January 5, 1066: Death of Edward the Confessor, King of the English
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Edward the Confessor (c. 1003 – January 5, 1066) was one of the last Anglo-Saxon Kings of the English. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066.
Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Denmark’s Cnut the Great’s son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut.
Edward restored the rule of the House of Wessex after the period of Danish rule since Cnut conquered England in 1016. When Edward died in 1066, he was succeeded by Harold Godwinson, who was defeated and killed in the same year by the Normans under William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. Edward’s young great-nephew Edgar the Ætheling of the House of Wessex was proclaimed King after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 but was never crowned and was peacefully deposed after about eight weeks.
Historians disagree about…
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CENSORED CLIP of ‘You Bet Your Life Episode’, Groucho Marx, ‘BOARDING HOUSE LADY
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World Bank Data: Comparing the U.S. and Europe
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As I warned a few days ago, Biden’s so-called Build Back Better plan is not dead.
There’s still a significant risk that this economy-sapping plan will get enacted, resulting in big tax increases and a larger burden of government spending.
Proponents of a bigger welfare state say the President’s plan should be approved so that the United States can be more like Europe.
This argument is baffling because it doesn’t make sense to copy countries where living standards are significantly lower.
In some cases dramatically lower.
Let’s explore this issue in greater detail.
In a column for Bloomberg, Allison Schrager analyzes America’s supply-chain problems and the impact on consumption patterns.
But what caught my eye were the numbers comparing the United States and Europe.
Americans can’t spend like they used to. Store shelves are emptying, and it can take months to find a car…
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The World’s Deadliest Construction Projects
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How Scientists Proved These Rocks Came From Mars
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Ten Minute History – Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
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Richard Clayton: The Government’s New Proposals for the Human Rights Act; Part One – The Proposals in Outline
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The Conservative Party has opposed the HRA root and branch ever since its enactment. Manifesto commitments to overhaul the HRA were made in 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2019. In 2015 Prime Minister, David Cameron, said he was open to the “nuclear option” of withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (the ECHR) to ensure the UK’s highest court remains the “ultimate arbiter of human rights”, although this was to be delayed until after the referendum on EU membership. The Government has now, however, confirmed that the UK will not leave the ECHR.
In December 2020 the Government announced it was setting up an Independent Human Rights Act Review chaired by Sir Peter Gross, the former Lord Justice of Appeal. On 16 December 2021 the Review published its final report. On the same day the Deputy Prime Minister and new Justice Minister, Dominic Raab, announced a packet of proposals
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