“A people elated by pride, or soured by discontent, are seldom qualified to form a just estimate of their actual situation. The subjects of Constantine were incapable of discerning the decline of genius and manly virtue, which so far degraded them below the dignity of their ancestors; but they could feel and lament the rage of tyranny, the relaxation of discipline, and the increase of taxes.”
Guy Fawkes: Also known as John Johnson,or as Guido Fawkes apprehended on Nov 5th 1605, under the Houses of Parliamnent with hundreds of pounds of gunpowder and a handful of matches. Percy's man, 34 years old. Son of Edward Fawkes, proctor and advocate in the...
Cannon-Fodder is an unfinished novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The largely autobiographical narrative is set before World War II, and roughly continues where Céline's 1936 novel Death on Credit ended. Much of the novel disappeared in 1944. Surviving...
Bastille stormed by Paris mob. On this day n 1789, a mob advanced on the Bastille, the crowd captured the prison, an act that symbolized the end of the regime of Louis XVI
Christopher Dresser letter rack 1881
"You've just made your first number one Yoko" "Walking on Thin Ice" was released by Yoko Ono in1981. She and John Lennon finished recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to...
Legacy Awards Calgary Arts Development 2020. Katie Ohe
CHAPTER 34 Summer of 1975 My friend, Jack Moore was keeping a few horses; he told me I should have one. I thought about it. I had a brother-in-law that had a horse he wanted to sell. I asked him how much he wanted for it, he told me he wanted $90.00. It was a nice...
I bought this when it came out, 1970-71ish, and I've owned it ever since, I always heard Ringo had made it for his mother, who loved country music. Ringo Starr Beaucoups of BluesA few reviews lifted shamelessly from Wikipedia: Writing for Rolling Stone,...
CHAPTER 30 The job that I enjoyed was working alone on the forklift - most of the time that was my job - to keep this forklift going. The operators were very hard on them, they never took a course on how to operate the machine that made my job very hard, and we had...
CHAPTER 29 Sometime in 1972 the Department of Labour, said that we had to have a license to work in the mill, they wanted all the mechanics to have their industrial mechanic licenses. The Department of Labour, Bruce Baker told the superintendent, Dave Crosby that I...