Stone mason and concrete but their concrete that they used was one of a kind but nobody knows their recipey to make it
George Washington called the Congress under the Articles of Confederation a "shadow without substance" because under the Articles of Confederation the Congress was given very limited powers. The Articles of Confederation gave most of the power to states and did not give much power to the national government. Therefore although it created national bodies like Congress they were just a shadow because they had very limited powers and not much of an ability to institute any real policies.
The passage is not showing up, but in general Gargantuan essentially means massive or large
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<span>pay a fee to get promoted.
Basically, you would pay a fee that would sometime even be legal and you would get a promotion in return. Sometimes it was heavy corruption, sometimes it was legal and explained as various fraudulent police training regimes or anything similar. You pay and you get a promotion.</span>
