Stationing most of the army in North America made strategic sense because Great Britain had acquired the vast territory of New France in the 1763 peace treaty, and troops would be needed to maintain control of the new empire. The outbreak in May 1763 of Pontiac’s Rebellion(庞蒂亚克的叛乱),...
RUTH:Come on now,boy,it's seven thirty!(Her son sits up at last,in a stupor of sleepiness)I say hurry up,Travis!You ain't the only person in the world got to use a bathroom!(The child,a sturdy,handsome little boy of ten or eleven,drags himself out of the bed and almost blindly...
Again, Maattmo rapidly reorganizes INPAST. He now understands that completing his mission will require hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers, billions of dollars, and unflinching discipline within himself and his followers. To contain his sexual impulses, he takes his most adoring female follow...
in 1963. The league's licensing wing, NFL Properties, earns the league billions of dollars annually; Rozelle's tenure also marked the creation of NFL Charities and a national partnership with United Way. Paul Tagliabue was elected as commissioner to succeed Rozelle; his 17-year tenure, which ...
identities of their family members who would benefit from the sale. The ad below that was posted in the Savannah, Georgia newspaper in 1859, brought more than $300,000 inrevenuefor Joseph Bryan, whose name appears in the ad. That’s equal to more than $9 million in today’s dollars. ...
Consumer spending is dropping rapidly over twenty percent yearly. During a economic "boom" in the 1990's, consumer expenditures reached over 1.4 trillion dollars, and is presently declining more rapidly in the National Association of Purchasing Managers price index. Technology sector purchases have det...
To win a presidential election, a candidate has to spend millions of dollars, which come from their fund-raising activities, their party and a grant from the government. The candidate has to travel all over the country, making countless speeches and shaking hands with countless voters. They hav...
His iconic portrayal of the Man with No Name in films like A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly propelled him to international stardom. However, it was his role as Dirty Harry Callahan in the eponymous five-film se...
and yet our government continues to spend 17 million dollars a day more than the government takes in. We haven't balanced our budget 28 out of the last 34 years. We've raised our debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and now our national debt is one and a half times big...
“They don't need to worry about me and my overhalls long as Ah still got nine hundred dollars in de bank.Tea Cake got me into wearing 'em—following behind him.Tea Cake ain't wasted up no money of mine,and he ain't left me for no young gal,neither.He give me every consolation...