Speaking of size, we’ll start with these “size-mographic” facts about Texas so that you know the enormity of what you’re getting yourself into. 1. Texas is Huge Texas Has the Second-Largest Population in the U.S. Falling just behind the State of California, Texas is bigger in size...
for neither honest citizen nor highwayman would accept it or meddle with it for anything.Those brothers are safe.Even if I lose their bill, or burn it, they are still safe, because they can stop payment, and the Bank will make them whole;but meantime I’ve got to do a month’s suffe...
“Help Me Make It Through the Night.” He recorded about a dozen of his own albums during the 1970s, three of which were collaborations with country singerRita Coolidge, to whom he was married from 1973 to 1979. Their first album,Full Moon(1973), went gold (achieved sales of half a ...
Thepeasants, many of whom owned land, had attained an improved standard of living andeducationand wanted to get rid of the last vestiges of feudalism so as to acquire the full rights of landowners and to be free to increase their holdings. Furthermore, from about 1730, higherstandards of ...
most of it is lost. The rich mythology andepic-heroicpoetryare partly recoverable from later written sources, all from the 13th century and beyond—the Old Norse Eddic poems, the GermanNibelungenlied, and various poems about the heroDietrich von Bern/Theodoric. Only broken bits of this culture ...
It’s been the same way for years We need to change In 1975 Jennings won the Country Music Association (CMA) Award for male vocalist of the year. But he wascynicalabout his sudden acceptance by the industry. In his autobiography, he wrote, “I knew that block voting and mass trading be...
Craig came to wider attention in England as a troubled young man in the relationship drama miniseries Our Friends in the North (1996); as the highwayman paramour of the title character in The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), a raunchy television adaptation of the novel by Dan...
About 1520 the leadership of Adal was assumed by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghāzī, a Muslim reformer who became known as Sahib al-Fath (“the Conqueror”) to the Muslims and Aḥmad Grāñ (“Ahmad the Left-Handed”) to the Christians. Aḥmad drilled his men in modern Ottoman ...
Webb’s greatest hit of the 1980s was “Highwayman,” a Grammy-winning country song performed by Waylon Jennings,Johnny Cash,Kris Kristofferson, andWillie Nelson; the song inspired the group’s name, The Highwaymen. In 1986 Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which was follow...
The high point of Classical Middle High German literature is the work of the two great literary rivals Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg. Wolfram presents himself as an unlearned, rough-cut genius: I am Wolfram von Eschenbach, and I know a thing or two about poetry.…I was...