provincial manners
81Bushido literature — Early Literature=KojikiThe Kojiki is Japan s oldest extant book. Written in 712 AD, it contains passages about Yamato Takeru, the son of the emperor Keiko. It includes references to the use and admiration of the sword by Japanese warriors:: The… …
82Right of foreigners to vote — Suffrage, the right to vote in a particular country, generally derives from citizenship. In most countries, the right to vote is reserved to those who possess the citizenship of the country in question. Some countries, however, have extended… …
83Voyage du Commodore Anson — En 1740, pendant la guerre de l’oreille de Jenkins qui opposa la Grande Bretagne et l’Espagne de 1739 à 1748, le Commodore George Anson reçut du roi Georges II le commandement d’une escadre, avec la mission d’aller harceler les colonies… …
84Voyage du commodore Anson — En 1740, pendant la guerre de l’oreille de Jenkins qui opposa la Grande Bretagne et l’Espagne de 1739 à 1748, le Commodore George Anson reçut du roi Georges II le commandement d’une escadre, avec la mission d’aller harceler les colonies… …
85Surtees, Robert Smith — born May 17, 1803, The Riding, Northumberland, Eng. died March 16, 1864, Brighton, Sussex English novelist. Passionately addicted to riding to hounds from his youth, Surtees devoted nearly all his writings to horses and riding. In 1831 he… …
86New Orleans — • Archdiocese in the southern United States Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. New Orleans New Orleans † …
87provincialism — (n.) 1820 in the political sense, local attachment as opposed to national unity, from PROVINCIAL (Cf. provincial) + ISM (Cf. ism). Meaning manners or modes of a certain province or of provinces generally (as opposed to the big city or capital) is …
88Adrienne Clarkson — The Right Honourable Adrienne Louise Clarkson 伍冰枝 PC, CC, CMM, COM, CD, FRSC(hon), FRAIC(hon), FRCPSC(hon) …
89Chang'an — …
90French nobility — The nobility ( fr. la noblesse) in France, in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, had specific legal and financial rights, and prerogatives.The first official list of these prerogatives was established relatively late, under Louis XI of… …
