As treasuries were depleted, overseas trade beckoned. TheOttoman Empirecontrolled the overland routes from Europe to SouthAsia, with its markets of spices and other commercially lucrative goods. Seeking to establish a sea route to the region, the Portuguese princeHenry the Navigatorsponsored expeditions...
muttering invocations to The Mother and testing incantations to tease out the Black Nail of murder love in preparation for the 15 August Exorcism of Putin and a Call for Normal Life, I’ll also be raising up some NAMES for Best American Poetry Beyond Words Empire of Deeds bucket lists (#...
which was prefaced by a portfolio of 31 unlabeled photographs—bound together at the front of the book—by Evans. These photographs are asreticentand Puritan in style as could be imagined, capturing every aspect of the three families—their houses, their rooms, their furniture, their land. In...
1 single.In 2000, Bassey was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to the performing arts. In 1977 she received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in the previous 25 years. Bassey is considered one of the most popular female ...
style is deliberately simplified, in overt reaction to the opulent Baroque language of Catholic Europe; and the frame limited to the understated mouldings common in England in previous centuries, especially in the world outside the court. For similar reasons, progressive fashions in furniture, ...
slaves from African cargoes “just arrived from Charleston.” Of these the following, issued by the firm of Kenner and Henderson, June 24, 1806, is an example: “The subscribers offer for sale 74 prime slaves of the Fantee nation on board the schooner _Reliance_, I. Potter master, from...
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The book has photographs of Japanese Americans preparing for evacuation, a dust storm at Manzanar, a typical line for lunch at a mess hall, Japanese Americans eating at the mess halls, a man hanging his clothing on a rope string across the room in a narrow room without furniture, baseball ...
and spend the waning days of the American empire circle jerking with Dick Cheney, T. Boone Pickens, and Rupert Murdoch. If you are a conservative, you blame this on irresponsible consumers buying $500,000 houses with a steady income solely from the fry cook line at the local Jack in the...
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