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  1. William Howard Taft -- Laws
    William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Taft had an active childhood and he was an avid baseball player. Taft was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati for elementary and high school. He went on to attend Yale University, were he graduated second in the class of 1878. Upon graduation, Taft returned to Cincinnati were he attended law school. He was admitted to the bar in 1880.
  2. James Meredith -- Columbia University
    The Meredith Mississippi March took its name from James Meredith, who became the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962, after a ruling by federal courts that he could not be denied admission. On June 5, 1966, Meredith, now a Columbia University law student, and a few companions, began a walk from Memphis, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss. to encourage African Americans to register and vote. He called it a "march against fear." On June 6 he was wounded with a shotgun blast.
  3. Buffalo Bisons
    The 1870s Buffalo Bisons were such a force in the International League that by 1879 the squad was promoted to the National League, where they continued to play top-flight baseball. The offered 4-1/8 x 6-3/4” 1879 Buffalo Bisons trade card is an impressive artifact from this team that fielded Hall of Fame hurler James Francis “Pud” Galvin. The trade card focuses on a pair of contests in which the Bisons proved victorious against the Cincinnati Red Stockings and a team from Hornellsville, New York. The vintage caption ... mocks players from the Utica nine. Members of the Bisons who are mentioned include Galvin, Crowley, Libby, Fulmer, Allen, Force, Allen, McGonigle, Eggler and Mack. This blank-backed sepia-toned beauty is in sterling condition considering the antique ephemeron is nearly 130 years old.
  4. German
    The neutral word order in German is Subject-Verb-Object. However, other orders are ... possible because inflectional endings mark grammatical roles in the sentence making them clear. Word order is principally determined by topic (what the sentence is about, or old information) and comment (new information). Constituents with old information (topic) precede constituents with new information (comment). Additionally, no matter which element begins a German statement, the verb is always the second element.
  5. Deadwood
    Jack (John) Langrishe - Langrishe, the gay stage promoter and friend of Al Swearengen who tries to bring culture to the mean streets of Deadwood, was a real character during Deadwood's booming mining days. Though not gay and highly unlikely to have been a friend of Swearengen's, Langrishe was a real theatre owner and promoter who preferred working in the Old West to the stages of New York's Broadway. Married to a wife named Jenette, the pair opened several theatres during their careers, including one in Denver, Colorado and another in Helena, Montana, as well as the one in Deadwood. Before erecting a permanent building for his theatre, Langrishe temporarily operated out of the Bella Union.
  6. The Libertines -- Bands
    The Libertines are Britain's hottest dysfunctional band, and their music is produced by the Clash's Mick Jones. New Musical Express called them the most important band of its generation. Yet theirs is a troubled story — of breakups, break-ins, and drug addiction. From London, Matt Cowan reports.
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