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...reign of William the Conqueror, who introduced Norman customs of jurisprudence to England, men called jurors reported on property owners to the king's tax collectors. The local Saxons never considered jury trials when it came to meting out criminal justice, but they gave a defendant the chance to find twelve men- who would swear that his oath was reliable. It was not until the 12th century that King Henry II sponsored the first juries in civil cases. If a verdict was upset on review, the original jurors were automatically considered guilty of perjury and fined or imprisoned. About...
...quality of the early Spanish "conquerors and settlers," he mistakenly contends, was no different than that of the early English, Dutch, and French in North America. The conqueror who came to North America was, in fact, quickly disappointed. The Indian he found was poor, prone to disease, and generally unexploitable. Timber and fish hardly promised to make him a conquistador. He had no choice but to settle and make the best of what he had. South America, on the other hand, gave much to the conqueror. Taking gold and silver from the hills and sugar from the plains, he could...
...Monuments. The handsome man who can play such a godlike game is neither conqueror nor commissar, but one of a new breed of artisans arising in the world: the regional planner. The regional planner orchestrates vast areas of wilderness with cities, villages, farms and forests to serve the needs...
...President Gamal Abdel Nasser is trying to develop the powerful weapons system he needs to ensure military supremacy in the Middle East. From 333's workrooms last year came the first batch of missiles, a few 230-mile El-Zafir (Victory) types, and the 370-mile El-Kahir (Conqueror). Although their reliability is none too certain, the military leaders of nearby Israel have nervously noted Nasser's claims that Egypt's birds will have the range to blast important targets "just south of Beirut"-that is, in Israel itself...
Frederick's grandfather was the great conqueror Frederick Barbarossa; his father was Heinrich VI of Germany, the man who captured Richard the Lion-hearted and whom the Italians accurately called Heinrich the Cruel. His mother Costanza brought the Sicilian crown in her dowry, but Heinrich had to subdue Sicily before he could wear it. This done, he burned alive all of Costanza's relations to ensure that he could wear it in peace. It seems certain that Costanza struck back by conspiring with Celestine III (who, like all Popes of the period, worked to undermine a strong king...