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18 Jan 2021, 12:39 pm
"Banjo" Paterson "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. [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]
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]
12 Aug 2007, 4:20 am
Our dictators are less authoritarian, and our conquerors refrain from pillaging. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 2:35 pm
While most Western academics argue otherwise, according to early Muslim writers, the great Library of Alexandria itself — deemed a repository of pagan knowledge contradicting the Koran — was destroyed under bin al-As's reign and in compliance with Caliph Omar's command....The technology now exists, the pyramid-haters observe, framing question to be whether Morsi is "pious" enough "to complete the Islamization process that started under the hands of Egypt's… [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 10:53 am
"Banjo" Paterson "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 7:39 am
Following the guilty verdict, Majors was immediately dropped by Marvel Studios, which had cast him as Kang the Conqueror, a role envisioned as the main villain in the entertainment empire’s movies and television shows for years to come. [read post]
9 May 2011, 11:13 pm
William the Conqueror coin photo from Wikipedia [read post]
28 Feb 2016, 12:01 am
The conqueror prescribes its limits. [read post]
25 May 2007, 1:20 am
This noted stone was found in the year 1901, not in Babylon, but in a city of the Persian mountains, to which some later conqueror must have carried it in triumph. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 3:18 pm
Personally, I realized ten years into a litigation career, (a) I wanted to be liked (if not loved) too much to be a conqueror, (b) dealing with the opponents' conception of the truth (opening up the other side's brief and reading it, for example) was frustrating and hard on my blood pressure, and (c) as I discuss below, once you get beyond the adrenaline rush that causes your eyeballs to pop out of your head (some people like that), the way trials work in cases that big firms do… [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 4:51 am
But in any case, such harsh treatment of civilians did not violate international law, which provided that the "that which is conquered in war is the property of the conquerors. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 4:26 pm
Anglo-Saxons use the same device when we speak of "The Norman Yoke"--the "foreign" hegemony that arrived with William the Conqueror in 1066. [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]
28 Jul 2015, 10:44 am
YOU ARE MORE THAN A CONQUEROR! [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 7:12 am
Legendary conquerors... traipsing around the mall with Hubert Humphrey. [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]
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]
8 Feb 2021, 9:41 am
"Banjo" Paterson "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 9:18 am
“We were never afraid to confront the investigation, and to prepare for it,” Paul Geller, the Coughlin Stoia partner and conqueror of pit bulls told the Recorder. [read post]
