How much can you plow in a day? Furlong A furlong is a measure of distance used in horse racing to this day, but its origins lie in a different kind of race, one against time: how much land a yoke of oxen could plow before sunset. The old rough measure of an acre was the amou...
After half an hour Pippin said: ‘I hope we have not turned too much towards the south, and are not walking longwise through this wood! It is not a very broad belt -I should have said no more than a mile at the widest - and we ought to have been through it by now.’ langbot...
There are a lot of the things off the books in Washington. That's the problem.STU: Make sure this is off the books.This is supposed to be a different speech.Amazing. That's his good moment? But I will say, compared to him on a daily basis, in these moments, he's been a D mi...
29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these! 30 If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t He do much more for you—you of little faith? 31 So don’t worry,...
There is a popular belief that there are unknown and unused forces in and about us that might be used if men knew how. The fact is that, while much has been said and written about principles, comparatively little has been put forth as to methods of applying them. These reasons have ...
“Never has a family donated so much of its wealth to the making of the State of Israel.”Between 1890 and 1924 Edmound Rothschild had established many settlements in Palestine Here through his co-funding of the Jewish National Fund. Later his son, James, established Yad Hanadiv, to finance...
Say, if the date, time, and/or place designation were opening a chapter, or even, as Bruce and Elizabeth would like to do, the book. I have good reason to be cautious: if an unwary writer were simply to typedateline+manuscript formatinto Google, much of what would pop up in the fir...