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...also includes the first legal book ever printed in England The Abridgement of Statutes, and a 1320 manuscript entitled Magna Charta cum Statutis-a medieval lawyers' manual comprised of the Magna Charta and related legal statutes...
...Loon, Luke Warmwater and Justin Case. The light-fingered mob crisscrosses the globe and skips back and forth in history in search of national treasures to smuggle. Carmen may steal away to ancient China to purloin the Great Wall, hop ahead to medieval England to snitch the Magna Charta, or foray to present-day Uganda to abscond with a rare mountain gorilla...
...covered with his never-flagging pencil enough of charta pura ((white paper)) to placard the whole walls of China, and etched as much copper as would sheathe the British Navy." So ran one obituary for Thomas Rowlandson when he died in 1827 at the age of 70. It was not far off. This recorder of the life of Georgian and Regency England left a prodigious number of watercolors, drawings and prints behind him -- perhaps 10,000, though nobody has ever counted them up -- and there is no catalogue raisonne of his work...
Like military commanders following a major war, radical survivors of the embattled 1960s have been emerging from their bunkers to tell it like it really was. The latest is Tom Hayden, 48, who rose to New Left prominence as the drafter of the 1962 Port Huron Statement, the Magna Charta of the Students for a Democratic Society. Hayden appears to have been something of a crisis junkie, getting adrenaline fixes in confrontations with authority's billy clubs and tear-gas canisters in the Mississippi Delta and Newark, at Columbia and Berkeley. He acquired national notoriety as a demonstration leader...
...spread via the ideas of Thomas Hobbs. Hobbs challenged the doctrine of the divine right of kings, declaring that legitimate government is formed by contracting men, and that temporal power is always superior to ecclesiastical power. (Although we remember that over four centuries earlier, the barons extorted the Magna Charta from King John, we do not as readily recall that before the year was out, John repudiated the document and was released from its observance by the Pope. John died the following year, 1216, and the agreement was reissued by Henry III.) Social contract theory was further developed by John...