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| 90888cc | On Easter Sunday, Nash led a mob of several hundred whites, armed with rifles and a small cannon, who opened fire on the courthouse, setting it ablaze. Even though its black defenders ran up a white flag of surrender, begging for mercy, the mob butchered dozens of them. Black families were afraid to claim the many corpses that thickly littered the ground. When Longstreet sent Colonel T. W. DeKlyne to Colfax, the latter found heaps of dead b.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 925018b | BY 1798 the Federalist party had grown haughty by being too long in power. "When a party grows strong and feels its power, it becomes intoxicated, grows presumptuous and extravagant, and breaks to pieces," Johns Adams later wrote, having presided over just such a situation as president." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 0f1406f | To see plants rise from the earth and flourish by the superior skill and bounty of the laborer fills a contemplative mind with ideas which are more easy to be conceived than expressed."21" | Ron Chernow | ||
| b55a5c5 | In June 1789 some congressmen wanted Washington to have to gain senatorial approval to fire as well as hire executive officers--the Constitution was silent on the subject; the House duly approved that crippling encroachment on executive authority. When the Senate vote ended in a tie, Vice President Adams cast the deciding vote to defeat the measure, thereby permitting the president to exert true leadership over his cabinet and, for better o.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 2eef3ad | One thing that hasn't aroused dispute is the exemplary nature of Washington's religious tolerance. He shuddered at the notion of exploiting religion for partisan purposes or showing favoritism for certain denominations. As president, when writing to Jewish, Baptist, Presbyterian, and other congregations--he officially saluted twenty-two major religious groups--he issued eloquent statements on religious tolerance. He was so devoid of spiritu.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| dd21d2a | In addition to his better-known title of Father of His Country, Washington is also revered in certain circles as the Father of the American Mule. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 14b088b | Franklin wanted a unicameral legislature and an executive council in lieu of a president. He also opposed a presidential veto on legislation, thinking it would lead to executive corruption "till it ends in monarchy." | Ron Chernow | ||
| 162a3aa | If Hamilton had shot first, he had wasted his fire, exactly as foretold. And if Burr had fired first, as Pendleton alleged, then Hamilton seems to have squeezed the trigger in a reflexive spasm of agony and shot involuntarily into the trees. In neither scenario did Hamilton aim his gun at Aaron Burr. | Ron Chernow | ||
| e0f91c2 | Let us pause briefly to tally the grim catalog of disasters that had befallen these two boys between 1765 and 1769: their father had vanished, their mother had died, their cousin and supposed protector had committed bloody suicide, and their aunt, uncle, and grandmother had all died. James, sixteen, and Alexander, fourteen, were now left alone, largely friendless and penniless. At every step in their rootless, topsy-turvy existence, they ha.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 932cc76 | Both Grant and Sherman were damaged souls who would redeem tarnished reputations in the brutal crucible of war. | Ron Chernow | ||
| a520d7b | The Federalists were allied with powerful banking and merchant interests in New England and on the Atlantic seaboard and were disproportionately Congregationalists and Episcopalians. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 6b88919 | At the same time, the mounting fear of Hamilton among Jefferson, Madison, and their supporters cohered into an organized opposition that began to call itself Republican. Alluding to the ancient Roman republic, this was also a clever label, insinuating that Federalists were not real republicans and hence must be monarchists. Often Baptists and Methodists, Republicans drew their strength from rich southern planters and small farmers. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 47d93d7 | It was between rival economic systems, each of which was aimed at generating its own men of property."13 In fact, the Federalist ranks had plenty of self-made lawyers like Hamilton, while the Republicans were led by two men of immense inherited wealth: Jefferson and Madison. Moreover, the political culture of the slaveholding south was marked by much more troubling disparities of wealth and status than was that of the north, and the vast ma.. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 906fe39 | The United States still had not escaped economic dependence on England, which consumed nearly half of American exports and accounted for three-quarters of American imports. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 13a2757 | Mr. Monroe, if you have come to tell me that you repent, that you are sorry, very sorry, for the misrepresentations and the slanders and the stories you circulated against my dear husband, if you have come to say this, I understand it. But otherwise, no lapse of time, no nearness to the grave, makes any difference. | Ron Chernow | ||
| d536f99 | I think nobody in the whole world knows what it is to be in love, to be so beloved. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| cfeb933 | After a while, when he finished telling his stories, they broke bread to bind their friendship and shared salt as a promise of his tribe's protection. | Janet Wallach | ||
| 14431df | No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company of young men; She did. But her sharp tongue sliced through their egos and her intellectual thirst quickly soaked up what drops of knowledge they shed. | history women | Janet Wallach | |
