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2 days ago · A savage campaign in 1069–70, the so-called harrying of the north, emphasized William’s military supremacy and his brutality. A further English rising in the Fens achieved nothing. In 1075 William put down rebellion by the earls of Hereford, Norfolk, and Northumbria.
4 days ago · Norman Nathan Lloyd ( né Perlmutter; November 8, 1914 – May 11, 2021) was an American actor, producer, director, and centenarian with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century. He worked in every major facet of the industry, including theatre, radio, television, and film, with a career that started in 1923.
1 day ago · Morton was eventually arrested and deported. These events would serve as an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1832 short story The Maypole of Merry Mount. “Bright were the days at Merry Mount,” Hawthorne opens his morality tale, “when the Maypole was the banner staff of that gay colony!
4 days ago · Image Credit: TIM JENKINS AND MERRY BROWNFIELD/Farichild Archive ... The former Countess of Snowdon wore a Norman Hartnell gown at her royal wedding to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960.
1 day ago · Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and ...
2 days ago · Tis the day where all creatures are merry-minded. All the jingle ladies, all the jingle ladies. Now put your hands up! Forget about the presents, my thoughts will always be with you. After all, it’s the thought that matters. Ho-ho-home for Christmas! Let’s go to the kitchen and whisk everyone a merry Christmas.
4 days ago · Scholars Sally Merry and Susan Coutin argued that the creation of legal subjects very often matches a power agenda by the makers of international law (see here, p. 3). This power agenda dictates which actors, objects, and qualities are relevant or irrelevant, visible or invisible, and illuminates the priorities and perspectives that are entrenched in international law.
