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The College of William & Mary (abbreviated as W&M[7]) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. [8]
Mortgage assumption is the conveyance of the terms and balance of an existing mortgage to the purchaser of a financed property, commonly requiring that the assuming party is qualified under lender or guarantor guidelines. [ 1] All mortgages are potentially assumable, though lenders may attempt to prevent the assumption of a mortgage loan with a ...
Gowan Pamphlet was born into slavery in 1748. [5]In the 1770s, he was enslaved as a house slave by tavern owner and widow Jane Vobe (1733–1786). [6] Multiple Black persons enslaved by Vobe "learned to read the Bible and took part in formal Church of England services at Bruton Parish Church," possibly including Pamphlet. [5]
Signed into law by President Barack Obama on August 7, 2014. The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014 (H.R. 3230; Pub. L. 113–146 (text) (PDF)), also known as the Veterans Choice Act, is a United States public law that is intended to address the ongoing Veterans Health Administration scandal of ...
Plain Truth is a pamphlet authored by the loyalist James Chalmers in 1776, as a rebuke of Thomas Paine's Common Sense. [1]Chalmers, under the pen name "Candidus", begins by stating his love for "true liberty", alongside his belief in Common Sense ' s insidious intent, which he believes will bring the thirteen colonies into "ruin, horror, and desolation."
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., concluded that Charles Schenck and other defendants, who distributed flyers to draft-age men urging resistance to induction, could be convicted of an ...
Statue of Francesco Vigo, who aided the colonial forces of George Rogers Clark during the American Revolutionary War The United States Declaration of Independence.In 1773–1785, Filippo Mazzei, a physician and promoter of liberty, published a pamphlet containing the phrase "All men are by nature equally free and independent", which Thomas Jefferson incorporated into the Declaration of ...
[64] [79] Spandrel beams between the columns—6.3 feet (1.9 m) wide at the bottom, 9 feet (2.7 m) wide at the top, and 24 feet (7.3 m) deep—also supported the roof. [64] The roof was waterproofed, sealed, and covered with copper sheeting by the New York Roofing Co. and the Ehret-Warren Co. [ 56 ] [ 91 ] In August 1927, it was believed the ...