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24 Jul 2015, 6:41 am by But I Do Have a Law Degree
 I've gone to almost all of my favorite restaurants, I discovered a cute little fitness studio where I've been doing pilates, I've finished one book (One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson which I highly recommend), I've tried out stand up paddle boarding, and I've managed to keep all three children alive. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 8:30 am by azatty
But just to make it easier for you, congratulations and thanks to (alphabetically): Michael Arkfeld, Ray Billotte, Judge Kyle Bryson, Andrew Federhar, Glenn Hamer, Bill Klain, Mark Larson, Lisa Loo, Judge Scott Rash (appointed in A.O. 2014-58), Judge John Rea, Trish Refo, Marcus Reinkensmeyer, Mark Rogers, Nicole Stanton, Steve Tully, Steven Weinberger and Judge Christopher Whitten (appointed in A.O. 2014-58). [read post]
25 Jan 2015, 5:24 am
In Bill Bryson's wonderful memoir about growing up in the 1950s, he talks about the simple, post-war enthusiasm for household appliances that took on a certain anthropomorphism:Suddenly [Americans] were able to have things they had never dreamed of having, and they couldn’t believe their luck. [read post]
24 Jan 2015, 8:40 am
Wrote Bill Bryson about Ernie Banks in "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir":My dad was a sportswriter for The Des Moines Register... [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 2:14 pm by Robert B. Lamm
Fiction: The Moor’s Account, by Laila Lalani – A novel based on an actual Spanish expedition to Florida in that failed, one of the few survivors a Moroccan slave who is the author of the account The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd – Another historical novel about two sisters in Charleston who became abolitionists An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris – Still a third historical novel based on the infamous Dreyfus affair in 19th Century Paris The Wife, the Maid and the… [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 12:53 pm by Dennis Crouch
Before you can comprehend, many of you will be delighted to recount both in your own private deliberations and in public events the great wisdom you absorbed at the feet of the legends, Polly Newman, Alan Lourie, and Bill Bryson. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 12:35 pm
I was born in 1951, the same year as Bill Bryson, whose wonderful memoir "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" describes how we played back then:[K]ids were always outdoors... and they were always looking for something to do. [read post]
23 May 2014, 10:40 am
From Bill Bryson's wonderful book "At Home: A Short History of Private Life":Dining room didn’t acquire its modern meaning until the late seventeenth century and didn’t become general in houses until even later. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 10:12 am
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003)[cd,unabridged]23. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 8:40 am
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003)[cd,unabridged]23. [read post]
25 Dec 2013, 12:17 pm
So I knew pretty early on that I was never going to get an Erector Set.Writes Bill Bryson in his memoir about growing up in the 1950s, "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid." [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 8:46 am
Reminds me of this passage from Bill Bryson's great memoir "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid":Every week brought exciting news of things becoming better, swifter, more convenient. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 2:42 am by Sean Patrick Donlan
LEGAL RESEARCH, SUDAN AND THE DURHAM ARCHIVEIslam, Law and Modernity, Grey College and the Bill Bryson LibraryUniversity of Durham16-17 December 2013This conference is intended to encourage and support legal research on Sudan. [read post]
20 Oct 2013, 9:30 am by Barry Sookman
In a Stipulation and Propo… http://t.co/OkAEs9gHae -> Opening Pandora’s Box: Copyright and Antitrust http://t.co/9lpEekkExp -> Ebook pulled after travel writer Bill Bryson claims he owns words he uttered in two-decade old interview http://t.co/hTbqHN2z4Q -> Why we introduced copyright levy http://t.co/sO1g0qkjUt -> Here’s why isoHunt deserved to die http://t.co/J7dYkJBXFl -> Computer and Internet Law Updates for 2013-10-17: Aereo patents may be… [read post]
19 Oct 2013, 5:30 am by Barry Sookman
Ebook pulled after travel writer Bill Bryson claims he owns words he uttered in two-decade old interview http://t.co/hTbqHN2z4Q -> Why we introduced copyright levy http://t.co/sO1g0qkjUt -> Here’s why isoHunt deserved to die http://t.co/J7dYkJBXFl -> Computer and Internet Law Updates for 2013-10-17: Aereo patents may be relevant to its copyright infringement … http://t.co/A0YWjBHfVe -> EU, Canada trade deal reached in Brussels after 4 years of negotiations… [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 10:19 am by Jonathan Bailey
The site is currently online though Fung has pubished a farewell post indicating that he is moving on to other projects. 2: Bill Bryson’s Copyright Stoush with Mike Gerrard has Wider Implications Next up today, Nick Galvin at the Sydney Morning Herald reports that journalist Mike Gerrard has found himself in a copyright spat with author Bill Bryson (or at least his publisher) over an interview that Bryson gave Gerrard in 1994 that Gerrard recently… [read post]
22 Aug 2013, 6:16 pm
Hamilton Beach listed on the purchase order its facility in Tennessee as the shipping address and its office in Virginia as the billing address. [read post]