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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minuteman \Min"ute*man\, n.; pl. Minutemen. A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of minuteman English)
Wikipedia
Minutemen in comics may refer to:
- Minutemen (Watchmen), a team of comic book characters found in Alan Moore's Watchmen
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen, a comic book series by Darwyn Cooke
- Minute-Man, a comic book superhero appearing in Fawcett Comics and DC Comics
- The Minutemen (100 Bullets), fictional characters in the 100 Bullets comic series
Minutemen were the members of the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolution.
Minutemen or Minuteman may also refer to:
The Minutemen was a militant anti-Communist organization formed in the United States in the early 1960s. The founder and head of the right-wing group was Robert DePugh, a biochemist from Norborne, Missouri. The Minutemen believed that Communism would soon take over all of America. The group armed themselves and were preparing to take back the country if necessary. The Minutemen organized themselves into small cells and stockpiled weapons for an anticipated counter-revolution.
In February 1968, DePugh was indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle, Washington for conspiracy to commit bank robbery. Also in 1968, he was arrested for violation of federal firearms laws. He skipped bail and went underground for over a year until he was caught in 1969 in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He was released from prison in May 1973. DePugh later wrote a survival manual, Can You Survive?, and was associated briefly with Liberty Lobby.
DePugh, 86, died at home June 30, 2009.
Minutemen is a 2008 science-fiction Disney Channel Original Movie. The movie was the most viewed program on cable for the week, with 6.48 million viewers.
The film was written by John Killoran (writing the teleplay) and David Diamond and David Weissman (writing the story) and directed by Lev L. Spiro, who received a Director's Guild nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programs for it. Andrew Gunn, Ann Marie Sanderlin and Doug Sloan are the executive producers. The movie was originally slated for release in March 2008, however, the movie premiered on Disney Channel in United States on January 25, 2008 (alongside Jonas Brothers' music video " When You Look Me In The Eyes").
Minutemen was an American punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980. Composed of guitarist/vocalist D. Boon, bassist/vocalist Mike Watt, and drummer George Hurley, Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon's death in an automobile accident in December 1985. They were noted in the California punk community for a philosophy of "jamming econo"—a sense of thriftiness reflected in their touring and presentation—while their eclectic and experimental attitude was instrumental in pioneering alternative rock.
Minutemen were civilian colonists who independently organized to form well-prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They were also known for being ready in a minute's notice. They provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that allowed the colonies to respond immediately to war threats, hence the name.
The minutemen were among the first to fight in the American Revolution. Their teams constituted about a quarter of the entire militia. Generally younger and more mobile, they served as part of a network for early response. Minuteman and Sons of Liberty member Paul Revere was among those who spread the news that the British Regulars (soldiers) were coming out from Boston. Revere was captured before completing his mission when the British marched toward the arsenal in Concord to confiscate the weapons and ammunition that were stored there.
The term has also been applied to various later United States civilian-based paramilitary forces to recall the success and patriotism of the originals.
The Minutemen was a secessionist paramilitary organization in St. Louis, Missouri in the early months of 1861. Many members joined the 2nd Regiment of the Missouri Volunteer Militia, and after May 10, 1861 the Missouri State Guard or the Confederate States Army.
Usage examples of "minutemen".
There he found the house guarded by eight Minutemen, who tried to turn him away.
But as the Minutemen moved off, someone did fire, and the British responded with a volley directly into their ranks.
Prescott, who earlier had made good his escape by jumping his horse over a stone wall, had taken the alarm to Concord, where three companies of Minutemen turned out.
At North Bridge, about nine that morning, they fired on a company of Minutemen blocking their way, killing two.
One of the strangest tales was that of Israel Potter of Cranston, Rhode Island, who had run away from home at eighteen after a family dispute about a girlfriend and enlisted in a company of Minutemen in 1774.
Right now, the Minutemen are convinced they were critically helpful in the war on terrorism--as per our standard cover story.
The Heroes of the Old Time had also been the forefathers of the Minutemen and Foragers, the first Trackers who, under the leadership of george Washington Jefferson the 1st, had formed the Federation.
There were, of course, screenfuls of patriotic guff about the legendary wisdom and foresight of the Founding Father, George Washington Jefferson the 1st and the sacrificial valour of the Minutemen and Foragers.
His combat record should have earned him enrolment into the select company of Minutemen which, like the Foragers, was the ultimate achievement - short of becoming a member of the First Family - to which ordinary Trackers could aspire.
Although Poppa Jack had been allowed to die without the proud knowledge that he'd been chosen to join the select company of Minutemen, his posthumous election would have brought extra lifetime privileges for Annie, including uprated living quarters in one of the new deeps.
On the morning of April 19, 1775, Smith's troops dispersed a company of Minutemen at Lexington, unintentionally killing several in an unauthorized burst of musket fire.
For a long time, she had actually believed that the Seven Great Qualities immortalised by the sacrifice of the Minutemen and the Foragers, and now said to be enshrined in the First Family, were the guidelines by which everybody should live.