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  • 111North, Frederick North, Lord — ▪ prime minister of United Kingdom also called (from 1790)  2nd Earl Of Guilford, Baron Guilford   born April 13, 1732, London, Eng. died Aug. 5, 1792, London  prime minister from 1770 to 1782, whose vacillating leadership contributed to the loss …

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  • 112John Quincy Adams: Slavery and the Constitution — ▪ Primary Source              The complexity of the issues involved in the debate about the Missouri Compromise is revealed in the selection that appears below from the diary of John Quincy Adams, dated March 3, 1820, only three days before the… …

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  • 113Henry B. Brown and John M. Harlan: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) — ▪ Primary Source       By 1896 segregation in railway cars was in effect in all Southern states. In an effort to test the constitutionality of Louisiana s segregation laws, Homer A. Plessy, who was only one eighth African American and could… …

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  • 114Brussels — • Capital of the Kingdom of Belgium Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Brussels     Brussels     † …

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  • 115Richard I, King Of England — • King who embarked on the Crusades (1157 1199) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Richard I, King of England     Richard I, King of England      …

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  • 116England (Since the Reformation) —     England (Since the Reformation)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► England (Since the Reformation)     The Protestant Reformation is the great dividing line in the history of England, as of Europe generally. This momentous Revolution, the outcome… …

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  • 117Stanislaus Zolkiewski —     Stanislaus Zolkiewski     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Stanislaus Zolkiewski     Chancellor of Poland, born in Tuyrnka (Red Russia), 1547; died at Cecora, 6 Oct., 1620. He studied at Lemberg with great distinction, and it is said that he knew… …

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  • 118careless — care·less adj: not showing due care: negligent careless driving compare reckless Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 119reckless — reck·less adj: characterized by the creation of a substantial and unjustifiable risk to the lives, safety, or rights of others and by a conscious and sometimes wanton and willful disregard for or indifference to that risk that is a gross… …

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  • 120impolicy — noun The state or act of being impolitic …

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