epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Get Out of the Way Once state and federal governments create a stable fiscal environment, they should get out of the way. Cities are capable of promoting economic opportunity and ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:A.H. Chisholm

CHAPTER VII THE ARISTOCRACY OF THE CREST IT MIGHT REASONABLY be said that all crested birds are notable figures among their kind. Certainly, there is a perfectly definite distinction attached ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Horace Kephart [Kephart, Horace]

“At thirty a mountain woman is apt to have a worn and faded look” In a climate where it showers about two days out of three through spring and summer ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-09-14 | Author:Levi Roach [Roach, Levi]

The ‘Palace Revolution’, 1005–6 If the Massacre of St Brice’s Day was meant to alleviate the kingdom’s problems, it seems to have had if anything the reverse effect. In 1003–4 ...

azw3 |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Jeremy Black [Black, Jeremy]

The emphasis on personal readiness for self-sacrifice in this letter was both a reflection of George's sense of duty and also somewhat typical of the often overblown rhetoric of the ...

azw3 |eng | 2020-07-29 | Author:Nicholas Vincent [Vincent, Nicholas]

4 The Worst of All Our Kings Tyranny Unmasked? Combining the tastes of Caligula with the morals of an absconding bookmaker, King John is popularly perceived as a monster: in ...

azw3 |eng | 1998-01-20 | Author:Charles Ross [Ross, Charles]

1 Rymer, Foedera, XI, 760; Morice, Mémoires de Bretagne, III, 246–9 (for text of treaty); Pocquet du Haut-Jussé, 172–3. 2 For a contemporary account of his visit, see ‘The Record ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-07-03 | Author:Stella Tillyard [Tillyard, Stella]

4 Regent of Style Under the terms of the act that enabled the Regency, George III was suspended from carrying out his royal functions and the Prince of Wales, as ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-08-26 | Author:Douglas Hurd [Hurd, Douglas]

8 Vox Populi It is now possible to measure scientifically the state of public opinion about the Queen and the monarchy. In earlier centuries the ebb and flow of royal ...

azw3 |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:John Miller [Miller, John]

CHAPTER TEN King and Parliament (February to November 1685) Three days after Charles died, James announced his intention to summon a Parliament. He also announced that he would continue to ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Yong Chen

FIGURE 4 The number of times the names of popular dishes appeared on the menus of one hundred Chinese restaurants. (Data from Yong Chen, menu samples) FIGURE 5 The number ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Brown [Clark, Diane C.]

There are more spies in Washington than in any other city in the world. So you're in the right place to see this amazing collection of spy tools, including an ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Kevin W. Hecteman

From the February 1924 SP Bulletin, where this photograph first appeared: “A record was recently made by the Pattern Shop force at Sacramento General Shops in the building of a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Aaron Cohen

FOURTEEN From the two platoons of roughly forty guys in basic training, we were down to fourteen real survivors after about two weeks at C.T. School. So the core group ...

epub |eng | | Author:Craig Havighurst

Jack DeWitt was as pleased as anyone about the war’s end, but he was stuck at the Evans Signal Laboratory, living in a rented house with several other officers, and ...