The Humphreys family tree now included numerous kings, queens and emperors of Europe as well as English and Scottish monarchs. Incidentally, it included connexions to Geoffrey Chaucer and the author Henry Fielding. What William Humphreys’ own ancestors – who were Quakers in Reigate – would have...
Look, I’m not belittling the lifestyle, I also have my deplorable character traits; however, it seems as if the moment November rolls around I am forced into sharing intimate details of my life to all of you – most of whom I wouldn’t, or don’t, talk to at compulsory family gat...
one into another, through a cascade of waterfalls and smaller natural spillways. The calcium-laden flows have laid down unique travertine deposits over the millennia. Ghostly, calcified tree branches spread out beneath the surface of the turquoise and azure lakes...
that cannot be done.” Thanks for throwing us that cheap/holy bone, Your Inadequacy-ness. For *twelve* years PF was the leader of the his faith’s hierarchy, that “clutch of hysterical sinister virgins”[9]who assert their divine mandate ...
Indeed, by the time Nguyen Du had finished hisTale of Kieu, French military engineers had already built the fortifications of the Hue citadel for a newdynastyof the Nguyen emperors. Feudal Vietnam would soon disappear under French colonial rule. The Confucian mandarinate that had served the thro...
On the basis of this definition, one can devise a simple inverted-tree diagram. Despite the clarity of the definition, difficult questions arise. Is mountain climbing a sport? It is if one understands the activity as a contest between the climber and the mountain or as a competition between ...