Word: appomattox
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...Wells continues to be a biographer's dream and a book reviewer's waltz. His life stretched very nearly from Appomattox to Hiroshima. He was one of the world's great storytellers, the father of modern science fiction, an autobiographic novelist of scandalous proportion, a proselytizer for world peace through brain power, an unsurpassed popular historian, a journalist and inexhaustible pamphleteer, the friend and worthy adversary of great men and the lover of numerous beautiful and intelligent women...
...causes more consternation than the headache. An anonymous Sumerian poet wrote about his blinding pain 3,000 years before Christ. England's "Bloody Mary" Tudor went to her coronation with a splitter. Ulysses S. Grant suffered so severely that he took to his bed on the eve of Appomattox, only to have his pain vanish when he received word that Robert E. Lee was ready to discuss surrender. Thomas Jefferson, who suffered from severe periodic headaches, tried philosophically to ignore them...
...parents fought for the principle in court. A three-judge federal panel concluded that Dixie was merely "a typical American song with a gay and catchy tune" and not a "badge of slavery." The court's answer would have won the approval of Abraham Lincoln. On the day after Appomattox, he instructed the military bands outside the White House to strike up Dixie. Said the President: "I have always thought Dixie was one of the best tunes I have ever heard...
...York, went on to become a civil engineer, a friend of Ulysses S. Grant when the future President was a clerk in a harness store, served with Grant from Vicksburg to Richmond as his military secretary, and because of his excellent penmanship wrote out the terms of surrender at Appomattox at Grant's request. After the War, Brigadier General Parker became Grant's Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a position he held until the combined political pressure from the land speculators, angered by the "peace policy" Donehogawa had instituted, and the Christian missionaries, angered by the tolerance which the Commissioner (himself...
...Hester married a dashing young man, whose chief qualification was his resemblance, on horseback, to her ideal of a Confederate officer. Off the horse, he turned out to be a cad. Miss Hester-as rigid as she was frigid-raised her two fatherless sons more or less as if Appomattox (and her marriage) had never happened...