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If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

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Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

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Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott

John Stevens Cabot Abbott
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Born: September 19, 1805
Died: June 17, 1877 (aged 71)
Bio: John Stevens Cabot Abbott, an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.
Known for:
  1. David Crockett (1874)
  2. The Empire of Russia (1860)

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