1. Alger Hiss, Richard Nixon, and the Devolution of Discourse
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Today’s political reality exists under a canopy of terrorism. Not terrorism as an actuality, for the most part, but terrorism as a perpetual threat, as the creature under the bed.  True, the creature ...

2. Dolley Payne Todd Madison - American Icon – (1768 - 1849)
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Though we think of Dolley Madison today as either the name of a pastry company or as a First Lady who used snuff, to her contemporaries she was an honored, respected and beloved figure. Her service as ...

3. Elizabeth I: The Armada Portrait
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... was a popular iconographic image in her portraiture of this time and appeared in the Ditchley portrait of 1590.  Before describing the more obvious and commonly recorded interpretations of the Armada ...

4. The Ditchley Portrait Explained
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In return for restoration to royal grace The Ditchley portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is generally known to have been a gift from Sir Henry Lee to commemorate her 2-day visit to his estate at Ditchley, ...

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... not states could voluntarily secede from the Union was decided in battle over the following four years. read more.. The Ditchley Portrait Explained In return for ...