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  American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James McPherson explains the abolitionists’ deep beliefs: “All people were equal in God’s sight; the souls of fl folks were as valuable as those of whites; for one of God’s children to enslave another was a violation of the Higher Law, even if it was sanctioned by the Constitution.”
Upon the strong urging of President Lincoln to begin offensive operations, McClellan attacked Virginia in the spring of 1862 by way of the peninsula between the York River and James River, southeast of Richmond.
Hooker, too, proved unable to defeat Lee’s army; despite outnumbering the Confederates by more than two to one, he was humiliated in the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863.
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 Top20AmericanLiterature.com - American Literature Guide.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In the post-war period, The Federalist essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay represent an important and historical discussion of government organization and republican values.
Grapes of Wrath, considered his masterpiece, is a strong, social-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life.
In the 1950s the West Coast spawned a literary movement, the poetry and fiction of the "Beat Generation," a name that referred simultaneously to the rhythm of jazz music, to a sense that post-war society was worn out, and to an interest in new forms of experience through drugs, alcohol, and Eastern mysticism.
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 Legal Theory Blog
A strong case can be made that the United States Supreme Court should have, not the power of judicial ultimacy, but only the power of judicial penultimacy.
To falsify the strong indeterminacy thesis one needs to establish that there is at least one possible case in which at least one possible outcome is legally incorrect.
Therefore, the strong indeterminacy thesis (as I have defined it) is false.
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 Astronomy History Links Page
Pythagoras 580-507 BC was a mathematician who had a strong influence on Greek culture, as well as later period mathematicians such as Newton and Einstein.
In 1970 she was named the director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
She was the first woman astronomer to be allowed to use the Mt Wilson 100 inch Hooker telescope in 1955.
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 Trivia Contest - World Cultures European
• Ireland's largest 'Chinatown', with a community 5,000 strong, is in the Botanic area of Belfast?
Organized by subject matter with 134 sections in groups of 15 questions, it's ideal for trivia buffs and Irish aficionados.
The diverse questions offer something for everyone from "Why is Bloomsday so called?" and "What was a 'Galway Hooker'?" to "Who was termed the 'Babe Ruth' of Gaelic football?"
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 WriteDesign On-Line - Quotes
Though you are not yet a Socrates, always seek to be a Socrates.
With regard to whatever objects give you delight, are useful, or are deeply loved, remember to tell yourself of what general nature they are, beginning from the most insignificant th
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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