Word: dying
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...former colony of Santo Domingo and France set up the Austrian Archduke Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico. But in 1865, shortly after Appomattox, the Spaniards cleared out of Santo Domingo; a year later France, under U.S. pressure, began pulling its troops out of Mexico, leaving Maximilian to die before a Mexican firing squad. In 1903, after Germany, Britain and Italy decreed a blockade of Venezuela to force the dictator of the day to pay claims due their citizens, President Theodore Roosevelt warned the Europeans away with a threat of intervention by the U.S. fleet...
...most rigid secrecy must be maintained ... I will never yield to bribe, flattery, threats, passion, punishment, persecution, persuasion, nor any other enticements whatever coming from or offered by any person or persons, male or female, for the purpose of obtaining from me a secret or secret information. I will die rather than divulge them, so help me God.' Did you swear to that oath...
Like most legal developments, the rights of the unborn child were not won easily. Under common law in medieval England, an unborn child had no legal rights and no separate identity except in cases of inheritance, abortion, and where the mother was condemned to die. Then the execution was stayed long enough to allow the child to be born. The situation progressed very little until the 1940s when a few U.S. courts began allowing plaintiffs to recover for damages suffered before their birth under the ancient canon that where there is a wrong, there must also be a remedy. These...
This is especially true of Stella's works as they evolve from 1959. The contrast between his Die Fahne Hoch (1959) and Ileana Sonnabond (1963) in gallery 11, makes the later work seem dead-pan in comparison to the more obvious monumentality of the earlier one. In time, however, the white lines of the magenta trapezoid come to life...
...people are what he calls "baptized Democrats"--they're born Democratic, they die Democratic, and in between they vote Democratic. But in Cambridge city elections, which are non-partisan, you don't win only on party (eight of the nine councillors are Democrats), you win on personality and political favors...