because of logistical problems, it was postponed just hours before it was due to begin and was held a week later, on February 23. Buhari was reelected, taking 56 percent of the vote; Abubakar, his nearest challenger, won 41 percent. Buhari was inaugurated for his second term on May 29,...
FromSt Margaret, who became one of the patron saints of Scotland, toElizabeth de Burghand the dramatic story of the Scottish Wars of Independence, to the love story and tragedy ofJoan Beaufort, to Margaret of Denmark and the dawn of the Renaissance, Scotland’s Medieval Queens have seen it ...
She’s not on the list of my next dinner party, but if she were, I would expect her to choose a rather stronger epithet than ‘pigs’ for the terrorists who assassinated her favourite uncle. Then there was the British writer, Auberon Waugh, writing in his Private Eye diary from England...
(another Henry) married Anne Grey, the sister of the Duke of Suffolk. The Willoughbys were closely tied by marriage to the Greys several times over. When Francis was two, his father died. He and his brother became wards of their uncle. In 1554 Francis’ cousin Lady Jane Grey, was ...
“DUMPS:The practice of using the nearest vacant lot for the dumping of paper and filth continues; this is often done at night to prevent detection. People should place such materials in barrels or other receptacles and have them removed, as it would prevent a good deal of ill feeling in ...
He was one of the first residents of the new village and the uncle of another Milton Abbas vicar, George Marsh of Blandford. The other name is Henry Marshall, 26 April 1818, whose inscription appears on one of the piers of the South Transept catwalk. Henry was a Blandford stone mason ...
Had no one a kind word for Princess Margaret? She’s not on the list of my next dinner party, but if she were, I would expect her to choose a rather stronger epithet than ‘pigs’ for the terrorists who assassinated her favourite uncle. ...
aExcuse me. Where's the nearest police station? 劳驾。 在哪里最近的警察局?[translate] akeep thin 保留稀薄[translate] a八舅你知道吗,我好爱你好想你 Eight maternal uncles you know, I good like you thinking you well[translate] a400米 400 meters[translate] ...
In the end, Frederick decided that he would make his way to Pennsylvania, the nearest free state, this time by land. He chose to try the railroad. In all the United States, there were only a few hundred miles of railroad track then in operation, carrying a growing fleet of steam-...
It may well be that Eleanor joinedthe Second Crusadein the hope that God looked favourably on her, enough to give her a son. Maybe she wanted to help her uncle, Raymond of Toulouse, who was Prince of Antioch, who had sent presents accompanied by appeals for help, to his niece and her...