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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...tain" it, i.e., limit it to the 15 states where it had already existed. Most of the Democrats accepted this solution. This led to a schism in the... ...ished their own pro-secession political organization. Growing constituencies in the south - such as urban immigrants and mountain farmers - opposed... ...e "core" - seceded between December 20, 1860 and February 1, 1861. They were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and... ...Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas - joined them only after the a... ...ax was an important source of state revenue in the South (up to 60 percent in South Carolina). Emancipation led to near bankruptcy. The Union state... ..."discipline" the workforce in the plantations - but also targeted Republicans. The Democrats changed their name after the war to the Conservative P... ... served a short sentence for tampering with a jury and for criminal contempt. The Democrats failed to capitalize on the affair and lost the presid...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... Strip entry on page 276) 129 Kenya 130 Kiribati 132 Korea, North 133 Korea, South 134 Kuwait 136 Laos 137 Lebanon 138 Lesotho 140 Liberia 142 Libya 1... ...eychelles 216 Sierra Leone 218 Singapore 219 Solomon Islands 220 Somalia 221 South Africa 223 Soviet Union 224 Spain 226 Page Sri Lanka 228 Sudan 230... ...emen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 270 Zambia 272 Zimbabwe 273 Taiwan ... ...sists of about 360 small coral islands Special notes: 1,050 km east of North Carolina; some reclaimed land leased by US Government Population: 58,033 ... ...RAD), Jean Lecanuet; Republicans (PR), Francois Leotard; Cen- ter for Social Democrats (CDS), Pierre Mehaignerie; Radical (RAD), Andre Rossi- not; lef... ... Dail Fianna Fail, 81 seats (44.1%); Fine Gael, 51 seats (27.1); Progressive Democrats, 14 seats (11.8%), Labor Party, 12 seats (6.4%); Workers' Party... ...l Union (SWANU), Moses Katjiuongua; South-West African People's Organization Democrats (SWAPO-D), Andreas Shipanga; South-West African National Party ... ...800 km 2 ; land area: 136,800 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of North Carolina Land boundaries: 2,800 km total Climate: varies from cool summer... ... km 2 ; land area: 71,620 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than South Carolina Land boundaries: 933 km total Coastline: 402 km Maritime claim: ...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...uator, the North (=Scan'dinavia), the Far East, Orient, Levant; the North, South, East, West (United States). But do wt, as a rule, capitalize adje... ...gnating direction or point of com- pass : oriental customs, the orientals, southern states, a southerner (but: Northman = Scandinavian); an invasio... ...ndinavian); an invasion of barbarians from the north, traveling through the south of Europe. A The Universitv of Chica~o Press 4. Generic terms fo... ...tebrata, Reptilia, Cruciferae, Salix; Felis leo, Cocos nucifera; (but: Rosa Carolina, Trifolium Willdenovii, Par- kinson&~ Tmeyana [Styrax calif~nic... ... in astronomical matter, names of stars or constellations: Felis leo, Rosa Carolina; Saturn, Cassiofieia. 62. In resolutions, the word "Resolved" (... ...before the publication of Spencer's book.-EDITOR.] "These [the free-silver Democrats] asserted that the present artificial ratio can be maintained ...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...here until the next morning. WINTER arrived. Jake talked about a trip to a southern, warm place. He was weak and in a lot of pain, but smiled wanly an... ...vel?” “Well, yes, I do. My girlfriends and I like to go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina for spring vacations. It’s breathtaking there when the azale... ...“Well, yes, I do. My girlfriends and I like to go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina for spring vacations. It’s breathtaking there when the azaleas and... ...ardiac medi- cine, the poor state of his hedge fund, the disaster that the Democrats were foisting on the American public, and his irri- tation at old... ...I checked it all out. There is a town called Ensenada about ninety minutes south of San Diego. Carnival cruise ships dock there before sending and rec...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ...behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeastern Europe, feudalism endured well into the twentieth c... ...he "old, safe hands" are former communists disingenuously turned socialists turned democrats turned capitalists. As even revolutionaries age, they ... ...and probability in the studies conducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph B...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ...behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeastern Europe, feudalism endured well into the twentieth c... ...he "old, safe hands" are former communists disingenuously turned socialists turned democrats turned capitalists. As even revolutionaries age, they ... ...and probability in the studies conducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph B...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...llinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford c... ...s cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, “These college chumps make me tired. They’re so ... ...e wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which it was fo... ...-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and... ...o the bank for a talk, and tell ‘em a few things. I don’t mind their being democrats, so much, but I won’t stand having socialists around. But thank G...

