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convention of Kilkenny
Kilkenny, convention of, 1341. The English crown was too preoccupied with Wales and Scotland in the reign of Edward I, and too insecure in the reign of Edward II, to give much attention to the government of the English Pale in Ireland. Edward III was forced to pay attention in 1341 by a... Read more |
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Sand River convention
Sand River convention, 1852. Appointed governor of Cape Colony and high commissioner in southern Africa in 1847, Sir Harry Smith tried at first to reimpose British authority over the people of Dutch descent—Boers (Afrikaners)—who, dissatisfied with British rule, had quitted the... Read more |
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judgment
judgment decision of a court of law respecting the issues before it. The term ordinarily is not applied to the decree (order) of courts of equity . The outstanding characteristic of a legal judgment, in contrast to an equitable decree, is its finality and fixity; thus, except for error... Read more |
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Revisionism
R EVISIONISM Athan G. Theoharis The term "revise" is defined by the Oxford English Dictionaryas "to re-examine or reconsider and amend faults in." This definition describes the process by which historians have consistently reconsidered and improved... Read more |
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Rickie Lee Jones
Jones, Rickie Lee Singer, songwriter The story of Rickie Lee Jones is a classic rock 'n' roll fable, a story that describes the ups and downs of the rock life and how it can contain the seeds of both failure and regeneration. In the years since her smash debut album Rickie Lee Jones, which... Read more |
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Meech Lake Accord
Meech Lake Accord set of constitutional reforms designed to induce Quebec to accept the Canada Act . The Accord's five basic points, proposed by Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, include a guarantee of Quebec's special status as a "distinct society" and a commitment to Canada's linguistic... Read more |
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David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald 1920-, American historian, b. Goodman, Miss. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Illinois in 1946, he taught at Columbia (1947-49; 1951-59), Smith (1949-51), Princeton (1959-62), Johns Hopkins (1962-1972), and Harvard (1973-91; emeritus 1991-). An authority on the... Read more |
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Congress of Berlin
Congress of Berlin 1878, called by the signers of the Treaty of Paris of 1856 (see Paris, Congress of ) to reconsider the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano , which Russia had forced on the Ottoman Empire earlier in 1878. Great Britain and Austria-Hungary were the powers most insistent on... Read more |
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Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman
Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman , 1878-1961, American evangelist, b. Pennsburg, Pa. The international movement he founded has been variously called First Century Christian Fellowship, the Oxford Group, Moral Re-Armament (often known as MRA), and Buchmanism. Buchman was ordained in the Lutheran ministry... Read more |
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Benedetto Croce
Benedetto Croce , 1866-1952, Italian philosopher, historian, and critic. He lived mostly in Naples, devoting himself to studying and writing. He founded and edited (1903-44) Critica, a review of literature, history, and philosophy, which in 1944 became Quaderni della critica. Croce was made a... Read more |
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