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4 Sep 2013, 8:06 pm by Buce
William of Normandy, not yet William the Conqueror, sees that he may be able to exploit the weakness and disorder of his adversaries to make himself King of England. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 10:08 am by landuseprof
That's essentially what the Mother Nature Network asks in its article Was Genghis Khan History's Greenest Conqueror? [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 12:48 pm
Caesar: My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 11:54 am by Sasha Volokh
This Halloween, let's do a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Conqueror Worm", first published in 1843 and then incorporated into Poe's short story "Ligeia" when he revised it in 1845. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 11:54 am by Sasha Volokh
This Halloween, let's do a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Conqueror Worm", first published in 1843 and then incorporated into Poe's short story "Ligeia" when he revised it in 1845. [read post]
17 Aug 2006, 1:18 pm
William the Conqueror's great inventory of his new kingdom was commissioned... [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 2:07 pm
The 7th Plenary Session - The Court As Conqueror As the name suggests, the theme to this session is that the courts, to particularly include the US Supreme Court, have consistently, if gradually, whittled away at tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction.... [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 10:40 pm by Shi-Ling Hsu
The New York Times ran an article Sunday about how Germany is rapidly expanding its wind energy capacity, and realizing unexpectedly lower costs because of economies of scale never before seen in any non-hydro renewable energy industry. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 10:00 am by Gerry W. Beyer
The Tottenham House, a 100-room mansion that sits on 800 acres in England, has been in Lord Cardigan's family for 900 years since receiving the property from William the Conqueror. [read post]
19 Aug 2023, 5:27 pm by Tom Smith
"While it is not uncommon to encounter insects parasitized by 'zombie' fungi in the wild, it is a rarity to witness large spiders succumbing to these fungal conquerors," García-Roa wrote in a BMC Ecology and Evolution editorial released Friday (Aug. 18). [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 7:20 pm by Mary L. Dudziak
Here’s the book description:In this boldly interpretive narrative, William McKee Evans tells the story of America's paradox of democracy entangled with a centuries-old system of racial oppression.Before English colonization, Spanish and Portuguese conquerors enslaved [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 12:16 am by Tessa Shepperson
When William the Conqueror conquered England, legally he became the ultimate owner of all land (as technically the Queen is today). [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 5:25 am
There are no great conquerors or heroes, no great industrial tycoons or politicians, and no respect for businesspeople or material wealth. [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 4:53 am
She is the legendary leader of the Windward group of Jamaican maroons (said to be a mixture of indigenous Taino, descendants of slaves released by the Spanish to harass the British conqueror of the island and Africans fleeing slavery on the sugar plantations). [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 3:06 pm by Laura Orr
"WALTER ECHO-HAWK: In his most recent book In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided Echo-Hawk reveals how American law was used to destroy Native American culture. [read post]
19 May 2021, 7:19 am by ernst
  In Johnson, the Supreme Court recognized that the federal government had the extraordinary power to assert its authority over indigenous peoples, a power which “the Courts of the Conqueror cannot deny. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 12:37 pm by Bill
  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]
27 Mar 2010, 10:30 am by Big Tent Democrat
In the afternoon game, 2 seed Kansas State is a 4 1/2 point favorite over 5 seed Butler, the conqueror of 1 seed Syracuse. [read post]