okay, americans of all ethnic, political or religious persuasions, i want to ask you something: as members of a nation that took this country by committing genocide against nations of indians (the first americans), as members of a nation that enslaved an entire group of people (africans), as members...
nat tarnopol and tommy "corky" vastola aka the gahloot (the hesch character on the sopranos is a sanitized composite of vastola and morris "moishe" levy). both would later be convicted of crimes related to their music biz dealings. on one fbi wiretap you can hear john gotti and sammy gravano discuss...
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as in the following passage: " it is thus that a tax upon the necessaries of life operates exactly in the same manner as a direct tax upon the wages of labour. ... if he is a manufacturer, will charge upon the price of his goods this rise of wages, together with a profit; so that the final payment of...
. [ ] during world war ii , supplies of silk for uk parachute manufacture were secured from the middle east by peter gaddum . [ ] medieval and modern europe dress made from silk bed covered with silk a hundred-year-old pattern of silk called "almgrensrosen" the necktie originates from the cravat , a...
of a terrible holocaust the southwest – the natives of the southwest created tiered homes made out of adobe bricks. many of the tribes had skilled farmers, grew crops, and created irrigation canals. famous tribes here include the navajo nation, the apache, and the pueblo indians. the plains – the great...
the lumix dmc-l . this includes full specifications and the firming up of some as yet unannounced details such as the selectable 'film modes' (similar to picturestyles as seen on canon cameras) and some other subtle changes to the functionality and design of the camera made since february. we've been...
patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world. i was once a not-stopping-for-anything young man, ready to change the world. i did my share of shaking things up. but then life got in the way — marriage. kids. jobs. career. a mortgage. soon, i had every excuse, every...
up, and difficult for me to hear. on top of this was a central struggle for me - i had yet to figure out just how to write the book. i had been working on a book of oral histories from the lives of public school teachers in the us, and had studied different methods of storytelling. so i assumed i would...