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30 Jul 2018, 6:58 am
I've been reading Bill Bryson's "Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States":Fans in the sense of enthusiasts is presumed to be a shortening of fanatics, but the conclusion is only speculative. [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 9:45 pm
” Up to and including Christmas Day, 2008, 3-year-old Bryson Trone ate peanut butter cracker sandwiches made with PCA’s peanut butter product. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 8:30 am by bteam
Where Underpants Come From – Think Bill Bryson meets Milton Friedman. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 8:42 am by Hunton & Williams LLP
Secretary of Commerce John Bryson made it clear that Safe Harbor is not in jeopardy, explicitly stating that “the United States and the European Union reaffirm their respective commitments to the U.S. [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 9:10 pm
"   Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 8:42 am by Hunton & Williams LLP
Secretary of Commerce John Bryson made it clear that Safe Harbor is not in jeopardy, explicitly stating that “the United States and the European Union reaffirm their respective commitments to the U.S. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 4:33 am
Remarkably, before this, the only way to know if someone was trying to get through to you was to pick up the phone from time to time and see if anyone was there.That's from Bill Bryson's "At Home: A Short History of Private Life. [read post]
19 Feb 2017, 5:11 am
And the Bill Bryson book came out in 1996 (and is about traveling through England).If you go to the link and keep scrolling, you'll have to go to #21 to find another Trump book (and it's a trifle, "The Trump Coloring Book," from December 2015, probably intended as a joke gift, with Trump in a Superman costume on the cover). [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 3:13 am
"And, yes, I have read Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods," and I know he insults Thoreau:The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core. [read post]
31 Jan 2009, 10:28 am


The suit alleges that up to and including Christmas Day, Bryson Trone, 3, ate peanut butter cracker sandwiches made with PCA's peanut butter product. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 7:33 am by Daniel Solove
Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Doubleday 2010) An extensive history of the home, which as I’ve explored in some of my own writings, plays an important role in the history of privacy. [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]
27 Jan 2012, 12:50 pm
 While the GOP-controlled House might be trusted to produce and pass (trade remedies bills have broad bi-partisan support [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 8:40 am
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003)[cd,unabridged]23. [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 10:12 am
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003)[cd,unabridged]23. [read post]
19 Jun 2012, 7:40 pm by Michael C. Smith
Meanwhile, across the street, as the article in the Marshall paper pointed out, the reason Judge Gilstrap was camping out in the county courthouse was because Federal Circuit Judge Bill Bryson was in town trying one of the cases he was assigned last fall, and was using Judge Gilstrap's courtroom. [read post]
30 Dec 2018, 6:08 am by Dennis Crouch
  In the process, the court warned the PTO that its generalized approach to labeling “methods of organizing human activities” as abstract ideas, but found that this particular method fit the bill. [read post]
19 Dec 2006, 10:14 am
I just finished Julie Powell, Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (thanks, Jocelyn) and have bookmarks somewhere in Bill Bryson, Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States, Charles J. [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]