The Century Book of Facts: A Library of Ready Reference Embracing History, Biography, Government, Law, Language, Literature, Invention, Science, Domestic Economy, Industry, Finance, Art, Religion, Education, Hygiene, and Useful MiscellanyHenry Woldmar Ruoff King-Richardson, 1900 - 681 pages |
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... England , so called from the chalky white cliffs . Aldine Press . Founded by Aldus Manutius at Venice in 1496. Editions of the classics issued from this press were called the Aldine editions . This term is now applied to some elegant ...
... England , so called from the chalky white cliffs . Aldine Press . Founded by Aldus Manutius at Venice in 1496. Editions of the classics issued from this press were called the Aldine editions . This term is now applied to some elegant ...
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... England statutes were so called . Blue Stocking . A literary society at Venice in 1400 , whose members wore blue stockings , is the origin of this name for a female pedant . Bohemian . As opposed to Philistine , an artist or literary ...
... England statutes were so called . Blue Stocking . A literary society at Venice in 1400 , whose members wore blue stockings , is the origin of this name for a female pedant . Bohemian . As opposed to Philistine , an artist or literary ...
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... England . Donnybrook Fair . A once celebrated annual fair near Dublin . Douay Bible , The . The English Bible authorized by the Roman Catholic Church ; first published at Douay , France . Downing Street . The official residence of the ...
... England . Donnybrook Fair . A once celebrated annual fair near Dublin . Douay Bible , The . The English Bible authorized by the Roman Catholic Church ; first published at Douay , France . Downing Street . The official residence of the ...
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... England , France , Spain , and Italy acceded , and for centuries this confederacy com- manded the respect and defied the power of kings . Hanseatic League . The name of the confederation of Hanse towns . There were seventy - two cities ...
... England , France , Spain , and Italy acceded , and for centuries this confederacy com- manded the respect and defied the power of kings . Hanseatic League . The name of the confederation of Hanse towns . There were seventy - two cities ...
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... England . Value , $ 625,000 . Koran , The . The Mohammedan Bible . | Lion and Unicorn . The supporters of the British royal arms . Lion of the North , The . Gustavus of Sweden , the great leader of the Protestant forces during the ...
... England . Value , $ 625,000 . Koran , The . The Mohammedan Bible . | Lion and Unicorn . The supporters of the British royal arms . Lion of the North , The . Gustavus of Sweden , the great leader of the Protestant forces during the ...
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Page 30 - States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Page 26 - State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 7. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law ; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States ; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present emolument, office, or title...
Page 27 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 25 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 30 - ... on the list the Senate shall choose the VicePresident ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Page 65 - Georgia, and containing about 5,000 acres more or less, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof...
Page 13 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this state, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Page 10 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 28 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court.
Page 26 - ... 5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State. 6. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another; nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.