As secretary of war in President William McKinley’s (and, after McKinley’s assassination, Roosevelt’s) cabinet (1899–1903), Root worked out governmental arrangements for the former Spanish areas then under U.S. control as a result of the Spanish-American War. He was the primary author ...
Maya, the protagonist ofMaya and the Three, hails from the Kingdom of Teca and is destined to defeat Lord Mictlan, the God of War. Embarking on a quest guided by prophecy against her parent’s wishes, she seeks a group of fellow foretold warriors: the Rooster Wizard, the Skull Archer,...
of the newly organizedRepublican Party. He served in the Maine state legislature from 1858 until his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1862. After the Civil War, he favoured a more moderate Reconstruction policy than the radicals of his party, although he was a strong advocate...
1884年10月,馬科雷說服印度事務大臣倫道夫·丘吉爾勳爵(英语:Lord Randolph Churchill)必須向西藏派遣使團,其中包括藏學家薩拉特·錢德拉·達斯。 LASER-wikipedia2 In 1854, a fourth secretary of state gained the exclusive charge of the War Department, and in 1858 a fifth secretary (for India) began du...
the national banking system (1863), in the enactment of the bill (1873) that discontinued the coinage of silver dollars (denounced by critics as the “the crime of ’73”) and of the Specie Payment Resumption Act (1875), which provided for the redemption of Civil War greenbacks in gold....