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121bullfighting — See bullfighter. * * * Spanish corrida de toros Spectacle, popular in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, in which matadors ceremonially taunt, and usually kill, bulls in an arena. Spectacles with bulls were common in ancient Crete, Thessaly, and …
122Panic of 1873 — A bank run on the Fourth National Bank, No. 20 Nassau Street, New York City, 1873. From Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper, October 4, 1873. The Panic of 1873 triggered a severe international economic depression in both Europe and the United… …
123Kim Ki-young — Infobox actor name = Kim Ki young imagesize = caption = Kim Ki young during a 1997 interview by the Korean Film Archive birthname = birthdate = October 1, 1922According to official documents, Kim was born in 1919. However, Kim insisted he was… …
124The Rough Wooing — was a term coined by Sir Walter Scott and H. E. Marshall to describe the Anglo Scottish war pursued intermittently from 1544 to 1551. It followed from the failure of the Scots to honour the terms of the 1543 Treaty of Greenwich, by which the… …
125Frauenfrage — is the literal German language equivalent of The woman question.However in history, it is specifically associated with a Medieval demographical period when many men could not marry due to a population explosion and the demands of the patrimonial… …
126Michigan — /mish i geuhn/, n. 1. a state in the N central United States. 9,258,344; 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Cap.: Lansing. Abbr.: MI (for use with zip code), Mich. 2. Lake, a lake in the N central U.S., between Wisconsin and Michigan: one of the… …
127Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Monday, March 5, 1877 We have assembled to repeat the public ceremonial, begun by Washington, observed by all my predecessors, and now a time honored custom, which marks the commencement of a new term of the… …
128Intercession — • To go or come between two parties, to plead before one of them on behalf of the other Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Intercession Intercession (Mediation) …
