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21 Oct 2021, 6:00 am
The bog buck moth occurs in groundwater-fed wetlands in Oswego County, New York, and Ontario, Canada, with large amounts of bog buckbean (a plant that is a key food source, or “host plant” for bog buck moth larvae, much as milkweed is a host plant for monarch butterfly larvae). [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 4:30 am
In particular, he sensitively examines each of the "prerogative" powers of the British monarch and shows how the framers carefully considered which to allocate to an elected president, which to the Senate, and which to the Congress as a whole. [read post]
6 Oct 2021, 3:31 pm
The English Bill of Rights aimed to rectify the past abuses of monarchs, including the despotic King James II, who was overthrown in 1688 partly because of attempt to disarm the English people and rule via the force of a standing army. [read post]
3 Oct 2021, 12:27 pm
The documents — more than 11.9 million records from 14 offshore entities, including law and wealth-management firms — illuminate a hidden world that has allowed government leaders, a monarch, billionaires and criminals to shield their assets. [read post]
25 Sep 2021, 8:53 am
” Given what we know of the hapless and incompetent monarch and his wife and family, it seems entirely possible that this was at least an accurate, if not flattering, family portrait. [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 9:00 pm
As Benjamin Rush, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence, observed, “Capital punishments are the natural offsprings of monarchical governments…. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 1:01 am
Cook was attacked and killed in 1779 during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific while attempting to kidnap the Island of Hawaii’s monarch, Kalaniʻōpuʻu, after a quarrel about an alleged theft of a boat. [read post]
24 Jul 2021, 9:01 am
Why should people agree to pay taxes or lend money to an absolute monarch? [read post]
13 Jul 2021, 8:58 pm
In 2012, a 14 month old toddler fell from deck 12 to deck 11 on the Monarch of the Seas. [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 5:23 am
Six other states have also made the monarch their official state insect, which is not too surprising because butterflies and honeybees are pretty much the only insects anyone likes, and monarchs are popular butterflies. [read post]
2 Jul 2021, 4:00 am
Of course, the greater extent to which proven value-added features, such as analysis and explanation, search facilities, structure, curation and editing are applied, the more monarchic the content becomes; that seems simply to be self-evident, all the more so as in the UK, as the creation of a national hub for court judgments is considered and such commoditisation of primary legal content is extended. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 1:55 pm
At its founding, the country had just escaped a system that concentrated vast governmental power in a single person—the monarch. [read post]
30 Jun 2021, 6:00 am
Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) to use its authority to list the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on an emergency basis under section 4 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 7:32 am
My eighth grade English teacher at the Indian Hill, Ohio school system was the late Lynwood Van Aken. [read post]
15 Jun 2021, 2:18 pm
Just as the Declaration of Independence respects the right of a people to separate themselves from a distant monarch, Americans have respected the right of peoples around the world to self-determination: to decide for themselves who they will be governed by. [read post]
9 Jun 2021, 5:29 am
The answer is that, in modern Britain, the monarch does not actually exercise such power. [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 5:57 am
The Divine Right of Kings was easily employed to justify absolute monarchical power in Protestant states where the monarch could assert himself as the leading political and religious figure in the country (Padoa-Schioppa, pp. 234-235); one such case famously resulted in the separation of England from the Catholic church and the creation of the Church of England. [read post]
3 Jun 2021, 11:14 am
Nearly 700 years ago, England captured King John II of France and held him for ransom for four million écus. [read post]
1 Jun 2021, 3:07 pm
Pix Credit: Reuters, In Memorial Day speech, Biden defends ‘imperfect’ democracyPresident Biden, like several of his predecessors, set the toe of his speechmaking--understood as the way in which the president seeks to invest objects and events with collective meaning--by reference to key Biblical passages which resonate with the office holder. [read post]
21 May 2021, 2:11 pm
Before joining the staff of Monarch Preschool College Park, Philyaw was the ... [read post]
