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Topic: 1826 in the United States

	Encyclopedia topic: Short story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Short stories tend to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (A short novel) and novels (A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story).
		Short stories date back to oral (An examination conducted by word of mouth) story-telling traditions, such as Homer (An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs) 's the Illiad (additional info and facts about Illiad) and the Odyssey (A long wandering and eventful journey).
		Tales such as these were told in a rhyming (additional info and facts about rhyming), poetic (additional info and facts about poetic) format, with short sections of the tale focusing on individual stories that could be told at one sitting.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/short_story.htm (759 words)

	THE FEDERALIST PAPERS - THE WAR OF 1812 - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
		The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain from June 1812 to the spring of 1815, although the peace treaty ending the war was signed in Europe in December 1814 on Christmas Eve.
		Twelve states ratified the amendment, not enough to make it part of the Constitution under Article V of the Constitution, which requires ratification of "the legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress."
		On July 25, 1990, the United States Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, told Hussein that the Iraq/Kuwait dispute was an Arab matter, not one that affects the United States.
	www.greatdreams.com /amndmnts.htm (6155 words)

	Judaism
		Freemasonry in the United States has been accepted and influential, although there is also a history of antagonism toward Masonry here throughout our history and especially during the 1830's.
		This is what Masonry, Judaism, and the United States stand for, and this helps me understand why my father was proud of his heritage as a Jew, a Mason, and an American.
		The Virginia Masonic Constitutions state: "Whosoever...desires to be a Mason...is to believe firmly in the Eternal God...leaving such brother to his own private judgment as to particular modes and forms...by whatever religious names or persuasions." See Methodical Digest and Virginia Textbook, pages 5-6.
	bessel.org /masjud.htm (4205 words)

	CEEDC: Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Canada is often called socialist by the United States, where as we are considered to be capitalists by the Chinese government.
		It proposes state intervention to lessen inequality in society, with social and economic planning as the key.
		A socialist today would believe in the active involvement of the state to ensure an equitable society—one in which the major means of production, distribution and supply managed for the betterment of the people that make up a society rather than an economic elite.
	www.collections.gc.ca /environmental/culture/h-politics.html (1580 words)

	Botanical Index to Thoreau's Journal - Thoreau as Botanist
		This manual for the identification of vascular plants, mosses, and liverworts of the northeastern United States was as dry as Dewey's report and Bigelow's manual, but it was far more comprehensive and accurate.
		Hunter Dupree, Gray's biographer, states that neither Ralph Waldo Emerson nor Thoreau crossed Asa Gray's path and attributes this to the empiricist Gray's hostility towards transcendentalism.
		Three well-known manuals that Thoreau consulted from time to time were Amos Eaton's A Manual of Botany for the Northern and Middle States (various editions), John Torrey's Flora of the Northern and Middle Sections of the United States (1826), and Torrey and Gray's Flora of North America (1838-43).
	neatlas.huh.harvard.edu /ThoreauBotIdx/ThAsBot.html (5552 words)

	References for Railroad Names
		Foshay, James W. Report of the Second Annual Meeting of the Street-Railway Assn of the State of New York
		History of the Railroads and Canals of the United States (reprint 1970)
		History of Texas Railroads: and of transportation conditions under Spain and Mexico and the Republic of the state
	www.coxrail.com /database/RRRefs.asp (958 words)

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