Even today, the House of Lords is made up of several dozen hereditary nobles and a large number of life peers who are appointed by the queen. Practically speaking, these life peers are selected carefully to maintain a certain balance between political parties. Some modern monarchs maintain ...
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Finally, the Ottawa valley was opening up, and settlers were happy to sell logs from their lands in return for merchandise from the store that Hamilton had the astuteness to build. Unlike other up-country lumberers, Hamilton, as part of an integrated company, could avoid the costs and ...
The House of Wisdom is particularly associated with thetranslation movement, in which philosophical and scientific texts written in ancient Greek (and to a lesser extent in Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic) were collected and translated into Arabic. Indeed, it was the Arab...
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It also brought the opportunity to buy up the enormous area of land required to build his much desired palace: the Domus Aurea. The Golden House. Intended at once as an imperial residence and a central piece of his propaganda. It is clear that the time of Nero was a turning point in ...
In July 2008 Rabbi Shalom Lubin, founder of the Jewish Law Symposium and executive director of its sponsoring Chabad House addressed a Symposium in New Jersey on the relationship between civil rights and the Talmud. Wonder if Dershowitz was there to advocate for all the civilizing advantages of ...
The Tudor rose signifies Henry VII's accomplishment in ending the war after the death of Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth. Henry's marriage to Elizabeth (from the house of York) unified the two royal houses, and resulted in the creation of the Tudor dynasty.It's this dynastic ...