Word: wilmot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOIS WILMOT...
Winifred Wells, Lady Falmouth, the Countess of Kildare, Frances Stuart, Lou ise de Keroualle, Hortense Mancini and Nell Gwynn. "God would not damn a man for a little irregular pleasure," Charles said happily to a friend. Dignity sometimes demanded that he send John Wilmot, the licentious second Earl of Rochester, to the Tower of London for writing obscene satires. But the King always...
...world because they are blandly unconcerned about history. I once sat next to a woman who asked, 'Why did we have to purchase Louisiana, when we got all the other states free?' I explained to her that Louisiana was owned by two women -Louise and Anna Wilmot-and that they sold it to General Winfield Scott, provided he'd name it after them. This was called the Wilmot Proviso, and his closing of the deal was the Dred Scott decision. She answered, 'Never mind the details! Why did we let them talk us into...