had moved down to South Carolina in about 1763 from Delaware with several of his brothers. The progenitor was a fellow named Alexander Faries “the elder” because he lived to nearly 90. I dug out his 1783 will and read “In the name of God Amen I Alexander Faries of Pencader Hundred a...
while an Ulster History Circle Blue Plaque is located on the Ulster Bank building in Donegal Square East, Belfast. The site is the former showroom of Harry Ferguson Limited. There is also a granite memorial to Ferguson\\\'s pioneering flight located on the North Promenade in Newcastle, County...
Libya stretches along the northeast coast of Africa between Tunisia and Algeria on the west and Egypt on the east; to the south are the Sudan, Chad, and Niger. It is one-sixth larger than Alaska. Much of the country lies within the Sahara. Along the Mediterranean coast and farther inland...
Franklin unveiled his “Scheme for a new Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling” in an essay published in 1779, but later scrapped the project after it failed to arouse public interest.7. His son was a British loyalist. Along with the two children he had with his wife, Deborah Read,...
In 1765, Samuel Adams was elected to his colony's local government, the Massachusetts Assembly. He served as a clerk and advocated against loyalist philosophies. While in the Assembly, Adams first proposed his idea for a continental congress, a legislative body that became real in 1774. ...
Brendan O’Leary, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of A Treatise on Northern Ireland, notes that while Mountbatten could not have predicted the IRA would plant and trigger a bomb on his boat, he had been lax about his own security. “He had been su...
And the hilarious part is, neither of you seem to realize how silly and sad you look. Just to keep on topic, Paul is clearly referring to the preamble when he talks about the “song I wrote..”. I’ll leave the rest of your tripe to itself. Reply Slave Sunday 3 January 2021 at ...
In return, Charles and David Koch have used their network to drop over $10 million into the Pennsylvania Senate race on Toomey’s behalf. The billionaire Kochs’ policy agenda is grounded in nothing but pure self-interest — they couldn’t care less about what’s best for Pennsylvania familie...
In 1762, Franklin’s son William took office as New Jersey’s royal governor, a position his father arranged through his political connections in the British government. Franklin’s later support for the patriot cause put him at odds with his loyalist son. When the New Jersey militia stripped...
In 1795 when he stepped down the economy of the U.S had been greatly improved which helped the federal government as well. Alexander Hamilton was wounded in a duel on July 11th, 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey after a comment he made about Aaron Burr, a politician sparked the challenge. ...