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october

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c.1050, from Latin October (mensis) , from octo "eight," from PIE root *octo(u)- "eight" (see eight ). Eighth month of the old Roman calendar (pre-46 B.C.E.), which began the year in March. For -ber see December . Replaced Old English winterfylleð . In ...

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In 1734, in October, the golden time of year on the Massachusetts shore, Deacon John Adams, at age forty-three, married Susanna Boylston of Brookline.

In October, determined to improve the situation, Adams urged Lee to give up living at Chaillot and move in with them at the Hotel de Valentinois.

Then, in October, out of the blue, came word from Philadelphia that Adams had been chosen by Congress to return to France as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain, a position he had neither solicited nor expected.

At noon, Tuesday, October 8, 1782, Adams arrived at the State House at The Hague to sign a treaty of commerce with the Dutch Republic.

Then at the end of October came a brief note to Adams, awkwardly written by Jefferson with his left hand.

Three days later, on Thursday, October 4, Gerry presented himself at Quincy, and he and Adams settled in for a long private talk.

He would be in Trenton by October 15 at the latest, Adams wrote Stoddert.

ON MONDAY, October 13, Adams set off by coach from Quincy on the journey back to Washington.

TWO MONTHS LATER, feeling the time was ripe, Rush sent Adams a memorable letter, dated October 17, 1809.

On Monday morning, October 26, as Adams sat with her, she spoke for the first time.

The last of the ringing eulogies to Adams and Jefferson was not delivered until October of 1826, when Attorney General William Wirt addressed Congress in Washington, speaking longer even than Webster had.

The last course that I heard from Agassiz in Cambridge began on October 23, 1867, and closed on January 11, 1868.

Michaelerya of Allentown, Pennsylvania, at the Monroe County Dome Arena in Rochester, New York, on October 26, 1979.

A number of works, by Ory, Luro, Laudes, and Sylvestre, on the village community in Annam, proving that it has had there the same forms as in Germany or Russia, is mentioned in a review of these works by Jobbe-Duval, in Nouvelle Revue historique de droit francais et etranger, October and December, 1896.

The twenty-second day of October, the second Sunday Susanna had spent at Appleton Manor, began badly and got worse.