The Greenback Labor Party was an American political party that developed from the Greenback party. It was formed in Ohio in 1875. In 1878 a union of the Labor Reform and the remnants of the old Greenback party was effected and was made national by the Convention of February 22 of that year, at Toledo, 0hio. The platform adopted was similar to that of the Greenback party. It advocated the withdrawal of currency from all national and State banks and corporations, a paper currency issued by the Government, and that coin should only be paid for interest on the national debt when so specified. They also demanded an eight-hour law, the prohibition of Chinese immigration, of land grants to railways and of special grants to corporations and bondholders. In 1878 they elected fourteen Congressmen. Their national convention was held at Chicago, on June the 9th, 1880. Research Greenback Labor Party
The Toledo War was a boundary controversy between Ohio and Michigan, USA, which came to a head in 1835, just previous to Michigan's application for admission to the Union. The controversy was over that territory which contained the city of Toledo, and its history may be traced back to the ordinance of 1787 respecting the division of the Northwest Territory. In 1835 Ohio proposed to assume control of the disputed tract. Michigan responded by making such action highly penal, and appealed to the Federal Government. An armed collision seemed imminent. Finally it was agreed that Michigan should be admitted to the Union and awarded certain territory in the north, provided she would give up her clearly rightful claim to the Toledo country. Research Toledo War
Catholic Majesty was a title which PopeAlexander VI gave to the kings of Spain, in memory of the complete expulsion of the Moors from Spain in 1491 by Ferdinand of Aragon. But even before that time, and especially after the council at Toledo in 589, several Spanish kings are said to have borne this title. Research Catholic Majesty
Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco) was a Greco-Spanish painter. He was born in 1547 at Candia, Crete and died in 1614. After studying at Venice under Titian he painted portraits and religious pictures in Rome, settling in Spain around 1577 where he worked at Toledo as a painter, architect and sculptor. Research Domenico Theotocopuli
Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca was a Spanish dramatist. He was born in 1600 at Madrid, 1600 and died in 1681. Educated in the Jesuits' College, Madrid, and at Salamanca. Before his fourteenth year he had written his third play. Leaving Salamanca in 1625 he entered the army and served with distinction for ten years in Italy and the Netherlands. In 1656 he was recalled by Philip IV, who gave him the direction of the court entertainments. The next year he was made knight of the order of Santiago, and he served in 1640 in the campaign in Catalonia.
In 1651 he entered the clerical profession, and in 1653 obtained a chaplain's office in the archiepiscopal church at Toledo, but as this situation removed him too far from court, he received, in 1663, another at the king's courtchapel (being still allowed to hold the former); and at the same time a pension was assigned him from the Sicilian revenue. His fame greatly increased his income, as he was solicited by the principal cities of Spain to compose their autos sacramentales, for which he was liberally paid, and on which he specially prided himself.
Besides heroic comedies and historical plays, some of which merit the name of tragedies, Galderon has left ninety-five autos sacramentales, 200 loas (preludes), and 100 saynetes (farces). He wrote his last play in the eightieth year of his age. His smaller poems are now forgotten; but his plays have maintained their place on the stage even more than those of Lope de Vega. Their number amounts to 128. He wrote, however, many more, some of which were never published. Research Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Garcilaso de la Vega (properly Garcias Laso de la Vega) was a Spanish poet, He was born in 1600 0r 1503 at Toledo and died in 1536. He went in his youth to the Spanish court, and in 1529 distinguished himself in the Spanish corps serving against the Turks in Austria. An intrigue with a lady of the court led to his imprisonment on an island in the Danube, where several of his poems were composed. In 1529 he was engaged in the expedition against Soliman, and in 1535 in that against Tunis. He was made commander of thirty companies of infantry in 1536, and accompanied the imperial army against Marseilles, but was mortally wounded in attempting to scale a tower near Frejus. He died at Nice in that year, and was buried at Toledo. His name is associated with that of his contemporary Boscan in the impetus given to Spanish literature by the imitation of the Italian poetic style as exemplified in Petrarch, Ariosto, and Sannazaro. His works, which consist of eclogues, epistles, odes, songs, sonnets, etc, are graceful and musical.
Garcilaso de la Vega; or Garcias Laso de la Vega was a Peruvian historian. The son of Garcilaso de la Vega, one of the conquerors of Peru, and a princess of the race of the Incas, he was born in 1530 or 1540 at Cuzco, Peru and died in 1616 or 1620. Having fallen under the groundless suspicion of the Spanish government he was sent home in 1560. His great work on the history of Peru is in two parts: the first entitled Los Comentarios Reales que tratan delOrigen de los Incas, etc (published in Lisbon in 1609); the second, the Historia general delPeru (published in Cordova in 1616). He wrote also Historia de la Florida (published in Lisbon in 1609). Research Garcilaso de la Vega
Lyman Spitzer is an American astrophysicist. He was bon in 1914 at Toledo, Ohio. He has developed influential theories about the formation of stars and planetary systems proposing that only a magnetic field could contain gases at temperatures as high as 100 million degrees, by which point hydrogen gas fuses to form helium, and he devised a figure-of-eightdesign to describe this field. His model was important to later attempts to bring about the controlled fusion of hydrogen. He criticized the theory that our planetary system is the result of a gas cloud or gaseous filaments breaking off from the Sun to become planetary fragments, showing that a gas would be dispersed into interstellar space long before it had cooled sufficiently to condense into planets. Research Lyman Spitzer
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