St. John’s Church in Richmond, where Henry gave his speech. How Convention Delegates Reacted While some of the Convention’s delegates clung to their loyalist stance—one even called Henry’s words “infamously insolent”—the “Liberty or Death” speech tipped the scales in favor of defensive...
“To quell further protests, bread will be distributed to civilians using our loyalist collaborators as distributors who will also be instructed to select only the innocent and collaborating neighborhoods. We allocate 100,000 Reichsmarks for this operation.” Short Directive Example III“We would ...
known as “cronies,” to use firearms and force to intimidate voters during the recent election, how he had allowed Ver to promote loyalist friends over qualified officers simply to safeguard the Marcos lust for power and money.
And Joyce was the first to coin “iSpace” in Finnegans Wake, a curious ideograph that anticipated “iPod,”“iPhone,” and many other such novelties by many decades. On the psychoanalytical front, Carl Jung’s word association games very popular around 1900 were adopted by Shannon and other ...
A hamlet north of New York City, Hartsdale was part of an area given to Frederick Philipse, a Dutch merchant and British loyalist, by the British government. The town later became the site of the first Carvel ice cream store, owned by a Greek immigrant,Tom Carvel,and has had a notable...
Anyone can refuse to serve food, grant lodging, or take in any public transport a PR. And so her loyal and loyalist subjects think twice about incurring her serene displeasure. And it is well to remember that her favor is not to be taken for granted but must be earned anew each day....
“Many Killers”Syrian soccer star Firas al-Khatib, on the factions tearing his country apart.Jun Michael Park/laif for ESPN Kuwait City On a coolFebruary afternoon, one of Syria's greatest soccer players sits outside a mall on the Persian Gulf, paralyzed by a decision that he fears cou...
leaving four-fifths of the legislature’s seats entirely uncontested by reformists. In the presidential election of 2021,Ebrahim Raisi—a loyalist close to Khamenei—was the only high-profile candidate to qualify, allowing him to breeze to a landslide victory. Rouhani, meanwhile, was later disqualif...
In this story, William Jasper had a loyalist brother who served in the British army at the Ebenezer garrison (map), near Savannah. Jasper would secretly visit his brother undetected for days at a time then report his findings back to the Americans. He brought John Newton along on his final...
“There were so many pent up grievances caused by years of Communist rule. All those who suffered in the Great Leap Forward, workers in factories living in appalling conditions, victims of early campaigns and purges, and they really do denounce many of these Party leaders.” ...