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10 Mar 2023, 5:14 am
There was the story of a disastrous crowd crush in 1896 in which a promise of pretzels played a role.There was the time Angela Merkel served Barack Obama "a breakfast of white sausages, pretzels and foaming lager. [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 8:12 am
It called to mind the little speech by an old man in "Citizen Kane," explaining what old men remember:One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on a ferry and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in... and on it, there was a girl waiting to get off. [read post]
8 Aug 2015, 12:14 pm
[m]ade from morphine or diacetylmorphine (heroin), cocaine, highly-pure ethyl alcohol (some recipes specify gin), and sometimes with chlorpromazine (Thorazine) to counteract nausea, it was given to terminally-ill individuals (especially cancer patients) to relieve pain and promote sociability near death....The original idea for an oral mixture of morphine and cocaine helping patients in agony with advanced disease is credited to surgeon Herbert Snow in 1896. [read post]
5 Aug 2017, 8:02 am
The first-known printed use of the word "brownie" to describe a dessert appeared in the 1896 version of the Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Farmer, in reference to molasses cakes baked individually in tin molds.The Oxford English Dictionary has something earlier... 1883 J. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 9:04 pm
The Anglo-American Struggle Over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846-1896, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2016 [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 11:50 am
Stars and Stripes Forever" was written in 1896. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 11:42 am
"Now, as we are sure soon to be Georgia Senator Hirschel Walker can tell you, Nebraska Senator William Jennings Bryant gave one of the most famous speeches in American history at the Democratic National Convention in 1896- labeled the Cross of Gold Speech. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 9:30 pm
Congratulations, too, to Erik Linstrum, Associate Professor, History, University of Virginia, for Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of Empire.Mary Dudziak recently tweeted out a link to the panel she moderated at SHAFR on in 2017 on War, Law, and Restraint, with Rosa Brooks, Jack Goldsmith, Helen Kinsella and John Fabian Witt.Some thoughts on epidemics in South Asian legal history: how the 1896 bubonic plague hit legal Bombay (-MS). [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 11:35 pm
App. 1896) ("It has often been ruled, in this state and elsewhere, that fees of counsel, incurred in prosecuting a suit for or defending against a wrong, are not ordinarily recoverable as actual damages, because they are not considered proximate results of such wrong."). [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 8:08 am
Yost— “who, in 1896, transferred to Lafayette as a freshman just in time to lead his new teammates to victory against its arch-rival, Penn. [read post]
28 Dec 2021, 4:05 am
The couple married on April 30, 1896... [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 1:26 pm
"That was written in 1896, when, perhaps, artists still felt some urge to uplift and encourage us. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 6:31 am
The book points out, for example that the Democrats missed an opportunity to begin a new regime in 1896, and proved unable to do so in 2008. [read post]
1 Jun 2023, 7:31 am
The Court determined that these cases were the product of common-law developments in the 20th and 21st centuries, and were therefore inapplicable to the status of the law in 1896 when the Utah Constitution was adopted. [read post]
20 May 2021, 1:59 pm
” The titles cover a wide range of legal topics and timelines, from the oldest book currently in the collection - Law and Morals: The McNair Lectures (1924) by Roscoe Pound - to the most recent - Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (2019, 2nd ed.) by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore.UNC Press upholds a reputation for excellence by publishing titles, written by distinguished scholars, that “explore important questions, spark… [read post]
24 Jun 2012, 5:54 am
United States, 162 U.S. 499, 511 (1896). [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 12:04 am
On this day in ... ... 1896 (115 years ago today), Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine was born on a train in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, to a family from that empire's "minor nobility. [read post]
8 Mar 2009, 3:01 am
(credit for portrait of 1896 coronation of tsar and tsarina)(Prior March 8 posts are here and here.) [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 6:12 am
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)Maryland, which enacted the nation's first shield law to protect journalists in 1896, is now also the first state to protect job applicants' social media passwords from prospective employers' perusal.The (Maryland) Gazette.net Web site and the Raycom News Network reported that the Maryland legislature nearly unanimously passed the measure that Democratic Gov. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 11:58 pm
HISTORY OF THE MOORE PUSH-PIN COMPANY http://www.answers.com/topic/thumbtack Recall the "College of New Jersey" moved to Princeton, New Jersey in 1756 and was renamed "Princeton University" in 1896. [read post]
