lieber, francis
German-bornGerman-born U.S. political philosopher and jurist, best known for formulating the "laws of war." His Code for the Government of Armies in the Field (1863) subsequently served as a basis for international conventions on the conduct of warfare.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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