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Walker Vs Jennison was an American legal case, the decision in which in 1783 was the deathblow to slavery in Massachusetts. A negro servant had been beaten and imprisoned by a citizen who claimed him as his slave. The public would not overlook the offence. The Supreme Court held in Worcester County judged the defendant guilty of assault and fined him forty shillings. The Court held that the State Constitution of 1780, in declaring all men free and equal, had abolished slavery in Massachusetts.
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The Common Loon (Gavia immer) is a water bird of the family Colymbidae. Like all loons, the common loon has a straight, pointed bill, swims low in the water and has feet placed at the posterior of the body, making it a poor walker. It is an expert fisher, diving from the surface. It is a common winter visitor in ocean waters along the California coast. Also found in estuaries and bays.
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The Walker (Polyphylla fullo) is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.
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Amasa Walker was an American politician and economist. He was born in 1799 and died in 1875. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1849. He was Secretary of the State from 1851 to 1853. He represented Massachusetts in the US Congress as a Republican from 1863 to 1863. He was prominent in advocating new and reformatory measures, and was an authority on questions of finance. He published 'Nature and Uses of Money and Mixed Currency' and 'Science of Wealth, a Manual of Political economy'.
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Clifford Walker was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Georgia from 1923 until 1927.
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Daniel Walker was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Illinois from 1973 until 1977.
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David S Walker was an American politician. He was a Conservative governor of Florida from 1865 until 1868.
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The Filibusters, a name borrowed from the West Indian freebooters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was a name applied to terrorist associations originating in the United States for the ostensible purpose of freeing Cuba and other West Indian islands or Central American districts from European control. The acquisition of Texas was a successful filibustering expedition. In 1850 Lopez, a Cuban, Governor John A. Quitman, of Mississippi, and others, were arrested for violating the neutrality law of 1818, by a proposed filibustering expedition against Cuba. They were afterward released. In 1855 General William Walker, with a California company, sailed on a filibustering expedition against Nicaragua. He took possession of the country, was elected President and was recognized by the American Minister. He surrendered to the United States, but organized another expedition in 1860. He was captured and shot by the President of Honduras.
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Francis Amasa Walker was an American soldier and economist. He was born in 1840 and died in 1897. He was adjutant-general of the Second Army Corps during the American Civil War. He was commissioner of Indian affairs from 1871 to 1873. He was professor of history and political economy at the Yale Scientific School from 1873 to 1881, when he became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He compiled the ninth and tenth censuses, and published 'Money, Trade and Industry', several works on political economy and a history of the Second Army Corps.
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Frederick Walker was an English painter. He was born in 1840 and died in 1875. He designed woodcuts for books and magazines and as a painter worked in oils and water-colours.
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