Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way from BBC Old Grey Whistle Test 1976
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Technological Obstacles To Implementing The Green New Deal
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January 30, 1649: Execution of Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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Charles’s beheading was scheduled for Tuesday, January 30, 1649. Two of his children remained in England under the control of the Parliamentarians: Elizabeth and Henry. They were permitted to visit him on January 29, and he bade them a tearful farewell. The following morning, he called for two shirts to prevent the cold weather causing any noticeable shivers that the crowd could have mistaken for fear: “the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake, which some observers may imagine proceeds from fear. I would have no such imputation.”
He walked under guard from St James’s Palace, where he had been confined, to the Palace of Whitehall, where an execution scaffold had been erected in front of the Banqueting House. Charles was separated from spectators by large ranks of soldiers, and his last speech reached only those with him on the scaffold. He blamed his fate on his…
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What Happened to the Numbers Stations? – Spying by numbers
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Iowans Explain Why They Voted for Obama, Then for Trump | @WSJ
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Mississippi Burning (1988) – A Razor-Sharp Interrogation Scene (10/10)
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Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
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Execution of Charles I – ‘King-killer’: the Making of a Regicide
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In the fourth in our series on the tumultuous events of the winter of 1648-9, and following on from the trial of Charles I, we turn now to the consequence of a guilty verdict. Dr Patrick Little of the House of Commons 1640-1660 considers the process whereby one MP became a signatory to the death warrant for Charles I, executed at Whitehall on this day 370 years ago, 30 January 1649…
King Charles I’s death warrant was signed on 29 January 1649 by 59 men; no doubt there were 59 individual reasons for doing so. One might mention the army radicals, such as Oliver Cromwell, committed republicans, including Henry Marten, or religious zealots, like Sir John Bourchier, or Edmund Ludlowe, whose rationale for ‘Delivering justice’ was quoted in the previous post in this series. But rather than attempt to provide a group portrait, this post concentrates on the experience of…
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Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is now the 3rd longest reigning monarch in European History.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has recently surpassed Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria and King Hungary (1848-1916) to become Europe’s third longest reigning monarch.
Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary (August 18, 1830 – November 21, 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, and monarch of many other states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, from December 2, 1848 to his death. From May 1, 1850 to August 24, 1866 he was also President of the German Confederation, the state that replaced the Holy Roman Empire which had been ruled by a Hapsburg emperor for centuries. He was the longest-reigning Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and is now as the fourth-longest-reigning monarch of any country in European history, after Louis XIV of France and Navarre, Johann II of Liechtenstein, and now, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, in that…
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Jason Potts at the Ratio Institute (Innovation commons)
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My @NZHerald op-ed on sparing us from the @NZHumanRights @women_nz pay transparency nightmare
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in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: envy, gender wage gap, The fatal conceit
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