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Earle Hewitt Maddux SSJE (June 18, 1906 – December 1974) was a notable American Anglo-Catholic liturgist in the Episcopal Church during the twentieth century. He was professed in the Society of St. John the Evangelist in 1936.
Sailors holystoning the deck of HMS Pandora in the early 20th century. Holystone is a soft and brittle sandstone that was formerly used in the Royal Navy and US Navy for scrubbing and whitening the wooden decks of ships.
Stone's Justices' Manual is a book published by LexisNexis Butterworths. It is "the standard work on summary procedure". [1] It displaced Burn's Justices of the Peace as the standard work on that subject from 1850 onwards. [2] By 1914, it was old, well-established and formidably large. [3]
The Newark Holy Stones refer to a set of artifacts allegedly discovered by David Wyrick in 1860 within a cluster of ancient Indian burial mounds near Newark, Ohio, now believed to be a hoax. The set consists of the Keystone, a stone bowl, and the Decalogue with its sandstone box. They can be viewed at the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum in ...
a cheap or poor (repair) job, can range from inelegant but effective to outright failure. e.g. "You properly bodged that up" ("you really made a mess of that"). (US: kludge, botch or cob, shortened form of cobble) See Bodger. boffin an expert, such as a scientist or engineer bog roll (roll of) toilet ("bog") paper (slang). bog-standard *
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (Ellen Weissbrod & Courtney Sale Ross, USA) The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland) Night Sun (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy) No, or the Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal) Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/France) Open Doors (Gianni Amelio, Italy) Privilege (Yvonne ...
Rubbing of 2nd-century CE stone-carved chariots and horses in Stone Chamber 1 of the Wu family shrines in Shandong Empress Deng Sui (d. 121 CE), widow to Emperor He, became empress dowager in 105 CE and thus had the final say in appointing He's successor (since he had appointed none); she placed his infant son Liu Long on the throne, later ...
The US flooded the market with cheap wheat flour to deal with food shortages. [11] From 1948 to 1951, bread consumption in Japan increased from 262,121 tons to 611,784 tons, [ 11 ] but wheat also found its way into ramen, which most Japanese ate at black market food vendors to survive as the government food distribution system ran about 20 days ...