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The Bulwark Podcast is a news, opinion and interview show hosted by Tim Miller. The podcast is released every weekday and published in audio and video form. [17] Until February 2024, the podcast was hosted by Charlie Sykes. [18] The show launched on December 21, 2018. [19]
As soon as the war began, the major nations issued "color books" containing documents (mostly from July 1914) that helped justify their actions.A color book is a collection of diplomatic correspondence and other official documents published by a government for educational or political reasons, and to promote the government position on current or past events.
The University of Pennsylvania was founded during this period, and Benjamin Franklin established various other organizations such as the American Philosophical Society, the Union Fire Company, and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. By the start of the American Revolution, Philadelphia was the largest city in British North America. [26]
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from the Latin for "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.
William Penn (24 October [O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.
Bulwark primarily refers to: Bulwark (nautical) , a nautical term for the extension of a ship's side above the level of a weather deck Bastion , a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification
Hinds, James R.; Fitzgerald, Edmund (1981), Bulwark and Bastion: A Look at Musket Era Fortifications with a Glance at Period Siegecraft (PDF), Las Vegas, Nevada: Hinds, OCLC 894175094, archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012; Hyde, John (2007), Elementary Principles of Fortification, Doncaster: D.P&G, pp. 50– 54, ISBN 978-1906394073
In that letter Croatia was for the first time called bastion and a bulwark of Christianity: We have been blocking this force (Turks) for almost seventeen years wasting our bodies, lives and all of our goods, and like the bastion and a bulwark of Christianity we daily defend Christian countries, as much as it is humanly possible.