicker, Affordable in Lebanon, Pa.
...one of two major suppliers of cabins for KOA campgrounds and also supplies cabins for state parks in several...time recognizing 21st century log cabin building. There is nary a...in the ends of laminated "logs" to provide a weather-tight fit ... |
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COUPLE LIVING HISTORY WITH OLD LOG CABIN PRE-CIVIL WAR HOME SETTLES IN AMHERST
...companies that built log homes, but he and his...expectations. Their log home is actually two log cabins pieced together. One...Koontz said. The log cabins were dismantled and shipped...pointing to his log ... |
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Amish-built cabin; These log homes are long on tradition; Amish man, his crew...
...southwestern Wisconsin. Once the cabins are ready for furniture, they...to their new owners. (The cabin shown in accompanying photos...and his partner.) For the cabin buyer, it's like getting...built homes manufactured log by log, numbered ... |
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