In 1500 the language of ‘slavery’ was unused in English; by the 1650s, it was the usual term for English men and women to describe states of unfreedom. This talk outlines the remarkable rise of slavery in the English vernacular before the creation of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, focus...
In 1921—just as in 2021—there was a new man in the White House. In January 2021, Joe Biden will be sworn in as president, replacing Donald Trump. In March 1921, Woodrow Wilson left the White House, limping to the end of his term aftera devastating stroke. He would be succeeded by...
Lots of people have an interest in old clocks (the technical term is (‘horology’), perhaps prompted being given the key to wind up a Victorian wall or mantle clock at their grandparents. While grandfather, or more correctly longcase, clocks generate particular curiosity. The longest serving ...
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In 1794, Carlos González de Posada published Memorias Históricas del Principado de Asturias y Obispado de Oviedo, in which he refers to the language as “bable”, a term later used by the democratic Asturian government in the Statute of Autonomy of 1981. In 1801, Gaspar Melchor de Xove...
President Milan Kucan was elected for a second term in 1997, and Janez Drnovsek has served as prime minister since the first elections were held in 1992. Social Problems and Control. Important social problems and issues include the country's transition to a free market economy, an aging ...
papers had been chemically fixed. Ten Eyck advertised on cover stationary from 1884: “Fine Portraits in India Ink, Water Colors and Crayon, By the Association of Celebrated Portrait Artists…” (From: Internet Archive) Lower Left: December, 1884 postmarked cover (envelope) from Ten Eyck & Co...
Like in so many other areas of our culture,they have stolen the term “woke-ness” and tried to co-opt it into another invented grievance. For people who deride their political opponents as being too fragile and unable to handle reality, they certainly find a million things to cry about ...
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