As Constitution Annotated puts it,“Chief Justice Marshall recognized that while the President could be subject to a criminal subpoena, the President could still withhold information from disclosure based on executive privilege. In the two centuries since the Burr trial, the Executive Branch’s practic...
From the Wikipedia: “The Texas Chief was a passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between Chicago, Illinois, and Galveston, Texas. It was the first Santa Fe “Chief” outside the Chicago–Los Angeles routes. The Santa Fe conveyed the Texas Chief to Amtrak in...
If you live on the Isle of Dogs or nearby, it is great fun to down to Millwall slipway on the morning of the race to savour some of the excitement and anticipation of the competitors. Collecting over 300 boats of assorted sizes in order would seem to be a logistic nightmare, however t...
He brought with him, as his friend and companion (in the case of a modern ambassador we should say, as his chaplain), the philosopher, Pansetius, the chief of the Stoics, who had gained a great name for his three books on the "Duty of Man," which were afterwards copied by Cicero....
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Agriculture was the chief commercial activity, and a widespread system of reservoirs, canals, wells, and water harvesting methods was established all over the area [32]. The Mohenjo-Daro Great Bath of Indus Valley is called the “earliest public water tank of the ancient world.” Dholavira in...