Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Deaths by Lightning, James Otis, Jr., Roy Sullivan, Keraunomedicine, Geremi Gonzlez, John White, Hernn Gaviria, Lugaid Mac Legairi, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Becky Godwin, Mangrai the Great, Leontius Pilatus, Gretel Ehrlich, Samuel B. Avis, Apollodorus. Excerpt: James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and an early advocate of the political views that led to the American Revolution. The phrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" is usually attributed to him. He was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, to James Otis, Sr. and Mary Allyne, the second of thirteen children and the first to survive infancy. His younger sister Mercy Otis Warren, his brother Joseph Otis, and his youngest brother Samuel Allyne Otis also rose to prominence, as did his nephew Harrison Gray Otis. In 1755 James married the beautiful Ruth Cunningham, a merchants daughter and heiress to a fortune worth 10,000.00 pounds. Their politics were quite different, yet they were attached to each other. Otis later half-complained that she was a High Tory, yet in the same breath she was a good Wife, and too good for him. The marriage produced three children (James, Elizabeth and Mary). Their son James died at the age of eighteen, and their daughter Elizabeth, a loyalist like her mother, married Captain Brown of the British Army and lived in England for the rest of her life. Their youngest daughter, Mary, married Benjamin Lincoln, son of the distinguished Gem Lincoln. Speaking of James Otis, John Adams said, "I have been young and now I am old, and I solemnly say I have never known a man whose love of country was more ardent or sincere, never one who suffered so much, never one whose s... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=24637333We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Injuries by Lightning: Deaths by Lightning, James Otis, JR., Roy Sullivan, Keraunomedicine, Geremi Gonzlez, John White, Hernn Gaviria. To get started finding Injuries by Lightning: Deaths by Lightning, James Otis, JR., Roy Sullivan, Keraunomedicine, Geremi Gonzlez, John White, Hernn Gaviria, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
52
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1158225423
Injuries by Lightning: Deaths by Lightning, James Otis, JR., Roy Sullivan, Keraunomedicine, Geremi Gonzlez, John White, Hernn Gaviria
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Deaths by Lightning, James Otis, Jr., Roy Sullivan, Keraunomedicine, Geremi Gonzlez, John White, Hernn Gaviria, Lugaid Mac Legairi, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Becky Godwin, Mangrai the Great, Leontius Pilatus, Gretel Ehrlich, Samuel B. Avis, Apollodorus. Excerpt: James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and an early advocate of the political views that led to the American Revolution. The phrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" is usually attributed to him. He was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, to James Otis, Sr. and Mary Allyne, the second of thirteen children and the first to survive infancy. His younger sister Mercy Otis Warren, his brother Joseph Otis, and his youngest brother Samuel Allyne Otis also rose to prominence, as did his nephew Harrison Gray Otis. In 1755 James married the beautiful Ruth Cunningham, a merchants daughter and heiress to a fortune worth 10,000.00 pounds. Their politics were quite different, yet they were attached to each other. Otis later half-complained that she was a High Tory, yet in the same breath she was a good Wife, and too good for him. The marriage produced three children (James, Elizabeth and Mary). Their son James died at the age of eighteen, and their daughter Elizabeth, a loyalist like her mother, married Captain Brown of the British Army and lived in England for the rest of her life. Their youngest daughter, Mary, married Benjamin Lincoln, son of the distinguished Gem Lincoln. Speaking of James Otis, John Adams said, "I have been young and now I am old, and I solemnly say I have never known a man whose love of country was more ardent or sincere, never one who suffered so much, never one whose s... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=24637333We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Injuries by Lightning: Deaths by Lightning, James Otis, JR., Roy Sullivan, Keraunomedicine, Geremi Gonzlez, John White, Hernn Gaviria. To get started finding Injuries by Lightning: Deaths by Lightning, James Otis, JR., Roy Sullivan, Keraunomedicine, Geremi Gonzlez, John White, Hernn Gaviria, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.