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14 Jun 2017, 3:10 am by NCC Staff
After the Battle of Derne in 1805, the flag was raised on foreign soil for the first time after a battle. 9. [read post]
28 May 2025, 12:14 pm by Sansone & Lauber
This reputation for success often encourages more favorable settlement offers, as they’d rather avoid a costly courtroom battle. [read post]
14 Sep 2012, 8:16 pm by Jason Shinn
  The US Supreme Court agreed 5-4, sending the case back to the West Virginia Supreme Court,and forcing Justice Benjamin to recuse himself from the case. [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 2:42 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin dated 1777 John Adams is described as the driving force behind a relatively unified movement to independence. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 5:45 am by Mark Graber
  Rather than engaging with John Marshall, Joseph Story, Benjamin Curtis, other judges of the time, and the legal literature, they prefer the method of deep contemplation. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 5:30 pm
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer (2019)9. [read post]
17 Feb 2020, 9:52 am by Sandy Levinson
Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have written a justifiably much-discussed book on "How Democracies Die," but it's worth attending to the oft-quoted statement from Benjamin Franklin that we established a "republic," and the question was whether we could in fact keep it. [read post]
29 Nov 2019, 5:01 am by Unknown
That’s the way it was in Philadelphia when Benjamin Franklin introduced the idea of community firefighting. [read post]
30 Oct 2015, 4:07 pm by Jamie Williams and Seth Schoen
Benjamin Franklin invented ciphers used by the Continental Congress and in 1748, years before the American Revolution, published a book on encryption written by George Fisher, The American Instructor. [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 2:11 am by Ben
The post was positioned as a response to the various battles around the EU's planned copyright directive, which introduces a series of reforms, and pointed to the aggressive and polarising lobbying from the tech sector. [read post]
4 Sep 2019, 5:41 am by Caroline Shaw
Unsurprisingly, one finds sustained conversation about the defamation of individuals in the battle for a freer press. [read post]
12 Apr 2020, 6:10 pm by Ryan E. Long
But others aren’t – such as this deep fake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [read post]
4 Jan 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The stories Flood tells about these battles are just awe-inspiring, even if you’ve heard them before! [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 5:02 pm by INFORRM
Jeyaretnam was embroiled in a series of damaging legal battles with Lee, which eventually forced him to declare bankruptcy. [read post]
9 May 2025, 6:19 am by Scott Bomboy
However, the British forces successfully defended the city and Mongomery was killed in battle. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 4:41 pm
. ~ Benjamin Disraeli Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ~ George Bernard Shaw When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ~ Benjamin Franklin Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. [read post]
20 Feb 2020, 2:28 pm by Jackie McDermott
It comes close to what Benjamin Franklin identified as the virtue of resolution, to resolve to reform what you ought, the ought being defined outside of you. . . . [read post]