Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other powers. (1) Eastern question kept undecided. C. England already has her hands full. (1) Northern frontier of India. (2) China. (3) Egypt and the Soudan. (4) Cape Colony and the Transvaal. (5) Venezuela. D. The objection that decisive action on the part of England would involve war with one or several of the other powers does not old. (1) Armenian autonomy, as in Crete, would obviate this. E. England is under treaty obligation to protect the Armenians. Pub. Opin...
...coinage of silver by U. S. at ratio of 16 to 1 would not raise silver to parity with gold. A. The legal tender quality alone will not keep silver at par. (1) This is disproved by (a) Case of present Mexican dollar; (b) Case of greenbacks during the war (Laughlin Rev. of Rev., Sept. '96). B. History shows that an increased demand for silver for use in coinage has not caused a permanent rise in the price of silver. (1) From '78 to '93 the price of silver has steadily fallen, though, (a) during that period...
...Constitutional writers. 1. Story's Commentaries SS 1119-1203. 2. Von Holst, Constitutional Law, 167-171. 3. Cooley in Forum XVIII: 11-12. D. This right is confirmed by precedent. (No. Am. 159: P.187). 1. Whiskey Rebellion. (Lalor's Cyclopedia. 1108). 2. Nullification episode. (Lalor, 1050). 3. Civil War. 4. Chicago Strike. E. Right of interference concurred in by Senate and House Resolutions, July 12 and 16, 1894. (Nation. Sept 17, '96). F. Right embodied in law. 1. President given power to call out troops to protect property and preserve order. (Revised Statutes, Sect...
...cross. The Parthenon became a mosque, and when the Venetians beseiged the citadel in 1687 it was destroyed by a bomb,- only a part of the splendid temple remains. The Venetians withdrew, and a mosque was again built among these ruins. Early in the present century, when the war of freedom had driven the Turks out of Greece, the Acropolis came again into the hands of its natural possessors. The Greeks treasure and protect it today as a national heritage; but it is more than that, said the eloquent lecturer in closing,- it is the place about which classical studies...
...importance. This also was a citadel with great walls and towers; Schliemann believed it to be the citadel of Priam. I this stratum he found the celebrated articles of gold which he denominated the "Treasure of Priam." This citadel, however, is certainly earlier than the time of the Trojan war. In viewing it one involuntarily recalls, as Professor Dorpfeld suggested, the tradition preserved in Homer that ancient Troy had one before been destroyed...