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Susannah Emory
Susannah Emory (after 1741 – 1797–1800) was a Cherokee matriarch. She was born in the Cherokee country at Great Tellico, now located in Monroe County, Tennessee. Her family was displaced frequently because of various wars that took place on the frontier, but she was known to have been friendly to White settlers. Married three times, her descendants include many notable Cherokee leaders. Early life and family Susannah Emory was likely born in the 1740s, in the Cherokee Nation (1794–1907), Old Cherokee Nation at Great Tellico, now located in Monroe County, Tennessee near Tellico Plains, Tennessee, Tellico Plains. Cherokee society was both Matrilineality, matrilineal and Matrilocal residence, matrilocal, meaning that kinship ties came only through the mother and the family lived in the home of the mother, or her extended family. Children acquired the same Cherokee clans, clan as their mother. Marriage between members of the same clan was forbidden, which meant that fathers were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
