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From The Magazine of History, 1908, a short, charming essay by Irving F. Wood, on “The Anti-Rent War of Dutchess County, N. Y.”

Vol. I BOSTON, MASS., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1881. No. 2 “For always in thine eyes, O Liberty!Shines that high light whereby the world is saved’And though thou slay us, wewill trust in thee.”John Hay On […]

From the Wikipedia entry: . . . on January 6, 1661, 50 Fifth Monarchists, headed by a wine-cooper named Thomas Venner, made an effort to attain possession of London in the name of “King Jesus.” […]

In 1818, John Cleves Symmes (1779-1829), nephew of the Ohio pioneer of the same name, announced to the world that the earth was hollow, in habitable, and accessible at the poles. He was not the […]

Symmesonian, No. 1. Having been informed Mr. Editor, that your countrymen always require of every person when first introduced to them, a regular account of himself—including his name, his business, whence he came, where he […]

Symmesonian, No. 2.TO THE SYMMESONIAN. As you seem desirous of concealing your name, and announcing only the country or nation from which you came, I am under the necessity of addressing you by the vague […]

Symmesonian, No. 3. The reasonings of S. R. in your last, could not fail to convince me of the justice of the course adopted with respect to your Indian neighbours, and the propriety as well […]

What’s a plan if you don’t change it a few times on the way to fruition? After weighing the costs in time and hassle of trying to put the new Lab Reports together as a […]