... The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...a slanting direction. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance ... ...treets run up to V Street, both right and left—V Street North and V Street South. Those really known to mankind are E, F, G, H, I, and K Streets North... ..., G, H, I, and K Streets North. Then those streets which run from north to south are numbered First Street, Second Street, Third Street, and so on, on... ...inia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Kansas, and Florida return only 1 ea... ...returned 8, and New York only 6; whereas Virginia re- turned 10, and South Carolina 5, From which may be gath- ered the relative rate of increase in p... ...ents used by both the gentlemen I have named prove very clearly that South Carolina and her sister States had no right to secede under the Constitutio... ...he record which has been made of his public misdeeds. He is decried by the Democrats because he is a Republican, and by the anti-abolitionists because... ...ther of those politi- cians in the States who have since taken the name of Democrats, and in accordance with whose theory it has come to pass that eve... ...ct that many Senators, especially those who have been sent to the House as Democrats, do allow the State legislatures to dictate to them their votes, ...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...nglish Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of North America – P... ...and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the gr... ...r having been delayed in lakes and marshes, it flows slowly onwards to the south. Sometimes quietly glid- ing along the argillaceous bed which nature ... ...w England.*** *This was the case in the State of New York. **Maryland, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were in this situation. See “Pitkin... ... The Republi- cans are the representatives of the old Federalists, and the Democrats of the old Republicans. – T rans. Note (1861). 200 Democracy in ... ...them had earned a considerable degree of celebrity. South 217 Tocqueville Carolina alone, which afterwards took up arms in the same cause, sent sixty... ...ry office or place within this State.” See also the constitutions of North Carolina, art. 31; Virginia; South Carolina, art. I, Section 23; Kentucky, ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 4 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... Judge Douglas has told me that he heard my speeches north and my speeches south; that he had heard me at Ottawa and at Freeport in the north and rece... ...me at Ottawa and at Freeport in the north and recently at Jonesboro in the south, and there was a very different cast of sentiment in the speeches mad... ..., and I dare him to point out any difference between my speeches north and south. While I am here perhaps I ought to say a word, if I have the time, i... ... his attention to the fact that he felicitates himself to-day that all the Democrats of the free States are agreeing with him, while he omits to tell ... ... the free States are agreeing with him, while he omits to tell us that the Democrats of any slave State agree with him. If he has not thought of this,... ...eiterated his charge of a con- spiracy or combination between the National Democrats and Republicans. What evidence Judge Douglas has upon this sub- j... ...laced upon the basis that our fathers placed it upon. Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, once said, and truly said, that when this government was establis... ...gain where the wisest and best men of the world placed it. Brooks of South Carolina once declared that when this Constitution was framed its fram- ers...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...lavery is voted down or voted up.” I am quite willing to believe that many Democrats would prefer that slavery should be always voted down, and I know... ...e believe that Edmunds and Morrill will spend this week among the National Democrats, trying to in- duce them to content themselves by voting for Jake... ...d lose the whole North, while the common enemy would still carry the whole South. The question of men is a different one. There are good, patriotic me... ...f dollars and cents. I suggest to this portion of the Ohio Republicans, or Democrats, if there be any present, the serious consideration of this fact ... ...y. No great while after the adoption of the original Constitu- tion, North Carolina ceded to the Federal Government the country now constituting the S... ...now known to have been otherwise, unless it may be John Rutledge, of South Carolina. The sum of the whole is, that of our thirty-nine fathers who fram... ...is coercion? What is invasion? W ould the march- ing of an army into South Carolina, without the consent of her people, and with hostile intent toward...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...lieved that this communication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to prevent the ... ...ollowing, to wit: (General Orders No. 11) HEADQUARTERS DEPART- MENT OF THE SOUTH, HIL TON HEAD, PORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of ... ...ORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the South, having del... ...Y AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the South, having delib- er... ...ncompatible. The persons in these three States: Georgia Florida, and South Carolina—heretofore held as slaves are therefore declared forever free. “By... ...States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansa... ...h you request of me, I cannot overlook the fact that the meeting speak as “Democrats.” Nor can I, with full respect for their known intelligence, and ... ...ent, or in any way other than that they preferred to designate themselves “Democrats” rather than “American citizens.” In this time of national peril ... ... denied me this I will yet be thankful for the country’s sake that not all Democrats have done so. He on whose discretionary judgment Mr. V allandigha...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 3 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ome alike law- ful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition? Let any one who doubts,... ...as brought forward at a time when nobody asked him; it was tendered to the South when the South had not asked for it, but when they could not well ref... ...s.] Y es, he furnished himself, and if you suppose he controlled the other Democrats that went with him, he furnished three votes; while the Republica... ...e five to one Republi- cans who beat that bill. Everything must be for the Democrats! They did everything, and the five to the one that really did the... ...ard until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, north as well as south.” What is the paragraph? In this paragraph, which I have quoted in yo... ...ot done it; they, too, as well as the Re- publicans and the Anti-Lecompton Democrats, have not done it; but on the contrary, they together have insist... ...cy to the nationalization of slavery in these States. Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, in one of his speeches, when they were presenting him canes, silv...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...nsas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-... ...Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-tenth ... ...ilar to the dispatch received by you, but nothing very definite from North Carolina. Knowing Mr. Stanley to be an able man, and not doubting that he i... ...he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the su... ...pril, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texa... ...one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were... .... “We have to hold territory in inclement and sickly places; where are the Democrats to do this? It was a free fight, and the field was open to the wa... ...mocrats to do this? It was a free fight, and the field was open to the war Democrats to put down this 173 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...eople for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of ... ...gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburb... ...nutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airph... ...cted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.Thi... ...that the plane was “flying erratically . ”A minute later, Flight 11 turned south. American also began getting identifications of the hijackers, as Ong... ...to enroll at Chowan College, a small Baptist school in Murfreesboro, North Carolina.After a semester at Chowan, KSM transferred to North Carolina Agri... ...ment:The Post- Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996). 15. David M.Alpern with Anthony Marro and Stephan Le...

