In words likeare, andore, the silent final e does not affect the pronunciation or provide a missing vowel, or keep a word from ending in v or u. This is the e that Mrs. Spalding (Romalda Spalding,The Writing Road to Reading) calls “no-job e.” Like Everest, it’s there. The ...
Also in this fantasy world, she hates her betrothed, Henry Tudor. While yes, it was an arranged marriage, remember, THAT WAS THE NORM for women of her social status in this time period. Marryingonlyfor love / lust / romance is a very modern concept. Yes, it happened pre-21st-century,...
When he deposed and excommunicated Arius and his cohorts in the year 318 AD the Bishop Alexander of Alexandria sent out a letter to the whole Catholic world explaining his reasons for taking this drastic step because Arius and his men were using deceitful tactics to gain the sympathy of many ...
The first American news of the production of Ibsen’s “Ghosts” and the stir it caused was furnished in a long letter from Berlin in January, 1887, by C. H. Genung. Perhaps the outstanding illustration of this alertness of the Evening Post to intellectual news is its clear reflection ...