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Lynch Law the angels of deliverance while fleeing from the city of Sodom. The Jewish historian Josephus claimed to have seen the pillar of salt which was Lot’s wife. Its existence is also attested to by the early Church Fathers. Today, many tourist maps point out “Lot’s Cave” that can be found just beneath the pillar. Also, sailors’ slang name for table-salt. Lynch Law // Lynching (Am) – закон или суд Линча; линчевание, самосуд, зверская расправа без суда и следствия (предположительно по имени Чарльза Линча, мирового судьи конца XVIII века в штате Виргиния) Lynching, the practice of killing people by extrajudicial mob action, occurred in the United States chiefly from the late 18th century through the 1960s. The term Lynch’s Law apparently originated during the American Revolution (1775– 1783) when Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice of the peace, ordered extralegal punishment for Loyalists. In the South, members of the abolitionist movement and other people opposing slavery were often targets of lynch mob violence before the Civil War (1861–1865). Lynchings reached a peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Southern states changed their constitutions and enacted a series of segregation and Jim Crow (see p. 88) laws to reestablish white supremacy. Notable lynchings of civil rights workers during the 1960s in Mississippi contributed to galvanizing public support for the Civil Rights Movement and civil rights legislation. M Mae West – «Ми Уэст», надувной спасательный нагрудник; спасательная куртка лётчиков (по имени американской актрисы) An inflatable life jacket in the form of a collar extending down the chest that was worn by fliers in World War II. First known use: 1940. Mae West (1893–1980) was an American 104