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  • Sumner identified two Democratic senators as the principal culprits in this crime—Douglas of Illinois and Andrew Butler of South Carolina. He characterized ...
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  • In 1859, he became a principal in one of the public schools in St. Louis and carried that duty for almost nine years. In 1867 he was appointed ...
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  • During the Renaissance, sacred choral music was the principal type ... stories. Giacomo Carissimi was the principal early composer of oratorios ...
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  • Stukeley's principal works, elaborate accounts of Stonehenge and Avebury, appeared in 1740 and 1743. These were supposed to be the first ...
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  • earth metals and their chemical compounds. The principal commercial sources of erbium are from the minerals xenotime and euxenite. ...
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  • Mackinder was a convinced anti-Bolshevik. The principal concern of his work was to warn of the possibility of another major war—between Germany ...
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  • The principal action of nitroglycerin is vasodilation—widening of the blood vessels. Nitroglycerin will dilate veins more than arteries, decreasing ...
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  • are known by the acronyms CATNYP for the four principal research libraries and LEO for the dozens of neighborhood branch libraries. ...
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  • Alain's principal work is Ars Fidei Catholicæ, dedicated to Clement III, was composed for the purpose of refuting, on rational grounds ...
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  • Wawel Cathedral, which holds the Saint's relics, became a principal national shrine. Almost all the Polish kings beginning with Władysław ...
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  • The Jordan River rises at the foot of Mount Hermon from three principal sources: * The Hasbani River, the longest of the three rises near Hasbayya ...
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  • from his first campaigns, and played a principal part in the later campaigns ... his History. Although now lost, it was a principal source for the surviving ...
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  • entirely. Aksum succeeded in becoming the principal supplier of African goods ... navigation as well as cut it off from its principal markets in Alexandria, ...
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  • and the surrounding city. The Town Hall was the principal target of the artillery fire, but more than 4000 houses were completely destroyed. Only the ...
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  • dialect), literal translation: "Principal People"). ... Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. Principal towns included Chota and ...
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  • Schweitzer was the principal of a theological college and author of ... of the Life of Jesus, he was appointed Principal of the Theological Seminary ...
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  • period. While most of the ten mukhya (principal) Upanishads can be considered ... Of these, the first three are the principal division, also called ...
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  • The principal ores containing lanthanum are monazite ((Ce, La, Th, Nd, Y)PO4) and bastnasite ((Ce, La, Y)CO3F). The proportion of lanthanum in ...
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  • The principal characters were Pogo the Possum; Albert the Alligator; Churchy LaFemme (cf Cherchez la femme), a turtle; Howland Owl; Beauregard ...
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  • such as the Diatessaron as their principal scripture. ==Notes== ==References== *Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed ...
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