James's comments
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James's comments from the History is Not Boring group.
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I agree, Will. That was a shameful bill.It's not out of committee yet, is it? The members of the committee are at http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/comm... I think people in those states should tell their senators not to let a bill that bad reach the floor. IMHO.
Yorick. I'd want Yorick's skull. (Oh wait, is he a fictional character.....)
Someone I know also went to a "no typing" school and was exactly so that the teacher would know the paper was in his handwriting and not purchased or written by someone else.
There was a fascinating article in the New Yorkers about fact checking awhile back that confirmed something I'd long suspected: write for a magazine and they check every single sentence; write a book, and you're on your own.
Yusef Islam - the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens.
Do new Fords get good gas mileage? My 1998 Escort still gets 32+ MPG.
As far as I know the only criteria about what car you can buy have to do with fuel economy. You can buy any car, regardless of country of manufacture.
Twenty-one children?
Manuel, are you reading a particular book or just scouring lots of sources?Delmonico's (which I mentioned in an earlier post) was one of those venerable old restaurants done in by Prohibition.
No, I wouldn't expect anyone who wasn't a NYC historian to have heard of him. (And even then, he's obscure.)
Colonel Robert Hunter it is! Good job, Deirdre.The play, by the by, is Androboros, A Biographical Farce In Three Acts The Senate, The Consistory And The Apotheosis, a satire in which Hunter -- who was then governor of New York -- skewers his main political rivals, including his predecessor, Col. Francis Nicholson.
When my parents moved to England in the 1950s, they had a refrigerator (ice box, as they called it) and were the toast of the town. Neighbors kept coming by to store things in it. However, many didn't seem to understand that even in the ice box food would eventually spoil, forcing my parents to throw it out. The neighbor would come by, six months later, to retrieve their item and be sorely disappointed to find it had been chucked.
Not Royal Tyler.Person.
1. Fought in the War of Spanish Succession.
2. Friend of Jonathan Swift.
3. Published in Addison and Steele's "Tattler."
4. Also a playwright.
5. Author of what some term the first play PRINTED in America.
6. Spent his latter years in Jamaica.
7. Kidnapped by a French pirate, he spent two years in a French jail until there was a prisoner exchange (perhaps for the Bishop of Quebec).
Sorry, that clue was mis-written; it's not Benjamin Colman.Person.
1. Fought in the War of Spanish Succession.
2. Friend of Jonathan Swift.
3. Published in Addison and Steele's "Tattler."
4. Also a playwright.
5. Author of what some term the first play PRINTED in America.
6. Spent his latter years in Jamaica.
Person.1. Fought in the War of Spanish Succession.
2. Friend of Jonathan Swift.
3. Published in Addison and Steele's "Tattler."
4. Also a playwright.
5. Author of what some term the first play written in America.
Person.1. Fought in the War of Spanish Succession.
2. Friend of Jonathan Swift.
3. Published in Addison and Steele's "Tattler."
4. Also a playwright.
Ok. And I promise no more song writers. Let me think for a minute on this.
