... of the Boston Bruins, Warren Godfrey of the Detroit Red Wings and Camille Henry of the New York Rangers—wore helmets on a regular basis. As improvements continued to be made to all forms of ... attached to the end of the hockey stick. One of the game’s all-time greats, Gordie Howe, was a keen supporter of the new piece of safety equipment. Howe called the grip one of the greatest developments ... from the top of the knee to the middle of the rib cage and an outer shell made of a woven nylon. CCM had developed a similar new pant system that would be worn by some members of the Hartford...
... OxfordProfessor Carolyn Brown, Department of History, Rutgers UniversityProfessor Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge UniversityProfessor Michael Gomez, Department of History, ... Iliffe was Professor of African History at the University of Cambridge and is aFellow of St. John’s College. He is the author of several books on Africa, includingAmodern historyof Tanganyika ... York UniversityProfessor David Robinson, Department of History, Michigan State UniversityProfessor Leonardo A. Villalon, Center for African Studies, University of FloridaA list of books in this...
... chosen areas of specialization onthe market. As Rothbard explains:28 A Historyof Money and Banking in the United States:The Colonial Era to World War II44One of the first expositions of ... relatively small segment of the populace possessesa comparative advantage in developing new software, sellingIntroduction 2742For expositions of the view of the origin and nature of the state as acoercive ... Rothbardopens himself up to the charge of espousing a conspiracy theory of economic history. But it is his emphasis on the almost univer-sal propensity of those who employ the political means for...
... the side of the Abolition resumed in the Commons; list of those examined.—Cruel circumstances of the times.—Motion for the Abolition of the Trade; debates; motion lost.—Resolutions of the Committee.—Sierra ... miles CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. No subject more pleasing than that of the removal of evils.—Evils have existed almost from the beginning of the world; but there ... it; and of the difficulty of subduing it.—Usefulness also of the contemplation of this subject. I scarcely know of any subject, the contemplation of which is more pleasing, than that of the...
... cut off Alban's headand with a second the head of the soldier. At the same moment, we are told, the captain lost his sight andremained blind for the rest of his life.This is the story of ... in his ear,"Cans't thee not mind the cakes, man? ÊÊÊAnd doesn't thee see them burn? I's bound thee'll eat them fastenough ÊÊÊAs soon as 'tis thy turn."Alas! ... hour of need, fled to France with his wife and children.Ethelred fled to France because his wife, Emma, was the daughter of the Duke of Normandy. Normandy ispart of France. Queen Emma's...
... a piece out of thecentre, with part of the records of only six kings before Snefru. Of these six the name of only one, Neneter, of the lid Dynasty, whose name is also found at Abydos, is mentioned. ... inpyramids like those of the old Memphite kings. These facts, of the situation of Itht-taui, of their burial in thesouthern an ex of the old necropolis of Memphis, and of the fori of their tombs (the ... Wilkin atel-'Amra. The imposing lion-headed promontory of el-'Amra stands out into the plain on the west bank of theNile about five miles south of Abydos. At the foot of this hill M....
... of the want of ear, or the want of command of language, whichmakes Wyatt's versification frequently disgusting. Surrey has even no small mastery of what may be calledthe architecture of ... extent the historyof curiosities of literature of tentative and imperfect efforts, scarcely resulting in anyreal vernacular style at all. It is, however, emphatically the Period of Origins of modern ... date of Italy was already drawing to aclose, and Italy had long possessed vernacular prose masterpieces), it was not till the middle of the sixteenthcentury that the writing of vernacular prose...
... College Histories of Art. A HISTORYOF PAINTING. BY JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D. Professor of the Historyof Art in Rutgers College, and Author of “Principles of Art,” “Art for Art’s ... Essays; Boston. Van Pelt, A Discussion of Composition. Ware, The American Vignola; Scranton. xxi HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. INTRODUCTION. A historyof architecture is a record of man’s ... Wat End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Text-Book of the Historyof Architecture, by Alfred D. F. Hamlin *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORYOF ARCHITECTURE ***...
... the 4th of September—Anecdote of Murat—Napoleon's survey of the ground VI. —Disposition of the Russian army on the field of Borodino—Napoleon's plan of battle VII. —Plan proposed by ... 1825. IV. —Clamours of the Russians against Barclay—Kutusof sent to supersede him—Great merit of Barclay's plan of retreat V. —Near prospect of a battle—Character of Kutusof—Sanguinary and ... Malo-Yaroslawetz, ineffectually opposed by Sir Robert Wilson—Napoleon's projected plan of retreat VI. —Mortier's proceedings at Moscow after the departure of the main army—Blowing up of...
... concatenation of events, the sword of our English Richardbestowed that kingdom on the house of Lusignan, a rich compensation for the loss of Jerusalem. [Footnote 18:The historyof the reign of Isaac ... toleration of aMahometan mosque, it was impossible to interdict the churches of the Roman rite. ^13 The two wives of Manuel Comnenus ^14 were of the race of the Franks: the first, a sister-in-law of ... administration of Egypt; the claims of the rival candidates were decided by arms; and thename of the most worthy, of the strongest, was inserted in the royal patent of command. The factions of Dargham...
... DISCIPLINE OF THE HISTORYOF DOGMA.§ 1. The Idea and Task of the Historyof Dogma.1. The Historyof Dogma is a discipline of general Church History, which has for its object the dogmas of theChurch. ... independentprovince of Church history. As to the division of the historyof dogma, it consists of two main parts. The first has to describe the origin of dogma, that is, of the Apostolic Catholic system of doctrine ... contents of the Christian religion as a knowledge of God, of the world, and of the sacred history under the aspect of a proof of the truth. But (2) they have also emerged at a definite stage of the history...
... Master of the Temple, but had accepted the Deanery of Saint Paul's, which had become vacant in consequence of thedeprivation of Sancroft and the promotion of Tillotson. The rage of the ... curiosity orofficial duty had brought to the place of meeting. The grave capital of the most thrifty and industrious of nations was as gay as Venice in the Carnival. The walks cut among those ... of peerage, pensions, grants of crown land, under thegreat seal of William; and they had in their secret drawers promises of pardon in the handwriting of James.Among those who were guilty of...