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Dean Conant Worcester, D.Sc., FRGS (October 1, 1866 – May 2, 1924) was an American zoologist, public official, and writer on the Philippines. He was born at Thetford, Vermont, and educated at the University of Michigan (A.B., 1889). Worcester's involvement with the Philippines began in 1887 when he joined a scientific expedition to the region ...
The revolutionary government counterproposed a three-month armistice during which representatives of the two governments would meet and arrange terms for the settlement of the war. President McKinley's instructions to the Commission issued in Washington before the outbreak of hostilities had not authorized it to discuss an armistice.
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The Philippine Commission was the name of two bodies, both appointed by the president of the United States, to assist with governing the Philippines.. The First Philippine Commission, also known as the Schurman Commission, was appointed by President William McKinley on January 20, 1899 as a recommendatory body.
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
He was professor of English literature, political economy and psychology at Acadia College from 1880 to 1882, [7] of metaphysics and English literature at Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1882–86, [8] [7] [9] and the Sage professor of philosophy (Sage professor) at Cornell University from 1886 to 1892, [6] and Dean of the Sage School of Philosophy from 1891 to 1892, during which ...
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Richard Edes (or Eedes) (1555–1604) was an English churchman.He became Dean of Worcester, and was nominated one of the translators for the Authorised King James Version, in the Second Oxford Company, but died in the earliest stages of the project.