Word: spanish-american
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...plump cupid hovering in the background. Preziosi had no idea who the man was, and was unable to meet the asking price. But he was so taken by the picture that he finally offered in exchange for it a clock, two Chinese vases and a painting of the Spanish-American War. The discovery came when he started cleaning his dusty acquisition. Between the frame and canvas, he found a small slip of paper with the words in French: "Jean Jacques Casanova...
...very much interested to see the article about the possibility of Hawaii receiving statehood soon in the issue of January 6. I was, however, horrified to see such good reporting was completely snafued by the statement that "Hawaii was acquired by the United States as a result of the Spanish-American War." Hawaii became a territory by its own wishes. After the monarchy had been overthrown, the Island appealed to the United States for annexation and the treaty was signed in 1898. It was not until territorial from of government was set up. --David Nickerson...
...father's life as a railroad laborer, ten hours a day, six days and six dollars a week. Eventually he was to find a life very much to his liking, but at the end of this long book he is back home in Galesburg, his hoboing and the Spanish-American War behind him, and he is still adrift...
...Tecumseh). That left 26 ft. for everything since. Cox's solution will be three brief scenes bringing the U.S. up to the age of flight: 1) Union and Confederate soldiers shaking hands after the Civil War, 2) the gun crew of a U..S. warship in the Spanish-American War, and 3) Orville Wright taking off in his fresh-air biplane with his brother Wilbur running alongside, steadying a wing...
...belonged just as much to Latin and Greek. He devoured Tacitus and Thucydides ("Two friends of mine"), took up Sanskrit, learned German, threw himself into the Populist cause. He also submitted to the drilling of a stiff-backed young military instructor named John J. Pershing.* By the time the Spanish-American War broke out, Johnson was ready to enlist...