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14 May 2018, 2:09 pm
The Roman camp there was at first entirely dependent on cisterns constructed by King Herod, but at the time Solomon built his temple, the rocky crag that Herod eventually leveled to build the Antonia Fortress had no water source of any kind, and would therefore never have been considered as the site for a temple.G. [read post]
11 May 2018, 7:22 am
The Swede was known as the ‘Match King’ because he amassed a fortune manufacturing safety matches during the 1920s and eventually owned a near-monopoly in the worldwide manufacturing of matches. [read post]
8 May 2018, 1:01 am
Political considerations, however, led him to defer his reception into the Roman Catholic Church until he was on his deathbead in 1685. [read post]
20 Apr 2018, 8:10 am
” Schedule of events: May 14 12h45 : accueil des participants et introduction The ontology of customary law / L’ontologie du droit coutumier 1:30 – Christoph Kletzer (Professor, King’s College) : The Germ of Law 2:00 – Corrado Roversi (Lecturer in Legal Philosophy, University of Bologna, School of Law) : the Ontology of Custom Discussion 2:15 – Piero Mattei-Gentili (PhD Student, University of Girona) : A Behavioral Account for the Opinio Iuris in… [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 12:33 pm
This is kind of ridiculous even without the Roman numerals (though I could give you about XCIV reasons why you shouldn’t go above V with those). [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 8:27 am
Janus, the two faced Roman god of duality, is an apt name for this case. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 2:45 am
The first monument design featured a rotunda and a Roman-like George Washington. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 4:08 am
Nobody wants to talk about Roman Polanski. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 12:16 pm
This date is also his feast day in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints. [read post]
27 Dec 2017, 12:01 am
And whether the kings, princes, bishops, and abbots who promulgated relic veneration were delusional or charlatans did not matter. [read post]
21 Dec 2017, 12:02 pm
On three occasions in the early medieval period, the Christmas Day celebrations may have been more extravagant than usual: on Christmas Day in 800, 855 and 1066, merrymakers also celebrated the coronations of the very first Holy Roman Emperor and two English kings with interesting legacies. [read post]
17 Dec 2017, 7:30 am
Happy Saturnalia to all the friends, Romans, and Volokh Conspiracy readers out there! [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 8:20 am
The table of contents is as follows: Herbert Lovelace, King Making: Brown v. [read post]
10 Dec 2017, 4:18 pm
Israel Film director Roman Polanksi is suing an Israeli man for libel for claiming that he raped or assaulted several women when they were minors. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 12:04 pm
As it happens, Franklin is one of only three historic figures named in the questions – the other two are Martin Luther King and Susan B. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 4:46 am
But new rules on royal succession came into force in 2015, allowing members of the Royal Family to marry a Roman Catholic and become king or queen.The instant Prince Harry and Ms Markle are pronounced "man and wife" she will automatically become Her Royal Highness, Princess Henry of Wales. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 12:40 pm
After 10 years of litigation, Wallace was awarded $4,200, which the court correctly labeled a Pyrrhic victory (on looking up this second mythological reference, I learned that “Pyrrhic victory” generally means victory at an excessive cost and refers to Pyrrus, a late king of Epirus, who sustained great losses in defeating the Romans). [read post]
30 Oct 2017, 3:19 pm
In his “Defense of the Constitutions,” Adams notes that it is license, not conquest, which ultimately ends the Roman Republic. [read post]
16 Oct 2017, 9:29 am
It was extraordinary also for its use of what Dickinson’s beloved Roman authors called “sententiae” — sound bites. [read post]
9 Sep 2017, 6:54 am
The petitioner was incorporated by special act of the legislature, as a charitable society under the name “The Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society, in the city of Brooklyn, in the County of Kings,” “for the purpose of relieving the poor, and of protecting and educating orphan children. [read post]
