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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]
10 Nov 2011, 6:39 am
I could get all historical on you and say that this is a system going back to the Domesday Book in 1085 by William the Conqueror. [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 11:53 am
However, it is such a fascinating piece of work that I thought a blog post was in order.The Domesday Book was a 1086 survey of Britain ordered by William I of England, more often referred to as William the Conqueror. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 12:16 am
When William the Conqueror conquered England, legally he became the ultimate owner of all land (as technically the Queen is today). [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 12:32 am
Most of them are descended from what Georgette Heyer (a much under rated author) is fond of describing in her books as the ‘raff and scraff’ of Europe, who came over with William the Conqueror in his army and were rewarded for their support by grants of land. [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]
9 May 2011, 11:13 pm
William the Conqueror coin photo from Wikipedia [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 11:37 am
Japan certainly is (not to put too fine a point on it) rich in contradictions--the nastiest of conquerors, isolationist and xenophobic, second to none in violent porn. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 7:15 am
Alongside each Chapel, conquerors had a garden and a vineyard which served to supply food and grapes. [read post]
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]
9 Feb 2011, 7:12 am
Legendary conquerors... traipsing around the mall with Hubert Humphrey. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 4:00 am
This work was inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry-the longest piece of embroidery on record-which tells in detail how William the Conqueror contested the coronation of King Harold II upon the death of King Edward the Confessor. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 10:08 am
That's essentially what the Mother Nature Network asks in its article Was Genghis Khan History's Greenest Conqueror? [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]
16 Dec 2010, 12:37 pm
I know people love tradition but as Justice Holmes said, the worst reason to do something is just because it was done that way in the time of William the Conqueror. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 11:57 am
As one court recently put it, "I would be less than candid if I did not also register my sense that the categorical rule of The Conqueror finds its source in the resistance of the Supreme Court to enabling one of the richest men in late nineteenth century America to recover, on questionable evidence, the 'inconvenien[t]' loss of one of his many recreational diversions. [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 7:43 am
--but the merchants seem more tired than impressed, as if they have forgotten exactly which year it is and which particular breed of conquerors is now present.Tel Aviv, of course, likes to think of itself as superior to Jerusalem, and in the hipper quarters goes out of its way to poke fun at Zionist nostrums. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 2:25 pm
Echo-Hawk, and he spoke about his recent book In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 9:08 am
19 Jul 2010, 4:30 am
This is also the place where Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake, and where the Bayeux tapestry tells the story of William the Conqueror, who brought Norman rule but, sadly, no crème brulee recipes, to England. [read post]
