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11 Feb 2011, 7:09 am
If you were on the conquerors’ freeway, you’d fortify your citadel too The Crusader castles were masterpieces of engineering and defensive technology, and during their occupancy they were heavily fortified and well maintained. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 10:14 am
This is the castle first built by William the Conqueror. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 12:56 am
Despite the widespread support for the 2003 invasion among Reaganites in Congress, our research has convinced us that Reagan -- prone to lower-key measures such as arming the Nicaraguan contras, burned from sending the Marines to Lebanon in 1983 and generally inclined to see the United States as a shining exemplar rather than a mailed conqueror -- would not have undertaken Bush's nation-building war.When Reagan ran in 1980, many people worried that he would be a bellicose mad bomber,… [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 3:28 pm
The Magna Carta was signed 800 years ago, William the Conqueror of Normandy invaded England 900 years ago, and 999 years ago the First Crusades got under way, the Chinese introduced the world’s first paper money, Arabic numbers were introduced (it would be 500 years before they caught on in Europe), and the first stone castles in Europe were built. [read post]
4 Aug 2021, 8:58 am
"Banjo" Paterson "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova (Russian) "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe "Les Djinns" ("The Jinns") by Victor Hugo (French) "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 1:50 pm
The concept of European “digital sovereignty” has been promoted in recent years both by high officials of the European Union and by EU national governments. [read post]
15 May 2010, 9:17 am
If you are going to lay some of (but not all of) the genocides of the twentieth century at the feet of atheism, then you must answer for a dozen or so Crusades launched by Christianity, dozens if not hundreds of jihads launched by Islam, hundreds of pre-Nazi pogroms against Jews across Europe, the riots of religion that separated Pakistan and Bangladesh from India, the Wars of the European Reformation, and debatably, the massive extermination partially unwittingly perpetrated on Native Americans by… [read post]
8 Feb 2022, 5:32 am
It appeared in the laws of England in the Laws of Aethelstan (ca. 930 AD) (Lieberbmann, I, p. 162); and of Aethelred (ca. 1000) (Liebermann, I, p. 230); and of William the Conqueror (ca. 1100) (Liebermann, I, p. 502-503). [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 6:00 am
Such lists are common from the Babylonians right through William the Conqueror’s Domesday Book. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 10:03 pm
Lastly, anyone who studied Afghanistan’s history and/or terrain would have realized that historically, and for good reason, it was an incredibly difficult country for any other country to conqueror and impose foreign “will” upon. [read post]
15 Dec 2019, 7:00 am
” Prized by conquerors from Alexander to Napoleon, the Red Sea’s centrality to maritime trade and its chokepoints have for centuries made it a subject of keen geopolitical interest. [read post]
28 Jul 2021, 5:01 am
On Taiwan, so recently enemy soil, Chiang’s war-weary troops plundered like conquerors. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 1:05 am
Millions of millennia ago, in our own Milky Way galaxy, but far upstream of where we are today, two neutron stars spiraled around each other, each embodying the mass of a sun but smaller and faster than a speeding planet. [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 3:01 am
Topsy-Turvy! [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:02 am
In the Courts of the Conqueror: The Ten Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 7:02 am
In the Courts of the Conqueror: The Ten Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. [read post]
6 May 2024, 8:39 am
By Amanda Buonaiuto What is Looted Art? [read post]
10 May 2023, 4:00 am
Periodically on Thursdays, we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 11:24 am
The gradual encroachment of the composition may be traced in the Anglo-Saxon laws,[2] and the feud was pretty well broken up, though not extinguished, by the time of William the Conqueror. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 7:14 pm
The Emperor Caesar Flavius Justinian, conqueror of the Alamanni, the Goths, the Franks, the Germans, the Antes, the Alani, the Vandals, the Africans, pious, prosperous, renowned, victorious, and triumphant, ever august, To the youth desirous of studying the law:The imperial majesty should be armed with laws as well as glorified with arms, that there may be good government in times both of war and of peace, and the ruler of Rome may not only be victorious over his enemies, but may show… [read post]
