Coypu in Latin America and parts of Europe. In France, the coypu is known as a "ragondin". In Dutch, it is known as "beverrat" (beaver rat). In German, it is known as "Nutria", "Biberratte" (beaver rat), or "Sumpfbiber" (swamp beaver). In Italy, instead, the popular name is, as in North America and Asia, "nutria", but it is also called "castorino" ("little beaver"), by which its fur is known in Italy. In Swedish, the animal is known as "sumpbäver" (marsh/swamp beaver). In Brazil, the animal is known as "ratão-do-banhado", "nútria", or "caxingui" (the last from the Tupi language). The coypu was first
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" is the title now given to a speech by Frederick Douglass delivered on July 5, 1852, in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, addressing the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. The speech is perhaps the most widely known of all of Frederick Douglass' writings save his autobiographies. Many copies of one section of it, beginning in para. 32, have been circulated online. Due to this and the variant titles given to it in various places, and the fact that it is called a July