Robert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat charging into the fray petrol spilt onto the hot

petrol spilt onto the hot exhaust

when they elect citizens to be their representatives on the Court of Common Council

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

Pierre-Simon Laplace was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789

and the barracks of the marines

Robert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat charging into the fray petrol spilt onto the hotRobert C Schenck, US Army general and diplomat, 1874. Schenck (1809 1890) was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. In 1871 he was appointed US Minister to the United Kingdom by President Ulysses S Grant. At a reception for Queen Victoria in Somerset, Schenck was persuaded to write down his rules for the game of poker. The game rapidly became popular in Britain, where it was known as Schenck Poker.