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16 Oct 2015, 5:34 am
Among the biographies of Jewish resisters are Yechiel Granatstein, “The War of a Jewish Partisan: A Youth Imperiled by this Russian Comrades and Nazi Conquerors,” transl., Charles Wengrov (Mesorah Pubs., 1986); Peter Duffy, “The Bielski Brothers” (HarperCollins, 2002); Nechama Tec, “Defiance: The Bielski Partisans” (Oxford Univ. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 10:44 am
YOU ARE MORE THAN A CONQUEROR! [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 3:48 pm
Notwithstanding the South’s sin of slavery, the antebellum South represented noble virtues and aspirations like tradition, manners, honor, hospitality, and duty far better than its eventual conqueror ever did. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 4:00 am
During a February congressional hearing on the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, discussion turned—as it invariably does—to the detention facility’s role in jihadist propaganda. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 10:02 pm
In “Preserving Wildness,” Berry takes the middle ground between nature extremists and nature conquerors. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 5:32 am
" There are top-down histories, bottom-up histories, sideways histories, history of the longue durée, and even the history of the present (how will historians look at our present in another one hundred years) .My favorite leap of historical imagination, however, is counter-factual history, which asks what would the world be like today if "X" had not happened (say, if William the Conqueror had been stopped at Hastings or George Washington saw his troops melt away at… [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 9:30 pm
She begins in the Americas, where Iberian conquerors had to decide who could settle the land, who could harvest fruit and cut timber, and who had river rights for travel and trade. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 10:00 am
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]
13 Oct 2014, 11:40 am
"... is only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 10:40 pm
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]
4 Sep 2014, 10:11 am
Note also how, again and again, the official response to this behavior seemed to be a puzzled shrug.What Rotherham puts me in mind of is the behavior of the conqueror. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 11:24 am
The gradual encroachment of the composition may be traced in the Anglo-Saxon laws,[2] and the feud was pretty well broken up, though not extinguished, by the time of William the Conqueror. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 7:14 pm
The Emperor Caesar Flavius Justinian, conqueror of the Alamanni, the Goths, the Franks, the Germans, the Antes, the Alani, the Vandals, the Africans, pious, prosperous, renowned, victorious, and triumphant, ever august, To the youth desirous of studying the law:The imperial majesty should be armed with laws as well as glorified with arms, that there may be good government in times both of war and of peace, and the ruler of Rome may not only be victorious over his enemies, but may show… [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 5:26 am
The national obsession with jeans started during the postwar occupation, when teen-agers became smitten with the dungarees worn by their conquerors.) [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 1:36 am
The original castle was built in the 11th century after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 10:14 am
This is the castle first built by William the Conqueror. [read post]
18 Apr 2014, 6:51 am
Over the years, the United States has developed a vast body of Indian law to try and find a place for tribal sovereignty in a legal and political system created by the conquerors. [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 5:02 pm
To which I respond:Most interesting and I never gave it any thought before but I suspect has something to do with the fact that they were such bloody awful conquerors. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 9:20 pm
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4 Sep 2013, 8:06 pm
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]
