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Chilled, he fell sick with acute laryngitis, died 48 hours later. - Elector William Plumer of New Hampshire cast his ballot for John Quincy Adams, who said the vote caused him "surprise and mortification." Plumer later explained that he felt the honor of unanimity should be reserved for George Washington...
...never mentioned nailing the theses on a door; the first record of the story, in fact, was written after the heretic's death in 1546 by his disciple, Philipp Melanchthon, who was nowhere near Wittenberg at the time. Iserloh also cites a letter Luther wrote to Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, in 1518, stating firmly that "no one knew of my intentionto dispute-not even my best friends...
...rulers of Europe faced a balance-of-payments problem, they turned not to economists but to alchemists, who always seemed to be just on the verge of discovering how to turn base metal into gold. In 1709, Johann Friedrich Böttger, an alchemist employed by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, hit upon something almost as good as gold: using wig powder as a base, he produced Europe's first true porcelain. To keep the secret, Augustus shut Böttger up in a dank castle in the Saxon village of Meissen and told...
...Great Century. Founded in 1386 by Prince Elector Ruprecht I of the Palatinate (and officially still called Ruprecht-Karl University). Heidelberg has survived wars before. For its Protestant loyalties. Roman Catholic armies looted the place in the Thirty Years' War (much of the library vanished into the Vatican). France's Louis XIV sacked it again; it reopened under Jesuit auspices in 1700 and foundered until the 19th century, when Protestants returned to launch the university's renowned reputation...
...Kennedy rebels wanted to purge Mississippi's William Colmer from the committee and replace him with a Rayburn man. Colmer seemed fair game since he had supported the independent presidential-elector slate in Mississippi rather than Kennedy-Johnson". Rayburn vacillated between the purge and his three-new-member plan, a less drastic break with House traditions and Southern feelings. His mind once made up on committee packing, he announced a "binding" Democratic caucus, a rare device by which a two-thirds vote can bind all members of the party to vote for a particular proposal. Again Mister Sam wavered...