| d8d6887 | Suzanne Sugarbaker of Designing Women was so right when she said, "There's just nothing better in life than to ride around on the back of a convertible with a crown on your head." Words to live by." | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| 86d64cc | Pre-forty, you can wash your face with Tide and use Vaseline for moisturizer, toss on a little mascara and lip gloss, and you're a friggin' cover girl. Those of us on the slippery slope that is the Other Side of Forty can testify-- those days are so over. You pore over labels promising everything short of actual rebirth-- you will buy most of them for an average of $450 per quarter once-- and none of them will work. You will still be gettin.. | cost-of-aging sweet-potato-queens women-over-40 | Jill Conner Browne | |
| c20fcf2 | there is a difference between "denial" and "delusion." The difference is that denial is a fun game and delusion is pitiable and requires meds that you will be too delusional to enjoy." -- | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| ce3110e | They know they're supposed to do something, but they're not sure what. And you know what they do when they're not sure-- of course you do: They either do the wrong thing or they do nothing, and it's a toss up as to which is worse. | men-and-women men-being-unromantic sweet-potato-queens valentines-day | Jill Conner Browne | |
| 1d96c94 | Queen of the Night Salsa 2.0 This is a jazzed-up version of an earlier recipe from our Precious Darlin' George. He is ever seeking new and more delicious ways to please us and we adore him for this and other reasons. MIX ALL THIS stuff together--1 15-ounce can drained and rinsed black beans, 1 11-ounce can Niblets corn, 1 small can chopped green chilis, 1 small can chopped black olives, 2 to 3 chopped fresh tomatoes, at least 8 ounces shr.. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| 79f399d | Michael's Magical Sweet Potato Muffins WHISK TOGETHER 1 cup dark brown sugar, 1/2 cup oil, 1 running-over teaspoon vanilla, and 2 eggs. Then, in another bowl, mix together 2 cups all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon allspice, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. To that, add 2 big giant sweet potatoes--either baked or boiled--and mashed. I suppose you COULD use canned ones, but it kinda makes .. | Jill Conner Browne | ||
| 14af7eb | With time, when I was very old and in my twenties, I might find a man to love, not one forced upon me... | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 9c8d8e1 | A croaking frog would be nice, particularly a frog that retained Florian's dark eyes. I should keep it in a box and poke it occasionally with a stick; that would be satisfying indeed. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 69f482e | trying to make something sound innocent always backfires--I know that just from being a kid | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 3869f18 | Love is the hardest thing in the world. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 17215e3 | You watch pro ball and those guys spend so much time with their hands on each other's rear ends, you'd think they were feeling for diamonds or something. | football funny humor | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | |
| ae78324 | The situation collapsed completely at dinner one September evening. Perhaps it was the full moon that drove me to madness, or the gnawing, relentless emptiness of my heart. Whatever the trigger, the powder had been well packed, and my explosion, though shocking, was not altogether unexpected. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| fed051d | Better I would have been at pulling parsnips out of my nose than charming any man, even if I so desired it, even if I quadrupled my studies in her unique curriculum. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 17f4e7d | in the mind. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 140c1a7 | Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress. | princess-diana princesses | Eleanor Herman | |
| 7b551dd | Boring, religious, and intellectually limited, Marie Leczinska was called one of the two dullest queens in Europe by her own father, the other dull queen being his wife. Marie | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 4f2b79d | The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull. | goals-and-plans potemkin potemkin-catherine-the-great russian | Eleanor Herman | |
| 61f5bce | When Marguerite (Marguerite-Louise of France, Grand Duchess of Tuscany), caught malaria, she claimed the royal family of Tuscany was trying to murder her, but that she would, in fact, rather die than return to her husband. Louis XIV asked the pope to threaten excommunication if Marguerite persisted, and the pontiff sent her a harsh letter. She didn't fear hell, she replied she was already living in it. | marguerite marguerite-of-france seventeenth-century | Eleanor Herman | |
| 6dc0573 | Potemkin suffered bitterly from having nothing left to want. For when dreams turn into reality, there is an empty spot where the dreams used to be, and Potemkin had no dreams left. | dreams potemkin-and-catherine-the-great russian-history | Eleanor Herman | |
| dc2d45d | Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal. | historical-fiction | Eleanor Herman | |
| d67ee60 | Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. --Michel de Montaigne O | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 9406294 | O do not be born a woman, if you want your own way. --Lucrezia de' Medici O | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 4e2eb99 | The more I see of men," she grumbled in one, "the more I love dogs."50" | Eleanor Herman | ||
| a22ea99 | History offers us not a single recorded cell phone conversation between Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan in which His Most Christian Majesty wishes he were a tampon, or photos of Nell Gwynn sunbathing topless in her walled garden near Whitehall Palace. It is most certainly our loss. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| c197af4 | Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time. | Eleanor Herman | ||
| 20de6e0 | In 1891, Princess Louisa of Tuscany married Prince Fredrick Augustus, the heir to to the Saxon throne. The Prince won Louisa over with his gentle manner and striking blond good looks. Yet years later, disenchanted, she wrote in her memoirs, 'Although every princess doubtless at some time dreams an Ideal Prince Charming, she rarely meets him, and she usually marries some one quite different from the hero of her girlhood's dreams. | prince-princess princess-louisa-of-tuscany | Eleanor Herman |