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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]
21 Jun 2010, 7:20 pm
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]
24 May 2010, 7:46 pm
And though the Spanish conquerors of Guatemala might want to bestow the title of "free trade" on their actions, they cannot do so -- at least not in Garcia's (and my own) world. [read post]
15 May 2010, 9:17 am
If you are going to lay some of (but not all of) the genocides of the twentieth century at the feet of atheism, then you must answer for a dozen or so Crusades launched by Christianity, dozens if not hundreds of jihads launched by Islam, hundreds of pre-Nazi pogroms against Jews across Europe, the riots of religion that separated Pakistan and Bangladesh from India, the Wars of the European Reformation, and debatably, the massive extermination partially unwittingly perpetrated on Native Americans by… [read post]
11 May 2010, 9:06 pm
Comic book artist Frank Frazetta died on Monday, and Bruce Weber's NYT obituary includes, at the very end, an update on the family feud over his work:"After [his wife's] death [last year], her children became embroiled in a custodial dispute over their father’s work, and in December, Frank Jr. was arrested on charges of breaking into the family museum and attempting to remove 90 paintings that had been insured for $20 million. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 3:01 pm
Vlad the Impaler, William the Conqueror, or Joe the Plumber). [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 2:46 pm
Allan Reiss, who led the study, stated: "It doesn't take a genius to figure out who historically are the conquerors and tyrants of our species - they're the males. [read post]
27 Mar 2010, 10:30 am
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]
9 Feb 2010, 3:33 am
Frederic Mitterand, the French minister of culture, was reported by Le Monde in January as saying that Google had come to France with "the attitude of a conqueror" but hoped that France and Google move toward a more collegiate relationship (image: has Google's power towered over France yet?) [read post]
7 Feb 2010, 7:42 pm
In 1066, William the Conqueror seized nearly all the land in England. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 10:27 am
Having overturned long settled rural arrangements and modes of social control going back to the Conqueror, this gentry class found in the criminal law subtle tools of terror and moralization that proved enough to settle down a restive and far more risky (for common people) society, but only by investing in law itself as a source of independent legitimacy. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 8:42 am
Having dinner in the priory of Lincoln Cathedral (a stunning medieval construction, the third largest in the UK) and standing in the positively panoptic chapel of the 19th century Victorian prison that still stands in the middle of a fortress and castle (itself begun by the Conqueror, two years afte the Battle of Hastings) would have made the jetlag worth it. [read post]
14 Nov 2009, 7:22 am
In other games: Northwestern, conqueror of the once mighty Hawkeyes, travels to Champaign to face the awful Illini. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 12:30 pm
“If the Apology Resolution has no teeth in the court of the conqueror, then how is it that the Newlands Resolution that unilaterally annexed Hawaii does? [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]
11 Feb 2009, 9:47 am
" Consider, in this connection, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trader whom Trader Monthly inducted into its "Hall of Fame" in 2006, describing him, admiringly, as "a conqueror, physically imposing and, at times, verbally abusive. [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 12:48 am
An important corollary is that third-party states cannot recognize the sovereignty of the conqueror or otherwise treat the acquisition as illegal.Despite the Charter, nations sometimes acquire or try to acquire territory through force. [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 11:02 pm
The advertisement, for Hell Pizza, showed animated versions of Sir Edmund Hillary, actor Heath Ledger and the Queen Mother dancing to Michael Jackson's song 'Thriller'.The family of Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund, who died in January, said the ad was in "extremely poor taste". [read post]
27 Sep 2008, 10:26 pm
Marozzi, Justin, Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (2004). [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 5:18 pm
On a March day in 1220, the Year of the Dragon, the Mongol conqueror broke with his peculiar tradition by leading his cavalry into the center of the newly conquered city of Bukhara, one of the most important cities belonging to the sultan of Khwarizm in what is now Uzbekistan. [read post]
