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grapnel, sometimes grapple, a small four-pronged anchor often used as such in dinghies and other small craft. Grapnels were also used in the sailing navy days to hold a ship alongside an enemy for the purpose of boarding it by hooking them in the rigging or over the gunwale. They were also used by... Read more
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Pietro Pomponazzi , 1462-1525, Italian philosopher, b. Mantua. He was a professor at Padua, Ferrara, and Bologna. Pomponazzi aroused great interest in intellectual circles when he questioned St. Thomas Aquinas's interpretation of Aristotle. In his De immortalitate animae (1516), Pomponazzi argued... Read more
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Morris family of prominent American landowners and statesmen. Richard Morris, d. 1672, left England after serving in Oliver Cromwell's army, became a merchant in Barbados, and emigrated to New York City when it was known, under the Dutch, as New Amsterdam. He purchased a tract of land in what is... Read more
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TWENTY-SECOND AMENDMENT The Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some... Read more
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