...ident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report without dissent....

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...tions for thirty five thou sand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects... ...cClintock,* author of ‘An Address,’ etc., deliv ered at Sunflower Hill, South Carolina, and member of the Yale Law School. New Haven: published by ... ...ock,* author of ‘An Address,’ etc., deliv ered at Sunflower Hill, South Carolina, and member of the Yale Law School. New Haven: published by T . H.... ... in America, McClintock’s epoch is antiquity. In his long vanished day the Southern author had a passion for “eloquence”; it was his pet, his darling.... ... to be vivid; if it is a crowd of ten thousand—ten thousand proud, untamed democrats, horny handed sons of toil and of poli tics, and fliers of the e...

... rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its own. Rank was unknown in Lakeside--unconfessed, anyway; everybody knew everybody and his dog, and a sociable fr...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...Canfield says he would like to have a document or two from you. The Locos (Democrats) here are in considerable trouble about Van Buren’s letter on Tex... ...d from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fift... ... that the Committee on the Post-office was composed of five Whigs and four Democrats, and their report was un- derstood as sustaining, not impugning, ... ... That report had met with the approbation of all the Whigs, and of all the Democrats also, with the exception of one, and he wanted to go even further... ...one on to ask whether so great a grievance as the present detention of the Southern mail ought not to be remedied. Mr. Lincoln would assure the gentle... ... and, it seems to me, the difficulty is cleared. One of the gentlemen from South Carolina [Mr. Rhett] very much deprecates these statistics. He partic... ...it seems to me, the difficulty is cleared. One of the gentlemen from South Carolina [Mr. Rhett] very much deprecates these statistics. He particularly... ...lieve, within the limits of or owned by Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. As to the Northwestern Territory, provision had been made even be... ...oon after found its way into some of the messages of the Governor of South Carolina. We, however, look for and are not much shocked by political eccen...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

... faction in the work, had there been no disruption be- tween the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object wh... ...om. And now touching this war which had broken out be- tween the North and South before I left England. I would wish to explain what my feelings were;... ... well. But they will not do this. They will go to war with each other. The South will make her demands for secession with an arro- gance and instant p... ...exas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South will also claim Tennessee, Kentucky... ... slave population is barely more than a tenth of the whole, while in South Carolina and Mississippi it is more than half. And, therefore, I venture to... ...,917 Florida 81,885 63,809 145,694 Georgia 615,366 467,461 1,082,827 South Carolina 308,186 407,185 715,371 North Carolina 679,965 328,377 1,008,342 T... ... own party could say for him, even in his own State of New York. As to the Democrats, their language respecting him was as harsh as any that I have he... .... Lin- coln at that time submitted himself to a compromise in favor of the Democrats, promising the support of the gov- 323 Trollope ernment to certa...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...f all the States in the Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various political opinio... ...engaged had also been concluded. The war be tween Spain and the colonies in South America, which had commenced many years before, was then the only c... ...our boundary has been extended to the Pacific Ocean; the independence of the southern nations of this hemisphere has been recognized, and recommended ... ...is Country made “the” then “recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States” one of the subjects of... ...pect to which we ought not to be, in a partisan sense, either Republicans or Democrats, but fellow citizens and fellowmen, to whom the interests of a ... ... The offices of President and Vice President have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the change mean? That is the question that is upperm... ...e His purpose. Jimmy Carter INAUGURAL ADDRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1977 The Democrats reclaimed the White House in the 1976 election. The Governor fr...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...f the evil eye. Next to Orientals in envy, as in activity, are some of the Southern Europeans. The Spaniards pursued all their great men with it, embi... ...n early stop to their successes. 1 With the French, who are essentially a Southern people, the double education of des potism and Catholicism has, i... ...o form it, but in those who are formed by it. Mr. Bright and his school of democrats think themselves greatly concerned in maintaining that the franch... ...bility, which has been printed and widely circulated by the Legislature of South Carolina, vindicated this preten sion on the general principle of li... ..., which has been printed and widely circulated by the Legislature of South Carolina, vindicated this preten sion on the general principle of limiting...

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