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pogrom
(Russian: "devastation, riot") Mob attack, condoned by authorities, against persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority. The term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th cent. After the assassination of Czar Alexander II (1881), false rumors associating Jews with the murder aroused Russian mobs in over 200 cities and towns to attack Jews and destroy their property. Mob attacks diminished in the 1890s but again became common in 1903-6. Though the government did not organize pogroms, its anti-Semitic policy (1881-1917) and reluctance to stop the attacks led many anti-Semites to believe that their violence was legitimate. Pogroms also occurred in Poland and in Germany during A. Hitler's regime.
vagrancy
Act of wandering about without employment or identifiable means of support. In the U.S., laws against vagrancy were used by police and prosecutors as a tool for proscribing a wide range of behavior. Most such laws have been struck down as unconstitutionally vague, and vagrancy has thus been largely decriminalized.
Varro
Roman scholar and satirist. Varro was active in public life, rising to the office of praetor. He sided with Pompey the Great, but later reconciled with Julius Caesar. A prolific writer, he sought in his writings to inculcate moral virtues and to link Rome's future with its glorious past. He is best known for his Saturae Menippeae ("Menippean Satires"), medleys in mixed prose and verse that mock the absurdities of modern times. He wrote some 75 works in more than 600 books on a wide range of subjects: jurisprudence, astronomy, geography, education, and literary history, as well as satires, poems, orations, and letters.
Wagram
Victory by French forces under Napoleon against Austria. In an attempt to break French control of Germany, Austria's 158,000 troops under Archduke Charles (1771-1847) were deployed along a 14-mi (23-km) front on either side of the village of Wagram, near Vienna. The attack by Napoleon and his 154,000 French troops split the center of the Austrian line. By the time reinforcements arrived, Charles's army was in retreat, and four days later he asked for an armistice. Heavy use of artillery (the heaviest in any war to that time) caused over 40,000 Austrian casualties and about 34,000 French.
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