Resourceful Bridegroom and First Gun of the Civil War
A Portland lawyer’s wedding interruption ends with him borrowing a warning lantern and later marrying. The Star of the West, bound for Fort Sumter, reached Charleston and was fired upon, marking the first actual gunfire of the Civil War.
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Duke Title and Quotations From A Ranging Era
The excerpt discusses the British peerage with the duke title first introduced in 1837 and notes the duke of Cornwall as the first. It includes social commentator lines about female bosses and leadership, a Senator Sorgum remark on leadership, remarks on dishonesty and public interest, a note on balloons aiding aviators from U S observing stations, and a Walter Scott quote challenging indecision.
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Duke of Cornwall
United States
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