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31Bulgarus — was a twelfth century Italian jurist, born at Bologna. He is sometimes erroneously called Bulgarinus, which was properly the name of a jurist of the 15th century. Bulgarus was the most celebrated of the famous Four Doctors of the law school of… …
32Story paper — * This article is about British Story papers. For the U.S. version, see Dime novel. A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers.… …
33Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge — Infobox Military Person name= Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge born=birth date|1739|3|5 died=March 8, 1819 placeofbirth=South Hadley, Massachusetts allegiance=United States branch=Continental Army, Massachusetts Militia (United States) militia… …
34Alexei Dmitriyevich Saltykov — Aleksei Dmitrievich Saltykov [The spelling and transliteration of his name is variable. He was known in Russia by the Latinised spelling Aleksei Dmitrievich Saltykov, transliterated from the Cyrillic САЛТЫКОВ. The change from ‘Aleksei’ to… …
35Ulysses S. Grant: First Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Thursday, March 4, 1869 Your suffrages having elected me to the office of President of the United States, I have, in conformity to the Constitution of our country, taken the oath of office prescribed therein. I have… …
36William Howard Taft: Limited Presidential Power — ▪ Primary Source Theodore Roosevelt, in his Autobiography (1913), discussed the presidential office in terms of what he called Buchanan Presidents and Lincoln Presidents. The former category included those whose strict constitutional …
37Women in the Hebrew Bible — The views of women presented in the Hebrew Bible (also called Tanakh in Judaism, Old Testament in Christianity and Taurat/Tawrah in Islam) are complex and often ambivalent.[dubious – discuss] The question of women s status relative to men in the… …
38SAINTE-BEUVE, CHARLES AUGUSTIN — the greatest of French literary critics, born at Boulogne sur Mer; adopted medicine as a profession in deference to the wishes of his widowed mother, and for some years studied at Paris, but even as a student had begun his career as a literary …
39authority — /ɔˈθɒrəti / (say aw thoruhtee), /ə / (say uh ) noun (plural authorities) 1. the right to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; the right to control, command, or determine. 2. a person or body with such rights. 3. an… …
40dominator — ˌnād.ə(r), ātə noun ( s) Etymology: Middle English dominatoure, from Middle French dominateur, from Latin dominator, from dominatus (past participle of dominari to rule, govern) + or more at dominate 1. : a dominating person or power …
