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The American Studies Association was founded for purposes of the promotion of the study of American culture through the encouragement of research, teaching, publication, the strengthening of relations among persons and institutions in this country and abroad devoted to such studies, and the broadening of knowledge among the general public about American culture in all its diversity and complexity.
The United States Army Security Agency (ASA) was the United States Army's signals intelligence branch from 1945 to 1977. [1] The Latin motto of the Army Security Agency was Semper Vigilis (Vigilant Always), which echoes the declaration, often mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson, that "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." [2] [3]
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English Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1905. The book collected various essays James had written on England over a period of more than thirty years, beginning in the 1870s. The essays had originally appeared in such periodicals as The Nation, The Century Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Galaxy and Lippincott's ...
A History of England, Volume VII: England in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter (1998); 528 pages Original publication date: 1982; Folio Society edition is a reprint of the ?th (1990) edition. 8. A History of England, Volume VIII: England in the Age of Improvement 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs (2002); 498 pages
Hunnicutt’s book, “Kellogg’s Six-Hour Day,” tells the story of how cereal baron W.K. Kellogg decided in 1930 to institute six-hour shifts in place of eight-hour shifts, with some reduction ...
A typical book of hours contains the Calendar of Church feasts, extracts from the Four Gospels, the Mass readings for major feasts, the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the fifteen Psalms of Degrees, the seven Penitential Psalms, a Litany of Saints, an Office for the Dead and the Hours of the Cross. [5] Most 15th-century books of hours ...
Daniel George Edward Hall (1891–1979) was a British historian, writer, and academic.He wrote extensively on the history of Burma.His most notable work is A History of Southeast Asia, said to "...remain the most important single history of the region, providing encyclopedic coverage of material published up to the time of its 1981 revision."