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The Stuart period of British history lasted from 1603 to 1714 during the dynasty of the House of Stuart. The period was plagued by internal and religious strife, and a large-scale civil war which resulted in the execution of King Charles I in 1649.
Violence of whites against black people continued into the post-World War II period, and there were lynchings and riots in several small towns in the early 1920s. Florida had the only recorded lynching in 1945, in October after the war's end, when a black man was killed after being falsely accused of assaulting a white girl. [71]
The Stuart News grew out of the merger of the Stuart Times (1913) and Stuart Messenger (1915), which was sold to the Clyma family in 1922. They converted the publication into a daily newspaper called the Stuart Daily News in 1925, claiming then that Stuart was the smallest town in the U.S. to have a daily newspaper.
Taylor Swift might now know how topical her song 'Florida!!!' is when it comes to the state's political scene.
That effort was blocked by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2018 and Kernodle said the latest version of the fiduciary rule fails for many of the same reasons.
The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...
We have good news and bad news for fans of Miss Scarlet & the Duke. The good news: The PBS Masterpiece series will be back for Season 5. The bad news: Stuart Martin, who has played William “The ...
Stuart v. Laird, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 299 (1803), was a case decided by United States Supreme Court notably a week after its famous decision in Marbury v. Madison.. Stuart dealt with a judgment of a circuit judge whose position had been abolished by the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801.