By 1937, it was on grocery shelves and gained popularity during World War II as an inexpensive way to feed families and soldiers who brought it with them around the world. Today, the food can spark a divisive conversation, but certainly has a large fanbase. Spam is particularly popular in ...
Summer is obviously the season of gigging, but not everyone has been fortunate enough to bag a ticket for Glasto, Wireless or any of the other big events of the season. Happily, some of music's most sensational performances have been committed to tape – some re-engineered and reissued ...
I adore Candace and respect her work but 1370s York is something I know zero about. Everything was different. At times I wished there was a glossary. When I have to stop to wonder what that meant, I’m out of the story. The narrative flow has gone. And it is easy to put the ...
The document commonly known as Magna Carta today is not the 1215 charter but a later charter of 1225,and is usually shown in the form of The Charter of 1297 when it was confirmed by Edward I.At the time of the 1215 charter,many of the provisions were not meant to make long term ...
The Expatriation Act was passed in March of 1907 with a number of impositions, including stipulations that if a woman lived abroad for more than two years or was married to a man who wasn't eligible for citizenship, she could be revoked of her status. The Cable Act of 1922also known as...
Yet the status of “clandes-tine” is relative with regard to time, place, and situation and is therefore affected by events: what is clandestine in one era or in one country may not necessarily be clandestine in other eras and in other countries, under one regime or under another. In ...
The idea of ‘the given’ and its alleged problematic status as most famously articulated by Sellars (1956, 1981) continues to be at the center o